Last week Amazon Web Services (AWS) held its first ever user conference, AWS re: Invent, at The Venetian Las Vegas with 6000+ plus customers, partners and vendors in attendance. Senior Vice President Andy Jassy, head of AWS, explained that the name re: Invent was chosen for the conference to reflect ... Continue reading AWS re: Invent - Full Speed Ahead to the Cloud »
Just back from Amsterdam a and very well attended HRTechEurope Conference with some 800 plus HR practitioners and vendors in attendance. This was the second annual iteration of theEuropean version ofan event that is in its 15th year here in the United States and regardless of continent this is the ... Continue reading HRTechEurope - Cloud without Borders »
The 15th Annual HRTechnologyConference was held earlier this week in Chicago, Illinois. With records beingbroken for both attendance and exhibitors, the atmosphere was full of energy and excitement over improving the management of the human side of business. As a vendor at the show [Infor], I spent a considerable amount ... Continue reading HRTechnology Conference 2012: We Want Solutions »
With Dreamforce 2012 in full swing, the Twitterverse is awash in tweets about the social enterprise. Just in case you dont know, Dreamforce is the name of the annual user conference/marketing event that is put on by Salesforce.com. I am not actually attending the event in person this year, but ... Continue reading What is Social? »
The software world is certainly no stranger to vigorous debates over the superiority of one technology vs. another and one of the latest debates in this vein is multi-tenant vs. single tenant virtualization. The context for this debate is cloud and the question is which of these two technologies offers ... Continue reading Multi-tenancy vs. single tenant virtualziation: the debate continues... »
Vinnie Mirchandani is a technology analyst known for not being shy about expressing his thoughts on a matter, particularly those that involve technology and innovation, or calling it as he sees or hears it. I completely respect Vinnies frankness and transparency and it is the primary reason I follow his ... Continue reading Who cares about the Cloud? »
Sincebeginning to work with the cloud, one of the overarchinggoals that I have personally had is to use the cloud to simplify enterprise software. Not just the installation and delivery, but every aspect. We, the collective we, in the enterprise software industry have managed to build layer of complexity on ... Continue reading Simple - A Goal for the Cloud »
Daryl Plummer, Gartner Fellow, has just published a new ebook, The Business Landscape of Cloud Computing. If you are not familiar with Mr. Plummers work, you will find his straight forward approach and ability to translate geek speak into practical business scenarios refreshing. For those still searching for a definition ... Continue reading Focusing on Value »
Having recently read Michael Fauscettes article Late to the Cloud?, I sought out to test several of his assertions at Inforum 2012, Infors annual users conference held earlier this week in Denver, Colorado. One of Mr. Fauscettes more provocative assertions was this one: For companies that have a substantial investment ... Continue reading The Reality of the Hybrid Deployment Model »
Armed with my latest and greatest cloud presentation, I headed out to a customer user conference this week. The driver for the conference was to provide an update on one of our primary HCM products, but for the purpose of my presentation the conference could have been centered around any ... Continue reading Off the Ledge and into the Cloud »
