NetSuite’s Big Moment

This spring has seen a raft of software company events and announcements and they’ve been good meetings full of real news and important new developments.  It is as if these companies bided their time during the worst of the recession building new product, thinking about the future and how customers will use their technologies.  It [...]

The Next Ten Years

A door closed this quarter and another opened.  We’re now oriented on a new computing paradigm that will serve us for the rest of the decade.  There is now broad agreement on the big IT issues of our time and they can be summarized in the Four Big Buzzwords mobile, social, big data (and analytics) [...]

Moneyball and NetSuite

Moneyball is a good movie and I recommend it.  The tie in with the software industry is NetSuite whose logo is all over the dugout and prominent in several scenes.  The central character of the drama is Oakland A’s general manager Billy Bean and most of us know his story about actually using statistics in [...]

NetSuite User Group Meeting Impresses

A company’s first user group meeting is a kind of coming out party.  It validates the faith its customers showed early on in going with a startup and marks an important statement in the company’s maturation process moving it from kid to adult, removing the training wheels and such.  So I was eager to see [...]

Zuora and NetSuite in Best-of-Breed Alliance

Yesterday Zuora, the billing and payment solution company for subscription businesses did a smart thing, at least I think so.  At NetSuite’s user meeting, SuiteWorld, Zuora chief Tien Tzuo announced that his trademark product is now pre-integrated with NetSuite’s financials.  But that wasn’t what’s smart, only the thing that enabled the thing that is smart. [...]

Beagle Research Group Recognizes Video Pioneers

Announces first annual Short Tale Award™ for Excellence in Video Use Stoughton, MA, February 8, 2011 — Beagle Research Group, today announced “The Beagle Short Tale Awards” for 2011.  Beagle gives the annual awards for various aspects of video production and use by front office software companies in sales, marketing, service and education.  Denis Pombriant, [...]

Next year is a strategic opportunity

Recessions are always a good time to rebuild your competitive infrastructure and the slow growth/recession of the last couple of years has been no exception.  On the stock market, the technology sector seems to be doing quite well.  After bottoming in the middle of the summer the software companies especially seem to be rebounding.  Microsoft, [...]

Chuck Schaeffer Interviewed at Beagle Research Site

This week’s thought leader is Chuck Schaeffer.  In case you don’t know, Chuck is the founder and Chairman of Aplicor, a global software publisher of on-demand CRM and ERP cloud computing business applications designed for global middle market organizations.  He’s a serial entrepreneur having started and run successful consulting companies in the SAP, Microsoft and [...]

Further Illumination

I don’t like ambiguity and there was some in yesterday’s post so let’s get to it.  Yesterday I wrote: Microsoft is confidently offering replacement systems that have been the beneficiaries of significant investment over the last several years.  These systems also run on cloud infrastructure, though cloud does not necessarily mean multitenant. Microsoft and others [...]

Microsoft Targets Back (and Front) Office

I spent part of last week in the Seattle area at a small meeting Microsoft organized for analysts.  The purpose was to brief us on product positioning and plans and much of the meeting was covered by non-disclosure.  Consequently, I am at a loss for how much I can divulge in this setting, at least [...]