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Oracle, In-Memory and Ringing Endorsements

September 24, 2013

Business

Ellison, Hasso Plattner, larry ellison, netsuite, oracle, Oracle Corporation, SAP, SAP AG

It’s the week of Oracle Open World and a buoyant Larry Ellison gave an animated performance at his keynote announcing a number of new products and services – his performance was in stark contrast to last year’s “next slide”…

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SAP+hybris – Omnichannel Buzzword Bingo or Delivering a True Step-Change?

August 16, 2013

Business

Lars Dalgaard, netsuite, Oracle Corporation, OrderMotion, SAP, SAP AG, SuccessFactors, zach nelson

Disclosure – many of the companies mentioned in this post have been consulting clients – Full details on my disclosure page. A few months ago when SAP announced its acquisition of commerce systems vendor hybris, there was much discussion…

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SuiteWorld Wrap-up – Part Two

May 20, 2013

Business

Capgemini, larry ellison, Microsoft, netsuite, Qualcomm, SAP, SAP AG, zach nelson

Part two of my post-SuiteWorld reflections I attended NetSuite‘s global conference this year (disclosure – NetSuite contributed to my T&E to attend) and it has been interesting to reflect on a company that is unabashedly growing up. Having been…

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NetSuite Smacks SAP and Microsoft–Remains Surprisingly (Or Not) Silent on Oracle

April 8, 2013

Business

larry ellison, Microsoft, netsuite, oracle, Oracle Corporation, SAP, SAP AG, zach nelson

Recently NetSuite CEO Zach Nelson made a number of comments about NetSuite competitors. The comments, part of the company’s Q4 earnings call, were aimed at convincing the marketplace that both SAP and Microsoft have stumbled in their attempts to…

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Engine Yard Differentiates through Control and Choice

February 26, 2013

Business

amazon-web-service, cloudcomputing, Cloudfoundry, EngineYard, Heroku, oracle, platform services, Salesforce.com, SAP, SAP AG

I kind of feel sorry for Engine Yard sometime – once seen as one of the two best-known Platform as a Service offerings (alongside Heroku), the acquisition of Heroku by Salesforce kind of reduced Engine Yard’s visibility. The subsequent…

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SAP Business Suite on HANA, Because Big Data is a Stupid Term

January 22, 2013

Business

Big data, Business process, Business Suite, Customer, HANA, John Deere, SAP, SAP AG

I spent a lot of time last year talking with vendors about big data and it’s ramifications for both the tech industry and the economy at large. Often these conversations centered around one or another vendor’s use of the…

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SAP, SuccessFactors, Ariba and the Brave new World of Mobile, Social and Cloud

June 7, 2012

Business

Ariba, Lars Dalgaard, netsuite, Salesforce.com, SAP, SAP AG, SuccessFactors

Recently I spent a day in Sydney attending an Analyst day that was held alongside Successfactor’s SuccessConnect user conference [disclosure – Successfactors covered my travel and accommodation to attend the briefing]. Other than a few email and twitter conversations,…

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SuiteWorld-Looking Back, Looking Forwards

May 8, 2012

Business

Jim McGeever, larry ellison, netsuite, Salesforce.com, SAP, SAP AG, SuccessFactors, SuiteWorld, zach nelson

Next week sees me winging my way, albeit briefly, to San Francisco to take part in the annual NetSuite user conference, SuiteWorld. It will be the third time I’ve been to the event, and it’s always a great chance…

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NetSuite and Oracle–Competition or Acquisition?

March 19, 2012

Business

larry ellison, netsuite, oracle, Oracle Corporation, Salesforce.com, SAP, SAP AG, SuccessFactors

It’s plainly clear that traditional software vendors can no long rubbish this new breed of Cloud vendors. While once Oracle, Microsoft and SAP could pour scorn at the little pests sniping at their ankles – today we have some…

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Cloudwashing from SAP. Sigh

January 10, 2012

Business

Enterprise resource planning, erp, SAP, SAP AG, SAP Business ByDesign

“With SAP Business ByDesign, SAP was (and still is) the first company to release an ERP suite that users access and work with through the Internet.” Stuff like this frankly really peeves me. How long ago was it that…

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