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Wednesday’s Whispers: People Whispers – June 2009

Published on June 17, 2009 by R "Ray" Wang

PEOPLE WHISPERS: MOVES, PROMOTIONS, AND MILESTONES* Starting this month, we'll be splitting the trends in Corporate Whispers from the People Whispers series. Catch the latest monthly random thoughts, trend points, and corporate trends here. For the latest on career moves, promotions, and milestones, stay tuned here. Congratulations to all! Thanks for your emails and alerts. If you’ve got a change or know of a promotion, keep dropping me a line! If you need a referral, don't hesitate to reach out to me via Linked In. Jean-Sebastien Bardet became Application Portfolio Manager at Orange Business Services in March 2009. He is responsible for the Management of Portal and Business Intelligence domains within the health business unit of Orange Business Services - Almerys. Jean-Sebastien formerly was an advanced technology architect at Michelin and has served consulting roles at Steria, Sylis Group, and Cambridge Technology Partners. Brian Benedict became Business Development Director at Aite Group in January 2009. Brian was a Star sales professional at Forrester Research and joins former Forrester Research alumni such as Ron Shevlin. Previous experiences include serving as the Board Member at AIIM International, Board of Directors at ARMA International, and Business Development Lead at InfoCurrent.

David Benson leaves his Global CIO position at News Corporation to serve as the Chief Information Officer at Progress Software reporting to President and Chief Executive Officer Rick Reidy. David brings more than 25 years of business and IT experience to Progress and has held multiple CIO positions at GE where he led significant organizational and process change.

Aneesh Chopra was confirmed as the nation's first Chief Technology Officer on May 21st by unanimous consent.. Chopra will also serve as the Associate Director for the White House's Office of Science and Technology Policy. Aneesh previously served as the Commonwealth of Virginia's Secretary of Technology.

