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Event Report: Initiate Exchange - Customers Confirm Latest Customer Hub/MDM...

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...

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Monday’s Musings: Adoption of SaaS Models May Accelerate with Economic Downturn

All signs lead to an impending slow down in economic spending. Whether this will adversely impact IT budgets is not the issue, but how much will the carnage be is the concern being debated....

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Tuesday’s Tip: Packaged Apps Strategy - Building Blocks for a Recession Proof...

The tightening credit crisis continues to impact IT budgets and 2009 planning assumptions. Ongoing conversations with clients confirm that most enterprises anticipate some retrenchment of budgets. As...

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News Analysis: IBM Storms Into Cloud Computing With an ISV Friendly Pricing...

The War for Mind Share In the SkiesThe recent announcement of IBM’s Cloud Computing initiatives represents the latest front in the marketing and delivery battle for customers, partners, and ISV’s. IBM...

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Initial News Analysis: Oracle Buys Primavera

Oracle’s announced the acquisition of Primavera, a leading project based solution (PBS) provider. This latest acquisition signals continued consolidation in the project based solution market which is...

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Monday's Musings: 5 Steps to Restoring Trust in the Vendor - Customer...

Software vendors face significant decisions in the next 6 to 12 months on how to respond to the economic downturn. Anxious shareholders and slipping quarterly forecasts may lead vendors to ignore...

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Tuesday's Tips: Software Licensing and Pricing - Q4 Bodes Well For Discounts

In both the enterprise and SMB space, recent market conditions point to a lack of available financing for enterprise software purchases. This trend will continue as the credit markets tighten. The...

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Event Report: Inforum 2008 Highlights Transition from Acquirer to Builder

(Photo: Jim Schaper Conducting the LV Philharmonic. Copyright © 2008 R Wang. All rights reserved.) Inforum’s attendees were treated to a wonderful pre-keynote string quartet and a booming opening...

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BLOG UPDATE: Change your links to blog.softwareinsider.org

Hello! Starting in January 2009, A Software Insiders Point of View will be moving to a new home. As we are in beta, look forward to new ways of sharing and reaching out. Look forward to your...

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Monday’s Musings: Expect More Acquisitions By the Big 4 in 2009

Continued economic slow down, credit crisis, and diminished IPO market create the perfect storm for the Big 4 or as fellow blogger Josh Greenbaum likes to call it, MISO (ie. Microsoft, IBM, SAP, and...

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Tuesday’s Tip: Master Data Management - Focus on the End in Mind

“Begin with the end in mind” is based on the principle that all things are created twice. There’s a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation to all things.”~ “The Seven Habits of...

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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...

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Monday’s Musings: Consider Consortium Buying as a Win-Win Strategy

Falling revenues, crumbling custom systems, and declining budgets often bring municipalities, state authorities, and related agencies together to gain efficiencies in vendor selection, purchasing...

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Tuesday’s Tip: SaaS - Integration Advice

Continued interest in software as a service (SaaS) stems from the pay as you go pricing, constant stream of innovation, rapid deployment options, and the ability to do an end run around IT. As the...

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Event Report: IBM Unveils the Information Agenda at IOD 2008

(Photo: The show floor from IBM IOD 2008 at the Mandalay Bay Convention CenterCopyright © 2008 R Wang. All rights reserved.) IBM’s third annual Information On Demand event emerges as part of the “Must...

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BLOG UPDATE: Change your links to blog.softwareinsider.org

Hello! Starting in January 2009, A Software Insiders Point of View will be moving to a new home. As we are in beta, look forward to new ways of sharing and reaching out. Look forward to your...

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Tuesday’s Tip: Vendor Selection - Deciphering Vendor Provided Customer...

As competition intensifies for new license deals and users are under pressure to be cautious with new spending, all parties should expect increasing pressure for quality customer references. Customers...

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Wednesday’s Whispers: The Word On the Street

PEOPLE WHISPERS: MOVES, PROMOTIONS, AND MILESTONESCongratulations to all! Thanks for your emails and alerts. If you’ve got a change or know of a promotion, keep dropping me a line!Bruce Cameron is now...

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Monday’s Musings: The Role of User Groups - Check and Balance

Conversations and polling at recent user group meetings confirm a common sentiment that user groups should play a role as client advocates with the vendors. Information dissemination, benchmarking,...

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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...

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Monday’s Musings: The Three Pillars of Software Maintenance And Support Policies

After more than 350 conservations with customers about the maintenance and support issue in the past 4 months, it’s becoming quite clear users expect from their software vendors. While those issues...

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UPDATE YOUR BLOG LINKS: New site

Hello! Starting in December 2008, A Software Insiders Point of View will be moving to a new home. As we are in beta, look forward to new ways of sharing and reaching out. Look forward to your...

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Quarterly Financial Tracker: Q3 CY Quarterly Revenues Show Deflection Point

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Move your butt over to the new site!!!

Just a friendly reminder that the we've transition over to the new blog. Here are a few helpful links:Subscribe to the new site on feedburner.Fave the blog here on technorati.Follow on twitter.Cheers...

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Official Google Blog: Can we talk? Better speech technology with Phonetic Arts

Official Google Blog: Can we talk? Better speech technology with Phonetic Arts(The personal contents in this blog do not reflect the opinions, ideas, thoughts, points of view, and any other potential...

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