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) [...]

All the Interest in Pinterest

With the Facebook IPO just around the corner some people have started wondering if a “Facebook killer” might be lurking in the bushes and the new photo sharing website Pinterest has become the new darling.  Well, maybe. I got a message from an industry watcher today, Kenneth Wisnefski, social media expert and founder / CEO [...]

Government Cloud Raises Questions

I was surprised by the Salesforce.com announcement coming out of the company’s road show, Cloudforce Washington this week.  In the nation’s capital the company announced Government Cloud, which is just what you’d think it is if you’d been following Salesforce at all. Beginning this summer, the company plans to deploy a secure and separate infrastructure [...]

Notes from Convergence 2012

Note to self: Write something nice about Microsoft Convergence 2012.  They did a great job in Houston and most importantly you can really see the CRM focus coming together with social, mobile, analytics, back office and a lot more.  It’s taken a long time because there are a lot of moving parts for Microsoft but [...]

SINO — Social In Name Only

Doubtless you have heard of the social enterprise by now.  It is Marc Benioff’s leading salient in a world he is convinced needs his solution to modern business.  But you also know that, like many other trends, this one is a work in progress.  For every Kimberly-Clark, Burberry’s and NBC Universal there are, what?  Banks! [...]

Building Your Corporate Legacy

Yammer announced an impressive $85 million financing last week.  You can get the details here http://mwne.ws/wp4GtZ . You might already know that Yammer provides enterprise social networks, the kind of collaborative spaces that enable employees to “swarm” on issues to achieve resolution or deal with a customer issue for instance.  Yammer claims that more than [...]

Jobscience Earns Best of ’11 Award

Here’s a quick shout out to Jobscience, one of my clients, for winning a Salesforce.com AppExchange Best of ’11 Award for Human Resources and Recruiting.  What’s especially sweet about this award is that it is crowd sourced form Salesforce customers.  That’s right.  The people who buy and use the stuff said this is the best [...]

(There’s No) Accounting for the Subscription Economy

You may remember the subscription economy from previous posts.  It’s one way to make sense of cloud computing and the many new and very different ways of doing business on the Internet.  We’re most familiar with software as a service and how different it is from conventional licenses; so familiar in fact that I don’t [...]

Whoa Horsey!

Salesforce announced it was holding off on the grand corporate office park it had been envisioning at Mission Bay in San Francisco.  It was a wise move by a company that should be focused on growth. In reading the Steve Jobs biography I was amused to see that he loved design so much that when [...]

Talk of the Web

There’s been a lot of activity on the Web and in our industry in the last week and I thought it might be fun to try and tie at least some of it together.  Much of it in one way or another involves Facebook—or FB as the proposed ticker symbol suggests. Part of an email [...]