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Monday’s Musings: Why Next Gen Apps Must Improve Existing Activity Streams

Published on August 30, 2010 by R "Ray" Wang
Upcoming Data Deluge Threatens The Effectiveness Of Activity Streams Activity streams, best popularized by consumer apps such as Facebook and Twitter, have emerged as the Web 2.0 visualization paradigm that addresses the massive flows of information users face (see Figure 1).  As a key element of the dynamic user experiences discussed in the 10 elements of social enterprise apps, activity streams epitomize how apps can deliver contextual and relevant information.  Unfortunately, what was seen as an elegant solution that brought people, data, applications, and information flow into a centralized real-time interface, now faces assault from the exponential growth in data and information sources.  In fact, most people can barely keep up with the information overload, let alone face the four forces of data deluge that will likely paralyze both collaboration and decision making (see Figure 2):
  1. Massive activity stream aggregation by enterprise apps. Every enterprise app seeking sexy social-ness plans one or more social networking feeds into their next release.  The mixing and mashing of personal and work related feeds will leave users confused about context and lower existing signal to noise ratios.  Yet, proliferation will continue as users seek to bring aggregated sources of information into one centralized feed.
  2. Explosive growth in the Internet of Things (IOT). Beyond just device to device communications, the web of objects, appliances, and living creatures through wired and wireless sensors, chips, and tags will drive most of the growth in the internet in the next 5 to 10 years.  With an estimated 100 billion net-enabled devices by 2020, these networks seek to discover activity patterns, predict outcomes, and monitor operational health.  The massive amounts of sensing data driven into systems will not only overwhelm users, but also handicap the performance of today's data warehouses, analytics platforms, and applications.
  3. Flood of user generated content (UGC). User generated content continues to grow.  Facebook has over 500 million users populating pages with rich social meta data.  There are over 300 million blogs.  Wikipedia has more than 15 million articles.  Content sources will propagate at geometric rates, especially as BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, and China) countries up their adoption.
  4. Proliferation of social meta data. Organizations seeking a marketing edge must digest, interpret, and asses large volumes of meta data from sources such as Facebook Open Graph.  Successful identification of social graphs require matching gargantuan volumes of meta data (e.g. likes, check-ins, groups, etc) through introspection across a vast array of objects.  Human centric and object centric events will inevitably coexist and engulf unified activity streams.
Figure 1.  Activity Streams Improve Collaboration And Deliver Dynamic User Experiences Figure 2. The Four Forces Of Data Deluge Filters Reduce The Signal To Noise Ratios And Drive Relevance Given the tall task of repairing the relevance of activity streams under the four forces of data deluge, users need better filtering tools from their existing solutions.  Today's rudimentary filters remind users of the simple search engines from the early 1990's.  Users must have filters with the sophistication to cut across the big data challenges.  Filters must span across mediums such as pages, books, notes, photos, videos, voice, and others.  Based on 23 user scenarios, the 5 major categories of filters should include:
  • People. Requests focus around people, their relationships, and formal and informal groupings.
  • Location. Physical location attributes include spatial coordinates, topology, environmental conditions, vertical position, and others.
  • Time and date. Time and date plays a key role in parsing out historical data, multiple chronological perspectives, and forecasting and simulation.
  • Events. Events serve as a mega filter by relating people, location, time and date, and purpose.
  • Topics. Topics represent a broader filter that represents a generic "other" category in filtering.
The Bottom Line: Users Need Greater Control Over Their Point Of View And Next Gen Apps Must Deliver Filters alone will not provide enough firepower to put users back in control.  Users must easily self-manage filters.  Self-learning patterns should be identified by the system.  Text analytics, natural language processing, and complex sentiment algorithms will play a role.  User driven advanced filters should at a minimum include:
  • Saved filters. Users save and share with other users their library of filters.
  • Trending. Users apply layers of filters to correlate complex multi-dimensional patterns.
  • Simulations. Users proactively test out scenario plans with existing data.
  • Predictions. Users apply pattern recognition and trending to test hypotheses.
Your POV. Buyers, do you need help understanding how activity streams can improve adoption and ROI.  Are you suffering from data deluge?   Sellers and vendors, want to test out your next generation product ideas?  You can post or send on to rwang0 at gmail dot com or r at softwareinsider dot org and we’ll keep your anonymity. Please let us know if you need help with your next gen apps strategy efforts.  Here’s how we can help:
  • Providing contract negotiations and software licensing support
  • Evaluating SaaS/Cloud options
  • Assessing apps strategies (e.g. single instance, two-tier ERP, upgrade, custom dev, packaged deployments”
  • Designing end to end processes and systems
  • Comparing SaaS/Cloud integration strategies
  • Assisting with legacy ERP migration
  • Engaging in an SCRM strategy
  • Planning upgrades and migration
  • Performing vendor selection
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Quarterly Financial Tracker: Q2 CY 2010 – SaaS Vendors Still Show Massive YoY Growth

