Posted in cloud computing on Aug 12th, 2009 No Comments »
I’m here in San Francisco checking out the OpenSource World, Cloud Expo and Next Generation Data Center combined events…good crowd of some familiar and new faces. One of the most interesting sessions was focused on BI in the Cloud. The session was around Business Intelligence (BI) in the cloud, and was presented mainly by the [...]
Posted in Application Design, cloud computing, Open Source, SaaS on Jun 29th, 2009 No Comments »
I was hesitant to jump on the news that SaaS BI player LucidEra might be closing up shop for a number of reasons, not the least of which being that I wasn’t sure if the rumors were true. Also, I really like the company head Ken Rudin and really liked his model of disrupting the [...]
Posted in CRM, social media, SugarCRM, web 2.0 on Nov 13th, 2008 No Comments »
I wanted to follow up on Colin’s post, for two reasons. One, this is a topic near and dear to me. And secondly, my Bloglines reader is not working so I haven’t been able to scan the blogosphere effectively enough to think of anything else to write about. Just kidding…maybe. In 2005 I co-authored a [...]
Posted in CRM on Jun 12th, 2008 No Comments »
I came across a study recently released by AMI Partners that suggests business intelligence (BI) tools have a higher adoption rate among small businesses than their medium-sized counterparts. The study raised some interesting points, namely that BI is being adopted among small businesses at a faster rate then their medium-sized counterparts, and that the software [...]
Posted in CRM on Jan 23rd, 2008 No Comments »
Ben Worthen of the Wall Street Journal wrote up a nice, succinct review of the latest Gartner survey of CIOs regarding IT spend in 2008. Business intelligence is the biggest priority, but there were some surprises: Another trend that emerged from the survey: Close to a third of the businesses surveyed plan to increase their [...]
Posted in Open Source, SaaS on Jan 17th, 2008 No Comments »
A new Research and Markets study outlined the continued adoption of open source within enterprises across multiple categories, such as operating systems, databases, and development tools. In particular, the study found that …open source software’s presence will increase from approximately 10 percent of key user on-premise software in 2007, to between 15 percent and 20 [...]
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