Nothing is tougher in enterprise software than reinvention. The diginomica team had a chance to evaluate Infor's strategy up close, both at Inforum 2013 and during customer video shoots (and interviews) in the UK. What are the lessons learned to date?
Jon picks the highs and the lows from a hectic summer week of enterprisey events.
Salesforce.com and SAP may have stolen the headlines, but the best vendor-sparked conversations were actually coming out of Informatica World. Here's why.
SAP goes on another shopping trip. This time it's e-commerce automation with the acquisition of hybris. What do we think? Not a lot but we are prepared to be surprised.
A cheeky end-of-weekly on which articles hit (or didn’t) on diginomica and beyond.
We are now starting to see some solid SAP cloud customer case studies. In this article, we hit on three very different implementations, shared concerns and benefits expected.
A cheeky end-of-week review of what articles hit (or didn’t) on diginomica and beyond.
When marketing departments tried out the “content marketing” phrase on me a year ago, I was briefly encouraged. I assumed companies would now step back from polluting the tweetstream with compulsive retweets and hashtag pimping in favor of original content. It didn't happen. There has to be a better way.
I'm awarding SAP high marks for clarifying HANA options and a passing grade for talking about a modern user interface badged Fiori. Not approved for graduation? The cloud platform story. Read on for more.
Day one of Sapphire Now 2013 brought its share of surprises and enough hyperbolic HANA-is-superfast quotage to keep the hype meter in proper orbit. I spent a good chunk of day one in the JD-OD.com video studio with customers and startups, getting the views from folks who had made the trek from Czech Republic, Germany, and Israel.
Now that SAP has all the HANA talk out of the way and the HANA Enterprise Cloud has been unveiled, what can we expect from the Sapphire Now keynote stage? Well, more HANA of course. What else were you expecting? We offer some clues.
Enterprise confessional: I was wrong about mobile apps stores. I wasn’t the only one.
On a rare winter trip out of the frozen north, I visited Atlanta where I met with Mico Yuk. Mico is an outspoken business intelligence consultant, often working in the SAP world. In the above video we discuss a couple of stories: one she wrote on SCN that talked about the five things BI people need to do in 2013, the other, colleague Dennis Howlett's response.