Published on August 20, 2010 by R "Ray" Wang
The majority of 22 publicly traded software vendors demonstrated solid year-over-year (YoY) quarterly growth from Q2 2009 (see Figure 1).   Every SaaS vendor in the Software Insider Index® drove 14% to 26% growth (see Figure 2) despite the pick up in on-premises license sales.  Highlights for the 2010 CY Q2 2010 results: On-Premises Trends
  • JDA Software (59.19%) and Manhattan Associates (32.93%) continue to ride the CPG, retail, and supply chain investment wave.  Manhattan solidified a significant turnaround in 2 quarters of growth.
  • Large mega vendor bellwethers Oracle (12.95%) and SAP (12.34%) showed significant double digit growth.  SAP's license gains of 17.31% demonstrate a turnaround in the sales team.  All indications point to BOBJ and the non-EMEA regions driving sales growth.
  • The SMB vendors shared mixed results with Epicor (8.68%), Lawson (5.81%), and CDC Software (3.92%) continuing to grow key license revenues.  While IFS total revenue gains were low in the 1.40%, IFS grew license revenue by a whopping 19.77%.
  • Unfortunately, other SMB vendors Exact (-4.99%) and Deltek (-7.07%) showed negative revenue momentum.  These vendors not only lost ground in license revenue but also saw declines in traditionally stable maintenance revenue.
  • Maintenance fee growth remains healthy for most vendors as new programs to show value to customers gain traction.
SaaS Trends
  • SaaS vendors continue to grow in mid to high double digit growth rates for subscription revenue. SuccessFactors (26.81%), Salesforce.com (24.78%), and Concur (20.49%) moved past 20% year over year quarterly growth.
  • Ariba ($93.2M) nears the $100M per quarter revenue benchmark as Blackboard ($101.5M) continues to grow from this achievement in Q1 2010.
  • RightNow (19.58%), NetSuite (16.83%), Ultimate Software (15.67%), and Taleo (14.63%) all showed solid quarters of growth, though these growth percentages show slight declines.
Figure 1.  Software Insider Index® On Premise Vendors: Q2 CY 2010
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Figure 2. Software Insider Index® SaaS Vendors: Q2 CY 2010
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The Bottom Line - IT Budgets Have Opened Up For Software Purchases, Hybrid SaaS Models The Norm
Despite the rocky recovery and potential for double digit recession, pent up demand drives the current on-premises vendor revenue growth.  Organizations continue to invest in technology despite the lack of job creation.  However, on-premises vendor gains have not impacted SaaS vendor growth.  In fact, most organizations continue to adopt Scenarios 1 to 3 in their Cloud/SaaS strategies. As hybrid models reach tipping points, successful apps strategies must focus on SaaS integration, SOA adoption, and information governance.
Your POV. Can we help you work with a specific vendor?  Please post or send on to rwang0 at gmail dot com or r at softwareinsider dot org and we’ll keep your anonymity.  Further, let us know if you need help with your next gen apps strategy, overall apps strategy, and contract negotiations projects.  Here’s how we can help:
  • Designing a next gen apps strategy
  • Providing contract negotiations and software licensing support
  • Demystifying software licensing
  • Assessing SaaS and cloud
  • Evaluating Cloud integration strategies
  • Assisting with legacy ERP migration
  • Planning upgrades and migration
  • Performing vendor selection
  • Renegotiating maintenance
Disclaimers* Not responsible for any math errors or erroneous revenue information. 1. Calendar year estimates based on the quarter nearest the calendar year. 2. Why these vendors than others?  Easy – because I cover them. 3. Exchange rates as of February 25th, 2010 for vendors who have not published quarterly conversions.  Not responsible for currency flux. 4. Estimates created for privately held vendors, when listed. Not sure? Please read the quarterly filings yourself =) Related resources and links
2010 Calendar Year Q1 Software Insider Index™ (SII): 2009 SII Top 35 Enterprise Business Apps Vendors™ 2009 Calendar Year Q4 2009 Calendar Year Q3 2009 Calendar Year Q2 2009 Calendar Year Q1 Software Insider Index™ (SII): 2008Software Insider IndexTM (SII): SII Top 30 Enterprise Business Apps VendorsTM & SII Top SaaS Business Apps VendorsTM SII Top 30 Enterprise Business Apps Vendors™ 2008 Calendar Year Q4 2008 Calendar Year Q3 2008 Calendar Year Q2 2008 Calendar Year Q1
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Research Report: The Upcoming Battle For The Largest Share Of The Tech Budget (Part 2) – Cloud Computing

