This week has seen me brave a Hades-like Las Vegas (at least when it comes to temperatures) to attend FinancialForce’s CommunityLive event. The conference is the first time that FinancialForce invited media and analysts to their show and was…
A little too late or impeccable timing? You be the judge Interesting news from Vapor IO today who are pitching the notion of “micro data centers” that will sit at the base of cell towers. Vapor IO, if you…
OwnBackup is a cloud-to-cloud backup and restore vendor that aims to provide secure, automated, daily backups of SaaS and PaaS data. Founded by well-regarded recovery, data protection and security experts, OwnBackup is a Salesforce partner and ranks highly on…
Sometimes a little action can make a difference. Here’s an example. I speak on a lot of conference panels, I also get to keynote a fair bit and moderate panels all around the place. So I’ve seen first hand…
I’m currently on a plane heading to Las Vegas where I will attend FinancialForce’s CommLive event. I’ve followed the company for many years (actually, the entire time it has existed) but this is the first time I’ll be attending…
Ever since outgoing GE CEO Jeff Immelt opined upon his organization’s move from being an industrial machinery vendor to a software one, the world has been increasingly interested in the opportunities introduced by the industrial Internet of Things (IIoT).…
This week I spent a couple of days at the Santa Clara Convention Center for the Cloud Foundry Summit. Here’s a news roundup from the event… Microsoft signs up to the Cloud Foundry Foundation News that Microsoft is signing…
I was at Salesforce’s extravaganza conference back in 2011 when Kenandy, the ERP built on top of Salesforce’s platform, was unveiled. Kenandy was founded by none other than Sandra Kurtzig, someone who, it is fair to say, invented the…
There were a couple of reasons that I didn’t really want to write this post. The first is readily encapsulated in the quote: “let he who is without guilt cast the first stone.” When it comes to diversity and…
SAP has long suggested that its HANA database will make a significant difference to products across its portfolio – today’s example, business and financial planning. When SAP launched its HANA database, it clearly articulated the performance improvements that the…