Sally Cohen leaves Forrester Research where she last served as an analyst for Environmentally & Socially Responsible Consumer Product Strategy at Forrester Research. Her new roles will be a User Experience Researcher at AnswerLab. Brian Carpizo joins as CEO of Eventric. Brian formerly led Junction Solutions, Inc. as the Founder and CEO. Previous roles include management positions at consulting practices such as Charter Consulting, Future Next Consulting, Horizon Consulting, and Accenture. Eventric focuses on technologies to improve the live event experience. Aileen Chen is now an Integration Manager for Strategic Accounts at Marin Software. Her previous position includes multiple roles at RedEnvelope.com. Guy Courtin joins as the Director of Marketing at SmartOps. Guy leaves i2 Technologies where he served as a Senior Manager in marketing. Ned Desmond became President at GoSportn, Inc. a new online community for outdoor sports enthusiasts. Ned has served senior roles as President at Time Inc. Interactive, President and Editor at Business 2.0, and a Vice President at Infoseek.com. Madhu Ghosh takes on a new job with ADP as the Sr. Director, Marketing. Madhu was previously the Executive Director for Product Management & Business Operations at The College Board. Other roles include seving as an Assistant Vice President for Program Management and Product Strategy at Dun & Bradstreet. Kosin Huang moves from her Senior Manager, Competitive Strategy role into the newly created Office of Marketing Excellence at SAP role. Her focus will be to design and build global initiatives to drive pipeline acceleration for SAP’s Global Field Marketing organization and define KPIs and benchmark best practices for measuring marketing success. Kosin previously held analyst roles at The Yankee Group and Harbor Research. Abhyudaya Kanoria became Manager, Corporate Strategy at Aditya Birla Management Corporation in March 2009. He previously served as a Business Analyst for Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. Esteban Kolsky became a Consultant at Managed Experiences, Loyal Customers in April 2009. Esteban's a Star Analyst in the field of customer service and previously served as a Vice President and Practice Leader at eVergance, Research Director at Gartner Group, and CTO of Tiedosta. Ashwani Kumar left Oracle in January 2009 to become the CEO of a stealth analytics reinvented company. Ashwani held product strategy and development management responsibilities for industry specific BI initiatives at Oracle. Paul Lambert in February became the Global Head of Architecture at Hoffmann-La Roche. He now leads the Information Architecture, Application Architecture and Technology (Infrastructure) Architecture groups for Roche Pharma. Previous roles include Global Head of Application Architecture at Hoffmann-La Roche and Astra Zeneca. Eric Lundquist has been named Vice President for Strategic Content at Ziff Davis Enterprise. Eric previously served as Content Director for New Media Products at IDG. Eric brings decades of experience from serving as the Editor-in-Chief at eWEEK Magazine (formerly PC Week, Editor-in-Chief at Ziff Davis Enterprise, and Editor-in-Chief PC Week/eWeek at Ziff-Davis Michael McDermott has been promoted from Director to Vice President of Corporate Development at QL2 Software. Mike's served roles as Senior Product Manager at Amazon.com, Competitive Intelligence Manager at Microsoft, and Competitive Intelligence Senior Manager at PeopleSoft. Michael Murphy is now Vice President Business Development at Martiz Research Canada. Mike served as Star Sales Professional at Forrester responsible for the Canadian IT Vendor market. Prior to Forrester, Mike was at IBM. Thomas Raschke has left Forrester Research to join Verizon Business as a Senior Product Marketing Manager in Government, Risk, and Compliance. Thomas served as an analyst at both Forrester Research and IDC in previous career experiences. Yuval Shavit is now QA Engineer at Kiva Systems. He formerly served as an assistant editor at Tech Target for searchITChannel. Inhi Cho Suh was promoted in January 2009 to a Vice President of Product Strategy at IBM. She's responsible for driving portfolio strategy, marketing, and industry solutions for IBM's information management division which is comprised on DB2, Informix, Optim, Filenet, InfoSphere, and Cognos. Previous roles at IBM include serving as a Vice President of Management Marketing and Director of BPM and strategy. Doug Topken becomes the Director of Global eCommerce Programs at Elsevier - Division of Reed Elsevier. Previous roles include serving as the Vice President for Business Relationship Management. Donna Troy was promoted to VP and GM of Large Enterprise Americas at Dell in January 2009. She previously served as the Vice President and General Manager for Corporate Accounts Division. Donna brings a wealth of channel and sales experience as EVP of Global SME Indirect Channels at SAP, EVP of Global SMB and channel sales at McAfee, and CEO of Partnerware. Carl Zetie has become a Member of Foundation Strategy Committee at Eclipse Foundation. Carl currently serves as a strategist at IBM and Advisory Council Member at Utest, the usability community. Previous roles include serving as a Star Analyst at Giga Information Group and Forrester Research.

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Wednesday’s Whispers: The Word On The Street – May 2009

