By Paul Greenberg on February 13, 2014
There is an unconfirmed story lighting things up that community platform provider Lithium is process of acquiring Klout, the so-call Influence measurement service. Why? Especially since Lithium’s view of influence via their Chief Data Scientist Michae…
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By Paul Greenberg on July 1, 2013
Conference Coverage Okay, I admit it. I failed. I broke a promise. I wanted to provide individual coverage for each of the conferences that I’ve attended in the last 2 months or so, but there are so many I just couldn’t keep up. I covered SugarCRM SugarCon 2013, Infor, and Infusionsoft and didn’t get to Clarabridge, Lithium LiNC, NetSuite […]
Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Clarabridge, enterprise software, InfusionSoft, lithium, netsuite, nsw13, Pegasystems, sap, sapphirenow, Social Enterprise, SugarCon, sugarcrm |
By Paul Greenberg on March 11, 2013
Last Thursday, I reviewed Attensity, Gigya and Jive. This week we complete the circle with the final three social mavens – Get Satisfaction, Lithium, Nimble. Again, I’m a bit tough but I do think a lot of these companies and they have been impact playe…
Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Attensity, CRM, CRM Watchlist, CRM Watchlist 2013, Emerging Tech, Get Satisfaction, Gigya, ibm, Jive, lithium, salesforce.com, SAP AG |
By Susan Scrupski on February 25, 2013
Every social graph tells a story. In this sweeping visualization of nodes and connections, you can see the shape of my career history and relationships. This imprint of my LinkedIn social network was generated yesterday. You can see how new contacts and interrelationships jettisoned off from my base when I started to work at 7Summits. […]
Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Dachis Group, ibm, Jive, linkedin, lithium, research, Social Media, Social network, social networking, University of Texas Austin, UT Austin
By Paul Greenberg on May 14, 2012
What this post is not is a discussion of how to determine influence. I’m going to leave that to my dear friend and brilliant scientist, Dr. Michael Wu, the Chief Scientist at Lithium. He, far better than Klout, PeerIndex and any of the other so-called influence indices, knows how to look at and determine the […]
Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Enterprise Irregulars, influencers, Klout, lithium, PeerIndex, Public relations, ZDNet |
By R "Ray" Wang on May 9, 2012
Lithium Technologies Shows Continued Customer Momentum And Success In Social Marketing And Support To the tune of 500 customers and prospects, Lithium kicked off LiNC on May 2nd, 2012, at the always stunning Intercontinental Hotel in San Francisco. Compared to previous years, the audience was not only bigger, but also more experienced and energized. Rob […]
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By R "Ray" Wang on March 29, 2012
Versytec Acquisition Addresses Growing Demand For JD Edwards Support Denver, Colorado based Spinnaker Management announced on March 6th, 2012 its acquisition of its competitor Versytec. For those who remember their third party maintenance (3PM) history, Versytec was among the first firms to announce third-party maintenance services within a year after PeopleSoft acquired JD Edwards in […]
Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged #techoptimization, 3PM, 3rd party maintenance, Apps Strategy, best practices, bill of rights, budgets, business value, business value framework, BVF, CEO, CFO, Chief Financial Officer, Chief information officer, Chief procurement officer, CIO, CMO, Constellation Research, contract negotiations, contract strategy, COO, cost reduction, CTO, Customer Support, deployment options, enterprise, enterprise applications, enterprise apps, Enterprise apps strategy, Enterprise Business Apps, enterprise class, Enterprise Irregular, Enterprise Irregulars, enterprise software, Enterprise Software Licensee Bill of Rights, enterprise strategy, JD Edwards, license credits to new products, license fees, license management, license parking, license policy, license returns, lithium, maintenance, maintenance fees, Maintenance Hike, News Analysis, R "Ray" Wang;, rimini street, rwang0, software bill of rights, software contract reviews, software escrow, software licensing, software licesing and pricing, software maintenance, software ownership, software ownership lifecycle, software pricing, software trends, Spinnaker, Spinnaker Support, technology budgets, Technology Optimization, third party maintenancce, Third Party Maintenance, user strategy, users, Versytec
By R "Ray" Wang on March 19, 2012
Forward And Commentary Software ownership costs continue to escalate as vendors accelerate their efforts to capture support and maintenance revenues. Some vendors have gone to the extreme to eliminate third-party options for their customers. This best practices report examines three strategies to free up unnecessary costs to fund innovation and new projects. A. Introduction On […]
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