At Oracle’s recent cloud computing analyst summit in sunny Palm Springs, the company’s executive team insisted that it sees clear skies for its efforts in cloud computing. The summit was led by senior executive Thomas Kurian, who runs the entire product organization and reports directly to CEO Larry Ellison. He affirmed that Oracle intends to offer the full range of cloud computing – public, private and hybrid models – to its customers and partners. As one of the world’s largest software suppliers Oracle has much at stake to make its database and all tools and applications available in these cloud environments, including managed cloud services. Our business technology innovation research shows this is a smart bet. Cloud computing is important or very important to 57 percent of organizations, and more than half (55%) of cloud users have been using it for more than a year. I noted in 2013 that simplifying IT and innovating in business are key to its software strategy, and Oracle’s efforts since then have executed on this outline.
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Topics:
Big Data,
Database,
Microsoft,
SaaS,
Social Media,
Software as a Service,
Middleware,
Operational Performance Management (OPM),
Oracle Cloud,
Business Analytics,
Business Collaboration,
Business Intelligence,
Cloud Computing,
IBM,
Oracle,
Business Performance Management (BPM),
Customer Performance Management (CPM),
Database as a Service,
Financial Performance Management (FPM),
Information Applications (IA),
Information Management (IM),
Sales Performance Management (SPM),
Supply Chain Performance Management (SCPM),
Verizon,
Workforce Performance Management (WPM)
Businesses continue to try to increase productivity and simplify tasks in order to use their time smarter. Our recent business technology innovation research found that, when it comes to analytics, 44 percent of organizations spend the most time on data-related tasks. With lack of resources being the largest issue impeding the adoption of technology, IT must operate efficiently while getting business the data it needs on a timely basis. Scribe Solutions has a business-centric data integration solution that operates in the cloud. Over the last 15 years Scribe has accumulated more than 12,000 customers worldwide that span from Fortune 500 to midsize to small organizations. Scribe enables business to access marketing and sales data (part of CRM) like that in Microsoft Dynamics. It has built a strong presence indirectly and through Microsoft partners; it claims to have more than 1,000 partners, and has been expanding efforts to broaden its position by supporting a range of data sources, including Salesforce.com. Scribe focuses on what I call information optimization, providing value from information management investments, as I outlined in our research agenda.
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Microsoft,
Marketo,
On24,
Operational Performance Management (OPM),
SilverPop,
Business Intelligence,
Data Integration,
Information Management,
Business Performance Management (BPM),
Customer Performance Management (CPM),
FinancialForce,
Information Applications (IA),
Information Management (IM),
Information Optimization,
Intuit Quicken,
IT Performance Management (ITPM),
Sales Performance Management (SPM),
Scribe Software,
Xactly
Business is starting to realize that taking advantage of big data is not just technically feasible but affordable by organizations of all sizes. However, as outlined in our agenda on big data and information optimization, the technology must be engineered to the information needs of business. Hortonworks has been steadily advancing its big data technology called Hadoop and contributing its developments back to the Apache Software Foundation for a range of projects. The company performs enterprise-level testing to ensure Hadoop not just operates but scales across operating systems, cloud computing, virtual machines and appliances. Over the last year Hortonworks has released a number of certifications and benchmarks for an enterprise-ready version of Hadoop for which it provides support and services. These are important steps forward in meeting the needs of IT management, which is the audience evaluating big data technologies in 66 percent of organizations according to our big data research.
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Topics:
Big Data,
Microsoft,
Talend,
Teradata,
Simba,
Strata Conference,
Business Analytics,
Cloud Computing,
Hortonworks,
Informatica,
HDP,
Hive,
Information Applications (IA),
Information Management (IM),
Tez,
Strata+Hadoop
Mobile technology continues to advance weekly, with new software releases and new versions of devices. Though it has been in the headlines frequently in recent weeks, can Microsoft really change the mobile technology dynamics in the business world?
