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The OEMing of SaaS: build or buy?
Most of the discussion about SaaS in the enterprise talks about the consumption of SaaS applications by enterprise users. But there’s another side of the coin, in which enterprises themselves deliver...
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Integration Made Easier: Workday Announces A Cloud Integration Platform
Yesterday Workday announced that it is opening up its integration platform for customer and partner use. The platform, built off of technology that Workday acquired when it bought Cape Clear, provides...
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Research Summary: Market Overview – The Market For SAP Optimization Options
Forward And Commentary This market overview provides a starting point to SAP customers seeking optimization solutions. The document delivers actionable advice and insights into a proven collection of...
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VMware CEO Paul Maritz – Cloud Foundry. Polyglot IT for Cloud computing....
I have written before about Paul Maritz as the CEO of a major tech firm who agrees with RedMonk that Developers are the New Kingmakers. Well Paul came to London for an analyst briefing a couple of...
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Despite much hope, PaaS momentum hasn’t blown the doors off yet
Touted at the next thing in cloud, Platform as a Service is receiving much attention now. While PaaS has been far from a failure, it hasn’t been a mega success…yet. I’ve been talking with several...
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The Two Most Desirable Features of a Platform as a Service
Big Data? Multitenancy? Uber DB scaling? Mad Hadoopishness? Faster app development? Universal Social Connectivity? Not so much. Some platform or other claims all of those things, but the two most...
View ArticleIs Cloud Computing Green?
I gave the keynote address at the Digital Trends 2011 event organised by HePIS and CEPIS in Athens recently. My talk was on Cloud Computing’s Green Potential and in my presentation, I claimed that...
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News Analysis: The Implications Of Oracle’s Acquisition Of Taleo
Catch my colleague Yvette Cameron’s point of view here when published. She covers Future of Work for Constellation Research, Inc. Oracle Plays Catch Up With Public Cloud Ambitions On February 9th,...
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Componentizing Software
There’s a lot of pressure for change in the world of enterprise software, and many would argue that it’s much needed change. The growing availability of everything “as-a-service” is changing the way...
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PaaS Ecosystems & ERP: The Next (and Hugely Important) Frontier
The Next (and Hugely Important) Frontier Many, many years ago, on a very snowy day in New York City, I sat in on a Merrill Lynch investor conference. Marc Benioff of salesforce.com was one of the...
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SAP ruptures the procurement universe by scooping up Ariba
Are we in the Cloud yet? With all the quick-thinking and finesse of an Italian analyst in a Hollywood Hills salami shop, here’s HfS Research’s Tony Filippone imparting the scoop on why SAP just bought...
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CIO view: NIST helps cut vendor cloud FUD
Cloud image credit: Michael Krigsman Talk to enterprise software vendors about the cloud and you will likely hear conflicting claims and phrases, such as: “Cloud will replace virtually all on-premise...
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Multi-tenancy: are they selling you a pup?
Image credit: petian.net via Flickr When vendors step up and argue that multi-tenancy does, or doesn’t, matter, the most important question from a buyer’s point of view is, what’s their agenda? They...
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Roundup of Big Data Forecasts and Market Estimates, 2012
From the best-known companies in enterprise software to start-ups, everyone is jumping on the big data bandwagon. The potential of big data to bring insights and intelligence into enterprises is a...
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It’s more about technology than ever for HR executives…
Our world at HfS has been dominated by the need for organizations to upscale their talent and their capabilities to improve their operations – and how the majority are turning to their service...
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Why the social enterprise matters… Yarmis brings his thoughts back from...
We can’t understate the importance of social media on the enterprise. Hey – we bet our whole business model on it! And that’s why we hired one of the best thinkers in the social sphere to help us...
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Cloud Computing and Enterprise Software Forecast Update, 2012
The latest round of cloud computing and enterprise software forecasts reflect the growing influence of analytics, legacy systems integration, mobility and security on IT buyer’s decisions. Bain &...
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Alsbridge digs deep into the guts of the Cloud with Telwares acquisition
A subtle, but decisive, shift took place in the sourcing advisory landscape today, as Alsbridge’s announced the acquisition of leading telecoms/networking sourcing advisor, Telwares. This move firmly...
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Enterprise Headlines and Highlights, 2013-01-04
We invented it Highlights from the world of Enterprise Software and Solutions over the past two months (or so): Salesforce.com had a strong Q3. NetSuite had a strong Q3. HP did not. Workday had its...
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Outsourcing may be battered, bruised and vilified… so why is only a twentieth...
2013: A new dawn for a maturing outsourcing industry Make no bones about it: 2012 was a pretty dire year for the industry known as “outsourcing”. However, brand new data from our State of Outsourcing...
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