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Infor, A Company in Transition

Infor, A Company in Transition

By Michael Fauscette on September 19, 2014

I just returned from New Orleans last evening after attending Infor’s user conference Inforum (disclosure: Infor paid my travel expenses to the event, and is an IDC client). On the flight back I was thinking about what I saw, and what I’ve learned about Infor from my last several interactions with them, and wanted to […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Business, data, design, enterprise, erp, financials, HCM, Infor, Inforum 2014, innovation, Science, Technology / Software, ux | 1 Response

FinancialForce ERP Arrives To Signal The Era Of Best Of Breed Cloud Suites

FinancialForce ERP Arrives To Signal The Era Of Best Of Breed Cloud Suites

By R "Ray" Wang on March 3, 2014

FinancialForce Debuts Its Full ERP Suite On Feburary 19th, San Francisco headquartered, FinancialForce.com announced the launch of its full suite of ERP offerings built on the Salesforce1 platform.  Backed by investments from Unit4 and Salesforce.com, the cloud based vendor began as a single ledger financial management system built on the Salesforce.com Force.com platform.  The announcement […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged 2014, acquisitions, acumatica, Appirio, Apps Strategy, best of breed, Chief Customer Officer, Chief Financial Officer, Chief HR Officer, Chief information officer, Chief procurement officer, Chief Revenue Officer, Chief Sales Officer, Chief Security Officer, CHRO, CIO, Cloud, Cloud Computing, cloud integration, Cloud suites, Cloud Wars, Constellation Research, enterprise applications, enterprise apps, Enterprise apps strategy, Enterprise Business Apps, enterprise class, Enterprise resource planning, enterprise software, Epicor, erp, HCM, HR, HR Tech, integration, Less Software, mergers, Mergers And Acquisitions, Microsoft Dynamics, Microsoft Dynamics AX, MIcrosoft Dynamics CRM, MIcrosoft Dynamics ERP, Microsoft Dynamics GP, Microsoft Dynamics NAV, netsuite, News Analysis, R "Ray" Wang;, rwang0, salesforce.com, salesforce1, Software Insider, SoftwareInsider, Vana Workforce, vendor strategy

How to succeed in HR software

How to succeed in HR software

By Brian Sommer on October 18, 2013

Selling HR software today requires attention to whether your customers want or appreciate a suite, specialized capabilities or ease of integration. Different kinds of solutions have to be marketed with a skill towards what different buyers want or need. Here’s what some vendors are doing in this regard.

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged HCM, linkedin, SAP AG, SumTotal, TalentBin, workday | 1 Response

Salesforce and Workday - Reaffirming the Partnership

Salesforce and Workday – Reaffirming the Partnership

By Michael Fauscette on September 18, 2013

Today Salesforce.com and Workday announced a deeper relationship to “join” both company’s enterprise cloud software products. This announcement has all the standard integration talk, which sounds good for joint customers of course, but also spent some time making it clear that each company was using / planning on using the products of the other. In […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged CRM, financials, HCM, oracle, Partnership, salesforce.com, sfwday, Technology / Software, workday

Workday Rising  Comfort Food in a Complex World

Workday Rising Comfort Food in a Complex World

By Vinnie Mirchandani on September 10, 2013

The keynote this morning by co CEOs Dave Duffield and Aneel Bhusri was a study in contrasts. There were plenty of reminders of the complex world we live in. Mike McNamara, CEO of Flextronics, talked about his 30 country, $20+ global operation. George Tenet, former CIA director, now a Workday customer discussed the geopolitics of […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged #wdayrising, Aneel Bhusri, David Duffield, erp, Flextronics, HCM, workday

Oracle's Expanding Cloud Ecosystem?

Oracle’s Expanding Cloud Ecosystem?

By Michael Fauscette on July 1, 2013

 Last week was quite the week in the cloud computing world. At one point in the week, I thought that maybe I should check and see if in fact, hell had frozen over. But in tech never say never I guess. Anyway, as you probably guessed I’m talking about Oracle’s three new partner announcements, which […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Azure, CRM, erp, ESN, GTM, HCM, Larry's Kids, microsoft, netsuite, oracle, Partnership, salesforce, sap, workday | 3 Responses

Event Report: Customers Very Happy At Ultimate Connections 2013 (#ulticonnect)

Event Report: Customers Very Happy At Ultimate Connections 2013 (#ulticonnect)

By R "Ray" Wang on April 2, 2013

Partnership Announcements Enhance Ultimate Software’s Offerings Amidst a crowd of 1500 customers, partners, and attendees, Ultimate Software held their annual gathering from March 12th to March 15th, 2013 in Las Vegas.  Geared towards the medium sized to enterprise markets, Ultimate Software has steadily taken market share from ADP for payroll and expanded out into operational […]

Posted in Business | Tagged #ulticonnect, Apps Strategy, Celergo, Chief HR Officer, Chief People Officer, CIO, Cloud, Cloud Computing, cloud integration, Cloud Wars, Constellation Research, Consumerization of IT, data integration, enterprise apps, Enterprise apps strategy, enterprise software, enterprise strategy, event report, future of work, HCM, HR, HR Tech, Human Capital Management, Human resources, Informatica, partnerships, payroll, R "Ray" Wang;, rwang0, Software Insider, SoftwareInsider, Ultimate Software, user event, user group event, user group events, user groups, vendor strategy

Conferences, comedy, clouds and contracts.

Conferences, comedy, clouds and contracts.

By Thomas Otter on October 30, 2012

Continuing my attempts to bring Shakespeare into as many posts as I can…. Let specialties be therefore drawn between us, That covenants may be kept on either hand. (Taming of the Shrew  II. i. 127-8) A couple of weeks ago, I presented at the HR Technology Conference in Chicago, the topic being SaaS Contracts:  how not to […]

Posted in Business | Tagged cartoon, Cloud, Compliance, contracts, Finance related, HCM, HR, HR Technology, Law, Law related, SaaS, Shakespeare

A Racap of Oracle OpenWorld 2012

A Racap of Oracle OpenWorld 2012

By Michael Fauscette on October 6, 2012

It was in several ways a very different Oracle message at OpenWorld last week, as the company has rapidly moved over the past year to build out a series of offerings that address what IDC calls the four pillars; social,…

Posted in Business | Tagged applications, CRM, Customer Experience, Fusion, HCM, mobile, OOW, oracle, salesforce, SCRM, Social, Tap, Technology / Software

Multi-Tenancy Debate Won’t Go Away

Multi-Tenancy Debate Won’t Go Away

By Denis Pombriant on July 27, 2012

Under more normal conditions I react to blogs on a low key basis.  If I like something I might not even mention it and the same is true if I dislike or disagree with one.  The blogosphere is a big place and it is unproductive to be running around all day saying “Yes, I like […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Cloud Computing, CRM, economics, HCM, multitenancy, oracle, tenancy | 1 Response

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