Published on May 20, 2009 by R "Ray" Wang

PEOPLE WHISPERS: MOVES, PROMOTIONS, AND MILESTONES* Congratulations to all! Thanks for your emails and alerts. If you’ve got a change or know of a promotion, keep dropping me a line! If you need a referral, don't hesitate to reach out to me via Linked In. Bronwyn J. Allen became Director, Analyst Relations at Fujitsu America, Inc. in January 2009. Bronwyn brings over 20 years of AR and marketing communications experience for professional services firms. Scott Azzolina is now VP Marketing at Connectria, an IT outsourcing and hosting company. Scott brings over 25 years of experience from roles at Primavera Systems, Gemplus(Axalto), PECO Energy Company, Unisys, Scott Paper, and NCR. Jonathan Bennett became Sales Executive - West at Astadia, a SaaS professional services firm, in March 2009. Bennett is a driving force in solutions selling in the enterprise software industry with SaaS pedigree as a Managing Director at EnablePath and Sr. Account Executive at Salesforce.com. Previous roles include Manager of presales at P ilot Software (now SAP), Manager of Professional Services (BSG) at E*TRADE Financial, Senior Technical Sales Consultant at Personify, Inc. and management Consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers Jim Bork named Senior Vice President of World Wide Sales for Epicor Software. Jim brings 16 years of sales and sales management experience including international sales for Epicor. Jim's expertise includes go-to-market strategies and sales management experience. Sean Cantelon is now Managing Director at O.C. Tanner. Sean last served as a seasoned star sales professional focused on building relationships and delivering solutions to his clients for Forrester Research and Giga Research. Other experiences include working as an Account Manager at MCI Systemhouse. Stephane Carrez became Head of Planzone R&D at Augeo Software in November 2008. Stephane has held many technical roles at Solsoft, Sun Micrososystems, and Chorus Systems. Chayson Comfort is now Business Development Executive at Statera, a professional services firm focused on business performance. Chayson served as as star sales professional and National Account Executive at Forrester Research. Chayson also worked at Verizon Information Services. Pete Daffern became CEO at ClairMail, Inc in January 2009. As CEO of Pursima, he led the successful acquisition by D&B in October 2007. Pete brings executive experiences as President of AIM technology, VP of Business Development for Vitria, and General Manager of Seagate EMEA. Mike Frichol became Principal at Ingistics, LLC in February 2009. Mike brings a wealth of executive level industry marketing and product marketing experiences from Infor, Microsoft Business Solutions, ESI, and Dun & Bradstreet Software. Jason Gatoff in March 2009 became Director of Marketing and Strategic Alliances at M-Factor, Inc. a profit and revenue optimization software firm. Jason previously served as Program Director and Peer Forum advisor for AMR Research's SAP clients. Other marketing roles include work in Analyst Relations and Corporate Marketing for PeopleSoft and i2 Technologies. Jason also served as a Client Relationship Manager at Forrester Research. Rob Howes is now Assistant Director of Admissions / International Recruitment at DeVry University. Rob served as an Account Manager for Federal Government at Forrester Research. Previous higher education experience include roles at CDI College. Alp Hug became President & CEO of Alpland in February 2009. Alp was formerly the Senior Vice President at Open Text for ECM Suite Technology. He came to OpenText via the Hummingbird acquisition where he was the VP for Strategic Business Development. Alp served other high tech executive roles at Delano Technology and TOR Computerized Systems. Narayan Iyer is now Director at Cognizant Technology Solutions. Prior to his new role, he was the head of banking, financial services & insurance sales in India for Tata Consulting Services and had served various roles there for 5 years. Charlotte Marchand is now Directrice Commerciale Adjointe at Neteven. Charlotte served sales roles at Forrester in Australia and France. Suhail Maqsood became Board Member - Projects SIG at Oracle Applications Users Group in February 2009 Tamara Mendelsohn became Community and Marketing Manager at Eventbrite in January 2009. Tamara was Forrester's star analyst in eCommerce. She's currently finishing her last year of her MBA at The Sloan School of Management (MIT). Doug Merritt was promoted to EVP & GM Premier Customer Network at SAP in January 2009. Doug also serves as the President of SAP Laps and is a Corporate Officer for SAP. Senior executive roles throughout the tech industry include VP & GM of HCM at PeopleSoft, CEO and Founder of Icarian, and Sales Manager at BMC. Clark Newby joins Workday as the CMO and Vice President of Marketing. Clark joined Workday from Fortify where he served as a Vice President of Marketing. Other marketing roles include Poly Serve, Mercury Interactive, Kintana, and Silicon Graphics. Michael Pietrini named CFO and EVP of Finance and Administration at Epicor Software in April 2009. Pietrini's 14 year tenure at Epicor includes roles in sales management, consulting, customer service, product development, marketing, and business development. His responsibilities include sales operations, legal, human resources, IT and investor relations. Eduardo Sanchez returns to MicroStrategy as the Executive Vice President for Strategic Development. Sanchez previously was the EVP for Global Sales at Lawson, the COO of Cartesis, and a Corporate Vice President for World Wide Sales and Services and Vice President for International Operations at MicroStrategy Brian Shelver became Senior Sales Engineer at Topaz Bridge in February 2009. Brian played industry marketing and solutions selling roles at Kineticsware, Inc., Microsoft Business Solutions, and SAP America. Shivani Shinde has been promoted to Principal Correspondent at Business Standard. Shivani brings a rich set of journalism experience serving as a Senior Correspondent and Acting Bureau Chief of the Indian Express group and Senior Reporter at the Times of India. Eric Steele joins Veritude, A Fidelity Investments Company in Business Development. Steele was a star sales professional at Forrester focusing on building strong relationships and solution selling. Other sales experiences include sales roles at Innovative. Patric Timmermans now serves as a VP Marketing at KPA, LLC a boutique HR and Environmental Compliance professional services firm. Patrick's previous roles include serving as a Senior Director Industry and Product Marketing at Infor, and various marketing roles at SSA Global and a a Principal Architect at Baan. Joel Wecksell became Managing Director at The Skills Connection in January 2009. Joel served as a Global Managing Vice President, Global Research Group Vice President and Vice President and Services Director for Business Applications at Gartner Group Inc. Hannah Young was promoted to Senior Account Executive at Waggener Edstrom. Hannah has served many high tech sales professional positions including Account Executive at Forrester Research, Oracle Corporation, Cydcor, and Opinion Research Corporation International. Hannah focuses on building strong relationships and finding win-win solutions. CORPORATE WHISPERS Hearing from twitterati, software execs, and industry experts about:

