Salesforce.com: Pushing social business into the mainstream
Dreamforce was a huge cloud and social enterprise success, but salesforce.com still has challenges ahead.
Software Is Eating The World, And APIs Are The Fuel For That
Over the past handful of years I’ve commented on a seemingly disconnected bunch of areas: the rise of cloud computing, the forced re-design of how enterprises work, the focus on more project-specific teams, dispersed workers … the list goes on. In the last 12 months of so I’ve seen these formerly disconnected areas converge together [...]
Dreamforce 2012: Betting On Social Enterprise
Dreamforce 2012 was held last week at San Francisco with large number of attendees from all over the world. If the conference numbers are any indication of market performance, Salesforce is giving a tough fight to Oracle but they rarely indicate anything significant other than showing enthusiasm among their users. With master showman Marc Benioff [...]
What drives IT failure? Ignorance and Greed
It was an interesting question Charles Storm posed the other day: was I saying that solutions are primarily driven by ignorance and greed? I wasn’t, but he made me think: Every solution is driven by need, or want, and some lack of knowledge. Every failure is caused by ignorance and greed Let’s see whether I [...]
Is Going for Rapid Growth Always Good? Aren’t Startups So Much More?
I think I’ve read Paul Graham’s post on “Startup = Growth” three or four times now. And of course on Twitter I’ve seen the Tweets, ReTweets and superlatives on what a great post it is. Viewing the article through the lens of a venture capitalist there’s much to agree with under the mantra of “growth!” [...]
What really is Open Source Software and what’s this community nonsense they ask…
Open Source Software (OSS), Why Some Fail At It OSS has won the war. It has been over for years now. Microsoft has ceded, Oracle, VMware and many others have stepped up and attempted to embrace the open source community. Sometimes they’ve been successful, sometimes they haven’t. They’re slowly changing their models to play well [...]
End User Computing… Central Control or Distributed Safety? On Bromium’s Novel Play
At VMworld back in August, one of the small number of announcements made revolved around “end user computing”, VMware’s term for all the different products that deliver solutions for actual business users. VMware announced a suite of solutions, built around a bunch of different projects (Projects Octopus, AppBlast, ThinApp, VMware
Why I’ve defected from BlackBerry to the Apple iPhone
After 6 years happily thumb tapping my way around my email and messages with the real keyboard of the BlackBerry smart phone platform I defected to the Apple iPhone back in July (even though the new iPhone 5 was imminent). It’s such a shame – I’ve been a big fan of Research In Motion’s BlackBerry [...]
How and why common sense will beat REST
In my previous post I described how REST would replace SOAP. If you paid close attention you will have noticed that I actually didn’t say anything in favour of REST, but everything at the expense of SOAP. Because it indeed seems like REST will be the new SOAP – which is in contradiction with the [...]
Salesforce.com: Onto Becoming The Enterprise Nerve Center
I attended Dreamforce 2012, Salesforce.com’s 10th annual user conference, in San Francisco, and came away feeling very positive about the company, product and the possible solutions that can get conceptualized. With ~90,000 registered attendees, 350+ partner companies and ~750 sessions, Dreamforce 2012 could very well be the largest user conference by any IT company ever [...]
SAP Briefing – Cloud, Mobility and HCM
I recently had the opportunity to attend a briefing with 16 bloggers at the SAP Labs in Palo Alto. It was a day and a half session covering Cloud, Mobility and HANA although Stacey Fish was kind enough to set up some 1-1 meetings with the SAP HCM team so I swapped them for the [...]
The Role Of Analytics In Creating New Consumer Behaviors
I am in India visiting a large customer who has heavily invested into organized retail stores, a relatively new category for the Indian market. Their head of analytics shared some details of their last promotion with me. They ran an email promotion to send out coupons that were valid on one and only one day [...]
Salesforce Becomes the First Next Generation Enterprise Platform
Strong words but, as I predicted, the announcements at this years DreamForce point to Salesforce firmly creating for itself the position of first true IT platform of the cloud era – that’s a lofty statement but a justified one I believe. From the release, here are the announcements:
Tungle.Me Shutdown And What I Expect From An Alternate Service
Tungle.me, a great calendar scheduling application I have been using for the past 3+ years, announced today that they are shutting down their service. RIM acquired them sometime back and, as many expected, they are shutting down Tungle.me. This follows RIM shutting down another service they acquired, Gist. As of Monday, December 3rd, 2012 [...]
