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Microsoft, the bleedin' advertisers

Microsoft, the bleedin’ advertisers

By Martijn Linssen on July 30, 2012

  This week Microsoft produced their annual report for 2012. It’s been commented on by many and the main theme seems to be that they’ve reported their first quarterly loss since ages (or ever). Well, yes. And so what? The Online Services Division, a eufemism for “we wanna go where Google went” has been a […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Marketing | Tagged bing, financials, google, microsoft, MSFT, msn, stats

Apple Q3 2012 - for better or worse?

Apple Q3 2012 – for better or worse?

By Martijn Linssen on July 26, 2012

Yesterday Apple announced its figures for Q3 2012.I decided to have a good look at them, given the news and blog posts that flew around. Here are the clean stats: 2012 Q3 Revenue of $35.0 billion Net profit of $8.8 billion Gross margin 42.8% 26.0 million iPhones – 28% growth 17.0 million iPads – 84% growth […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged financials, stats | 1 Response

2004-2011 financial analysis: Non-traditional SI (Indian players and IBM)

2004-2011 financial analysis: Non-traditional SI (Indian players and IBM)

By Martijn Linssen on April 3, 2012

Yesterday I published my financial analysis of 4 traditional system integrators: Accenture, Atos Origin, Capgemini and Logica. In a conversation I got asked why IBM wasn’t on the list, and my answer was somewhere along the line of “it’s not a pure player”. Also, I hadn’t published my Indian friends yet, so here are another […]

Posted in Business | Tagged accenture, atos, Capgemini, financials, IBM, Logica, SI, stats, wipro | 1 Response

Traditional system integrators 2004-2011 financials

Traditional system integrators 2004-2011 financials

By Martijn Linssen on April 2, 2012

Traditionally, 31st of March is the date that all my favourite system integrators (SI) have released their annual report for the previous year. Oddly, however, I’ve seen some strange changes this year – for the first time. I could -and will- even say that traditions have been broken with I had to look hard and […]

Posted in Business | Tagged accenture, Capgemini, financials, Logica, revenue, SI, stats

Wanted dead or alive: any Facebook user, $ 125 reward

Wanted dead or alive: any Facebook user, $ 125 reward

By Martijn Linssen on January 31, 2012

With the upcoming IPO of Facebook this week, I got a little worried. I told a few people “Mark my words, this IPO is going to blow the Social Media bubble once and for all” and even “Wouldn’t be surprised if FB’s IPO is going to start the final leg of this crisis and finish […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged $FB, 1.0, business exceptions, Eddie Murphy, facebook, financials, Initial public offering, ipo, social business design, social media, Social network, Trading Places, trust

Apple margin per device - expressed in Chinese

Apple margin per device – expressed in Chinese

By Martijn Linssen on January 24, 2012

[Image by Sven Teschke] An article in the New York Times published 2 days ago suddenly gained a lot of traction and got discussed, reposted and reblogged today: Apple making money off of the United States, while directly employing “only” twice as many employees in the US than overseas – but indirectly more than ten […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged 1.0, 3.0, Apple, change, china, financials, Foxconn, Globalisation, ipad, iphone, iPod, stats, Supply Chain | 1 Response

Consumer and enterprise IT company analysis

Consumer and enterprise IT company analysis

By Martijn Linssen on November 29, 2011

In January this year I did an analysis of “classical” US IT companies: Google, Microsoft and Apple, which are targeting consumers, and Oracle, SAP, IBM and HP, which are targeting companies. Yes that’s a fairly big generalisation but please allow me to do so… This is the update which includes the next year, I need […]

Posted in Business, Enterprise, Featured Posts | Tagged Apple, financials, google, IBM, microsoft, Oracle, sap, stats

Innovation - today's Golden Calf

Innovation – today’s Golden Calf

By Martijn Linssen on September 7, 2011

This week I had a conversation about Innovation and IBM. Vijay Sankarav wrote a follow-up post on that as he was forced to “leave early” – this is my reply to that. I think the three of us usually agree pretty much on pretty much everything. And this was an awkward one really It all […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged 1.0, Apple, b2b, B2C, e2.0, financials, google, growth, IBM, innovation, steve jobs, Vinnie Mirchandani

Does Google get enterprise? No - so what?

