This week sees thousands of financial and professional services software buyers descending on Las Vegas to attend NetSuite’s annual SuiteWorld conference. This year’s event is particularly interesting since it is the first SuiteWorld held since Oracle’s acquisition of NetSuite. All…

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Zoomdata is a company that is all about helping organizations paint pretty pictures from their data. That might sound like a flippant description, but visualizations are actually an important part of surfacing insights and delivering them in a way…

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Filestack is a modular service that developers use to include file uploading into their applications. Much like Stripe enables mobile payments, and Twilio enables communications, Filestack allows software developers to integrate more than 25 social networks and cloud drives…

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A few years ago, Jeff Immelt, CEO of the massive industrial manufacturing company GE famously stated that the future of his company lay in successfully transitioning into being a software and analytics company. Immelt certainly put his checkbook where…

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The open source Docker initiative has been nothing if not entertaining. Epic levels of intrigue, dastardly deeds and positioning seems to be the order of the day. Of particular interest is what the Docker ecosystem is doing, particularly how…

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It seems like a lifetime ago when the primary way we interacted with applications was through a web browser (let alone via an installed application—let’s not even go there). Today, the mobile application is increasingly the way people communicate,…

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The vast majority of readers will know the Mirantis story. Lots of drama, the center of many an internet storm, intrigue and a singular focus on making OpenStack really break out and be a thing. Well much of that…

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As one of the earliest backers of recently shuttered vendor ClusterHQ, I’ve seen a long and torturous journey for Docker add-on vendors. Part of this is a timing issue—ClusterHQ was pretty early, and arguably burned a bunch of its…

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I’ve written a number of times about a class of software vendors that, in my view, are doing a heroic job. While these vendors aren’t philanthropists, they may as well be, helping millions of frustrated users of enterprise software…

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