Published on August 9, 2010 by R "Ray" Wang
Welcome to a part 2 of a multi-part series on The Software Insider Tech Ecosystem Model.  Part 2 describes how the cloud fits into the model.  Subsequent posts will apply the model to these leading vendors:
  • Overview
  • Cisco
  • Dell
  • HP
  • IBM
  • Microsoft
  • Oracle
  • Salesforce.com
  • SAP
The aggregation of these posts will result into a research report available for reprint rights.
Cloud Computing Represents The "New" Delivery Model For Internet Based IT Services Technology veterans often observe that new mega trends emerge every decade.  The market has evolved from mainframes (1970's); to mini computers (1980's); to client server (1990's); to internet based (2000's); and now to cloud computing (2010's).  Many of the cloud computing trends do take users back to the mainframe days of time sharing (i.e. multi-tenancy) and service bureaus (i.e cloud based BPO). What's changed since 1970?  Quite plenty -- users gain better usability, connectivity improves with the internet, storage continue to plummet, and performance increases in processing capability. Cloud delivery models share a stack approach similar to traditional delivery.  At the core, both deployment options share four types of properties (see Figure 1):
  1. Consumption – how users consume the apps and business processes
  2. Creation – what’s required to build apps and business processes
  3. Orchestration – how parts are integrated or pulled from an app server
  4. Infrastructure – where the core guts such as servers, storage, and networks reside
As the über category, Cloud Computing manifests in the four distinct layers of:
  • Business Services and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) – The traditional apps layer in the cloud includes software as a service apps, business services, and business processes on the server side.
  • Development-as-a-Service (DaaS) – Development tools take shape in the cloud as shared community tools, web based dev tools, and mashup based services.
  • Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) – Middleware manifests in the cloud with app platforms, database, integration, and process orchestration.
  • Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) – The physical world goes virtual with servers, networks, storage, and systems management in the cloud.
Figure 1. Traditional Delivery Compared To Cloud Delivery Cloud Computing Encourages Users And Vendors To Focus On Value Added Solutions Applying The Software Insider Tech Ecosystem Model to Cloud Computing highlights where buyers, sellers, and partners can deliver value (see Figure 2).  As cloud computing adoption increases, users can expect that:
  • Solution providers and partners will invest in value added solutions over commoditized infrastructure. The continued commoditization of technology results in richer and more relevant Cloud stacks.  As a result, a handful of larger players will emerge to drive down the costs of computing while encouraging ecosystems to deliver value added solutions.  Buyers can expect packaged apps, vertical apps, last mile solutions, and implementation partners, to invest in specialized and higher value intellectual property (IP).
  • Customers will care more about service level agreements than the brand name of technology components. The cloud commoditizes the infrastructure components for both tools for creation and tools for distribution.  Users shift their priority for brand components in favor of outcomes based delivery.  Consequently, users will not care about the brand name of hardware, database, middleware, and even business intelligence systems in use.  Client success shifts to the monitoring of pre-agreed upon service level agreements (SLA's)
  • Integration will emerge as the key enabler and choke point. End users need an enterprise apps strategy for cloud computing that addresses the “I” word – Integration.  SOA principles must be enforced including support for canonical data models and business process haromonization.  Integration must focus on data mapping, business process orchestration, quality of service, and master data management.
Figure 2.  The Software Insider Tech Ecosystem Model For The Cloud The Bottom Line For Buyers  - Use The Tech Ecosystem Model To Build Out Your Technology Roadmap And Procurement Strategy. The Software Insider Tech Ecosystem Model can provide a key tool in mapping out the long term apps strategy.  Use the suggested five step approach to determine how cloud computing can support existing and future business requirements:
  1. Start by listing the vendors in each category. Jot down the names of every vendor you own into each category (see Figure 3.)
  2. Identify the key business processes supported. Place business processes at the high level and line them back to the vendors.
  3. Evaluate the application portfolio.  As consolidations occur, business strategy should align with applications strategy.  Applications strategy will then align with procurement strategy to optimize the Business Technology Value equation.
  4. Build out your solution ecosystem plan. In some cases, you will consolidate vendors. In others, you will acquire new solutions.  Sometimes, the last-mile will require custom development.  Take a balanced approach to the portfolio.  Keep in mind how you sunset legacy applications and solutions.
  5. Apply model to the contract strategy. This model applied to Seven Simple Steps To Successfully Negotiate Software Contracts will drive business value in technology projects.
Figure 3.  Sample Solution Providers Across The Four Layers Of Cloud Computing The Bottom Line For Sellers (Vendors) - Use The Tech Ecosystem Model To Plan Partnerships and M&A Strategies Use the Software Insider Tech Ecosystem Model  to determine when to partner, build, or acquire a capability. Determine which category to invest in Cloud Computing based on R&D budget and organization's size.  Evaluate each category by:
  1. Examining the current footprint. Fill in the model to see what you own (see Figure 3).
  2. Identifying adjacent profit pools. Look at potential install base up-sell, cross-sell, and attach rate opportunities.
  3. Determining potential profit margins and ROI. Look at average profit margins.  Identify and rank the top categories.
  4. Ranking opportunities by competitive threat. Determine which piece to commoditize next in the value added solutions.  Figure out which areas are high growth value added solutions to invest.
  5. Put together 3 year strategy. Face it, 3 years is too long but you need a time frame.  Identify acquisition prices and partnership criteria.
Your POV. Buyers, do you need help with your Cloud and SaaS strategy?  Ready to put the expertise of over 1000 software contract negotiations to work?  Give us a call!  Sellers and vendors, want to expedite your ability to effectively partner or test your M&A idea?  You can post or send on to rwang0 at gmail dot com or r at softwaresinsider dot org and we’ll keep your anonymity. Please let us know if you need help with your next gen apps strategy, overall apps strategy, and contract negotiations projects.  Here’s how we can help:
  • Designing a next gen apps strategy
  • Providing contract negotiations and software licensing support
  • Demystifying software licensing
  • Assessing SaaS and cloud
  • Evaluating Cloud integration strategies
  • Assisting with legacy ERP migration
  • Planning upgrades and migration
  • Performing vendor selection
  • Renegotiating maintenance
Resources And Related Research: 20100621 A Software Insider's POV - R "Ray" Wang - "Research Report: How SaaS Adoption Trends Show New Shifts In Technology Purchasing Power" 20100322 A Software Insider’s POV – R “Ray” Wang -”Understanding The Many Flavors Of Cloud Computing/SaaS” 20091222 A Software Insider’s POV – R “Ray” Wang “Tuesday’s Tip: 10 Cloud And SaaS Apps Strategies For 2010″ 20091208 A Software Insider’s POV – R “Ray” Wang – “Tuesday’s Tip: 2010 Apps Strategies Should Start With Business Value” 20091012 A Software Insider’s POV – R “Ray” Wang – “Research Report: Customer Bill of Rights – Software-as-a Service” 20090714 Sandhill.com – R “Ray” Wang – “Opinion: Moving to a SaaS Offensive” 20090602 A Software Insider’s POV – R “Ray” Wang ” Tuesday’s Tip: Now’s The Time To Consider SaaS Software Escrows” 20081028 A Software Insider’s POV – R “Ray” Wang “Tuesday’s Tip: SaaS Integration Advice” Next In The Series
  • Overview
  • Cisco
  • Dell
  • HP
  • IBM
  • Microsoft
  • Oracle
  • Salesforce.com
  • SAP
Reprints Reprints can be purchased through the Software Insider brand or Altimeter Group.  To request official reprints in PDF format, please contact r@softwareinsider.org. Disclosure Although we work closely with many mega software vendors, we want you to trust us.  For the full disclosure policy please refer here. Copyright © 2010 R Wang and Insider Associates, LLC. All rights reserved.

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Published on July 27, 2010 by R "Ray" Wang


Welcome to a multi-part series on The Software Insider Tech Ecosystem Model.  Subsequent posts will apply the model to these leading vendors:

  • Cisco

  • Dell

  • HP

  • IBM

  • Microsoft

  • Oracle

  • Salesforce.com

  • SAP


The aggregation of these posts will result into a research report available for reprint rights.

Business Models Converge During Recessions Buy cheap epogen online, Is your technology provider a hardware vendor or a software vendor. Does your System Integrator now provide solutions in the cloud. These questions will continue as models converge.  Hardware, kopen goedkope casodex, software, For zometa online, and system integration vendors must reinvent new models of revenue.  The economic recession has forced business model shifts at the major technology companies.  The goal - own the largest share of both the business and IT technology budget,  As these sellers attack new profit pools, buyers can expect continued convergence of business models because:

  • Hardware companies seek higher margins. Most hardware vendors face single digit margins in their core business.  To bolster margins, evista online cheap, many vendors acquired system integration firms.  For example, Order gleevec online without prescription, HP purchased EDS and Dell acquired Perot Systems.  The next logical step requires the hardware vendors to get into software.  Software margins hover from 10% to 50% depending on the market.  Expect a hardware vendor such as Cisco, Dell, or HP to acquire a SaaS based company to move into the software business.