Does Google get enterprise? No – so what?

By Martijn Linssen on August 30, 2011

After a small conversation with Frank Scavo – whom I hold highly – it struck me: we old enterprise boys that keep kicking the #socmed chins might be on our way to retirement. Not saying that Frank’s one of them, but I certainly count myself to the pack as I’ve only been around multinationals and […]

Posted in Business, Enterprise, Featured Posts | Tagged 3.0, adapt, Apple, b2b, B2C, change, financials, google, hewlett packard, IBM, sap, stats | 6 Responses

A new kind of Capgemini Consulting, errrrr attrition

A new kind of Capgemini Consulting, errrrr attrition

By Martijn Linssen on March 8, 2011

I was attended on Twitter to this thoughtless, clumsy, mindless piece by Peter Sayer on PCWorld: Capgemini Consulting, a specialist in strategy and transformation, is about to transform its own strategy for the second time in two years. To cope with the change, the company plans to recruit up to 1,000 staff this year, predominantly […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged 1.0, attrition, business exceptions, Capgemini, change, consulting, E2E, Ernst & Young, financials, information, risk management, social media, stats, trust

SaaS And Cloud Computing Taking Off With Financials And Accounting Professionals

SaaS And Cloud Computing Taking Off With Financials And Accounting Professionals

By Krishnan Subramanian on February 18, 2011

Proformative, an online community for corporate, finance, accounting, treasury and related professionals, recently conducted an online survey of their members and found that these professionals are more open to SaaS and Cloud Computing than ever before. We have to keep in mind that this survey and report was sponsored by Netsuite and we should take […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged accounting, briefs, cloud computing, financials, netsuite, proformative, saas, survey, workday | 1 Response

Twitter delegates the monetisation strain to its developers

Twitter delegates the monetisation strain to its developers

By Martijn Linssen on February 11, 2011

On the Twitter Development Google Group, Twitter announced today that they’ll stop whitelisting. Whitelisting basically lifts an application developer’s limitation of 150 Twitter requests per hour, that mere mortals suffer from Beginning today, Twitter will no longer grant whitelisting requests. We will continue to allow whitelisting privileges for previously approved applications; however any unanswered requests […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts, Strategy | Tagged adapt, application development, b2b, change, financials, gnip, growth, Klout, maturity, social media, standardisation, Supply Chain, twitter, Whitelist

Gamification - yet another one-size-fits-all?

Gamification – yet another one-size-fits-all?

By Martijn Linssen on February 9, 2011

I got into discussions today about gamification: Gamification is the use of game play mechanics for non-game applications (also known as “funware”), particularly consumer-oriented web and mobile sites, in order to encourage people to adopt the applications. It also strives to encourage users to engage in desired behaviors in connection with the applications. Gamification works […]

Posted in Enterprise, Featured Posts | Tagged 2.0, adopt, E2E, financials, game mechanics, Gamification, social business design, transactions

Real Profitability Part V: The Aftermath

Real Profitability Part V: The Aftermath

By Martijn Linssen on January 20, 2011

After the last 4 posts on the subject (1, 2, 3, 4), this is the final one I had a few chats with respected and “bearded” analysts in the field, and realised that my unorthodox calculations would be fine as long as they’d make sense – the average analyst is only interested in earnings per […]

Posted in Business | Tagged financials, information, stats

Real Profitability Part IV: The Verdict

Real Profitability Part IV: The Verdict

By Martijn Linssen on January 19, 2011

In yesterday’s post I showed the absolute and relative revenue, profit and R&D figures of Tata Consulting Services and Wipro. The day before that, I showed the absolute and relative revenue, profit and R&D figures of Accenture, Atos Origin, Logica and Capgemini. The day before even that, I started this series by showing the absolute […]

Posted in Business | Tagged financials, information, stats

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