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What to Make of Amazon’s Work Practices?

What to Make of Amazon’s Work Practices?

By Mark Suster on August 17, 2015

There is much discussion about this weekend’s article in the NY Times regarding Amazon’s work practices. People seem polarized between, “that’s what it takes to succeed” to “I can’t believe what a heartless, intolerant and misogynistic company culture they’ve built.” I’ve heard the gamut from reading opinions online and even hearing the debate in circles […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged amazon, Apple Inc., jeff bezos, larry ellison, startup lessons, The New York Times

Aaron Levie of Box:  “If We Just Sold to Silos-in-the-Enterprise, We’d Only Be a $25,000,000 Business”

Aaron Levie of Box: “If We Just Sold to Silos-in-the-Enterprise, We’d Only Be a $25,000,000 Business”

By Jason M. Lemkin on April 27, 2015

Missed the 2015 SaaStr Annual?  We’ve got your back.  We’ll do a series where we publish both the videos and full transcripts of all the sessions.  First up is Aaron Levie of Box, where we had a wide-ranging, 45 minute deep dive on how Box scaled from $0 to $250m in ARR. As you’re reading […]

Posted in Business, Entrepreneurship, Featured Posts | Tagged @levie, #BoxHQ, aaron levie, box, boxdev, case studies, Drew Houston, dropbox, larry ellison, linkedin, SaaStr, salesforce.com, startups, techcrunch, video

Building the Cult of You

Building the Cult of You

By Jason M. Lemkin on April 14, 2015

You may have noticed LinkedIn recently made its largest acquisition so far, of Lynda.com for $1.5 billion.  If you haven’t heard of Lynda.com, it’s a SaaS / subscription service for training and e-learning.  One thing to note is who its co-founder is:  Lynda Weinman.  The Wall Street Journal called her “the mother of the Internet.” […]

Posted in Business, Entrepreneurship, Featured Posts | Tagged @aneelb, @levie, Benioff, box, Cult of You, larry ellison, Marketing & Partnerships, Oracle Corporation, Safra A. Catz, salesforce, salesforce.com, workday

The Rise of the Cloud Stack

The Rise of the Cloud Stack

By Aaron Levie on June 27, 2013

Something changed this week in the enterprise software world. In an industry known for ruthless competition, a number of players – Microsoft, Oracle, Salesforce and NetSuite – introduced partnerships that portend a very different future. In very un-Larry Ellison-like fashion, something akin to harmony was proposed, “when customers choose cloud applications, they expect rapid low-cost […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts, Infrastructure, Your POV | Tagged aaron levie, api, best of breed, box, cloud stack, erp, integration, larry ellison, Larry's Kids, microsoft, netsuite, Oracle, peoplesoft, salesforce.com, workday | 1 Response

Forrester Confuses “Best” with “Most Accessible”

Forrester Confuses “Best” with “Most Accessible”

By Ben Kepes on November 8, 2012

I’ve got a love/hate relationship with the traditional analyst firms. Their people are incredibly smart and very thorough, but sometimes in their search for massive levels of details, they miss the very point of technology. A good case in point is the recently released Forrester Enterprise Cloud Database Wave report.

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged cloud computing, Customer, database, forrester, larry ellison, Multitenancy, Oracle Corporation, Oracle Database | 1 Response

Why Competition Is So Bitter in SaaS:  Oligopolies and Dominant Strategy Equilibriums

Why Competition Is So Bitter in SaaS: Oligopolies and Dominant Strategy Equilibriums

By Jason M. Lemkin on October 2, 2012

Perhaps the oddest thing about the Apple-Google “go thermonuclear” strategy to SaaS guys is that it is so odd at all.  Competition-to-the-almost-death seems the norm in SaaS.  Just look at Larry Ellison or Marc Benioff.  You can see the blood lust in their eyes, in every speech, in a way you never really saw/see in […]

Posted in Business, Entrepreneurship, Featured Posts | Tagged Apple, bill gates, google, larry ellison, netsuite, oligopoly, Oracle, Sergey Brin, software as a service, steve jobs

The Workday IPO and ‘F You Money

The Workday IPO and ‘F You Money

By Jason M. Lemkin on October 1, 2012

The other day, a VC asked me about a founder he was thinking of investing in.  He asked me if this founder had, quote, ‘F You Money.  {I learned how this was spelled when a Businessweek article this week used the term, btw}. I wasn’t really sure if he meant this as a negative, but […]

Posted in Business, Entrepreneurship | Tagged google, ipo, larry ellison, Oracle, paypal, software as a service, workday, yahoo

Cloud ERP Starts to Break Out–NetSuite Reports Good Numbers

Cloud ERP Starts to Break Out–NetSuite Reports Good Numbers

By Ben Kepes on July 30, 2012

Last week NetSuite reported it’s Q2 revenue and earnings – high level numbers include: Subscription and support revenue was $61.0 million, a 27 percent increase on an annual basis Cash flows from operations were $15.2 million, up by 80 percent from Q2 2011 While the specific numbers themselves are of vague interest, and more so […]