  • Service providers build differentiated intellectual property (IP) using the Cloud, αγοράζουν φτηνά arimidex. Service providers should go on the SaaS/Cloud offensive if they want to deliver rapid innovation to customers and break the cycle of dependence on packaged apps vendors.  Service providers can take market share through SaaS by investing in white spaces in the solution road map with verticals and other pivot points that have not been well served.  In addition, Acquistare a buon mercato arimidex, expect forms of SaaS BPO to emerge as clients seek best of breed SaaS and hybrid deployments.

  • Software companies use Cloud to transform into information brokers. SaaS and Cloud deployments provide companies with hidden value and software companies with new revenues streams.  Data will become more valuable than the software in the Cloud.  Three areas of growth will include benchmarking, trending, ordering zometa pill, and prediction.

  • Companies by-pass software vendors for competitive advantage. Roper Industries acquisition of iTrade Networks on July 26th, Connecticut CT Conn., proves a key point.  Smart and innovative companies will put custom development in the cloud to meet last-mile solution needs that packaged apps vendors or system integrators fail to deliver.  Companies may also acquire software vendors if they can't build the solution.


Budget Authority Shifting From IT To Business

A recent survey of 23 companies shows that while the IT budget appear to have shrunk, the overall technology spend has increased.  Key findings:


  • IT budgets trending down. CIO's focused on cost savings and efficiency.  Among the 23 CIO's, few IT budgets have increased and most have decreased between 3 and 8 percent.  IT departments must do more with less.

  • Business technology spending up, buy cheap epogen online. Growing SaaS and cloud adoption improve the outlook by business units to procure their own solutions.  Among the 23 organizations surveyed, Delaware DE Del., most line of businesses grew technology spend by 5 to 7%.  Business leaders now call the shot on more and more technology decisions

  • IT to BT spending ratios nearing 50-50. Survey showed that the average percentage of tech spend for IT was 53.7%.  The average percentage of tech spend for business reached 47.3%.  Expect the business technology budgets to surpass IT in 2012.


The Tech Ecosystem Model Provides Multi-dimensional Insights

The Software Insider Tech Ecosystem Model examines technology solution categories on 4 dimensions (see Figure 1):


  • Tools for creation. Ordering zometa overnight delivery, This category describes technologies that can be reused to create new solutions.

  • Tools for distribution. This category describes channels and distribution models to deliver client value.

  • Value added solutions. This category describes high margin, cheap cytoxan online cheap, high value solutions for clients.  A plethora of vendors by industry, Massachusetts MA Mass., geography, market size, and role populate this category

  • Commoditized infrastructure, cheapest cytoxan. This category describes technologies that should be optimized.  A handful of vendors typically dominate this category.


Figure 1.  The Software Insider Tech Ecosystem Model

The Bottom Line For Buyers  - Use The Tech Ecosystem Model To Build Out Your Technology Roadmap And Procurement Strategy.

The Software Insider Tech Ecosystem Model can provide a key tool in mapping out the long term apps strategy.  Use the suggested five step approach:


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Buyers, Nebraska NE Nebr., do you need help with your apps strategy and vendor management strategy?  Ready to put the expertise of over 1000 software contract negotiations to work?  Give us a call!  Sellers and vendors, want to expedite your ability to effectively partner or test your M&A idea?  You can post or send on to rwang0 at gmail dot com or r at softwaresinsider dot org and we’ll keep your anonymity.

Please let us know if you need help with your next gen apps strategy efforts.  Here’s how we can help:


  • Providing contract negotiations and software licensing support

  • Evaluating SaaS/Cloud options

  • Buy cheap epogen online, Assessing apps strategies (e.g. single instance, zometa ordine on-line, two-tier ERP, Texas TX Tex., upgrade, custom dev, packaged deployments”

  • Designing end to end processes and systems

  • Comparing SaaS/Cloud integration strategies

  • Assisting with legacy ERP migration

  • Engaging in an SCRM strategy

  • Planning upgrades and migration

  • Performing vendor selection


Next In The Series

  • The Cloud

  • Cisco

  • Dell

  • HP

  • IBM

  • Microsoft

  • Oracle

  • Salesforce.com

  • SAP


Reprints

Reprints can be purchased through the Software Insider brand or Altimeter Group.  To request official reprints in PDF format, Colorado CO Colo., please contact r@softwareinsider.org.

Disclosure

Although we work closely with many mega software vendors, we want you to trust us.  For the full disclosure policy please refer here.

Copyright © 2010 R Wang and Insider Associates, LLC. All rights reserved.

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Published on July 16, 2010 by R "Ray" Wang

Buy arimidex, On July 12th, 2010, Infor announced its Infor24 initiative at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC).  Infor24 represents the Alpharetta, GA software titan's foray to deliver its solution offerings in the cloud and a continued bet on Microsoft for key technologies.  Here's the first take on the news and from exclusive conversations with Soma Somasundaram, SVP of Development and James Willey, Senior Director of Solutions Management:


  • Three "on-demand" cloud solutions available today. Cheap capecitabine, Infor offers Expense Management, Asset Management, arimidex cheap, Pharmacie cytoxan bon marché, and ERP.  ERP SyteLine represents the first cloud based ERP offering from Infor.  These solutions will move to the cloud powered by Windows Azure, Infor ION, Køb discount cytoxan, Indiana IN Ind., and a future portal product by 2011.  InforION provides key hybrid on-premises and cloud integration.

    Point of View (POV):     Delivery of expense management (Infor XM) and asset management (Infor EAM) as a cloud solution allows Infor to expand out to non-Infor base.  Existing customers can take advantage of the solution and integrate back through InforION.  To become a true software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution, order gleevec online cheap, Order iressa, multi-tenancy will have to occur not only at the app server tier but also at the database level.  Infor will most likely make the move to SQL Azure to achieve this.  Customers should look forward to seeing how these solutions take advantage of the full Azure stack.



