SAP Business Influencers Summit – A Clear Path Forward?
I have to admit that I enjoy going to conferences and summits as an analyst, journalist or paid speaker.  I’m treated well by the vendors who bring me, my expenses are covered (and if a speaker, a fee too of course) and I know a lot of the staff who...

Cloud economics: The importance of multi-tenancy
Recent discussions about SAP’s Business byDesign have highlighted the importance of multi-tenancy as a component of on-demand software economics.Fellow Enterprise Irregular blogger, Anshu Sharma, who is an employee of Salesforce.com, explains that...

What Marketing Campaigns are Making you the Most Money?
Can you tell me exactly how much money you’re making from your various marketing campaigns? * How many leads did you get from the tradeshow you just attended, even further how many became sales? * How much money do you make from spending...

Seedcamp: thoughts on the evolution of a European startup
Why write this post?People often ask me about Seedcamp - why we started it, what's it about and where's it going. I also haven't put any thoughts down on the subject of building startups in Europe for over two years. It occurred to me that as a...

Quarterly Financial Tracker: Q3 CY 2009 SaaS Vendors Face Some Headwinds, On-Premise Still In The Tank
Purchasing in Q3 reflected both economic downturn and summer doldrums.  While on-premise vendors continued massive double digit declines in year-over-year new license revenue, SaaS vendors faced some pressures in keeping up with tremendous growth. ...

Resistance to change: The real Enterprise 2.0 barrier | IT Project Failures | ZDNet.com
RT @mkrigsman Resistance to change: The real Enterprise 2.0 barrier http://bit.ly/iz6xJ < In the end, it's usually a people problem [from http://twitter.com/dhinchcliffe/statuses/5772142739]