Posted in Application Design, SaaS on Sep 30th, 2008 No Comments »
Dan Lyons has been keeping up the great tech debates even though he is no longer Fake Steve Jobs. He had an interesting post today on his Real Dan Lyons blog that brings up some of the potentially negative sides of the (as we now know) fuzzy word of cloud computing.
Lyons states that he agrees […]
Posted in Application Design, Random on Sep 29th, 2008 No Comments »
Last week, I thought we might see a bit of a lul in all the “Cloud” hype when Larry Ellison called a technology spade a spade, as it were. His comments hit to a lot of what many people have been thinking, but what few journalists or techn ology leaders have been forthright enough to […]
Posted in Application Design, CRM, SugarCRM on Sep 25th, 2008 No Comments »
Greg Gianforte, a man I respect and have known for a while, who happens to be CEO of SaaS CRM play RightNow, noted in a recent interview that he feels the “Big Bang” CRM sales are going to be few and far between in this economy.
While I certainly do not fault him for his conservatism, […]
Posted in Application Design, Open Source, SugarCRM on Sep 23rd, 2008 No Comments »
Matt Asay made some strong comments to a note from a SpringSource commentator in his most recent blog post. The original thought was “How Open Source is Spring?” because so many of the core contributors are employees of Spring.
Matt argues that many commercial open source entities have a very centralized development team, sometimes existing only […]
Posted in Application Design, CRM, Siebel/PeopleSoft/JD Edwards/Oracle, SugarCRM on Sep 3rd, 2008 No Comments »
I was going to simply make this a comment on Colin’s last post, but I think it deserves its own space, lest it get lost beneath Colin’s fine prose.
I think that Oracle is doing the right thing by allowing their customers to integrate between the many versions of their vast CRM portfolio. After all, what […]
Posted in Application Design, CRM, Open Source, Siebel/PeopleSoft/JD Edwards/Oracle on Sep 3rd, 2008 No Comments »
I saw that Oracle has announced a series of prebuilt integrations linking its Oracle CRM On-Demand products with Siebel CRM solutions via its Application Integration Architecture and Oracle Fusion Middleware.
I have a lot of respect for Oracle and what they’ve accomplished, as I covered them extensively for many years as a journalist, and while it’s […]
Posted in Application Design, CRM, SugarCRM on Aug 29th, 2008 No Comments »
When I was talking with press and analysts during the Sugar 5.1 release cycle, the big things were the reporting and wireless. These are “big ticket” items, as it were, and deserve a good amount of attention.
But while I tried to stress its importance, I think some people simply skipped over the very cool feature […]
Posted in Application Design, CRM, SaaS, SugarCRM, salesforce.com on Aug 28th, 2008 No Comments »
Looking over Colin’s last post - it appears to me that there seem to be two schools of thought when it comes to “hybrid” application providers that offer both SaaS and on-site versions of their software. One school says, “No way can these guys survive juggling both.” While the other school says - “the […]
Posted in Application Design, SaaS on Aug 15th, 2008 No Comments »
I’ve read a number of articles lately and spoken with some industry pundits, all of whom have varying definitions of what does or doesn’t qualify as cloud computing.
I often hear cloud computing getting thrown into the same bucket as grid computing, and while many cloud computing environments leverage grids, cloud computing is the next step […]
Posted in Application Design, social media, web 2.0 on Aug 13th, 2008 No Comments »
I like to think of myself as a technology enthusiast (even my esteemed former colleague at the 451 Group Rachel Chalmers labeled me as such once)…so I do try out new stuff and am less afraid than others of linking these new fangled gadgets into my “production environment” (which is of course just my work […]