  • Next generation solutions in 2011 based on Microsoft Windows Azure. Infor's future solutions will be powered by the Windows Azure development environment (see Figure 1).  Infor's cloud strategy includes Microsoft Reporting via Infor Ion, Microsoft Analysis Services powering Infor Business Intelligence, Utah UT, Buy cytoxan no prescription, and Microsoft Portal powering a future product.  Next generation solutions will run on Microsoft Azure data centers.

    POV:     As Infor makes the shift to Azure, ordering iressa from canada, Buy generic cytoxan, customers can expect other areas such as public sector solutions to be delivered by the second half of 2011.  Infor customers on IBM i-Series based products should seek a roadmap for their product lines onto Azure.


Figure 1. Infor 24 Bets On Microsoft Windows Azure For Current And Future Roadmap

Source: Infor

The Bottom Line For Buyers (Customers And Prospects) - Infor24 Demonstrates Reinvestment Of The Maintenance Dollar

Infor's customers have seen the $2.2B revenue vendor make significant efforts over the past 24 months to showcase improved value for the maintenance dollar.  Programs such as InforFlex, capecitabine cheap, Michigan MI Mich., the move to a Microsoft Platform, and now Infor24 demonstrate a willingness to improve the ownership experience.  As the cloud evolves into a mainstream deployment option, cheap gleevec no rx, Arizona AZ Ariz., prospects and customers can expect Infor to have a foundation to not only bring its customers forward, but also reach out to new customer bases, order iressa online legally.

Your POV

Are you an existing Infor customer?   Prospects, will this move make you consider Infor?  Do you come form the legacy Microsoft or IBM heritage?  Will you be more compelled to stick with Infor in the long run?  Add your comments to the discussion or send on to rwang0 at gmail dot com or r at softwareinsider dot org and we’ll keep your anonymity, buy arimidex. Buy iressa online, Please let us know if you need help with your next gen apps strategy, overall apps strategy, Wyoming WY Wyo., Billiga casodex apotek, and contract negotiations projects.  Here’s how we can help:


  • Designing a next gen apps strategy

  • Providing contract negotiations and software licensing support

  • Demystifying software licensing

  • Assessing SaaS and cloud

  • Evaluating Cloud integration strategies

  • Assisting with legacy ERP migration

  • Planning upgrades and migration

  • Performing vendor selection

  • Renegotiating maintenance


Resources And Related Research:

20106025 A Software Insider’s POV – R “Ray” Wang “News Analysis: Infor Bets On Microsoft”

20100623 The Enterprise System Spectator – Frank Scavo “Infor casts its lot with Microsoft”

20100623 IDG News Service – Chris Kanaracus “Infor buddies up with Microsoft”

20106010 A Software Insider’s POV – R “Ray” Wang “Event Report: Top 10 Questions To Ask At The Microsoft TechEd/STB Analyst Summit”

20091208 A Software Insider’s POV – R “Ray” Wang “Tuesday’s Tip: 2010 Apps Strategies Should Start With Business Value”

20090622 A Software Insider’s POV – R “Ray” Wang “News Analysis: Infor Flex Reflects Proactive Maintenance Policy”

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Organizations Facing The Big Data Problem Must Solve The TCO Of Data Retention Order cheap arimidex online, The explosion in data volumes from terabytes to petabytes (i.e. 1 quadrillion bytes) drives many organizations to identify cost effective solutions for the retention and on demand retrieval of historical data.  More importantly, organizations must meet a plethora of changing business and compliance requirements.  RainStor's solution focuses in on the retention of read-only or inactive structured data.  The solution delivers the "Three R's" of fundamental data management capabilities for its customers by:


  • Reduction, bestill arimidex online. Effective storage requires secure but accessible data reduction that can encapsulate data without loss in content or structure.  RainStor can take structured data sources such as log files, Ordering epogen pill, database, and event data and compress to a 40:1 ratio into containers of discrete files.  This means up to a 97% savings in storage costs.  On top of the compression, RainStor de-duplicates data values and detects patterns so values only need to be stored once.  This means information is stored in a tree structure while still maintaining a full representation of the original records.  The result - in repetitive transactions such as call data logs and stock transactions, Nebraska NE Nebr., storage costs drop by geometric proportions (see Figure 1).

  • Retention. Evista online, Compliance rules create unnecessary complexity in managing retention and purge parameters.  Data in the RainStor solution follows existing policies and remains "as-is" or immutable.  The system preserves the original structure of the stored records.  Users gain control in managing compliance rules and can even store the data in an unstructured data solution such as EMC Centera.  The solution utilizes commodity storage systems and doesn't require specialized DBA skills.  Organizations can keep their SAN, NAS, DAS, evista online store, CAS, αγοράζουν online zometa, or even go with cloud storage options.

  • Retrieval. Existing systems remain challenged in preserving schema evolution and often lose context after upgrades from release to release.  In RainStor, the system stores schema and tables to be able to search back in a point in time.  By addressing schema evolution, Delaware DE Del., any changes to new fields, Cytoxan, tables, and columns are preserved and present the exact representation of the data regardless of query style.  As an extension repository, RainStor does not store in relational format and can instead point to a SQL statement.  Furthermore, ordering arimidex without prescription, organizations can retrieve data through SQL and BI tools such as ODBC/JDBC at RDBMS performance levels or better


Figure 1.  RainStor Applies Data De-duplication To Reduce Storage Costs

Source: RainStor

RainStor Delivers Its Solutions Via An OEM Partner Model

Gloucester, South Dakota SD, UK based RainStor has its US based offices in San Francisco, CA.  RainStor does not sell the solution directly to consumers.  The solution is now embedded in more than 75 deployments at Global 2000 brands through independent software vendors (ISV), systems integrators (SI), buy arimidex from canada, and managed service providers (MSP) such as Adaptive Mobile, Køb billige capecitabine, EMC, Group 2000, HP, comprar en línea evista, Informatica, Lowest price casodex, and On-Point Technology.  The solution powers key solutions such as:


  • Application and warehouse archiving. Partners use RainStor to manage the information life cycle by keeping more data for longer without bogging down transactional systems.

