Posted in Conferences, Open Source, Siebel/PeopleSoft/JD Edwards/Oracle, SugarCRM on Sep 22nd, 2008 No Comments »
I just got back from what seems like much more than a two week road trip. Met a lot of great customers and partners, and had some very insigthful conversations along the way.
I gave a talk about multi-tenancy and vendor lock-in at the Holland Open Software Conference in Amsterdam in Friday. I wasn’t sure how […]
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 SAP, SaaS, Siebel/PeopleSoft/JD Edwards/Oracle, salesforce.com on Jul 22nd, 2008 No Comments »
Colin brought up some interesting points about vendor lock-in and the recent price increase by Oracle and SAP, etc. There will definitely be a lot of CIO’s forced to re-think their 2009 budgets and strategies…
But what I will be more interested in seeing is how this affects the older SaaS providers like Salesforce.com, who have […]
Posted in SAP, Siebel/PeopleSoft/JD Edwards/Oracle, SugarCRM on Jul 21st, 2008 No Comments »
After a one-week hiatus during which Martin and I where attending SugarCRM’s biannual Sales Bootcamp, I’m happy to say we’re back to blogging. I’ll start with a Wall Street Journal article from last week that our VP of marketing pointed out and that highlighted a number of marketplace conditions we’re seeing here at SugarCRM, and […]
Posted in Open Source, SaaS, Siebel/PeopleSoft/JD Edwards/Oracle on Jun 23rd, 2008 No Comments »
I read over the weekend that Oracle, paying scant attention to the tough economic climate, has jacked up its product prices by upwards of 20 percent. BEA customers really took it on the chin, with price increases nudging 50 percent….ouch!
While understand these increases get offset by discounting, that discounting makes it all the more difficult […]
Posted in CRM, Siebel/PeopleSoft/JD Edwards/Oracle, salesforce.com on May 28th, 2008 No Comments »
Joshua Greenbaum, a personnel favorite of mine, wrote a great blog today on some of the emerging trends we’re seeing in the CRM market today, particularly with Salesforce.com and CRM 2.0.
I’ve always been a big history buff, partially because I’m a dork when it comes to history but more because it provides perspective on what’s […]
Posted in Open Source, Siebel/PeopleSoft/JD Edwards/Oracle, Sun on Mar 25th, 2008 No Comments »
EnterpriseDB today announced that it has secured $10 million in Series C funding, which includes backing from IBM. With a total of $37.5 million in funding to date, the company certainly isn’t hurting for cash.
Nor is it hurting for competition, as CEO Andy Astor has made it perfectly clear that it intends to go “straight […]
Posted in Siebel/PeopleSoft/JD Edwards/Oracle on Mar 11th, 2008 No Comments »
I don’t read Andrew Ross Sorkin that often, as I spend most my time browsing the Wall Street Journal and not the N.Y. Times, but his article in today’s Times blaming Larry Ellison for all the hostility in Silicon Valley is exaggerated to say the least.
Sorkin, among other things, states:
That is until Mr. Ellison decided […]
Posted in CRM, Microsoft, SAP, Siebel/PeopleSoft/JD Edwards/Oracle, SugarCRM on Feb 29th, 2008 No Comments »
I’ve had some thoughts on recent news within the enterprise software segment that I’ve been waiting to blog about, and today seemed as good a day as ever. Feel free to provide your feedback.
- I came across this press release put out by SAP. It’s essentially useless, as it’s simply more smack in the never […]
