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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

Microsoft Bamboozled by Yammer in $1.2 Billion Purchase

Microsoft Bamboozled by Yammer in $1.2 Billion Purchase

By Esteban Kolsky on June 28, 2012

Well, after that title — what else is there to say? Lots, hear me out – I’d like to tell you why I am going against all the optimists out there (although I do consider myself an optimist) and why I liken this deal to AOL acquiring Time Warner (and we all know how well […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged microsoft, NewsGator, sharepoint, Steve Ballmer, yammer, yams | 6 Responses

Will Social finally grow up?

Will Social finally grow up?

By Vinnie Mirchandani on June 26, 2012

In New York yesterday Oracle announced its Customer Experience (CX) strategy. It has been evolving nicely in several Oracle briefings a few analysts have had over the last few months. It reflects several realities organizations face – homogenizing customer relations across physical and digital channels, the growing social media and customer/product analytics marketing groups have access […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged microsoft, oracle, salesforce.com, Social, yammer

Will Yammer improve SharePoint?

Will Yammer improve SharePoint?

By Phil Wainewright on June 26, 2012

It’s difficult to see how Yammer will improve SharePoint, or what value it will add for customers. It’s just another tool in an increasingly chaotic Microsoft toolbox.

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged aaron levie, microsoft, Microsoft SharePoint, yammer, yams

Microsoft Buys Enterprise Social Network Vendor Yammer for $1.2B

Microsoft Buys Enterprise Social Network Vendor Yammer for $1.2B

By Michael Fauscette on June 25, 2012

The much anticipated and highly rumored announcement finally hit the wires today. One of the biggest questions was where would the company reside in the Microsoft organization, a question that was also answered today, the Microsoft Office Division under Division President Kurt DelBene. Yammer will continue to be lead by founder / CEO David Sacks […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged acquisition, ESN, microsoft, MSFT, socbiz, social software, yammer, yams | 1 Response

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

The Yammer about Yammer Hides A Bigger Gap: Where is Microsoft’s HRMS Play?

The Yammer about Yammer Hides A Bigger Gap: Where is Microsoft’s HRMS Play?

By Josh Greenbaum on June 20, 2012

As the rumors became reality about Microsoft’s acquisition of Yammer, and what that means for Microsoft Dynamics and its social computing strategy, I must confess a bit of bewilderment. While social is hot, and cool, and trendy (can you guess ……

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged HRMS, microsoft, Microsoft Dynamics, Microsoft SharePoint, Monopolies and Oligopolies, yammer, yams | 3 Responses

Will social software startups "collapse into the orbit" of the big vendors?

Will social software startups "collapse into the orbit" of the big vendors?

By Dion Hinchcliffe on June 17, 2012

With Microsoft finally making a major acquisition move in social software, are we now seeing the roll up of the entire social business industry? Or is this just an minor story in a vast parade of change when it comes to how enterprises are moving to s…

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged BuddyMedia, microsoft, Social, social business, Social Media, yammer | 1 Response

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

Social, Mobile, Cloud...Table Stakes for Today's ERP?

Social, Mobile, Cloud…Table Stakes for Today’s ERP?

By Michael Fauscette on May 20, 2012

I spent the past week in San Francisco attending Netsuite’s annual user conference, SuiteWorld. As with most software conferences there was the usual barrage of announcements including new features, new partners and refined strategies. Of course SAP also held its…

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Box, CaaS, Cloud, commerce, erp, netsuite, SaaS, SuiteWorld, yammer | 2 Responses

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