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Tibbr Helps Enterprise Social Gets Contextual and Actionable

April 30, 2013

Business

Application programming interface, blackberry, enterprise, IOS, oracle, Tibbr, Tibco, yammer

I’m a strong believer in the notion of social streaming tools for enterprise – I’ve seen how tools like Yammer can really drive productivity within small businesses. The problems come when these sorts of tools are rolled out into…

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RackWare Aims to Power Cloud Mobility

September 26, 2012

Business

amazon web services, cloudcomputing, enterprise, Eucalyptus, OpenStack, Operating system, Organization, RightScale

An interesting recent trend I’ve been seeing is that of new vendors differentiating their cloud service through giving customers ultimate flexibility around what they use on their cloud – rather than shoehorning them into a couple of OS options,…

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Cloud ERP Starts to Break Out–NetSuite Reports Good Numbers

July 30, 2012

Business

enterprise, Enterprise resource planning, larry ellison, netsuite, oracle, Oracle Corporation, SuccessFactors, Zynga

Last week say NetSuite report it’s Q2 revenue and earnings – hi level numbers include; Subscription and support revenue was $61.0 million, a 27 percent increase on an annual basis Cash flows from operations were $15.2 million, up by…

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Controlling (and Identifying) Cloud Spend with Cloudability

June 30, 2011

Business

cfo, cloud computing, cloudability, enterprise, iaas, LaunchPad, Monitoring, SaaS, SMB

One of the exciting companies I met with at the recent Structure Conference was Cloudability – in fact a number of commentators (well, myself and Paul Miller anyway) were a little shocked at the relatively poor ranking that the…

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Forklifting Apps to the Cloud – Realistic or Not?

March 30, 2011

Business

Business, cloud computing, enterprise, Infrastructure, Netflix, Organization

A few weeks ago, the shock du jour was the (slightly tongue in cheek) resignation by Christian Reilly from his (very tongue in cheek) position of President of the Private Cloud. There needs to be a little background to…

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McKinsey on SaaS

June 13, 2008

Business, IT, SaaS, Strategy

enterprise, mckinsey

RobinB sent me the latest McKinsey enterprise software report. It makes for interesting reading and will validate what SaaS vendors already know. It’s very interesting that a large number of respondents described SaaS as the most important trend impacting…

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Scoble on Google for Enterprise…

April 14, 2008

IT, SaaS, Web x.0

enterprise, google

Robert Scoble has an interesting perspective on Google’s moves into enterprise over here. His comments come after seeing a demo of a Cemaphore product called MailShadow for Google Apps, which synchronizes email and calendar items between Microsoft Outlook and…

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Tibbr Helps Enterprise Social Gets Contextual and Actionable

RackWare Aims to Power Cloud Mobility

Cloud ERP Starts to Break Out–NetSuite Reports Good Numbers

Controlling (and Identifying) Cloud Spend with Cloudability

Forklifting Apps to the Cloud – Realistic or Not?

McKinsey on SaaS

Scoble on Google for Enterprise…