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How SAP Missed An Opportunity

How SAP Missed An Opportunity

By Esteban Kolsky on February 4, 2015

Hello, it’s me again.  Your Friendly SAP — foe? If you follow me you know that I admire the technical prowess of SAP, but despise about twice as much their marketing “acumen” (there are no other words that are politically correct and fit nicely between quotation marks). I wrote about it in more detail in […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Cloud Computing, HANA, microsoft, Oracle Corporation, S/4HANA, salesforce.com, SAP AG, SAP S/4HANA, SuccessFactors

Danger zone: Enterprise maintenance and support

Danger zone: Enterprise maintenance and support

By Michael Krigsman on February 4, 2015

Recently, a client asked for advice on whether to continue paying on-premise maintenance and support to a major software vendor. Support is a complicated issue for many IT organizations, with the pros and cons generally as follows: Why vendor-supplied enterprise support is valuable Avoiding risk: When the system has problems, you know who to call […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged Cloud Computing, Constellation Research, Oracle Corporation, Platform as a service, SAP AG, software maintenance

How Oracle’s Cloud Strategy Is Turning Into A Lesson In Humility

How Oracle’s Cloud Strategy Is Turning Into A Lesson In Humility

By Louis Columbus on June 24, 2013

Oracle_Corporation_HQ (Photo credit: Revolweb) In the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, humility is defined as the quality or condition of being humble; having modest opinion or estimate of one’s own importance.  These are qualities not typically found in enterprise software vendors, Oracle included. On Oracle’s fiscal Q4, 2013 earnings call last week, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison announced that […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged byline=Louis Columbus, Cloud Computing, Data Driven, enterprise software, ibm, Larry's Kids, Louis Columbus' blog, Merriam-Webster Dictionary, netsuite, oracle, Oracle Corporation, Oracle Enterprise Manager, salesforce.com, sap, software as a service, Tech, ticker=NASDAQ:ORCL

The Oracle Assessment

The Oracle Assessment

By Brian Sommer on April 30, 2013

Oracle is huge. No single assessment does this complex IT provisioner justice.  While many of my peers speak of some tech companies in single-word assessments, I struggle with Oracle. And, let me get this out of the way right now, I actually like some of the stuff they’re doing, I question some others and am […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged General Motors, JD Edwards, oracle, Oracle Corporation, orcl, sap

Intacct’s CEO Robert Reid On Growing A Successful Cloud Business

Intacct’s CEO Robert Reid On Growing A Successful Cloud Business

By Louis Columbus on March 11, 2013

Selling software to accountants, auditors and Chief Financial Officers (CFOs) takes accuracy, precision and software quality to an entirely new dimension. Having worked at a start-up selling hosted accounting and finance applications to small and medium businesses, I’ve seen first-hand how demanding these professionals can be.  And rightly so, the system of record they manage […]

Posted in Business | Tagged accounting, analytics, Chief Financial Officer, Cloud Computing, Data Driven, enterprise software, finance, Intacct, linkedin, Louis Columbus' blog, LucidEra, Oracle Corporation, SaaS, Savvis, Tech, United States | 10 Responses

The Month IT & ERP Permanently Changed

The Month IT & ERP Permanently Changed

By Brian Sommer on November 1, 2012

It’s been a busy month of software events. But, taken together, they point to several major and permanent changes that will shape IT and ERP for decades. This (originally seven part) look at these changes spans hardware, HR software, the ERP leaderboard, changing buyer sophistication and more.

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Cloud Computing, erp, Hewlett-Packard, ibm, Mark Hurd, oracle, Oracle Corporation, Oracle Exadata, SAP AG | 12 Responses

Oracle OpenWorld 2012 So Far

Oracle OpenWorld 2012 So Far

By Denis Pombriant on October 3, 2012

I’ve been at OpenWorld for two days as I file this but so far, I have little CRM oriented material.  CRM really kicks in on Wednesday when the company focuses on CX or customer experience the moniker that Oracle has given to much of its CRM focus. CX is good for what Oracle is about […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Cloud Computing, CRM, Exadata x3, Larry Ellison, OOW, oow12, oracle, Oracle Corporation, Oracle Exadata, Oracle OpenWorld, RightNow Technologies, salesforce.com, sust | 1 Response

OOW Keynote, Larry Ellison

OOW Keynote, Larry Ellison

By Denis Pombriant on October 1, 2012

I honestly thought I was going to have to wait longer to hear anyone from Oracle talk about seriously focusing the company’s hardware and software lines on the Cloud.  True, they’ve been saying cloud-like things for a couple of years but the pronouncements were features and functions that added something to the cloud discussion without […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged benioff, Cloud Computing, CRM, ellison, Larry Ellison, netsuite, OOW, oow12, oracle, Oracle Corporation, Oracle Exadata, Oracle OpenWorld, RightNow Technologies, salesforce, salesforce.com, technology | 4 Responses

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

Inforum: The Enterprise Climbers

Inforum: The Enterprise Climbers

By Vinnie Mirchandani on April 26, 2012

Bill Starke’s sculpture in the lobby of the Hyatt in Denver I stayed at this week is a good metaphor for the changing enterprise software industry. In general, everyone treats SAP and Oracle as the pursued, and SaaS vendors as the pursuers. Infor is generally talked about as a list of 70,000 customers on every […]

Posted in Business | Tagged Charles Phillips, Infor Global Solutions, Lawson, oracle, Oracle Corporation, salesforce.com

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