High demand for third party maintenance option for Oracle Database, Oracle EBS, Infor, and SAP products.
SaaS acquisition being sought by IBM, Oracle, HP and SAP.
Hardware vendors such as Cisco and HP looking at adjuncts into the software space.
Telecom vendors such as AT&T, Bell Canada, BT, and France Telecom looking at enterprise software plays to complement services and data center operations.
Micro-vertical vendors being drawn into more partnerships with Microsoft, IBM, SAP, and Oracle (MISO).
Partner opportunities with the large vendors at an all time high. Lots of MDF and support unlike in past eras.

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Wednesday’s Whispers: The Word On The Street – March 2009

Published on March 4, 2009 by R "Ray" Wang

PEOPLE WHISPERS: MOVES, PROMOTIONS, AND MILESTONES* Congratulations to all! Thanks for your emails and alerts. If you’ve got a change or know of a promotion, keep dropping me a line! If you need a referral, don't hesitate to reach out to me via Linked In. Nigel Alcock is now the new Sales Director for the UK and Ireland at Lawson Software. Nigel joins Lawson from previous roles at SAP. David Boulanger is now GLG Educator at Gerson Lehrman Group. David was formerly an industry analyst and research director for CRM at Aberdeen Group. Eric Chow became an International Business Consultant at the University of San Francisco - Massagung School of Business in September 2008. His past positions include serving as a Senior Project Manager at Williams Sonoma and a Systems Project Manager at Providian Financial. Oliver Claude became Program Director at InfoSphere MDM Product Management at IBM in October 2008. Msr. Claude formerly served as a Worldwide Business Unit Executive for the InfoSphere Sales Consulting In a Product Strategy Role. Prior to IBM, he was a Lead Architect in Sales Consulting, CRM, CRM Analytics, and CDI at Siebel Systems. Steve Cole is now a VP of Marketing at Gladson Interactive. Steve brings a rich history of marketing experiences serving as a former VP of Solutions Marketing at SPSS, SVP of Marketing and Strategy at Click Commerce, and VP of Marketing at ClearCross. Robert C. Cresanti was named Vice President of Government relations at SAP America Inc., a subsidiary of SAP AG. In his new role, he will lead SAP's federal and state government relations activities, support and advise SAP's public sector group, and manage SAP's non-profit relationships in DC. Rob joins SAP from the Gray Company, a public relations and lobbying firm. He was the former Under Secretary of Commerce for Technology during the Bush Administration. Rob Enselin was appointed as President, SAP North America. Enselin has served at SAP for 16 years. Previous roles include President and Chief Executive Officer of SAP Japan and Interim President and CEO for SAP Latin America. Mohammed Ghadyali is now Senior Manager at North Highland Group. Mo brings a wealth of healthcare consulting experience from powerhouse consultancies such as IBM, PriceWaterhouse Coopers, Booz Allen and Hamilton, Ernst and Young, and Deloitte. Michael Hickins is now an independent Journalist/Blogger/Editor for a variety of technology media including Bnet. Michael has served roles including the Executive Editor at Webscanner, Executive Editor at eWeek, and Executive Editor at Ziff Davis Enterprise. Jessica (Sweeten) Hood is now Senior Account Executive at AlertSite She was formerly a Senior Account Manager at Forrester Research. Thanh Huynh became President at Mercury Tax Service in November 2008. Thanh bring a strong tax perspective from experiences as a Director at KLA-Tencor Corp and Oracle Corporation. Sandeep Kumar now serves as a Senior Advisor with TPI after spending more than a decade and half being at service providers such as SAP, Wipro and PwC. Rob Lloyd named as Executive Vice President, Worldwide Operations at Cisco. Rob will run Cisco's Worldwide Sales, Worldwide Channels, Internet Business Solutions Group and Strategic Alliances organizations. Fred McClimans became CIO at DTECH LABS in January 2009. Fred's served roles as Founder and Chairman of the Board at Current Analysis and as an Editorial Contributor at Network World. Robert McNeill has been an Advisory Board Member at Saugatuck Technology. He's also the Founder at ThoughtBright. Peter Quinn has been named Chief Customer Officer at Lawson Software. Peter will lead Lawson’s new Customer Experience Office. He formerly ran marketing operations and is a tech industry veteran in customer experience. Sarah Reed joins Eloqua as the Director of Corporate Communications. She brings a wealth of experience from similar roles at Vignette and IONA technologies. Tom Rubenak is now a Technology Advisor Gartner Group. Tom has served in many technology roles at leading advisory and analyst firms such as a manager at Forrester Research, Business Analyst at Dun & Bradstreet, and Sales Director at META Group. Benjamin Wan is now Vice President of Sales and Business Development at TheBroth, a FaceBook Apps company, and on the Board of Advisors at Motally, a firm focused on mobile analytics.

