I am excited to report that I have been invited to join Enterprise Irregulars, and have accepted. As the Enterprise Irregular says- “We are a diverse group of practitioners, consultants, investors, journalists, analysts and full time bloggers who share a common passion – enterprise technology and its application to business in the 21st century.” Over […]
Innovation
Time for a new VC pitch: This is not a Pipe!
“This is not a Pipe” The modern version of this painting is “This is not a computer” by Apple. “This is not a Computer” For far too long, budding entrepreneurs have been asked to explain their ideas in the context and vocabulary of existing success stories- “YouTube is FlickR for videos”, “RFID is barcodes without […]
Banking in Brazil – BRIC2.0 or Web2.0
I have been receiving these podcast alerts from Gartner and one of them caught my eye-“What Banks should know about Web2.0”. The podcast available here talks about how Web2.0 will inevitably impact the banking industry. The analyst talks about how money will change hands in MySpace, how banks are using podcasts and that RSS feeds […]
Ever heard of UFIDA, KingDee, Tally?
Well, you may never have heard of these enterprise software vendors but they are the giants from China and India. KingDee and UFIDA are #1 and #3 vendors in China and Tally is the top local vendor in India. Gartner recently predicted that a large vendor will emerge from China and India over the next […]