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Phil Wainewright

Phil Wainewright

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C-Founder at Diginomica, Vice President EuroCloud UK, CEO of strategic consulting group Procullux Ventures.

Sourcing reinvented: cloud supply chain and spend management

Sourcing reinvented: cloud supply chain and spend management

By Phil Wainewright on May 13, 2013

If the future is a networked world, then we may well find that the future belongs to sourcing vendors. No other category of vendors has had its landscape transformed so fundamentally by the advent of the Web, to the extent that leading vendors such as Concur and Ariba took early decisions to wholly rearchitect their […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Ariba, Cloud Computing, EnSW2013, eurocloud, sap, supply chain

Big data ascends the learning curve

Big data ascends the learning curve

By Phil Wainewright on April 10, 2013

With several big data-themed events coming up this month — among them the global multi-city Big Data Week series — the level of social media chatter around this topic is likely to surge. One vendor that’s well placed to track that buzz is DataSift, whose stock-in-trade is analyzing Twitter data to identify trends. In preparation […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged BigData, hadoop, ibm, MongoDB, SAP AG, Tim Barker, Twitter | 4 Responses

Cloud providers working with big data

Cloud providers working with big data

By Phil Wainewright on April 4, 2013

What does big data mean for cloud providers? This is the topic under discussion at a EuroCloud UK meeting next week. This blog post is both a reflection on the topic as well as a taster for the event itself, which has an interesting and knowledgeable line-up of speakers — more details on that below […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged BigData, eurocloud

People first: Cloud HRM and talent management

People first: Cloud HRM and talent management

By Phil Wainewright on March 19, 2013

In 1951, the world’s first business computer was switched on at the London headquarters of J Lyons & Co, a food and catering giant that, with its chain of popular tea shops, had been the Starbucks of wartime Britain. Named LEO (for Lyons Electronic Office), its main role was processing payroll and inventory. Around the […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged EnSW2013, Human resource management, ibm, sap, software as a service, workday

Becoming the verb for enterprise collaboration

Becoming the verb for enterprise collaboration

By Phil Wainewright on March 13, 2013

“Box is becoming a verb in Schneider,” said Hervé Coureil, chief information officer at Schneider Electric, speaking in London today about the company’s pilot implementation of the Box collaboration platform. People have started saying, “Oh I’ll Box it for you” when they plan to share a file with colleague. The 140,000-employee energy management company is […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Box, BoxHQ, collaboration, EnSW2013, ibm, Microsoft SharePoint, schneider electric, TeamDrive

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All together now: cloud collaboration, social and docs

By Phil Wainewright on February 20, 2013

In the emerging enterprise application landscape, collaboration is the business activity most transformed by cloud. The revolution in outcomes is far greater than those wrought by earlier technology-driven advances in global teamwork, such as the telephone, air travel and satellite communications. The Web is the first medium that provides a unified platform for every form […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Box, BoxHQ, EnSW2013, eurocloud, google, Huddle, ibm, linkedin, microsoft, ProjectPlace, Sliderocket, Socialcast, WebEx, ZDNet, zimbra, zoho | 5 Responses

Son of CRM: cloud sales, marketing and service in 2013

Son of CRM: cloud sales, marketing and service in 2013

By Phil Wainewright on January 14, 2013

The name’s the same, but this is not the CRM your forefathers knew. Back in the client-server era, enterprise computing focused almost exclusively on automating internal systems. Today, all the innovation is happening at the edge of the enterprise, automating external interactions with prospects, customers, partners and more in the quest for what I’ve called […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged BuddyMedia, Cloud Computing, CRM, EnSW2013, erp, eurocloud, oracle, salesforce.com, Service Cloud | 6 Responses

ERP, RIP? Cloud financials and revenue management in 2013

ERP, RIP? Cloud financials and revenue management in 2013

By Phil Wainewright on January 7, 2013

What’s the future for ERP in the cloud, if it has one at all? I heard a disarming admission last summer from the CEO of a company that aggressively markets itself as “the #1 cloud ERP software suite.” NetSuite CEO Zach Nelson told a gathering of industry analysts at the company’s SuiteWorld 2012 conference that […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged EnSW2013, Enterprise resource planning, erp, eurocloud, FRM, Intacct, netsuite, Plex Systems, sap, SAP AG, software as a service, workday, Zach Nelson, Zuora | 5 Responses

Maybe the world isn't ready for cloud

Maybe the world isn’t ready for cloud

By Phil Wainewright on December 26, 2012

I heard some utterly compelling arguments for adopting cloud computing at the recent Business Cloud Summit in London. The strides being made by the UK public sector through their use of cloud computing and applications make a seemingly irrefutable case for going cloud. Liam Maxwell, Deputy CIO of the UK Government, cited a torrent of […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Cloud Computing, CloudStore, European Commission, FutureGov

Can Yahoo ever be a leader?

Can Yahoo ever be a leader?

By Phil Wainewright on December 17, 2012

Although the company is assured a place in Web history, Yahoo over the years has always seemed to have the role of reflecting conventional wisdom about the Web rather than changing people’s perceptions of what’s possible. No wonder Om Malik believes its glory days are over. Yahoo’s first iteration, back in 1994, was as a […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged AOL, Facebook, google, Marissa Mayer, Yahoo

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