CORPORATE WHISPERS Hearing from investment bankers, venture capitalists, and enterprenuers the following:

A growing fear among the innovative class that the current political climate may deter innovation. As the public sector continues to increase in size and presence, there seems to be an inclination to decrease incentives that support entrepreneurial activities.
US health care costs are out of control but will not necessarily drive an enmasse shift away from Silicon Valley to other countries like Canada or China.
Merger and acquisition market will continue to be led by the last vendors standing. IPO market, well, that's pretty much dead.
Clean tech looks promising but lacks a good coordinating body.

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Wednesday’s Whispers: The Word On The Street – February 2009

Published on February 11, 2009 by R "Ray" Wang

PEOPLE WHISPERS: MOVES, PROMOTIONS, AND MILESTONES* Congratulations to all! Thanks for your emails and alerts. If you’ve got a change or know of a promotion, keep dropping me a line! If you need a referral, don't hesitate to reach out to me via Linked In. Fayyaz Alam was promoted to Vice President IT Production Services at Emirates Group in December 2008. His previous roles include Vice President IT Airline Operations at Emirates Airlines and Manager for Information Services. Carl Allen joined First Flight Placements as a Client Relationship Director in November 2008. Carl previously served roles as the Founder and Managing Director at Alchemy Business Acceleration and was an analyst at Gartner Invest and Forrester Research. Steve Bonadio has been serving as the Senior Director of Product Marketing at Softscape for the past year. Previous roles include Senior CRM Marketing Director at Oracle Corp, Vice President of Technology Research at META Group, and Senior Analyst at Hurwitz Group. Christian Brandt joined Ortelius Management AB as a Senior Management Consultant in February 2009. Prior to this role, he served as a New Business Development Manager at Enfo. Mike Cunningham left D&B to join MDM Ltd. as a Technical Sales Consultant, Master Data Management for Customer Intelligence. He previously served in the Strategic Customer Group - Technical Sales Consultant, MDM, CDI and Sales and Marketing Solutions for Dun and Bradstreet

