The Aberdeen Group has issued a research note evaluating the Oracle SaaS Platform. The Insight report talks to the leadership and momentum of the SaaS Platform for ISVs looking to build on-demand applications. I will let Aberdeen Group’s report do the talking, so here is a short excerpt from the conclusion section: Oracle has indeed […]
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Oracle SaaS Platform – Gaining Momentum as a Leader
This was an exciting week for Oracle & SaaS – SaaS was a prominent topic of discussion by key executives whether it was Larry’s keynote featuring Social CRM demo by Anthony Lye, or the blogger-analyst discussions with Charles Phillips. Oracle and several partners outlined the leadership position of Oracle SaaS Platform as platform of choice […]
Charles Phillips meets with Bloggers and Discusses Fusion, SaaS, SAP and more
Today, Oracle took a significant positive step in blogger relations and reached out to Enterprise Irregulars – arranging a sit down with Oracle President Charles Phillips shortly after his keynote where he announced Oracle VM – Oracle’s entry into the multi-billion dollar virtualization market. The blogger meet up was twice as much fun for me […]
Oracle Webcast: Web2.0 in the Enterprise
Oracle is hosting a chat with Andrew McAfee of Harvard Business School and Thomas Kurian, Senior Vice-President, Oracle Fusion Middleware. I encourage you to register for the event. Oracle’s guest Andrew is a well-known Web2.0 advocate on how businesses can leverage Web2.0 for internal and external communications and automation of processes. This should be an […]
SaaS Event: Software Business Online Conference (Discount Code Included)
I will be giving a keynote the Software Business Online Conference in Santa Clara on Oct 2nd on the SaaS Ecosystem. In my role of working with Oracle SaaS Program partners, I have learned some lessons on where the SaaS ecosystem is headed, what mistakes to avoid, how to pick the right partners and ecosystems […]
SaaS lovers want it both ways – a short rant
A lot of SaaS proponents take great pride in distinguishing the new Software as a Service era from the hosted applications or ASP model – and insist that there is only one right way of doing SaaS. This is in direct contrast to what I am seeing a lot of ISVs do in real life […]
Charles Phillips discusses Oracle SaaS Leadership
Charles Phillips recently emphasized Oracle’s SaaS leadership in an interview to Datamonitor: Always on the look out for growth, Oracle believes the SaaS movement will provide it with two revenue opportunities, one from additional database sales and the other from direct income from services. As far as databases are concerned, president Charles Phillips believes the […]
Security continues to be a key challenge for SaaS vendors
Jon Oltsik of CNet Blogs had an insightful post titled – Software as a Service needs a strong foundation of security. And I could not agree more. This is a key theme that is brought up in our discussions with ISVs and end customers. Jon mentions three key points and I quote: “SaaS vendors must […]
IBM invests in Kingdee of China (while everyone waits for Google to buy Salesforce)
While a lot of buzz has been generated about some Google-Salesforce announcement including speculations on Google acquiring Salesforce (and dismissals), the important news of the day seems to have been missed – IBM made a significant investment and acquired equity in Kingdee one of the local ERP vendors in China with global ambitions. Under the […]
New Meme: Software is Free, Service is Not (Book Review)
I recently received a complementary copy of the book, “Software is Free, Service is Not: The Dawn of Service Networks” written by ex-Oracle executives and co-founders of OpenWater – Mike Rocha and Tim Chou. The authors make the argument that most proprietary software used by businesses today is already paid for, and that the open […]
Predicting the end of Salesforce?
Fellow Irregular, Joshua Greenbaum has posted this excellent note entitled Siebel 2.0: The end of Salesforce, and it follows up on an earlier post by Phil Wainewright How is AppExchange really doing? I recommend you to check both of these out. Here is a quote from Josh: The parallels (with Siebel), unfortunately, regarding Marc’s claims […]
Sun winner as IDC validates Jonathan Schwarz’s Bus Metaphor
As I wrote in a recent post The comeback story of Sun, Sun seems to have made some good solid bets in hardware and they seem to be paying off. Jonathan Schwarz recently wrote a post on the move towards bigger servers entitled The Glamor in Mass Transit. The latest IDC report on servers confirms […]
Launching The SaaS Plugin Report: Are you plugged into the grid yet?
I have started a new blog hosted on Oracle Blog network, it is called The SaaS Plugin Report and will focus exclusively on Software-as-a-Service. I recently switched roles at Oracle from Identity Management to work on a new initiative focused on Software as a Service primarily working with on-demand ISVs and hosting companies. Here is […]
The comeback story of Sun
Many in the tech world including myself had written Sun off as a real player. They were a dieing company selling ever decreasing number of expensive boxes to people that still had to because they were locked in. Java, a distribution success, never contributed financially to Sun’s bottom line in any meaningful way. Over the […]
Organic growth story is now just a story
Organic growth works for human beings and cows. Not so well for large enterprise software companies. After beating up on its competitor for pursuing an acquisition-led growth strategy, SAP failed to meet its numbers this quarter. Message to Waldorf, Germany- let’s leave organic to California’s Yoga-loving Hybrid-driving meditation-praciticing vegans. For growth, you need to eat […]
Dear Workday, Citibank called!
Dear Workday, Citibank called. They want their logo back. Dave Duffield’s team launches Workday on Monday. Dave walked away with billions of dollars when Oracle acquired PeopleSoft. Since then, he and his team have been busy creating the ‘next generation’ of applications starting with HR (or HCM) using the On-demand model (Software-as-a-Service). Much will be […]
Looking for Red Hat?
A picture is worth a thousand words. Money can’t buy you love but it sure can buy you some clicks. You may want to read my earlier post on Open source business dynamics where I suggest that there is little money to be made as an open source vendor.
Identity Management Maturity Model
The Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance Journal published my piece on a maturity mdoel for identity management. You can read the full article here. Achieving Compliance Through Identity Maturity 2006-10-27 12:00:00.0 CDT Where do you want to be and how do you get there? By Anshu Sharma Security and identity management have become an important issue on the […]
Oracle OpenWorld is here to dominate San Francisco
Did I say dominate San Francisco? I meant Software! Yes, Oracle is taking over San Francisco for the next week with its annual gala that has grown to over 40,000 attendees this year. I will be attending as a member of the Oracle Identity Management team- we have a signficant presence with demo booths and […]
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 […]