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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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Cloud Financials on the Up and Up

August 1, 2013

Business

Business, Diversity Limited, intacct, netsuite, rod drury, SAP AG, service, Software as a Service, Xero, zach nelson

For a long time the traditional financial vendors dismissed the cloud upstarts as little more than amateur providers that caused no challenge to their own market share – in their mind “real” businesses would still use the rock solid…

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Salesforce and Core Transactions – Moving Inside from the Edge

July 8, 2013

Business

benioff, ExactTarget, marketing, salesforce, Salesforce.com, SAP AG, Workday, zach nelson

Big news a few weeks ago was the acquisition of ExactTarget by Salesforce at an eye watering $2.5B valuation. Enough people have opined on that deal already – for a good summary check out this Diginomica post. Less well…

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Salesforce Launches Company Communities – Now to Add Deep Transactional Data

May 30, 2013

Business

CeBIT, Company Communities, netsuite, Peter Coffee, salesforce, Salesforce Chatter, Salesforce.com, zach nelson

Salesforce is today announcing company communities – a modern take on the intranet approach of old Essentially company communities ties together enterprise content, the applications used within the organization and the people who use them. It’s a take that…

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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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SuiteWorld Wrap-up – Part One

May 17, 2013

Business

Autodesk, Enterprise resource planning, netsuite, Product lifecycle management, SAP AG, Williams-Sonoma, WIP, zach nelson

My post-event thoughts from SuiteWorld are just too weighty for one post hence I’ll break up my analysis into two posts and give folks a chance to digest them over time. Here follows part one. I attended NetSuite’s global…

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Looking Forward to GoogleIO and SuiteWorld

May 8, 2013

Business

google, google app engine, google compute engine, larry ellison, Microsoft, netsuite, oracle, SAP AG, zach nelson

Next week sees me continue my US sojourn with stops at NetSuite‘s annual event SuiteWorld and the much-heralded Google developer event, GoogleIO. I’m going to write a compendium post about what I expect to see at these two very…

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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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Because Old School Retail is Dead–NetSuite Acquires Retail Anywhere

January 14, 2013

Business

customer service, netsuite, Point of Sale, POS, Retail, Retail Anywhere, Solution, zach nelson

Short version NetSuite’s acquisition of Point of Sale (POS) vendor Retail Anywhere creates a powerful offering that allows retail businesses to compete in the face of a challenging environment. Long version NetSuite recently acquired Retail Anywhere, a provider of…

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Netsuite Introduces Billing and Subscription Service

October 17, 2012

Business

Chief operating officer, Force.Com, Jim McGeever, McGeever, netsuite, Subscription business model, zach nelson, zuora

At the NetSuite SuiteWorld conference held earlier this year, CEO Zach Nelson announced that the company would begin to provide some billing and subscription functionality into their platform. Billing in the services based world is an immense nightmare, others…

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