What is the cost of a fumbled upgrade? For J. Crew it was $3MM in unanticipated costs which, according to J. Crew, contributed to their recently announced earnings miss of 4 cents a share. How did Wall Street respond? Typical overcorrection seems to be the response with shares trading 15% down in after hour activity.
Read More...Businessweek recently published a surprisingly negative article about SaaS, saying that its hype can be largely undeserved for a number of reasons. Now, I like BS-calling as much as the next guy (maybe a bit more, actually), but I found Gene Marks’s reasoning to be too generalized and all-encompassing. Marks says: Myth 1: SaaS is
Read More...In our recent newsletter, two of our senior principal consultants wrote a quick bit about the differences in PeopleSoft invoice matching functionality from 8.9 to 9.0. We get asked about this a lot, and for most users, the differences can be somewhat arcane. Because of this, I’d like to share the article. Differences in PeopleSoft
Read More...One of my favorite new business blogs is Deal Architect by Vinnie Mirchandani. It’s become a daily read for me. But here’s the thing: I follow over 100 feeds. I don’t go to any website regularly, even personal favorites like Daring Fireball or kottke.org. I live my digital life, in large part, in a feed
Read More...Dell, in a brilliant display of PR savvy, has tried to trademark “cloud computing”. Per The Standard: After witnessing countless corporate attempts to patent common practices or trademark common terms, and seeing the resulting PR fallout, one would think that companies would just stop trying. Dell, however, seems to think that it should be able
Read More...Quite a bit, actually. This is one that you should look at deeper than the headline. Last week, Appirio announced that it bagged Series B funding upwards of $5M by Sequoia Capital. It’s worth noting that Sequoia is the same firm that underwrote upstarts such as Google, Yahoo, LinkedIn and PayPal. The pedigree is Midas-esque
Read More...If you take this blog’s RSS feed and drop it into Wordle, you get a neat word cloud composed of oft-used words found in the feed’s RSS data. The cloud for Unfiltered looks like this (click to enlarge): Nice idea for a web app, and good design aspects too. All you need for Wordle to
Read More...If you made it past the long headline and would like to come talk to us in person, we’ll be at the Quest Northeast conference this week from July 16 through July 18 at the MGM Grand at Foxwoods in Ledyard, CT. We’re in booth 208 and would love to hear from you. Come on
Read More...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
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