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Splunk Makes Monitoring Clouds Easy

August 13, 2010

enterprise

Even though cloud makes provisioning of IT resources just a click away, it is only the beginning of the game. Cloud infrastructure is not a miracle pill that completely eliminates any need for IT. The typical IT management problems of the traditional c…

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AffinityLive – PSA For Us All

July 13, 2010

enterprise, Product reviews, SaaS

affinitylive, geoff mcqueen, hiive, netsuite, openair, psa

I posted recently about OpenAir, NetSuite’s PSA offering. Hot on the heels of that I talked with Geoff McQueen, founder of Hiive Systems an Australian vendor who is bringing its own PSA solution to market later this year. Geoff…

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Convergence? Or a Quasi Suite

June 26, 2010

enterprise, SaaS

brightpearl, mailchimp, quasi suite

For awhile now I’ve been writing about suite vs best of breed. My thoughts have admittedly wavered a little bit, on the one hand I am a believer in the web being the platform, but on the other I’ve…

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Private Cloud Redux – Nimbula Bets on Today’s Reality

June 23, 2010

enterprise, Product reviews

amazon, Nimbula, private cloud

A number of cloud commentators seem to get all pent up and in a state of agitated hand-wringing about private cloud. “But it’s not the true cloud” they say, having some sort of dogmatic view over what is, and…

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Salesforce Chatter goes into GA. No Hiding Now Marc!

June 22, 2010

enterprise, Product reviews

chatter, Force.Com, marc benioff, Salesforce.com

I’ve always been partly in awe and partly dubious about the way Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff gives… “aspirational” product announcements. On one level, it’s great to get people thinking and envisioning a future, while on another vaporware is just that – unobtainable and frustrating. Just look at his quote about Chatter: Salesforce Chatter is the […]

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Rackspace Gives Email Users Choice

June 21, 2010

enterprise, General

email, exchange, google, Microsoft, rackspace

I believe that all generic technology services should be outsourced. Anything that doesn’t provide a point of differentiation for your business is a candidate to move to the cloud. One of the first applications in this class is, I believe, email. Beyond security of your data, there is no compelling reason to keep your mail […]

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B2B Integration, Available to the Little Guys at Last. Acquisition, funding and bootstrapping

June 16, 2010

enterprise, Small business, sterling commerce

bill.com, billflo

Lots of interesting happenings in the B2B integration space – some funding, an acquisition and a little battle aiming to bootstrap its way to stardom. Recently IBM announced its acquisition of Sterling Commerce – Colleague Ray Wang does an, as-always, excellent job of giving a quick perspective. Some key points from Ray’s post: On May […]

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Box Takes on Desktop Sync, the Space Gets Ever More Crowded

June 10, 2010

enterprise, Strategy

box.net, dropbox, sugarsync, syncplicity

I’ve written before about a number of desktop sync products I use – these products help me to keep my life organized across multiple devices (see my Syncplicity posts for example). The fact is that, for me at least, I live on three different laptops, a desktop from time-to-time and one or two mobile devices […]

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Business ByDesign meet NetSuite, NetSuite meet Business ByDesign

June 1, 2010

enterprise

Business ByDesign, bydesign, Enterprise resource planning, netsuite, SAP, SAP AG, Software as a Service, zach nelson

I wanted to refrain a little while from commenting on SAP’s announcement of the long-awaited (and oft-maligned) Business ByDesign on-demand product (as an aside, is it just me who feels a little finny calling a SAP product SaaS?). Zoli…

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Suite vs Best of Breed – Let the Battle Begin (Yet Again)

May 26, 2010

enterprise, Strategy

Application programming interface, cloudave, netsuite, openair, quickbooks, SnapLogic, Software as a Service, zach nelson

A month or so ago I sat in a room with a small group of bloggers discussing the enterprise software space with NetSuite CEO Zach Nelson and one sentence he said stuck in my mind: The same was is…

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