I can snark on Oracle with the best of them. Let’s face it, Larry Ellison, he of the private islands, yacht races (BTW, Team New Zealand beat Oracle in the America’s Cup, despite Ellison’s billions!) and the perennially “next…

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I’ve been following cloud accounting vendor Intacct for almost a decade now. The mid-market vendor was always hampered in its goals by the higher relative profile that competitors FinancialForce and NetSuite had. The former was buoyed up by its…

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“Smarting the dumb pipes” is a term I use a lot. Originally aimed at telcos, who have been struggling for a decade to figure out how to deliver value on top of fixed infrastructure, the term now gets extended…

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I often chat with mobile developers about the tools and processes they use on a day-to-day basis. One topic that never ceases to get people fired up is the discussion around native versus cross-platform development. Pretty much the only…

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Every time a large organization makes the decision to award a big it contract to a traditional vendor (and, generally speaking, SAP and Oracle are the two traditional vendors of choice), there comes howls of derision in the business…

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Recent times have seen Amazon Web Services soften up the marketplace to the idea of a more nuanced take on the cloud, one which embraces traditional on-premises models and may even go as far as to offer a high-fidelity…

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I go to a gazillion conferences a year – I’ve seen every tired old 80’s and 90’s band dragged out of the freezer for a guest appearance, every ex-military or government figure paraded in front of an adoring crowd,…

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Here’s a partnership that shows that sometimes integrated solutions deliver benefits that standalone solutions cannot Corvil is a monitoring company. In a slightly confusing twist of semantics, however, Corvil doesn’t say that but rather talks about how it delivers…

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Lots of change for this Sydney founded, and now San Francisco-based, email marketing vendor. Despite new social media channels being promising ways to market to customers, email generally, and email marketing campaigns specifically, are still a huge part of…

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While the hype suggests that, just like magic we can go from reactive service relationship to proactive and preventative ones, the reality is a little more nuanced than that… GE has famously been saying for the past few years…

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