Where Social, BPM, and Event Technologies must go
A conversation with Appian CEO Matt Calkins turned up an interesting insight into a new use for social and business process management technologies.
Software & Services Safari
Many writers explore just one tech sector. Brian looks at the entire tech ecosystem to better understand the often conflicted relationships between software vendors, integrators, outsourcers and more.
Brian Sommer
Brian is currently CEO of TechVentive, a strategy consultancy serving technology providers and other firms. He is also a research analyst with Vital Analysis.
Latest Posts
Book review: 'Too Big to Inore' by Phil Simon
Phil Simon's made a digestible book on the big data technology space. Yes, you could even give this book to your CEO and he/she will get it. It's a well-written piece that does what it advertises: It creates the business case for big data.
Ultimate Software goes global (and more)
There's an arms race brewing in HR software. This week, Ultimate Software announced greater global payroll support and user definable fields. The company's offerings are expanding functionally and geographically and their relevance to more HR solution buyers will likely increase.
Re-booting Infor in 2013
Finally, we can have a new, different image of Infor. For two years, the company has been quietly re-tooling all of its product lines. It has re-thought cloud, user interface, and more to create a series of micro-vertical solutions. It's definitely a different Infor now.
CEO interview: Yury Larichev of Acumatica
The ERP space continues to evolve. Acumatica, a committed Microsoft-based ERP solution developer, has gotten a new CEO in recent weeks. Read this interview with new CEO Yury Larichev.
New Jobvite products: Engage and Refer
Recruiting is tough especially the part where one must source job candidates. Jobvite's always good for a look into how the HR sourcing process can be turned on its ear. Their new Engage product takes CRM concepts and applies them to talent acquisition. It's kind of interesting.....
Social business? Déjà’ vu all over again
The IBM Connect 2013 show stirred up all kinds of thoughts because of the push for the "social business." This was tried before but now, the tools are bigger, badder, and use all sorts of new information. But will social business fly now?
CEO Interview: Jason Blessing of Plex Software
Plex Online has been a success story in multi-tenant cloud ERP. After several recent investor changes and a capital infusion late last year, the company has a new CEO. This CEO, Jason Blessing, comes from a big enterprise software world and plans to grow the reach and customer size of Plex's business.
Common sense analytics - the analytics we need
Fake romantic relationships, bogus data in social media, etc. - how's an analytics user supposed to succeed with such problematic data? Some old-school common sense may be just what's needed in the world of analytics. Oh, and sometimes, the solutions can be a lot simpler than you think.
Technical hires shouldn't be the most difficult hires
Identifying job seekers with great technical talent shouldn't be a needle in a haystack problem. Yet, many HR tools treat technical positions the same as other jobs. HireVue has a new process that uses mobile devices, the cloud, video interviewing technology and more. Can it deliver better candidates cheaper?