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Enterprise Headlines and Highlights, 2012-07-22

Enterprise Headlines and Highlights, 2012-07-22

By Dennis Moore on July 22, 2012

Highlights of enterprise software and solutions news from the past week: Two IPOs come out strongly after Facebook IPO disappointment – Kayak and Palo Alto Networks. Google Nexus 7, with Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, is becoming the first general purpose worthy competitor to the Apple iPad. Workday files for IPO, using JOBS Act to avoid […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged analytics, android, apple, BI, Big Data, BigData, Cloud, Concur, Dennis Moore, Ensw, google, hp, Infor, Informatica, IPO, Kayak, Linux, M&A, mergers, Mergers & Acquisitions, Mergers And Acquisitions, microsoft, MSNBC, netsuite, news, oracle, Palo Alto Networks, SaaS, salesforce.com, samsung, sap, Skire, SQL Server, SQLServer, Tripit, VMware, workday, Yahoo, yammer

Google Android 4.1 Jelly Bean vs Apple iOS 6 vs Microsoft Windows 8

Enterprise Headlines and Highlights, 2012-06-30

By Dennis Moore on June 30, 2012

Highlights of enterprise software and solutions news from the past week: Microsoft gets kudos for tablets and mobile strategy.  RIM does not.  Microsoft does not get kudos for price paid for Yammer. Google holds I/O conference, reveals next version of Android, gives away goodies. Great tech companies to work for include Facebook, LinkedIn, Google, Apple, […]

Posted in Business, Technology / Software, Trends & Concepts | Tagged apple, Dennis Moore, Facebook, google, hadoop, HANA, hp, ibm, Informatica, Larry Ellison, linkedin, Linux, Mark Hurd, microsoft, netsuite, news, opensource, oracle, salesforce.com, sap, workday

Enterprise Headlines and Highlights, 2012-06-24

Enterprise Headlines and Highlights, 2012-06-24

By Dennis Moore on June 24, 2012

Highlights of enterprise software and solutions news from the past two weeks. Oracle America sales head leaves after trashtalking Mark Hurd and HP online.  Larry buys Lanai.  Oracle wins nothing in lawsuit vs Google.  Oracle’s results fail to impress. BTW, @larryellison still has just one tweet … Enterprise 2.0 Gets Down to Business (SAP) “I […]

Posted in Business | Tagged adobe, AOL, apple, Facebook, google, hadoop, HANA, hp, ibm, Informatica, Lanai, Linux, Mark Hurd, microsoft, news, Nokia, nVidia, opensource, oracle, salesforce.com, sap, workday, yammer

Enterprise Headlines and Highlights, 2012-06-15

Enterprise Headlines and Highlights, 2012-06-15

By Dennis Moore on June 15, 2012

Highlights of enterprise software and solutions news from the past two weeks.  Acquisitions, lawsuits, IT failures, Oracle’s cloud announcements (yawn!), some humor, and and Larry joins the twitterverse @larryellison (but still just one tweet!). Yammer Agrees to Sell Itself to Microsoft Business-software company Yammer Inc. agreed to sell itself to Microsoft Corp. for $1.2 billion, […]

Posted in Business, Technology / Software | Tagged Dennis Moore, ibm, microsoft, news, oracle, Oracle Corporation, Silicon Valley, workday, yammer

Enterprise Headlines and Highlights, 2012-06-01

Enterprise Headlines and Highlights, 2012-06-01

By Dennis Moore on June 1, 2012

Highlights of enterprise software and solutions news from the past week.   Cloud Computing: do you have a clue? Sadly, this is typical of the ill-informed conventional wisdom you’ll hear from the likes of IBM, HP, Oracle and most parts of Microsoft, Accenture, Deloitte and the rest when discussing cloud computing. To help redress the […]

Posted in Business, Technology / Software | Tagged Facebook, google, Hewlett-Packard, hp, ibm, news, oracle, sap, Splunk

Enterprise Headlines and Highlights, 2012-05-25

Enterprise Headlines and Highlights, 2012-05-25

By Dennis Moore on May 25, 2012

Here are some of the best stories from the Enterprise Software and Solutions world from the past week …     SAP’s Platform Play: Why BI Pros Should Be Bullish Is HANA for everybody yet? Probably not—but from SAP’s messaging and during one-on-one conversations I had at the event, things are now quite clear. Sure […]

Posted in Business | Tagged google, Hewlett-Packard, hp, ibm, news, oracle, sap

Joining the Board of the Empire Club of Canada!

Joining the Board of the Empire Club of Canada!

By Maggie Fox on July 27, 2011

I’m so very pleased to announce that I have been elected to the Board of the Empire Club of Canada, effective September, 2011! In case you’re unfamiliar with the Empire Club, it’s: “One of Canada’s oldest and largest speakers’ forums with a membership comprised of some of Canada’s most influential leaders from the professions, business, […]

Posted in Business | Tagged Blog, Canada, Empire Club, news | 3 Responses

Enterprise headlines and excerpts, 2011-06-30

Enterprise headlines and excerpts, 2011-06-30

By Dennis Moore on July 1, 2011

June has been a busy month in the Enterprise Software and Solutions (http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%23EnSW). Headlines and excerpts follow below, but here are some of the highlights of the month of June:Lots o’ buzz about SAP HANA and how it can tran…

Posted in Business | Tagged EnterpriseIrregulars, news

IT Jobs Recovery Continues, Picks Up Steam

IT Jobs Recovery Continues, Picks Up Steam

By Dennis Moore on May 10, 2011

There have been a spate of news stories in the IT press covering the state of IT hiring. Once a quarter or so, I look at the job posts in Dice.com across many different keywords – a useful proxy for the IT hiring market at least for the U. S. Three months ago, IT hiring […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged hiring, job market, jobs, news, recovery | 8 Responses

Enterprise Headlines and Excerpts, 1-15 April 2011

Enterprise Headlines and Excerpts, 1-15 April 2011

By Dennis Moore on April 15, 2011

Tax day. Meh. Some highlights of the first half of April: Marin County tries using racketeering charges against Deloitte and SAP. Do Marin County residents realize their paid employees are wasting their money this way? And after wasting so much money with an ill-advised ERP project?!? Larry Page takes over CEO role at Google, shakes […]

Posted in Business, Technology / Software, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Amazon.com, apple, C3, Cisco, Cloud, Dell, Epicor, google, hadoop, hp, ibm, Infor, Larry Ellison, Lawson, Marc Benioff, microsoft, Microsoft Azure, mySQL, news, NoSQL, oracle, Patent, PeopleSoft, salesforce.com, sap, Steve Ballmer, VMware, workday

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