November 12, 2007 5:46 PM
Posted by: badarrow
Barbara Darrow,
Enterprise applications,
IBM,
Oracle,
Reseller channel business development,
Supplier relationship management IBM Software has long made a big racket about how it's an infrastructure player and would never ever, ever (again) compete with applications partners.
But now it's buying Cognos for five billion big ones. That's five billion. For Cognos! So those arguments are sounding pretty flimsy. Of course,...
November 6, 2007 10:59 PM
Posted by: badarrow
Barbara Darrow,
Data storage management,
Direct reseller channel conflictTalk about strange bedfellows.
Dell's decision to buy EqualLogic, a company led by CEO Don Bulens, made some heads spin.
Bulens, before his stints at Radnet and Trellix, was the chief partner advocate for Lotus Notes. He was, in short, very...
November 5, 2007 9:53 AM
Posted by: badarrow
Application development,
Barbara Darrow,
SMB,
Software as a service (SaaS),
Supplier relationship managementThe blurring of corporate/consumer computing lines continues.
Any solution provider or integrator working with corporate clients (SMBs to enterprises) knows how there is simply no way to prevent consumer-oriented services (Napster, AOL or Yahoo instant messaging, YouTube, you name it)...
October 31, 2007 2:02 AM
Posted by: badarrow
Barbara Darrow,
Direct reseller channel conflict,
Managed services providers,
Oracle,
SMB,
Software as a service (SaaS)At last, someone at NetSuite (or maybe Oracle) has figured out that Larry Ellison’s stake in NetSuite is the conflict-of-interests outsiders have been flagging for years.
According to recent NetSuite filings, Oracle CEO Ellison will put
October 29, 2007 9:33 AM
Posted by: badarrow
Barbara Darrow,
Channel partner programs,
Enterprise applications,
Microsoft,
Reseller channel business development,
SMB,
Supplier relationship managementIt's been an active autumn among top-level business applications execs.
First, in a shake-up, Sage Software nuked a big part of its Americas leadership. Ron Verni and channel-and-strategy chief Taylor MacDonald were gone as first reported
October 24, 2007 7:05 AM
Posted by: badarrow
Barbara Darrow,
Channel partner programs,
Direct reseller channel conflict,
Enterprise applications,
Microsoft,
SMB,
Software as a service (SaaS)Microsoft hopes to ease concerns about its ERP migration plans by extending minimum support on all four product lines for another five years.
"The longer support pledge should put any worries about Microsoft's ERP roadmap to rest, says Barb Edson, senior director of Microsoft Dynamics...
October 23, 2007 7:26 AM
Posted by: badarrow
Barbara Darrow,
Direct reseller channel conflict,
Enterprise applications,
Microsoft,
Software as a service (SaaS)In its quest to entrench Microsoft CRM as a popular hosted alternative to Salesforce.com, Microsoft today cut the subscription fees for hosting partners by 40 percent,
These partners will now pay...
October 22, 2007 8:48 AM
Posted by: badarrow
Barbara Darrow,
Direct reseller channel conflict,
Enterprise applications,
MicrosoftIntuit says its newly launched solution provider program for mid-market companies will make QuickBooks for Enterprise a viable alternative to Sage Software and Microsoft ERP products.
The company, long a leader in accounting software for consumers and very small businesses, says there is a huge...
October 16, 2007 4:20 PM
Posted by: badarrow
Barbara Darrow,
Direct reseller channel conflict,
Enterprise applications,
Microsoft,
Software as a service (SaaS)The next version of Microsoft Navision ERP (aka Dynamics NAV) has been delayed a full year, the company confirmed today.
What was to have been NAV 5.1, due late this year, has morphed into NAV 6, with a slated release date of the fourth quarter 2008. That's calendar year quarter,
A Microsoft...
