SAP Business Suite on HANA, Because Big Data is a Stupid Term
I spent a lot of time last year talking with vendors about big data and it’s ramifications for both the tech industry and the economy at large. Often these conversations centered around one or another vendor’s use of the big data term as the buzzword de jour, regardless of whether anything they do even vaguely [...]
On Not Forgetting to be 10x Better
I was struggling what to make of the news that now, AT&T too was jumping into the cloud storage-as-a-commodity business offering 5GB of free online storage. Just like DropBox. And Google Drive. And Box, if you use it that way. And iCloud. And SkyDrive. And. And. And. You could make fun of it, but it [...]
Salesforce Launches Chatter Communities
Salesforce is this morning announcing a new product, Chatter Communities, that aims to take the engagement aspects of its social tool Chatter out to specific verticals within organizations. Chatter Communities allows an organization to set up a specific community quickly – as an example it could be used to create
New EU Digital Preservation Project
I was interested to hear recently about a new initiative out of the EU called TIMBUS. TIMBUS stands for Digital Preservation for Timeless Business Processes and Services and is intended to, according to the website “develop activities, processes and tools, over a period of three years, for the complete preservation of all business-critical information.” TIMBUS [...]
Horses for Sources and the London School of Economics Launch Groundbreaking Study into Cloud Business Services
Phil Fersht is a respected analyst and consultant, fellow Enterprise Irregular, Founder and CEO of Horses for Sources, a blog and research firm focused on all issues related to outsourcing. Because of the importance of his new initiative, I’ll quote his entire post below, with his permission: “Folks – we’re delighted to announce that today [...]
And Who Said SaaS Wasn’t Customizable? – NetSuite Rewrites the Rules and Embraces Design Thinking in the process
I spend a lot of time talking to organizations about moving to SaaS an often I hear their concerns around the apparent lack of flexibility that SaaS apps give them. In the broader context this argument speaks to the points raised by Dennis Howlett in his recent post about design thinking as it relates to [...]
Sustainable Business: a Viewpoint From a Skeptic
I am not sure we are ready for a sustainable business process, but Kevin Wilhelm, the CEO of Sustainable Business Consulting Group a consulting company here in Seattle will be speaking on this subject and plugging his new book on the Return on Sustainability. The question I have, and one that will hopefully be answered [...]
The $199 Palm Pre that’s Really $299 for Some
…And I am not even talking about TCO, calculating life-time cost with subscription. No, just plain simply purchase price, with a dirty industry trick: rebates. The long expected Palm Pre will be available from Spring on Jun 6th, at $199 with qualifying data plan, and after a $100 rebate. And therein lies the rub – [...]
