Enterprise headlines and summaries, 2009-05-29

Microsoft Silverlight vs Google Wave: Why Karma Matters It is easy to dismiss all this with, “Oh, the press just loves to hype everything Google and loves to hate Microsoft,” but that cannot explain why even competitors like us are willing to embrace Google’s innovations, but stay away from perfectly good innovations from Microsoft, such [...]

Enterprise headlines and summaries, 2009-05-28

VC Tim Draper Sings & Dances For Startups Tim Draper delivered the keynote at the WTIA conference in Seattle. Mr. Draper danced and sang (rapped) his keynote in homage to entrepreneurs. This is not the first time Mr. Draper has delivered his keynote is such a manner. Below are other keynotes he delivered in the [...]

Enterprise headlines and summaries, 2009-05-27

The Big Deal: SuccessFactors Danish-import Lars Dalgaard runs $112 million (sales) SuccessFactors ( SFSF – news – people ) with zeal and big goals: He would love to see every company track every employee’s performance using his firm’s Web software. That kind of ambition has led some industry observers to compare Dalgaard to Marc Benioff [...]

Enterprise headlines and summaries, 2009-05-26

DB2 Connect Gets Better Support for Stored Procedures and Triggers Developers who use DB2 Connect to access databases running on System i midrange systems and System z mainframes from applications running on Windows, Unix, and Linux systems will gain better support for triggers and stored procedures, among other enhancements, with the latest release of the [...]

Enterprise headlines and summaries, 2009-05-25

SaaS provides nearly half of Asia-Pacific’s CRM Furthermore, the SaaS-based CRM market is dominated by a single vendor, with 41 per cent of survey respondents using Salesforce.com. The bulletin notes that Salesforce.com’s strong market share is due to its long presence in the region combined with its dominance in the global market. The survey also [...]

Enterprise headlines and summaries, 2009-05-24

SaaS gives small business a big engine Yet the founder of In Casa Gifts – an online boutique that sells occasional favours, gifts and accessories for things like weddings or baptisms – not only needed e-mail, accounting and customer relationship management (CRM) software for her virtual business, she also wanted to make sure she maintained [...]

Enterprise headlines and summaries, 2009-05-23

Analysis of Workday’s capital infusion Some of the data points in it suggest that: – total capital raised in all five rounds is approximately $150 million – current capitalization may last and negate the need for future venture rounds – Dave still owns over half of the company … One implication of this financing though [...]

Enterprise headlines and summaries, 2009-05-22

Ozzie Lays Out Microsoft’s Vision at J.P. Morgan Event In general, Ozzie predicts that it will be a “Software plus Services” world, where customers will adopt a hybrid approach of using both on-premises and hosted software. This shift is possible because of technology and high-bandwidth availability. Still, business users will have to assess their requirements. [...]

Enterprise headlines and summaries, 2009-05-21

Gov’t IT projects: Billions at risk New Congressional testimony by the General Accountability Office (GAO) reports that “352 [US federal government] projects totaling about $23.4 billion—were poorly planned.” … The testimony recommends that federal agencies take a number of steps to improve oversight on high-risk projects. These steps include: 1. Publicly disclosing the deficiencies of [...]

Enterprise headlines and summaries, 2009-05-20

SAP’s Implausible Demo So why not show it to us? Why leave us with the residual fear that an unscrupulous SAP salesman, if there is such a thing, might use the same demo with a less than knowledgeable senior executive, if there is such a thing, to sell supplier-managed inventory software that the company can’t [...]