Ed Elliott has an updated profile Sr Technical Services Manage for Sutter Health . He previously served as the Interim IS Site Director, VNA and Hospice. Dan Hardtke is now Manager Technical Development and Infrastructure at Ceridian. He was previously an IS architect for Ceridian. Norine Hendricks is now President at CurlyQ Communications. She was formerly a Director at Eastwick Communications. George Klaus replaces Tom Kelly in the roles of president and CEO for Epicor. Most recently, Klaus was the company’s executive chairman and previously, from 1996 to 2008, he was Epicor’s CEO. Eric Lundquist now serves as the Content Director, New Media Products at International Data Group. Eric is an industry luminary who most recently served as the Editor-in-Chief at eWEEK Magazine (formerly PC Week) Sivakumar Muthukrishnan became Global Alliance Manager at Tata Consultancy Services in August 2008. Previous roles include Global Pre-sales at Platform BPO SBU - Procurement and a strategy role in the Global Oracle Practice. Motasim Najeeb was appointed the Chief Technology Officer of Sage North America. Motasim bring technology experience as a CTO of Trade Beam, Group VP of Enterpries Applications at Oracle. He will directly report to Sage North America's CEO, Sue Swenson. Arnold (Arnie) Rueegg formerly a Vice President of T-Systems Enterprise services has joined the company as vice president of Lawson Professional Services for EMEA. At T-Systems Enterprise Servides Rueegg managed the company’s global solution sales for spare parts, importer solutions and CRM in the automotive industry.

Patric Timmermans is now the owner of Pegasus Customer Marketing. His previous roles include serving as a Senior Director Industry and Product Marketing at Infor.

David Vanheukelom became the President and CEO at Vana Consulting last August 2008. He brings experience from roles as the V ice President, Product Strategy and Management at IGLOO Software, Cognos, and Infor/SSA Glogal.

CORPORATE WHISPERS Hearing from various corporate recruiters, venture capitalists, and financiers about market shifts such as:

RIF's in place at major tech vendors but hiring for replacements starting to open up. Reorgs at several vendors may lead to opportunities for new talent and outside hires. Several vendors looking for strong vertical expertise and strong business development skills.
Merger and acquisition market for vendors heating up in key industry verticals such as retail, utilities, public sector, gov contracting, and financial services.
Horizontal acquisitions with opportunity include middleware, analytics, master data management, and E2.0 to Web 2.0 tools.

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Monday’s Musings: Master Data Management – Do Styles of MDM Matter Anymore?

Published on February 2, 2009 by R "Ray" Wang

Three Architectural Styles Represent Different Technologies To Build MDM In 2003, customer data hub (CDI), product information management, and master data management (MDM) vendors strived to differentiate themselves by architectural style. Each approach had its advantages and disadvantages. A religion about styles emerged overnight along with a hard core following. Here's a quick recap (see Figure 1): Figure 1. The Three Architectural Styles of Master Data Management Three Common Styles Of Master Data Management

Three Common Styles Of Master Data Management

The bottom line - choose a style that aligns with your project's business driver While these approaches still exist, leading vendors such as D&B Purisma, IBM, Initiate Systems, Oracle, Oracle-Siebel, SAS DataFlux, and Siperian now have offerings in more than one style. This may make the question seem less relevant, however, its still important to understand the trade-offs while beginning your MDM journey. In fact, it's best to align the style and approach based on your business driver. Here's a high level summary:

Cross-referenced registry delivers rapid results for operational efficiency business drivers. This approach is best suited for rapid implementation scenarios such as POC's that prove the value of master data. Also valuable when data can not be stored on-site. Pro's: Rapid implementation without having to agree on a common enterprise data model. Utilize existing source systems. Con's: Deduplication of source systems not addressed. Data quality must be solved in each independent source system.
Hybrid harmonized reference enables compliance and regulatory business drivers. This approach allows the best of both worlds, especially when moving to a transactional operational data store is not politically feasible and data governance and stewardship activities are just starting up. Pro's: Single master copy of reference data. Uses links to access source system records. Model allows data quality efforts to be applied to shared master reference data. Con's: Synchronization with source systems can create some complexity if changes are not made in the hub.
Transactional operational data store supports strategic business drivers. This approach provides a long term path for how legacy applications utilize data. Pro's: Single master copy of data. No fussing with latency or synchronization issues. Minimal mapping issues. Con's: Requires an agreed upon common enterprise data model to be used by all applications. History must be harmonized and requires extensive key mapping. Assumes homogeneity and requires tons of ETL and dedupe.