  • Application retirement, order cheap arimidex online. Legacy data can be stored in an alternative repository for legacy migration or SaaS deployments.

  • SaaS data escrows. SaaS vendors can guarantee data in an outage or in a potential end of business scenario.

  • Log and security event retention.  De-duplication technology reduces massive storage retention costs and improves retrieval performance.


Published Informatica Telco Case Study Shows A 211% ROI In Four Years

An Informatica telco customer encountering a massive operations downsizing faced the challenge of reducing costs while keeping data online and accessible.  Challenged with mainframe maintenance costs of $250, casodex pill,000 annually, Missouri MO Mo., the organization built a read-only archive from mainframe to RainStor at only 5% of the original size.  The telco achieved a $430,000 annual reduction with 20x admin savings going from 2 FTE's to 0.1 FTE's  (i.e. IT $250k, epogen ordine on-line, Staff $180k).  The result - payback in 16.1 months and $1.2M in savings over 4 years. Cheapest casodex in the world, The Bottom Line For Buyers (Users) - Seek Information Preservation Cost Savings To Fund Innovation

While RainStor does not directly sell its solutions to customers, this disruptive technology should be part of every cloud stack, historical storage system, Oregon OR Ore., and archiving solution.  The solution even supports inMemory systems by using memory address pointers in nodal storage to avoid row or column based storage.  Use cases such as smart grids and cold data storage can also provide significant savings.  Users should demand that their ISV's, Billiga evista apotek, SI's, and MSP's OEM RainStor.  Cost savings in equipment, software, αγοράσετε epogen έκπτωση, and labor provide a significant cost savings basis that will deliver the seed funding for much needed innovation projects.

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Collaboration Remains Elusive Across Applications And Enterprises

Organizations seeking the benefits of collaboration and rapid knowledge sharing in Enterprise 2.0 (E2.0) solutions face several key challenges in delivering a consistent enterprise solution:


  • Order cheap epogen online, Consistent tool across multiple applications and environments. Illinois IL Ill., Organizations want one tool to collaborate regardless of the application they are using.  Today, organizations often need a separate tool to collaborate for each suite of business applications, cheapest capecitabine, Billiga gleevec apotek, email system, and even browser.  The result - a plethora of tools that enable collaboration in silos of information that hinder Enterprise 2.0 benefits..

  • Intuitive and natural user experience. As a key element of next generation social enterprise apps, Um casodex online, Order zometa online, users expect pervasive and natural collaboration to occur in the context of applications.  Today's systems often have inconsistent approaches to sharing information making it difficult to share both structured and unstructured information in the same system.  More importantly, organizations will need to move across multiple form factors such as mobile, cheap iressa overnight delivery, Iressa online kopen, iPads, kiosks, Rabatt kaufen casodex, New Mexico NM N.Mex., and other hand held devifes


SimplyBox Breaks Barriers In Collaboration

Campbell, CA, order capecitabine online cheap, Ordering iressa without prescription, based SimplyBox started out in 2007 as a consumer play focused on organizing and sharing websites clippings in a visual manner for personal research and sharing. Over the past year, Rabatt kaufen evista, Buy generic gleevec, SimplyBox has successfully proven their core technology into the enterprise with partnerships at large enterprise apps vendors, leaving competitors such as Diigo, West Virginia WV W.Va., Evista discount, Sazell , and Safari's Webclip to focus on the personal knowledge and research space.  SimplyBox succeeds in enterprise scenarios because:


  • Unstructured and structured content can be shared and categorized, buy cytoxan no rx. Cheap cytoxan pill, Users grab and select the content they wish to share and place them into a "Box".  Each box includes content about a topic and related conversations.  Users can share boxes about different topics with different groups.  SimplyBox can then notify and alert others about content being placed into the box.  The box serves as the medium to enable collaboration among internal and external teams.



  • Collaboration can occur anywhere. Whether its in a portal for a web app or enterprise system report, users collaborate regardless of what system they are in.  Content that's been collected along the way by multiple users can be made available throughout different enterprise systems.  SimplyBox even co-exists with solutions such as Microsoft Sharepoint which serve more as file/content repositories.  This enables applications to gain tentacles across the enterprise apps landscape.  More importantly, ordering capecitabine online legally, Casodex pedido en línea, no programming or IT involvement is required.


Figure 1. SimplyBox Enables Natural Collaboration Within Any Environment


Source: SimplyBox

Founders Bring Enterprise Software Credibility To A Web 2.0 Approach

The company was founded by Rodney Goodger and Mario R, köpa iressa online. Cavagnari.  Mario was formerly the Vice President of Sales at PowerSchool, a division of Apple.  He brings 20 years of enterprise sales experience.  Rodney came from CDC Software where he was a Director of Product Management.  Michael Galloway joined the team in late 2007 as the CTO bringing in Web 2.0 experience as a Sr, order cheap epogen online. Cytoxan online store, Developer at Yahoo's Widget Group.

The Bottom Line For Users - Put SimplyBox To Use In E2.0 Scenarios Without Having To Rip and Replace

SimplyBox provides users with a quick and easy approach to structured and unstructured collaboration.  Unlike email based solutions, cheapest casodex, Casodex sale, SimplyBox keeps context in conversation and allows collaborators to easily share information.  Unlike many enterprise collaboration solutions, SimplyBox doesn't force users to work only inside one application or one collaboration platform, order iressa online cheap. Purchase casodex online, Most importantly SimplyBox works with applications in their natural state.  With several enterprise partnerships in place, expect to see SimplyBox transforming experiences in staid ERP, CRM, and SCM systems.

