About this blog
PREMISE AND PROMISE
Welcome to a place for honest and candid discussion about what can work, what others have tried, and what is of value. The hope is to provide conversations about insider insights into effective enterprise apps strategies, vendor selection, and software contracts. With that in mind, a few macro trends drive the purpose of this blog:
- The pace of change in disruptive technologies impact business models, business processes, and organizational design.
- A movement to bring innovations in Web 2.0 safely and securely into the enterprise
- A changing business environment has forced enterprise apps strategies to be more agile and responsive to the business.
- A plethora of partner solutions, purpose built apps, widgets and gadgets have complicated vendor selection.
- Vendor consolidation and a quest for operating margin has led to less leverage in software contract negotiations.
I’m looking forward to our conversations. Don’t be shy!
BLOG TAXONOMY
Here’s a list and categorization of posts that you may see in this blog.
Daily Themes: Not guaranteed on a weekly basis, but here’s the gist.
- Monday’s Musings - A thought provoking discussion around trends and current events. This replaces the Food For Thought posts.
- Tuesday’s Tips - Targeted advice on a variety of enterprise apps strategies, vendor selection, and software contract topics.
- Wednesday’s Whispers - A run down of acquisition rumors, personnel changes, and promotions.
- Thursday’s Disruptive Tech Showcase - Reviews on disruptive technologies.
- Friday’s Features - Quick product reviews and reaction to product launches and announcements.
Topical Coverage: A list of the type of posts you can expect
- Best Practices - Lessons learned and success factors.
- Event Report - Observations and commentary from the ground of a major event or conference or travel log.
- News Analysis - A run down and analysis of hot topics and breaking news in enterprise software. In some cases this will be an Initial News Analysis with a final analysis as a deeper blog post or report as more information becomes available.
- Opinions - A personal point of view based on perspective.
- Personal Log - A log of individual adventures and personal announcements.
- Polls and Surveys - From time to time, you’ll see polls and surveys on topical subjects.
- Product Review - In-depth analysis of a dot release product.
- Quarterly Financial Tracker - An examination into the financial health of vendors.
- Quips - Short bursts of thought more than 140 characters.
- Research Summary - A first-hand summary of recent research written or co-authored by R “Ray” Wang.
- Software Insider IndexTM - A periodic ranking of covered vendors by revenue by defined category.
- Speaking Engagement - An invitation to attend a teleconference, physical event, or virtual event where I’m leading a session or speaking.
- Speaker Notes - Inside thoughts about the key points from selected speeches.
- Strategy - Thoughts around management, organizational, or general strategy.
- Trip Report - Observations and commentary from travels for work.
- Trends - Discussion on changes and shifts in enterprise software.
COVERED VENDORS AND COMPANIES
Here’s who I’m following these days.
Primary Companies Covered
Agresso, Alterian, AmberPoint, Amitive, Amdocs, Appirio, Augeo, Boomi, BST Global, CDC Software, CGI, Cincom Systems, Computer Associates, Computer Methods International Corp.,Concur, Consona, Daptiv (eProject), DataFlux, Deltek, Dun & Bradstreet, Epicor Software, Exact Software, Flexera - Accresso (Macrovision), Glovia International (A Fujitsu Company), Golden Source, Hayes Technology, HCL, IBM , IBS, IFS, Infor, Informatica, Infosys, Initiate Systems, Intacct, Intuit, Jive, Lawson, Lithium Technologies, Maconomy, Manhattan Associates, Meridian Systems, Metier, Microsoft Business Solutions, Miro Consulting, Neighborhood America, NetSuite, Open Air, Oracle, Panaya, Pervasive, Plexus, Primavera, Purisma, QAD, Quick Arrow, Radian6, Rimini Street, SalesForce.com, Sage Group, SAP, SAS DataFlux, Siemens, Siperian, Skire, SocialText, SoftBrands, Spinnaker, SYSPRO, Tenrox, Trilliam, Tririga, Unanet, VisionWare PLC, West Trax, WinShuttle, Wipro, and Workday.
Secondary Companies Covered:
Accenture, ACS, Aceva, Ariba, ATG, Atlas Copco, Atos Origin, Augeo, Austin-Tetra, Avanade, Axon, Bearing Point, Blue Wolf, Callidus, CapGemini, Cardinis, Caritor, CastIron, ccHubwoo, Centive, CMG, Chordiant, Cincomm, Click Commerce, Cognizant, Columbus IT, Convergys, CSC, Curam Software, Dassault Systems, DataSol, Deloitte, Descartes, Eclipsys, Epic, Everest Software, Fujitsu, Consulting, Genpact, Graham Technology, GSI Commerce, Hand, Hansen, Hexaware, Hitachi Consulting, Hubwoo, HP, HP - EDS, HyPerformix, i2, IDS-Scheer, iGATE, Infosys, Infovide - Matrix, ITC-Infotech, Intelligroup, Jenzabar, Kalido KANA, KineticsWare, Kingdee, KPIT Cummings, Liquid Planner, Logica CMG, L&T Infotech, Magic Software, MainStreet Commerce, MicroFocus, Mincom, Neorsis, NetBooks, NetCustomr, North Highland, NTT, OpenText, OrderMotion, Patni, Paymetric, Perot Systems, Polaris, ProfitKey International, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Quest, Research In Motion, Rivermine, SAIC, Satyam, Selectica, Silver Creek Systems, SRA, SRA Touchstone, Sungard, Systime, Tata Consultancy Services, Tectura, Tibco, Tyler Technologies, Vaakya, V-Commerce, Vitria, WebMethods, West Trax, Xactly, Zoho, and Zuoro.
CITATION RULES
When quoting from the blog, please cite as R “Ray” Wang, Partner - Enterprise Strategy for Altimeter Group and his personal blog ” A Software Insider’s Point of View”
SITE ENHANCEMENTS AND HISTORY
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Neil, many vendors took out the concurrent user options. That option as you know lets users put shift workers around the world on one license instead of buying one for each shift and not maximizing on the value of the license. Hope that helps! - R
Ray,
I ran across a Msft presentation on Dynamics AX 2009 on the web and in it they quoted you from something you did at Forrester. The reference was …”Microsoft has maintained its client-friendly concurrent user license…”. What did you mean by “client-friendly concurrent user license” versus a “run of the mill” concurrent license?
Thanks,
Neil
Ray,
I ran across a Msft presentation on Dynamics AX 2009 on the web and in it they quoted you from something you did at Forrester. The reference was …”Microsoft has maintained its client-friendly concurrent user license…”. What did you mean by “client-friendly concurrent user license” versus a run of the mill concurrent license?
Thanks,
Neil
Love the twitter interface!