‘No one has done cloud ERP’ – Not so fast!
Recent remarks by a Microsoft executive about cloud ERP didn’t ring true. A little digging brings clarity around his claims.
Outsourcers need better performers, not marketers
My friend Phil Fersht laments outsourcers are poor marketers. Marketing is easy if you are delivering standout solutions to customers. Amazon does not need brag too much because most customers have seen it has a track record of price reductions. It has averaged 2-3 reductions in AWS pricing – every year! So different from 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 […]
FinancialForce ERP Arrives To Signal The Era Of Best Of Breed Cloud Suites
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 […]
CRM Watchlist 2014 Winners: Upgraded to a Suite: Part II
Monday, you had CRMnext, Infor and NetSuite as CRM suite providers. Today SAP and SugarCRM are here for your scrutiny. Can life get any better?
Back Office Perks Up
What’s going on in the back office? That normally staid bastion of conventional computing is perking up taking on subscriptions and cloud computing like candy. It used to be that when you thought about back office and cloud in the same thought you also thought about NetSuite. Truthfully you still do, they’ve been at it […]
Best- And Worst-Performing Cloud Computing Stocks Feb. 10th To Feb. 14th And Year-to-Date
The five highest performing cloud computing stocks year-to-date in the Cloud Computing Index are Akamai (NASDAQ: AKAM), F5 Networks (NASDAQ: FFIV), Juniper Networks (NYSE:JNPR), Fusion-IO (NYSE:FIO), Qualys (NASDAQ:QYLS) and Workday (NYSE:WDAY). A $10K investment in Akamai on January 2nd of this year is worth $12,901 and $10K invested in F5 Networks is worth $12,509 as of market close yesterday. IBM, Microsoft, Oracle and SAP share […]
CRM Watchlist 2014 Winners: Upgraded to a Suite: Part I
The CRM Watchlist 2014 winners have been harder than ever to characterize. But there are some vendors who, for example, provide product suites that won so I created the Suites category. Today, we look at CRMnext, Infor and NetSuite and Wednesday, SAP a…
Big but Underreported Tech Stories of 2013
Big but Underreported Stories of Importance in 2013 In my youth, I used to track all manner of critters on the family ranch. Later on, I tracked poachers. I’m pretty good at it as I make it a point to spot the odd clue, the worn surfaces, the out of place silhouette, etc. Tracking things […]
I felt a great disturbance in the Force..
We have watched for years as cloud companies target on-premise systems – so Salesforce going after Siebel, Workday after PeopleSoft, Amazon after IBM etc. At the Microsoft Analyst Event yesterday I heard in reverse of back to on-premise examples especially in the banking sector as global regulatory concerns grow around public clouds. Then there are […]