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VMWare and Salesforce.com Battle For The Hearts And Minds Of Cloud-Oriented Java Developers Order casodex online cheap, On April 27th, 2010, Salesforce.com, [NYSE: CRM] and VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW) formed VMforce, a strategic alliance to create a deployment environment for Java based apps in the cloud.  The Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering builds on Java, buy zometa without prescription, Spring, Massachusetts MA Mass., VMware vSphere, and Force.com.  Key themes in this announcement:


  • Growing the developer ecosystem. VMware and Salesforce.com realize that the key to growth will be their appeal to developers.  The VMforce offering courts 6 million enterprise Java developers and over 2 million using SpringSource's Spring framework with an opportunity to build Cloud 2 applications.  VMware brings application management and orchestration tools via VMware vSphere.  Salesforce.com opens up its applications, kjøpe billig casodex, Force.com database, Buy cytoxan without prescription, Chatter collaboration, search, workflow, Wyoming WY Wyo., analytics and mobile platforms. Hawaii HI,
    Point of View (POV):     By betting on Java and the Spring framework for this Cloud2 PaaS, both vendors gain immediate access to one of the largest developer communities in the world.  Salesforce.com developers no longer have to use the highly flexible, but very proprietary APEX code base to create Cloud2 apps.   Java developers can now reach the large base of Salesforce.com customers and use the Salesforce.com apps and Force.com.



  • Creating cloud efficiencies for Java development, buy iressa without prescription. VMforce brings global infrastructure, Alabama AL Ala., virtualization platform, orchestration and management technology, relational cloud database, order evista no rx, development platform and collaboration services, Gleevec no prescription, application run time, development framework, and tooling to the cloud.  Organizations can build code in Java and integrate with apps in Salesforce.com without having to retrain existing resources.  Environments can scale as needed and take advantage of the massive economies of scale in the cloud, comprar arimidex de descuento.

    POV:     As with all PaaS offerings, cost and time savings include not dealing with hardware procurement, pesky systems management software, configuration and tuning, and multiple dev, test, and production environment set up.  Developers can focus on business value not infrastructure.  What will they do with their free time not scaling up databases and app servers?


The Bottom Line For Buyers - Finally, A Worthy Java Competitor To Azure And An Upgrade Path For Force.com

VMware's acquisition of SpringSource may have seemed strange in October 2009.  However, SpringSource brings an Eclipse-based IDE, Apache, and Tomcat tools to the table.  vSphere delivers the ability to migrate workloads and manage VM's.  The Hyperic acquisition provides many key PaaS components, order casodex online cheap.   Force.com will deliver the applications, Buy arimidex online, analytics, search, collaboration, order casodex pill, and a solid base of applications customers.  The result -- customers can now take advantage of True SaaS solutions and custom build in Java PaaS side by side.  Meanwhile, Purchase arimidex, Salesforce.com can shed the APEX code of the SaaS 1.0 world and moves to an open standard - enterprise Java.   In essence,  organizations can now have their cake and eat it as both VMware and Salesforce.com move to the next generation of Cloud.  While there are many benefits of PaaS, Kansas KS Kans., customers moving to VMforce should seek provisions in The Customer Bill of Rights: SaaS.

The Bottom Line For Vendors - Will You Have Your Own PaaS Or Will You Join In?

VMforce represents a new front in the Cloud Wars (see Figure 1).  Similar to the StackWars of the last century, Köpa zometa online, (BEA WebLogic, IBM WebSphere, Microsoft .NET, Massachusetts MA Mass., Oracle Fusion Middleware, Osta cytoxan online, and SAP NetWeaver), this war focuses on dominating the tools for creation.  Those legacy vendors who fail to move to the Cloud. adopt PaaS, evista ordine on-line, and deliver true SaaS apps can expect to fade away into history.  Early leaders Google, Arimidex no prescription, IBM, and Oracle have some Java PaaS offerings in place.  However, the VMware and Salesforce.com announcement demonstrates first mover advantage in the enterprise Java PaaS Cloud Wars.  Moreover, købe zometa online, VMforce now positions itself as a worthy contender to Microsoft's Azure.  Fast followers will most likely try to build on multiple PaaS platforms.   Expect smart system integrators (SI's) to own their own PaaS infrastructure to maintain independence.  Independent PaaS vendors (e.g. Price of capecitabine, Gigaspaces, Gridgain, Imaginea, Acheter en ligne capecitabine, LongJump, Buy evista no prescription, and Rackspace Cloud Tools) will prove to be hot commodities in the next 24 months as they become OEM partners and potential acquisition targets .

Order casodex online cheap, Figure 1. Major Players In The Cloud Wars

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Demand For Complex Cloud/SaaS Based Integration Continues To Increase
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  • Enterprise vendor API's and ODBC

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Figure 1. SnapLogic DataFlow Server Provides A Data Integration Platform Through Open-Component APIs and RESTful ARchitecture, kopen goedkope evista. Arimidex online kaufen,

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SnapStore Provides An Online Marketplace

Organizations seeking Snaps for popular Enterprise, SaaS, North Carolina NC N.C., Köpa arimidex online, Web, and Social software solutions can access these solutions in the SnapStore (see Figure 2).  Meanwhile, comprare evista, Kansas KS Kans., ISV's, system integrators, order zometa, Louisiana LA, and developers can create and monetize Snap connectors and data pipelines.  Over 40 Snaps have been created for solutions such as ADP Employease, OpenAir, Washington WA Wash., Buy capecitabine online, Intacct, Oracle PeopleSoft Enterprise, ordering iressa overnight delivery, Order cytoxan online legally, SugarCRM, QuickBooks, pharmacy evista, Cheap zometa online, and Box.net

Figure 2. Snap Store's Offerings Range from Enterprise to Social

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(Source: SnapLogic Website)

Founders Come From A Web 2.0 And Integration Pedigree

Gaurav Dhillon, the former Founder and CEO of Informatica, founded SnapLogic with Eyal Shavit, previously of Mevio, Macrovision, and Yahoo, buy iressa no prescription. Game Store in 2006, købe cytoxan online. Kansas KS Kans.,   It appears he could reinvent the integration market for this next generation of software.  To date, SnapLogic has raised $4.8M in funding from Andreessen Horowitz, Illinois IL Ill., New Mexico NM N.Mex., Maples Investments, Google Vice President Brian MClendon, Connecticut CT Conn., Epogen kopen, Epinions co-founder Naval Ravikant, and Gaurav Dhillon himself, comprare evista sconto. Buy casodex online,

The Bottom Line For Users - Proliferation Of SaaS Deployments Requires A Cloud/SaaS Integration Strategy

Successful adoption of SaaS solutions have transformed usage from purpose built point solutions to integration into mission critical processes.  Increased SaaS and Cloud adoption in the enterprise does not mean architectural standards go away. In fact, organizations must re-prioritize their overall enterprise architecture strategy and include Cloud/SaaS integration as a key enabler.  The goal - move beyond one-off solutions and embrace a more agile and longer term solution.

