NetSuite Fights Hairball Epidemic with New Release and Edgy Marketing Campaign
NetSuite’s marketing team has been known for their edginess, starting from pranks like the SAP for the Rest of Us Party during SAP’s annual conference to staging a shootout at the anti-SAP Conference or releasing edgy videos a’la Mac vs. Windows. Today they are doing it again, by establishing the Hairball Institute for Business: (The […]
A new order in systems integration is emerging
Cloud and integration technologies are changing the systems integrator landscape. A recent event by Appirio shows just how far and radical the changes are becoming.
Integrating Process in the Cloud
When you think about cloud integration, the names that first spring to mind are all companies that specialize in data integration Boomi, Cast Iron, Pervasive, Informatica and others [disclosure: Boomi recently paid for me to write a product briefing]….
IBM zEnterprise and The Reintegration of Everything.
IBM’s just launched its new zEnterprise server at a very interesting time for the market. So interesting in fact that’s its very hard indeed to sum up all the swirls and currents currently roiling enterprise IT. Cloud (public and private), consumerisation of IT, Big Data, devops, NoSQL and did I remember to say… cloud? IBM […]
News Analysis: IBM Buys Sterling Commerce From AT&T
Merger Ties B2B Integration Tools With Selling And Fulfillment On May 24th, IBM surprised the market with its $1.4B, all-cash, definitive agreement to buy Dublin, Ohio based Sterling Commerce from AT&T. Sterling Commerce was purchased by SBC Communications in 2000 for its strengths in B2B integration. As an AT&T company in 2005, they acquired […]
IBM buys itself a cloud integration toolbox
IBM bought Cast Iron Systems because it simply had nothing in its huge Websphere toolbox that could do cloud integration. I just heard the company’s SVP of its software group Steve Mills admit this in today’s IBM press briefing, talking about the acquisition. While IBM has a massive catalog of technologies for integrating applications within […]
Private Cloud as a Stepping Stone
I’ve not been keen on the notion of private cloud I think it’s often a misnomer, an attempt to pick-and-choose from the cloud computing model in a way that eliminates many of the benefits. But I have grudgingly come…
Friday Rant: Oracle Ups Their Procurement Game
Earlier this week, I had the chance to meet with a number of Oracle team members at all levels of their solution organization, within procurement and Spend Management. Some of these personalities I’ve known for a decade, including David Hope-Ross, who used to sit in my position when I was briefing him as a Gartner […]
FUD in the House of SaaS – More on Suites
Recently I wrote about the evergreen Best-of-breed vs. Integrated All-in-One Suite debate again, arguing: Call me “old school”, but I also believe in the value of having one tightly integrated system for most business needs, and I believe it’s true not only for large corporations but much smaller businesses. I don’t have CIO’s to back […]
Friday Rant: SaaS and Data Integration is Not a Walk in the Park
Starting a few months ago, I began to receive a surprising number of calls and notes from different providers, consultants and practitioners who were concerned with some of the challenges they were seeing with integrating SaaS P2P solutions (primarily from Ariba) with disparate non-ERP systems, primarily in the services procurement and VMS space. In particular, […]