Your POV. Which MDM style are you deploying? What successes have you seen? Post your thoughts or send me a private email to rwang0@gmail.com. [poll id="2"] Copyright © 2009 R Wang. All rights reserved.

Wednesday’s Whispers: The Word On The Street – January 2009

Published on January 14, 2009 by R "Ray" Wang

PEOPLE WHISPERS: MOVES, PROMOTIONS, AND MILESTONES* Congratulations to all! Thanks for your emails and alerts. If you've got a change or know of a promotion, keep dropping me a line! Jeff Abbott, Oracle's former Vice President for Global Accelerate Strategy and Programs has left and joined Infor. Prior to joining Oracle, Mr. Abbott held senior positions at Accenture, Saturn Corporation, International Paper and Georgia-Pacific in operations, logistics, sales and strategy. Fion Cheok was promoted from Assistant Manager to Manager, BAS at Ernst & Young in September 2008. Patryk Choros is now Business Intelligence Director at Infovide-Matrix. He formerly served as the Financial Sector Manager for BI solutions at Infovide-Matrix, a leading system integrator headquartered in Poland. Jasmin Dave is now Sales Manager for Nvision at NVIDIA. She was previously a Global Sales Manager for Events at CMP Media, Renee Boucher Ferguson became Sr. Research Analyst at Kennedy Consulting Research and Advisory in October 2008. Her previous roles include serving as a Senior Writer at Ziff Davis Enterprise Madhu Ghosh was promoted at Dun & Bradstreet from Assistant Vice President for Business Development for Customer Solutions to Assistant Vice President for Program Management and Product Strategy for Global Analytics Products. Jun Kawahara became Editor-in-Chief, CIO Magazine Japan for IDG Japan, Inc. in October 2008. Jun previously served as the Editor-in-Chief of IDG's sister publication, Computerworld Japan. Sonja Lemmen left Forrester Research to join Batenborch International as aBusiness Consultant. She previously served as a Sales Executive. Janey Lien is now HR Manager at SST. Janey has served many senior roles in HR for companies such as NetApp, Sina.com, and Hewitt Associates. Kevin Maddock has joined Rimini Street's Executive Team as the Senior Vice President of Global Sales. Prior to joining Rimini Street, Maddock served as executive vice president of worldwide inside sales and operations for ServiceSource and as the Vice President of worldwide support service sales at PeopleSoft, Inc Alexandre Mesquita de Carvalho is now Senior Sales Engineer at SalesForce.com Kelli Oliveri has been promoted from Director of Analyst Relations to Senior Director, Analyst Relations for Oracle Services. Former roles include serving as a Vice President and Managing Partner, Market Research and Strategy Services at Market-4-Business. Laurie Sullivan became Reporter at Mediapost, Online Media Daily in October 2008 Nadina Talukdar became the Head of Worldwide Analyst Relations at TIBCO Software Inc. in September 2008. Previous experiences include serving as the Director of Analyst Relations at BEA and product marketing and alliance roles at both Sun and Oracle. Simon Trudelle has left Augeo Software, joining a French SaaS company next week.. Doug Topken has left Dun & Bradstreet and has become a Vice President for Business Relationship Management at Reed Elsevier. Navi Radjou leaves Forrester for Cambridge University after a decade of being a star analyst in technology. Navi will serve as the Executive Director of the Cambridge Center for Indian Business and move from San Francisco to London, UK. Kaj van de Loo rejoined SAP in December as an SVP in the Office of the CTO. Kaj was the former VP of Engineering at Questra and was a VP for Market Development Engineering at SAP Labs. Melissa Wilkinson became Senior Program Manager- Tech Industry Consulting at Forrester Research in July 2008 Kyung Yoon, the former Vice Chairman of Heidrick and Struggles has joined Talent Age Associates as its CEO. CORPORATE WHISPERS Got a scoop or something to share? Please post or send on to rwang0@gmail.com and we’ll keep your anonymity.