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Topics:
Microsoft,
Google,
Microsoft Windows Phone,
Operational Performance Management (OPM),
Business Intelligence,
Cloud Computing,
Business Performance Management (BPM),
Customer Performance Management (CPM),
Financial Performance Management (FPM),
Information Applications (IA),
Information Management (IM),
IT Performance Management (ITPM),
Sales Performance Management (SPM),
Workforce Performance Management (WPM),
Digital Technology
Ventana Research has just released the 2012 Value Index for Data Integration, in which we evaluate the competency and maturity of vendors and products. Our firm has been researching this software category for almost a decade. Our latest benchmark research in information management found that data integration is a critical component of information management strategies, according to 55 percent of organizations. Our benchmark research on organizations using this software not only uncovers best practices and trends, but it also highlights why IT is using data integration to advance its competencies across people and processes.
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Topics:
Big Data,
Master Data Management,
Microsoft,
Pentaho,
SAP,
SAS,
Social Media,
Talend,
Operational Performance Management (OPM),
SnapLogic,
Business Analytics,
Business Collaboration,
Business Mobility,
Cloud Computing,
Data Governance,
Data Integration,
Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC),
IBM,
Informatica,
Information Builders,
Information Management,
Location Intelligence,
Oracle,
Business Performance Management (BPM),
Customer Performance Management (CPM),
Financial Performance Management (FPM),
Information Applications (IA),
Information Management (IM),
IT Performance Management (ITPM),
Sales Performance Management (SPM),
Supply Chain Performance Management (SCPM),
Syncsort,
Workforce Performance Management (WPM)
We have just released our 2012 Value Index for Sales Performance Management (SPM), in which we evaluate the competency and maturity of vendors and products. Our firm has been researching this software category for many years, and our latest benchmark research in sales performance management found many areas for improvement among sales applications in a field where many sales organizations still use outdated or insufficient applications to manage revenue generation and customer relationships.
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Topics:
Microsoft,
Sales,
Salesforce.com,
SAP,
NICE Systems,
Operational Performance Management (OPM),
Business Analytics,
Business Collaboration,
Cloud Computing,
Oracle,
Business Performance Management (BPM),
CallidusCloud,
Financial Performance Management (FPM),
Sales Performance Management,
Sales Performance Management (SPM),
Synygy,
Varicent,
Xactly
Fulfilling its intention to make it easier to access and use analytics and business intelligence, IBM released its Cognos Mobile application natively for the Apple iPad. Of course IBM is not the first to release a native application for the tablet, and many might say that it is late in doing so, but in reality the market for dedicated applications on tablets is just heating up. The adoption rate of the iPad as the tablet of choice for business continues to grow, and while statistics are not yet available our research has found a groundswell of interest this year and last among businesses in mobility for analytics and BI. In this context, the mobile app is significant for IBM Cognos. It has delivered software for mobile technology including smartphones for over a decade, but the new application was carefully designed to establish a foundation for upcoming incremental releases in the tablet format.
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Topics:
Microsoft,
Google,
Operational Performance Management (OPM),
Playbook,
RIM,
Business Analytics,
Business Collaboration,
Business Intelligence,
Business Mobility,
CIO,
IBM,
Mobility,
Business Performance Management (BPM),
Cognos,
Sales Performance Management (SPM),
Supply Chain Performance Management (SCPM),
Workforce Performance Management (WPM),
Digital Technology
Mobile computing isn’t new anymore. The capabilities of smartphones, among other things, enable businesses to run applications across an enterprise and workers to collaborate across business and social networks. In this endeavor Microsoft was early to market with its Windows CE devices that provided e-mail and Web browsing to phones. For the first years it was a low-level battle among Microsoft, RIM Blackberry and Palm as well as Nokia devices that were used mostly in Europe. In the last few years Microsoft has fallen behind in hardware and software sophistication, and even last year’s introduction of the Windows Mobile operating system had major issues, lacking multitasking, cut-and-paste, search and other basics that are essential for a phone to be smart. Meanwhile Apple has had massive growth with its iPhone, and Google has deployed the Android operating system for multiple devices and is growing its position in market. When I wrote about this movement with Apple in 2009 Apple had had a successful first year and I personally had ditched my Windows phone after giving up on Microsoft’s inability to develop effective mobile software integrated with hardware.
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Topics:
Microsoft,
Mobile,
Mobile Applications,
Mobile Technology,
Operational Performance Management (OPM),
Business Mobility,
Business Technology,
CIO,
Business Performance Management (BPM),
IT Performance Management (ITPM),
Digital Technology
