Platforms: What FinancialForce, Xactly, and Hubspot Understand
Platforms – can’t live with them… pass the potatoes. I know, we all hate platforms. The crux of the problem is explaining what a platform is and how it works, I can write for ages about the details and go into nitpicking details – and never publish. The closest I got to it was the […]
The Best Cloud Computing Companies And CEOs To Work For In 2014
2014 continues to be a year marked by the accelerating hiring cycles across nearly all cloud computing companies. Signing bonuses of $3K to $5K for senior engineers and system design specialists are becoming common, and the cycles from screening to interviews to offers is shortening. The job market in the cloud computing industry is leaning in favor of applicants […]
The Class of ‘14
The story of this year’s Dreamforce might best be told through the partner community and AppExchange and that makes it a story about the platform. Appropriately enough, Salesforce teed up the platform topic in Chairman and CEO, Marc Benioff’s keynote and the press conference immediately following it on Tuesday in which he announced Salesforce 1. […]
NetSuite: The quiet momentum
In the last week, you have read plenty about salesforce and its Dreamforce event and SAP and its influencer event. NetSuite had a small gathering for a few of us in town for those big events. And while that event got little ink, frankly it deserves plenty for momentum at the company. NetSuite has managed […]
Cloud Q&A: Putting Financial Data in the Cloud?
Should anyone put their financial applications in the cloud? This is another cloud-based question I get with some frequency. Lots of financial applications exist in the on-premise world and the numbers of solutions for the SaaS, multi-tenant, cloud world are growing quickly. Four vendors Iâve spent a lot of time with include: FinancialForce, Workday, NetSuite […]
Building Disruptive Business Structures in the Cloud
Sometimes it seems that we miss the most obvious things with all our buzzword discussions about cloud computing and social media. The essential change enabled by these technology artefacts is quite simply that we can all communicate and collaborate with…
Salesforce ChatterExchange, Chatterboxes, Chatter…chatter
Marc Benioff, at his Chatter event in NYC yesterday said the following: We’ve seen the future of enterprise software, and it looks more like Facebook on the iPad than Yahoo on the PC.” Now, with my Jetsonesque world-view, I’d love to think that especially since I use Facebook a fair amount and have an iPad […]
Salesforce shows the future of enterprise collaboration – but have they got the branding right?
A month ago on Monday 7 December I was sitting in the London version of the CloudForce2 Partner Summit, and then stricken by a virus overnight, I watched Marc Benioff livestreamed for the 2 hours and 15 minutes of his keynote in the general customer session on the following day. It sounds like he did […]
