Phil Wainewright: Enterprise software giant SAP has lost one of its brightest software-as-a-service stars to SaaS titan Salesforce.com, I can exclusively reveal. Steve Lucas, who spearheaded the development of SaaS at Business Objects, acquired by SAP last year, left the company at the end of June and began work straight away at Salesforce.com, where his
Read More...One of the most difficult things to do is to walk away from an opportunity. Even though you know in your heart it’s the right thing to do, it is always difficult. A few weeks ago we made a tough decision that only recently demonstrated that it was the right course of action. One of
Read More...Let’s have some long weekend fun. As we approach the holiday break (at least here in the US), I’d like your thoughts on the ongoing iPhone vs. BlackBerry debate. I ask mainly for my own purposes, but I know for a fact there are others out there considering a similar move, so I hope this
Read More...Must be the season for social-engineering spam, because if you thought this was bad, get a load of what just showed up in my inbox: This is a well-done ploy on many counts: it appears to be from the IRS, implicates my employer, looks official, and logically follows tax season. The attachment, a Word DOC,
Read More...I’d like to share with you page 59 of Andy Sernovitz’s excellent book Word of Mouth Marketing: How Smart Companies Get People Talking, because it’s the page that’s worth the entire price of the book. Back when I tried to explain what this blog was all about — and by extension, what our company is
Read More...Oracle Corp. impressed the street by exceeding analyst expectations for its 4Q in a conference call Wednesday. For the period ended in May: Net income rose 27% to $2.04B (.39/share) from $1.6B (.31/share) in the year-ago quarter. Oracle’s previous revenue growth projection was 14% to 18%. Revenue increased 24% to $7.24B, and net income (excluding
Read More...Three-and-a-half years ago, when we started MiPro Consulting, one of the first things we did was define a set of core values. Before our name, before our logo, before even our mission statement, we defined a set of values that would serve as a guide, or compass, for where we took MiPro Consulting. Over the
Read More...Here’s an interesting breakdown, because this is a topic MiPro gets asked about constantly. Even with SaaS maturing and rapidly approaching its commercial tipping point, there is still some resistance out there. According to Forrester Research, here are the top eight reasons. (via Jason Averbook)
Read More...I found this waiting for me in my inbox this morning. Fun! Dear CEO, We are a domain name registrar centre in HongKong.and in charge of the registeration in Asia.We have something important need to confirm with your company. We received a formal application from a company called “sa-lar yun Investment Corp” applying to register
Read More...Argh. I wrote “Web 2.0” already when I promised myself I wouldn’t do that until at least my 100th post. Man. What a letdown. Anyway. So Stewart Butterfield, co-founder of Flickr, has tendered his resignation letter to Yahoo, as has his wife and fellow co-founder Caterina Fake. Check it out: Put simply, Yahoo lost focus
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