Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, writing a guest column over at TechCrunch entitled Hello iPad. Hello, Cloud 2: I’m sentimental this week, and thinking about the past, because I have seen the future. The future is not a Mac, or even a PC. Its father created a lot of the computers I’ve loved: Apple IIe, Mac,
Read More...Tim Bray on how so many are doing Enterprise IT wrong, most notably not learning anything from the dynamic language web culture and the small, light, simple, iterative mindset of modern web dev shops: Here’s a thought experiment: Suppose you asked one of the blue-suit solution providers to quote you on building Ravelry or Twitter
Read More...Tim O’Reilly, reporting just after yesterday’s Nexus One press event: News from the front: a possible turning point for Android. I’ve been a huge iPhone fan, but after using the Nexus One for a few weeks, I find so much to like that I’m close to the point where Android might be my first choice.
Read More...Robert Scoble: The writing is on the wall. Small business marketing is moving away from focusing on SEO. Why do I say that? Because, well, Google and Bing are changing the rules so often and are getting so good at figuring out the real businesses that deserve to be on pages. Search Half Moon Bay
Read More...Since launching this blog in the middle of 2008, we saw readership grow from 50 unique visitors per month to nearly 5,000 (and trending upward), so I’d like to get one thing out of the way before highlighting 2009’s top posts: thank you. We appreciate all the kind words and referrals the PeopleSoft/Workday/Business Intelligence communities
Read More...Jeff Kaplan (@thinkstrategies on Twitter), writing for E-Commerce Times, has an excellent list of major SaaS/cloud evolution milestones we saw in 2009. I have included the list in its entirety below. Jeff’s full article is here. Wheeling and Dealing 1. Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM) surpasses US$1 billion in revenue. Hitting this financial milestone clearly shows that
Read More...Nenshad Bardoliwalla with an excellent list, but #5 jumped out at me: SaaS / Cloud BI Tools will steal significant revenue from on-premise vendors but also fight for limited oxygen amongst themselves. From many accounts, this was the year that SaaS-based offerings hit the mainstream due to their numerous advantages over on-premise offerings, and this
Read More...Over at Manufacturing Software Advice I found an interesting (and fully interactive) timeline of manufacturing and ERP software. For anyone in the business who wants to have a nicely-summarized origin of their trade – as well as how emerging technologies are changing the market’s plate tectonics – this timeline is an excellent primer. Recommended. Like
Read More...Interesting list. Of these, I see the biggest hitters being: Cloud Computing. Cloud computing is a style of computing that characterizes a model in which providers deliver a variety of IT-enabled capabilities to consumers. Cloud-based services can be exploited in a variety of ways to develop an application or a solution. Using cloud resources does
Read More...Some of the best tweets streaming across my HootSuite screen over the past two days. These were all under the #OOW hashtag. I will post more during the week, time permitting. (Other hashtags you can check out are #OpenWorld, and #OOW09, but #OOW seems to be the main player.) IntraSee: Big time stat of #oow:
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