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Event Report: 2009 Information Week 500
Insight From This Year’s IW 500 Shows Shifting Role Of The CIO And Technology Adoption (Source: R Wang & Software Insider POV, Copyright © 2009 All rights reserved.) Lots of lessons learned amidst the celebration of the leading innovators in IT at the Information Week 500. In conversations with CIOs these past days, a few […]
Event Report: Salesforce.com Pushes Social CRM Technology — But Don't Expect Companies To Be Successful With Tools Alone
This post was co-written with Jeremiah Owyang, Partner and Colleague at Altimeter Group Above: Pictures from Salesforce’s event Salesforce.com launches a new set of social apps that make CRM connected to the social web. So what does it mean? Salesforce.com’s Twitter integration and application launch helps brands monitor what’s being said. Yet despite the fanfare, […]
Event Report: Reflections On Microsoft's Convergence 2009
(Photo: Convergence banner in the New Orleans Convention Center. Copyright © 2009 R Wang. All rights reserved) Over 7000 customers, partners, Microsoft staff, and paparazzi made the pilgrimage to New Orleans to hear the latest and greatest from the Microsoft Dynamics team. The great band, surface computing demo, and festivities in New Orleans wiped out […]
Event Report: Dreamforce 2008 – Love is In the Clouds
(Photo: Main show floor for Dreamforce 2008 at Moscone Center, San Francisco, CA. Copyright © 2008 R Wang. All rights reserved.) Over 9,000 attendees made it to the annual San Francisco pilgrimage to hear the high priest of SaaS kickoff the event. This year’s theme focused on the future of Cloud Computing, a focus on […]
Event Report: IBM Unveils the Information Agenda at IOD 2008
(Photo: The show floor from IBM IOD 2008 at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center Copyright © 2008 R Wang. All rights reserved.) IBM’s third annual Information On Demand event emerges as part of the “Must Attend” list of Enterprise Software pow wows. More than 7000 attendees were treated to 600 technical skill building sessions and […]
Event Report: Siperian Masters 2008 – Customers Confirm Multi-Entity MDM Trends
(Photo: Siperian Masters’08 registration area. Copyright © 2008 R Wang. All rights reserved.) About 200 attendees were present as Ramon Chen, VP of Marketing, kicked off the event to the theme of adventurers and pioneers in MDM at the Bridgewater Marriott (New Jersey). CEO, Peter Caswell, led the keynote session with a view on where […]
Event Report: Initiate Exchange – Customers Confirm Latest Customer Hub/MDM Trends
Quick thoughts from Scottsdale. Initiate as many you know is one of the leaders in the customer hubs/MDM market. At their annual conference, Initiate Exchange, a few key trends emerged from conversations with customers and partners: Rapid deployment still key to securing buy-in a the business level. The registry style approach lends itself to demonstrating […]
Trip Report: 2008 Oracle Open World Day 1
View from the Moscone North to South Above Ground Crosswalk Looking into Moscone West (Copyrighted 2008. Photo by R Wang. All rights reserved) In the world of enterprise software, Oracle’s Open World is one of the grand slam must attend events of the year. Day 1 starts with the Oracle Users Forum, a collection of […]
Event Report: Microsoft Convergence 2008 – Microsoft Ends Project Green, Renews Enterprise Focus
(Copyrighted 2008. Photo by R Wang. All rights reserved) New Management Shows Long Term Commitment to Business Solutions Group Recent Microsoft Business Solutions departures have brought into question whether the Redmond , WA giant is serious about the business applications market. Estimates of year over year growth from 2006 to 2007 have fallen from double […]