Posted in Application Software, Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Cloud ERP, Enterprise resource planning, larry ellison, netsuite, Oracle Corporation, saas erp, sap, successfactors, zynga | 5 Responses

Silicon Angle Interview–What’s New and News in the Cloud

Silicon Angle Interview–What’s New and News in the Cloud

By Ben Kepes on July 6, 2012

While I was in Las Vegas a few weeks ago I took the opportunity to sit down with Alex Williams, Cloud editor of Silicon Angle, and Stu Miniman from Wikibon, to film a video interview. The interview cam at an interesting time – in the space of 24 hours we’d seen some large Cloud-related announcements […]

Posted in Enterprise | Tagged big data, hewlett packard, larry ellison, microsoft, Oracle, Oracle Corporation, SAP AG, wikibon | 2 Responses

Trash talk and FUD harms the Cloud industry

Trash talk and FUD harms the Cloud industry

By David Terrar on June 11, 2012

Over here we are anticipating this year’s Cloud Computing World Forumin London, but over in the US Larry Ellison, Oracle’s founder and CEO since 1977, has pivoted his position on the Cloud along with “crossing a line” to trash key competitors.  Elsewhere old guard software giants like IBM are mis-communicating the Cloud messages.  How does […]

Posted in Business, Enterprise, Featured Posts | Tagged cloud computing, Frank Scavo, fud, IBM, larry ellison, Oracle, oracle fusion, sap, successfactors | 3 Responses

The Rise of Two Tier ERP and Larry Ellison’s NetSuite Intentions

The Rise of Two Tier ERP and Larry Ellison’s NetSuite Intentions

By Ben Kepes on June 1, 2012

A few weeks ago I was in San Francisco for a few days for NetSuite’s SuiteWorld conference [Disclosure: NetSuite funded my travel and accommodation to attend]. One of the announcements at SuiteWorld was that of CTO Evan Goldberg who talked about “Multi Book Accounting”, as my colleague Phil Wainewright explains; [multi book accounting is] for […]

Posted in Application Software, Business, Featured Posts | Tagged cloud computing, Enterprise resource planning, evan goldberg, larry ellison, netsuite, Oracle, sap, SAP AG, two-tier erp | 3 Responses

SAP Assembles Cloud Powerhouse with Ariba, SuccesFactors Acquisitions

SAP Assembles Cloud Powerhouse with Ariba, SuccesFactors Acquisitions

By Zoli Erdos on May 22, 2012

Emphasis on  “assemble”, as opposed to develop.  For years SAP and Oracle fought a religious war of acquire/assemble vs develop in-house.  SAP’s view was (even under the current Co-CEOs) that you can only get to a coherent, seamlessly integrated suite by development.  Apparently they have changed religion, borrowing a chapter or two from Larry Ellison’s […]

Posted in Application Software, Business, Enterprise, Featured Posts | Tagged ariba, Business ByDesign, erp, larry ellison, Lars Dalgaard, netsuite, procurement, sap, sapphirenow, successfactors, workday

SuiteWorld-Looking Back, Looking Forwards

SuiteWorld-Looking Back, Looking Forwards

By Ben Kepes on May 8, 2012

Next week sees me winging my way, albeit briefly, to San Francisco to take part in the annual NetSuite user conference, SuiteWorld. It will be the third time I’ve been to the event, and it’s always a great chance to catch up with colleagues, talk with NetSuite customers and partners,

Posted in Application Software, Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Jim McGeever, larry ellison, netsuite, salesforce.com, sap, SAP AG, successfactors, suiteworld, zach nelson

NetSuite and Oracle–Competition or Acquisition?

NetSuite and Oracle–Competition or Acquisition?

By Ben Kepes on March 19, 2012

It’s plainly clear that traditional software vendors can no long rubbish this new breed of Cloud vendors. While once Oracle, Microsoft and SAP could pour scorn at the little pests sniping at their ankles – today we have some impressive vendors waiting in the wings who look increasingly likely to become the mega-vendors of the […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged larry ellison, netsuite, Oracle, Oracle Corporation, salesforce.com, sap, SAP AG, successfactors | 1 Response

Cutting Through the Fog of Cloud Computing Definitions

Cutting Through the Fog of Cloud Computing Definitions

By Frank Scavo on November 7, 2011

In recent years, the term “cloud computing” has been used and abused by vendors and their marketing groups to denote just about anything the vendor offers other than on-premise systems. Analysts too have piled on, each offering their own definition of cloud computing. This 2009 Wall Street Journal article outlined the confusion. The result has been fruitless […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts, Infrastructure, Your POV | Tagged cloud, cloud computing, iaas, larry ellison, National Institute of Standards and Technology, NIST, Oracle, paas, saas, salesforce.com, sfdc | 3 Responses

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