SuccessFactors swaps NetSuite for ByDesign
NetSuite CEO Zach Nelson claims SuccessFactors is a NetSuite customer. SAP says it runs on ByDesign now. Who's right?
Software as Services
In the best-informed blog on software-as-a-service and on-demand business applications, Phil Wainewright cuts through the vendor spin, analyzes the trends to watch and adds his thought-provoking insights.
Phil Wainewright
Since 1998, Phil Wainewright has been a thought leader in cloud computing as a blogger, analyst and consultant.
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Paving the cowpaths to the denial cloud
Enterprises are being sold over-specified, inefficient private cloud infrastructure that will end up as shelfware, a conference heard last week.
Tech-hugging eurocrats imperil innovation puppy
Europe needs growth and cloud computing has a role to play. But are policy makers too eager for rapid results? An event later this month may yield some answers.
Crowd scale, friction and the nature of the firm
Why a new, digitally enabled, contract-based online business model is disrupting long-established enterprises.
The day software ate Cisco
Cisco's track record with software tells us the company will not survive the shift to software-defined networking
Marketo buys Crowd Factory? You read it here first ...
Read my analysis of today's news in the blog post I published last November ... the trouble with prescience is that people forget too easily these days
Cloud apps, big data and the wisdom of swarms
Siri's approach to deciphering voice recognition has lessons for SaaS vendors who are debating how to mine their stores of big data for value.
Cloud: disruptive good, disruptive bad
Adoption of cloud in the enterprise is disruptive in a bad way for IT and in a good way for business. No wonder IT wants to put the brakes on.
Internet castaways of BBC's Apprentice
Lord Sugar's apprentices are learning how to be entrepreneurs in a parallel, non-digital reality where no one ever dreams of using their smartphone to look something up on Google
Appirio masters the automation of professional services
Appirio's latest funding is a new bell tolling for today's top integrators, a warning signal that, rather than acquiring these cloud upstarts, they may indeed be challenged and replaced by them.