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Monday’s Musings: A Working Vendor Landscape For Social Business

Monday’s Musings: A Working Vendor Landscape For Social Business

By R "Ray" Wang on August 15, 2011

Confusion Persists In The Social Business Market As with any new disruptive technology, the social business solution landscape faces a dynamic, confusing, and converging market. As vendors seek to grab mind share and market share, customers and prospects remain confused as to what are the right business problems to address with social business. However, rampant […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged adobe, Adobe Omniture, Angel, Apps Strategy, Art Technology Group, ATG, Attensity, Attensity Group, Avaya, Bazaarvoice, broadvision, Broadvision Clearvale, CEO, CIO, Cisco, Cisco Quad, Clearvale, CMO, collaboration, collaboration software, community platforms, Consumerization of IT, CRM, customer engagement, customer experience management, customer service, disruptive, disruptive technologies, Disruptive technology, e20, e2conf, early adopters, early adoptions, early movers, eGain, Endeca, Enterprise 2.0, enterprise applications, enterprise apps, Enterprise apps strategy, enterprise collaboration, enterprise software, enterprise strategy, Facebook, Genesys, Get Satisfaction, getsatisfaction, google, GooglePlus, ibm, IBM Connections, IBM Lotus, ibm software group, INgage Networks, Jive, Jive Software, KickApps, lithium, Lithium Technologies, microsoft, Microsoft Lync, Microsoft SharePoint, middleware, middleware platforms, Monday's Musings, Monday’s Musings, Moxie, Mzinga, NewsGator, Omniture, oracle, Oracle ATG, Oracle Beehive, R “Ray” Wang;, R "Ray" Wang;, RightNow, RightNow Technologies, rwang0, Saba, Salesforce Chatter, salesforce.com, sap, SAP Streamworks, SCRM, sharepoint, social business, Social Business Software, social commerce, Social CRM, Social Media, social middleware, social service, social support, social technologies, Socialcast, socialtext, Teleperformance, tibbr, Tibco, Tibco Tibbr, VMware, VMware SocialCast, west, yammer | 2 Responses

Product Review: Informatica Addresses The Impending Big Data Challenge With Release 9.1

Product Review: Informatica Addresses The Impending Big Data Challenge With Release 9.1

By R "Ray" Wang on June 13, 2011

Big Data Emerges As A Challenge In A World Of Unstructured Data Proliferation Data volumes continue to explode with a proliferation of devices, social media tools, video usage, and emerging forms of both structured and unstructured data.  The rate of data explosion may be occurring faster than Moore’s Law.  Organizations now face a significant challenge […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Big Data, Cloud, Cloud Computing, cloud integration, enterprise applications, enterprise apps, Enterprise apps strategy, hadoop, Informatica, information supply chain, integration, Map Reduce, master data management, mdm, middleware, middleware platforms, News Analysis, Product Review, R “Ray” Wang;, R "Ray" Wang;, rwang0, social analytics, social business, Social Business Software, social business strategist, Social CRM, Social Media, vendor strategy | 1 Response

Tuesday’s Tip: Customers Seek Turnkey Applications From Their Technology Provider

Tuesday’s Tip: Customers Seek Turnkey Applications From Their Technology Provider

By R "Ray" Wang on September 15, 2010

Customers Expect Their Software Solutions To Be Turnkey The recent Q2 2010 update to the Software Insider Vendor Selection Survey highlights some changing expectations of 401 respondents in the vendor selection process.  Business technologists were asked to rate their top 5 selection criteria.  Key findings demonstrate how functionality, ownership experience, and ecosystem feedback categories dominate […]

Posted in Business | Tagged Apps Strategy, business intelligence, business technology, Cloud, Cloud Computing, Cloud options, Corporate Vision, Corporate Vision And Strategy, Customer References, Ecosystem Feedback, Enterprise 2.0, enterprise applications, enterprise apps, Enterprise apps strategy, Enterprise Business Apps, enterprise software, enterprise strategy, Market Execution, middleware, middleware platforms, Ownership Experience, partner ecosystems, partners, partnerships, Regulatory Requirements, SaaS, SaaS Integration, SaaS offensive, SaaS strategies, social business, Social Business Software, Social Enterprise, social enterprise apps, software ownership lifecycle, software trends, Solution Offering, usability, User Experience, user interaction, user strategy, Vendor Selection, vendor strategy

Research Report: The Upcoming Battle For The Largest Share Of The Tech Budget (Part 2) – Cloud Computing

Research Report: The Upcoming Battle For The Largest Share Of The Tech Budget (Part 2) – Cloud Computing

By R "Ray" Wang on August 9, 2010

Welcome to a part 2 of a multi-part series on The Software Insider Tech Ecosystem Model.  Subsequent posts will apply the model to these leading vendors:

Posted in Business | Tagged acquisition, acquisitions, Alliances, analytics, Apps Strategy, business int, business process outsourcing, Cisco, Cisco Systems, Cloud, Cloud Computing, collaboration software, custom apps, Database, Dell, enterprise apps, Enterprise apps strategy, Enterprise Business Apps, Enterprise Business Apps Vendors, enterprise software, enterprise strategy, escrows, financing options, Hardware, hp, ibm, implementation partners, information management, IT budgets, IT Strategy, last mile solutions, managed service provider, mergers, Mergers And Acquisitions, microsoft, middleware, middleware platforms, Monday’s Musings, next gen apps, next gen enterprise, next generation, Next generation apps, On Demand, on-premise, operating systems, oracle, packaged apps, partner ecosystems, partners, partnerships, procurement, Research Report, resellers, SaaS, salesforce.com, sap, software escrow, Storage, System Integrators, technology budgets, third party financing, trusted advisors, vars, vendor strategy, vertical apps

Research Report: The Upcoming Battle For The Largest Share Of The Technology Budget (Part 1)

Research Report: The Upcoming Battle For The Largest Share Of The Technology Budget (Part 1)

By R "Ray" Wang on July 27, 2010

Is your technology provider a hardware vendor or a software vendor? Does your System Integrator now provide solutions in the cloud? These questions will continue as models converge. Hardware, software, and system integration vendors must reinvent new models of revenue. The economic recession has forced business model shifts at the major technology companies.

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged acquisition, acquisitions, Alliances, analytics, Apps Strategy, business int, business process outsourcing, Cisco, Cisco Systems, Cloud, Cloud Computing, collaboration software, custom apps, Database, Dell, enterprise apps, Enterprise apps strategy, Enterprise Business Apps, Enterprise Business Apps Vendors, enterprise software, enterprise strategy, escrows, financing options, Hardware, hp, ibm, implementation partners, information management, IT budgets, IT Strategy, last mile solutions, managed service provider, mergers, Mergers And Acquisitions, microsoft, middleware, middleware platforms, Monday's Musings, Monday’s Musings, next gen apps, next gen enterprise, next generation, Next generation apps, On Demand, on-premise, operating systems, oracle, packaged apps, partner ecosystems, partners, partnerships, procurement, Research Report, resellers, SaaS, salesforce.com, sap, software escrow, Storage, System Integrators, technology budgets, third party financing, trusted advisors, vars, vendor strategy, vertical apps | 1 Response

Event Report: 2009 SAP Influencer Summit - SAP Must Put Strategy To Execution In Order To Prove Clarity Of Vision

Event Report: 2009 SAP Influencer Summit – SAP Must Put Strategy To Execution In Order To Prove Clarity Of Vision

By R "Ray" Wang on December 11, 2009

(Photos by R Wang & Insider Associates, LLC.   Copyright © 2009 All rights reserved.)
Re-innovation Now At The Heart Of SAP’s Focus And Strategy
SAP has faced a rough two years.  From the continuing market pressure on new license revenue, false-start launch of Business By Design (ByD), management restructuring, and issues with […]

Posted in Business | Tagged Apps Strategy, Boston, Boston Park Plaza, Business Objects, Business process management, Business suite 7, channel programs, channels, compliance software, cost reduction, CTO, custom development, customer data integration, data governance, data integration, Delivered Innovation, deployment options, economic recession, ecosystems, enterprise applications, enterprise apps, Enterprise apps strategy, Enterprise Business Apps, Enterprise Business Apps Vendors, enterprise software, erp, event report, Industry Event, innovation, Jim Hagemann Snabe, John Wookey, license policy, maintenance fees, Maintenance Hike, microsoft, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Silverlight, middleware platforms, oracle, partner ecosystems, partnerships, Peter Graf, product road maps, SaaS, sap, SAP Business By Design, SAP Business Suite 7, SAP Influencer Summit, SAP OnDemand Large Enterprise, software as a service, vendor events, vendor strategy | 2 Responses

Monday’s Musings: SaaS, SOA, Integration and How To Make A Peanut Butter And Jelly Sandwich In The Cloud

Monday’s Musings: SaaS, SOA, Integration and How To Make A Peanut Butter And Jelly Sandwich In The Cloud

By R "Ray" Wang on November 9, 2009

Rapid SaaS Adoption Will Lead To A Repeat Of 1990’s Best Of Breed Integration Challenges

The proliferation and rapid adoption of SaaS solutions stems from 7 key benefits: richer user experience, rapid implementation, frequent cycles of innovation, minimal upgrade hassles, always on deployment, subscription pricing, and scalability (see Figure 1). Despite these benefits, organizations head full […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Apps Strategy, Ariba, boomi, Business process, Business process management, business process optimization, canonical data models, cast iron systems, CIO, Cloud Computing, commoditized business process, Concur, data governance, data integration, design phase, enterprise applications, enterprise apps, Enterprise apps strategy, hybrid deployments, Informatica, IT Strategy, JD Edwards, Jive, Jive Software, line of business, long term apps strategy, middleware platforms, netsuite, Open Air, peanut butter and jelly, Pervasive Software, SaaS, SaaS Integration, salesforce.com, sap, SnapLogic, SOA, socialtext, software as a service, Talend, workday, Xactly

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