Oracle Buys Taleo

Adds Leading Talent Management Cloud Offering to the Oracle Public Cloud Oracle announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Taleo Corporation (NASDAQ:TLEO), a leading provider of cloud-based talent management for $46.00 per share or approximately $1.9 billion, net of Taleo’s cash and debt. Taleo’s Talent Management Cloud helps organizations attract, develop, motivate [...]

ERP Vendor Shootout

WHERE: Miami Marriott Dadeland. Miami, Florida, USA WHEN: Feb 22-23, 2012 For several years now, the Vendor Shootout™ for ERP has changed the way companies approach software selection by minimizing the overall time and effort involved in qualifying potential Enterprise Software vendors.  This unique event offers a one-of-a-kind opportunity for you and your team to [...]

FinancialForce Launches Timecard App for the iPhone on Salesforce’s AppExchange Mobile

FinancialForce.com, the cloud applications company, today announced it has launched a new mobile app on salesforce.com’s AppExchange Mobile, extending the marketplace built for the social enterprise. FinancialForce Timecards for the iPhone is among the first apps to leverage AppExchange Mobile, tapping into the power of the proven Force.com platform, salesforce.com’s social enterprise platform for employee [...]

Oracle to Launch Platform as a Service (Paas) for Fusion Apps, Others

During the entire Oracle-Salesforce duck and dive show with the cancelled keynote, it was obvious to me that this was not a spontaneous act.  It must have been orchestrated weeks before, because both parties would gain so much free marketing. And they did. For Salesforce, the Twittersphere and Facebook world were swarming with feeds and [...]

SohoOS’ Cloud Micro Business Management

SohoOS, a simple way to manage your micro-business for free. If you ever have run a small business, or even worked as a freelance / micro business, you know that at any given time you are doing 100 things at once. As a result, when at the computer, you might have 10 + applications open [...]

Dreamforce 2011 Recap

In all the years I have covered Dreamforce, this was the first time a major announcement or acquisition was missing in one of the 2 keynotes.  In a way, you can call this “What have we been up to in the past 8 months with all of our acquisitions?”. As this was the largest tech [...]

Microsoft Excel and ERP: I’m not Dead Yet!

Do you member the movie Life of Brian or the Broadway spinoff Spamalot? I’m referring to the scene of Plague burying their dead, and one collector has an old man on his shoulders declaring “I’m not dead yet!” That scene reminds me of MS Excel. I’m not trying to be funny or sarcastic, but I [...]

Sage Adds Online Payment Processing Connected Service to ERP

IRVINE, CA — Sage North America announced today the availability of Sage Payment Processing Powered by Sage Exchange, a new connected service that provides a secure, Payment Card Industry (PCI) certified, payments platform, now integrated with Sage ERP Accpac. The Sage Payment Processing module helps businesses increase order and payment accuracy while delivering an improved [...]

The Olympic Rings is Similar to your CRM, ERP and Helpdesk Software

Here is something your IT department should think about. With the London 2012 Olympics around the corner, it dawned on me that Enterprise software for some companies resemble the Olympic logo.  That is, 5 independent islands of databases connected to each other like a Venn diagram. Each circle represented a single business application. Their ERP, [...]

The Open Cloud (not Open Source) Market for ERP, Business Apps

Several decades ago, in a land far far away, you had to install your applications on a local computer.  You know, the ones you buy shrink-wrapped in a box.  And who ever reads the <insert expletive here> manual anyways? You had to worry about overwriting files and the windows *.DLL files.  The order of installation [...]

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