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SuiteWorld Wrap-up – Part One
My post-event thoughts from SuiteWorld are just too weighty for one post hence I’ll break up my analysis into two posts and give folks a chance to digest them over time. Here follows part one. I...
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SuiteWorld Wrap-up – Part Two
Part two of my post-SuiteWorld reflections I attended NetSuite‘s global conference this year (disclosure – NetSuite contributed to my T&E to attend) and it has been interesting to reflect on a...
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Salesforce Launches Company Communities – Now to Add Deep Transactional Data
Salesforce is today announcing company communities – a modern take on the intranet approach of old Essentially company communities ties together enterprise content, the applications used within the...
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A Big Week for Oracle – Ellison Yet Again Proves He’s a Master Strategist
So… What to make of all this. In the space of a week we have Oracle announcing deep partnerships with Microsoft, NetSuite and Salesforce. In the case of NetSuite and Salesforce the deal sees those two...
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Engine Yard on Windows Azure? Yup, You Read that Right
Lost in the outpouring of interest about last week’s announcements between Oracle and sometime enemies Microsoft, NetSuite and Salesforce was an interesting piece of news – that Engine Yard was going...
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Cloud Financials on the Up and Up
For a long time the traditional financial vendors dismissed the cloud upstarts as little more than amateur providers that caused no challenge to their own market share – in their mind “real” businesses...
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SAP+hybris – Omnichannel Buzzword Bingo or Delivering a True Step-Change?
Disclosure – many of the companies mentioned in this post have been consulting clients – Full details on my disclosure page. A few months ago when SAP announced its acquisition of commerce systems...
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Beyond Subscription – Managing the Entire Customer Revenue Lifecycle
While in San Francisco recently I took the opportunity to chat with Zuora and Avangate – two companies with different views on the topic of helping their customers get money from their clients. Zuora...
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Oracle, In-Memory and Ringing Endorsements
It’s the week of Oracle Open World and a buoyant Larry Ellison gave an animated performance at his keynote announcing a number of new products and services – his performance was in stark contrast to...
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Dell’s Serious About Being a Software Player – Inks Reseller Deal With NetSuite
For a vendor like Dell, that has historically made its money selling servers and PCs, the dual trends away from traditional PC’s and the move to cloud computing and commodity hardware has radically...
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