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20100416 ReadWriteWeb - Alex Williams "SnapLogic Opens Store For Third Party App Integration"

20091029 Venture Beat - Anthony Ha "Data integration company SnapLogic raises another $2.3M"

20081028 A Software Insider's Point Of View - R "Ray" Wang "Tuesday's Tip: SaaS Integration Advice"

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Lawson External Cloud Services Represents A Big Step In On Demand ERP Options
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  • Full feature ERP offering, ordering cytoxan without prescription. Indiana IN Ind., Lawson will include its full suite of products from both M3 (i.e. Intentia heritage), Arizona AZ Ariz., Alabama AL Ala., S3 (Lawson heritage), and new offerings which includes strategic HCM, ordering iressa online legally, Alaska AK, Finance, enterprise performance management (EPM), Arizona AZ Ariz., Köpa rabatterade iressa, supply chain management (SCM), corporate social responsibility, buy epogen online legally, Purchase gleevec online, equipment and service & rental, and enterprise asset management.

    Point of view (POV): Lawson makes a significant investment in providing a new deployment option for its solutions.  Customers will lower IT costs, kjøpe billig cytoxan, Capecitabine pedido en línea, reduce time to deployment, and maintain ownership of the software using Amazon EC2 in the back end.  The result is a single instance approach to cloud delivery focused on IaaS (see Figure 1).  Virtualization provides the key factor in cost savings.




  • Focus on mid-size companies looking to reduce time to market, Alabama AL Ala.. Alaska AK, Lawson specifically calls out how mid-market organizations can gain scale with security, computing capacity, buy evista overnight delivery, Ordering arimidex online, and lower cost infrastructure.  Organizations pay for only the infrastructure they need.

    POV: Mid-size organizations gain the benefits of large enterprise solutions without the costly overhead of installation and deployment.  Prospects and customers can expect the hosted software to include centralized admin, faster installations, Connecticut CT Conn., Order casodex online without prescription, single technology stack, scalability, acheter zometa bon marché, Online zometa, and faster time to value.   Mid-size customers can free up funds to focus on process design and business transformation.  However, there's no reason why a large enterprise wouldn't want the same advantages.




  • Introduction of Lawson Test Drive, evista farmacia a buon mercato. Lawson Test Drive gives customers the ability to try before buying Lawson products for up to 14 days.  Customers can try out two of  Lawson's latest products, S3 directed Smart Office and Lawson Enterprise Search.

    POV: Lawson Smart Office and Lawson Enterprise Search take advantage of Enterprise 2.0 UI/UX prinicples and really change the user experience for customers.  A 14 day trial may be too short for customers.  Prospects should push for 30 to see how powerful and pervasive these solutions can impact user productivity.




  • Flexible pricing options, order iressa no prescription. φτηνές φαρμακείο zometa, Lawson offers customers the ability to start out with subscription pricing and convert to perpetual at the end of the subscription contract.  Customers retain flexibility in choosing their deployment models.

    POV: Choice and flexibility to the procurement process deliver the strongest argument for Lawson's External Cloud Services.  Customers can start with annual subscription, rent to own, and then convert to a perpetual license with a traditional one-time payment.



Figure 1.  Lawson's Cloud Offering Reduces Infrastructure Costs

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The Bottom Line For Customers - Check Out The New Cloud Deployment Option But Don't Confuse This For SaaS

Given that a good majority of Lawson's customers already take a cautious view to SaaS and OnDemand, the Lawson External Cloud may be the safe bet for customers looking to try OnDemand because the are not:


  • Convinced that a multi-tenant one-size fits all True SaaS model works for them. Despite the success at so many companies,  SaaS deployment options may scare clients who feel their business is unique and need to customize and determine their own upgrade timing.  Though constraints in configuration are not completely true here, its a reality that some customers have unwarranted fears.

  • Ready to give up software ownership. While the cost structures provide upfront advantages in the first 5 years, costs will even out over a 10 year period.  Some customers still prefer outright perpetual license rights over perpetual payments obligations.  Subscription pricing with the right to own provides a key selling point.


Lawson's offering is clearly not SaaS, but nor is it a reincarnation of hosting.  The offering takes full advantage of the virtualization services in Amazon EC2 and seems best suited for Lawson's existing customers.  However, new prospects will most likely push hard for multi-tenancy and private clouds in the future.  When will Lawson create private clouds?   Will they finally go multi-tenant?  Maybe we'll find out more at Lawson's CUE event from April 25 - 28 in San Antonio, TX.

Your POV

Are you a Lawson customer?  What do you think?  Will you go cloud?  Would you prefer this to a True SaaS solution?  Do you even care if its hosted or SaaS?  See you at CUE 2010 from Monday the 26th to Wednesday the 28th.

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20100409 Intelligent Enterprise - Doug Henschen "Lawson Cloud Plan Taps Amazon EC2"

20100402 ChannelWeb - CRN - Andrew R. Hickey "Lawson Looks To Cloud To Woo ERP Customers"

20100331 ZDNet: Irregular Enterprise - Dennis Howlett "Lawson teams with Amazon for cloud ERP -ahem"

20100331 Enterprise System Spectator - Frank Scavo "Lawson cloud services: good start but no SaaS"

20100331 Deal Architect - Vinnie Mirchandani "Lawson: I'm OK, you're not ok"

20090425 A Software Insider's Point of View - R "Ray" Wang " Event Report: Lawson Cue09"

20090313 A Software Insider's Point of View - R "Ray" Wang "Friday's Feature: Snapshots in Enterprise 2.0 UI/UX - Lawson Smart Office


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