Yikes! Is Oracle Reeling In Salesforce And NetSuite?
The Manchurian Candidate Goes Silicon Valley After two intense days, a real geekfest with clients, and then catching up on the info tech happenings so far this week, I’m exhausted. Yes, we’re all buried in Oracle announcements, and it’s astonishing how wild is some of the coverage. Oracle’s partnering with Microsoft is interesting (you’ll have to […]
2012 Was Workday’s Year; Who Will Own 2013 In HR Technology?
And the winner is? [Shout-out to my colleague Lisa Rowan at IDC. Her recent guest post was the impetus for my finishing this post, which I had started right after Workday went public on 10-12-2012.] 1987: Bloom & Wallace and PeopleSoft Founded 1987 was a big year in the history of HR technology. That’s the […]
Is Larry Ellison Needlessly Clouding Oracle’s Cloud Message?
Oracle has some seriously significant things to say to its customers about the cloud, enterprise software, engineered systems, and the rest of the company’s strategic portfolio. And if it approached the task a little more seriously, I think the company would start winning not just in the eyes and wallets of its customers, but also […]
Oracle: Embrace the Choice
Steve Miranda, SVP used those words in his keynote yesterday as Oracle rolled out its more evolved cloud messaging at its Collaborate User conference in Orlando. I expect Oracle marketing to emphasize the choice theme a lot more rather than its hostile “cloud is fashion du jour” or confusing “cloud in a box” messages of […]
Oracle Open World 2010: It All Works Out In the…
I’m back from Oracle Open World 2010 and now that I’m completely zonked and at the same time loaded with energy, I think, in retrospect (short term retrospect) I might have attended one of the most curious conferences I ever attended – and…
Fusion Confusion
The painfully long NDAs Oracle has had industry analysts under expired yesterday. Last evening was supposed to be the finally here (after “half way” was celebrated in 2006) coming out for Fusion applications. Instead, Larry Ellison sounded tentative. Go ahead and deploy Fusion if you are “brave” and “God bless you if you do so” […]
Fusion Apps Launch Announced
What’s the key difference between SaaS VS On Premise. According to Larry Ellison, with SaaS – everything is designed around the plan that everything related to software needs to be managed by business whereas in an on-premise model, technical …
