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Dell’s Serious About Being a Software Player – Inks Reseller Deal With NetSuite

February 25, 2014

Business

Boomi, Business, cloud computing, Dell, Dell Services, Enstratius, netsuite, Personal computer

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 shifted the sands upon which their business…

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Who Said Dell is Dead? Enstratius Acquisition and Boomi API Management Play Suggest Reinvention is in Progress

May 7, 2013

Business

Alcatel Lucent, BMC, Boomi, Dell, Enstratius, James Urquhart, Mashery, OpenStack, Simon Wardley

Yesterday Jo Maitland, GigaOm Pro Analyst, published a pretty damning post in which she characterized both Dell and BMC as, essentially, the living dead. Her view was that the move to privatize the companies (a done deal for BMC,…

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On Dell Boomi’s Master Data Management and the Convergence of Data Management and Data Integration

March 11, 2013

Business

Boomi, DataQuality, Dell, Dell Boomi, Master data, Master Data Management, MDM, SnapLogic

Many people in the cloud application integration space pour scorn on their more traditional competitors. The new guys like to laugh with derision at anyone who talk about data warehousing, Master data management (MDM) or anything less than real…

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Dell Boomi Announces New Milestones and Partnerships

February 8, 2013

Business

Boomi, Dell, deloitte, IBM, Infosys, Personal computer, Rick Nucci, SnapLogic, Wipro

Only days after the announcement that Dell was going to return to private ownership, Dell subsidiary Boomi has come out with some news about its integration platform This is really timely given the near universal acknowledgement that software lies…

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Dell Delivers SMB Packaged Software

August 1, 2012

Business

AdWords, Boomi, Customer relationship management, Dell, google, Marketing automation, Pardot

Ask most people about Dell and they’ll likely tell you about consumer electronics or infrastructure hardware. But as the world moves from being hardware focused to being software and solution focused, Dell is rapidly morphing to become an important…

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NextAxiom Looks to Solve Application Integration

April 27, 2012

Business

Boomi, Business logic, Service-oriented architecture, SnapLogic, Virtual machine, Web Service

NextAxiom, a company founded over a decade ago, is pushing hard to create what it calls a silo-free enterprise. It’s take on this hallowed territory is that by enabling intelligent information flow between discrete information silos, organizations will be…

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SnapLogic Adds Monitoring to Integration

March 29, 2012

Business

Boomi, cloud computing, Dell, IBM, Salesforce.com, SnapLogic

Application integration in a cloudy world is an important and often forgotten area that I am predicting will see significant movement in the months ahead. One of the long standing providers in the field who still remains independent (after…

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Coupa Gets New UI, and Guarantees Results

May 18, 2011

Business

Boomi, coupa, Enterprise resource planning, Microsoft, SAP AG

I’ve written before about Coupa, a provider of a SaaS product for controlling and streamlining purchase and expense management. When I first reviewed the product I had questions around the viability of a third party product offering these services…

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MemBase and CouchOne and What it Means for Cloud Sartups

February 11, 2011

Business

Boomi, cloud computing, Heroku, iaas, John Taschek, Membase, NorthScale, NoSQL, PaaS, strategy

Focus.com Cloud RoundtableLast week marked the merger between Membase (formerly NorthScale) and CouchOne, associated companies producing NoSQL products. It’s a logical combination as it creates an end-to-end NoSQL solution. But more than that it’s an indication of something I’ve…

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Dell Moves Up the Stack

November 2, 2010

Business

Boomi, cloud computing, Dell

When Michael Dell teased he world yesterday about an impending cloud acquisition, I concurred with many of my peers in thinking it would be a fairly large, low in the stack operator. This assumption stemmed from Dell’s previous Cloud…

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