RIF's have come and may continue to come from the major tech vendors such as HP, Infor, Lawson, Oracle, SAP, and Sun.
Most tech companies have placed hiring freezes.
Recent issues with Satyam may cause a chain reaction in the IT services industry with consolidation at the forefront.
Many tech vendors are waiting for the Obama spending bills to pass and expect the stimulus to pick up late in Q3 2009.

Wednesday’s Whispers: The Word On the Street – December 2008

Published on December 10, 2008 by R "Ray" Wang

PEOPLE WHISPERS: MOVES, PROMOTIONS, AND MILESTONES Congratulations to all! Thanks for your emails and alerts. If you've got a change or know of a promotion, keep dropping me a line! Jim Anderson is now a Partner at Element Consulting Group. Jim previously served as EVP for professional services at Lawson Software and Group VP roles in services for PeopleSoft and JD Edwards. Sharath Dorbala has been promoted to Vice President, Solution Management at Amdocs from his previous position as Director of Product Strategy this November. Prior to returning to Amdocs, he worked at Oracle where he was part of the Fusion Middleware team. Max Efimov is now Director - Emerging Technologies at SITA CORP. Max was formerly a Manager at BearingPoint in the Enterprise Solutions SAP group. Madhu Ghosh became Leader Program Management and Product Strategy for Global Analytics Products at Dun & Bradstreet in September 2008. He was previously a Leader for Business Development & Strategic Marketing. Kartik Iyengar is now Head - Strategic Growth at an undisclosed company. Kartik was formerly a General Manager in EAS for Wipro and an avid SAP ESOA evangelist. Joanne McCool became the COO of Ternary Software in April 2008 and a Board Member Volunteer at The Career Wardrobe. Joanne served various roles at Primavera Systems, Inc. where she was the VP/General Manager of Evolve and a VP of Human Resources. Jim Nail the former marketing and strategy star analyst at Forrester Research has been at Cymfony Inc. as their Chief Strategy and Marketing Officer. Check out his new site! Balakrishba Narasimhan has left SAP Global Marketing where he was director of the highly acclaimed Apollos Competitive Intelligence strategy group. He is now a Senior Director for Corporate and Field Marketing at Appirio. Mike D'Onofrio joined Zuoro as a VP of sales and member of the executive management team. Mike bring over 20 years of selling experience in the billing industry, most recently with WebEx and ADP. Mohan Pillai left Fujitsu Consulting where he was a Director in the SAP CRM Practice and has now joined Sparta Consulting Inc where he serves as a Director for the SAP practice. Vicki Raeburn became SVP Critical Information Development & Quality at IHS in July 2008. Prior to IHS, Vicki was a Senior Vice President and Chief Quality Officer at D&B - Dun & Bradstree. Sunder Sarangan now serves as an Associate Vice President for Field Marketing at Infosys Technologies Ltd. He was promoted from his previous role as Head of Worldwide Industry Analyst Relations. Adil Vazifdar has left Tata Consulting Services where he was the Global Head, CRM Sales and Marketing and joined Cegedim- Dendrite as an Account director. Ellie Wilkinson joins Tableau Software as a Director of Product Marketing from Microsoft Business Solutions where she was a Group Program Manager leading the global launch of Microsoft Dynamics AX 4.0, including channel partner and field readiness, marketing and events, AR/ PR strategy, positioning and launch execution worldwide through 36 countries.

John Wookey joins SAP leading on Demand initiatives for the Enterprise. He starts November 10th in Palo Alto, CA. John formerly ran Oracle's Fusion Application initiative and left Oracle October 2007.

CORPORATE WHISPERS Got a scoop or something to share? Please post or send on to rwang0@gmail.com and we'll keep your anonymity.

ISV's in the gov contracting space are the hot M&A plays as software vendors and IT services providers scramble to get a piece of the infrastructure spending action.
Mergers may come soon to the IT Services firms. Expect the most activity in the Microsoft Partner Base as bulking up gives partners more reach into geo's and micro vertical markets.