{"id":1567,"date":"2013-12-31T22:23:24","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T03:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alighaemi.com\/wp\/?p=1567"},"modified":"2013-12-31T22:34:52","modified_gmt":"2014-01-01T03:34:52","slug":"applications-cloud-and-software-roundup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alighaemi.com\/wp\/?p=1567","title":{"rendered":"Applications, Cloud And Software Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I thought I would share several stimulating and thought-provoking, as well as a couple of factual pieces on the marketplace. Each is a good and succinct read.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Here San Francisco&#8217;s Sandhill Group has compiled status updates and predictions of several industry figures regarding where we are at and what 2014 will bring enterprise software:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sandhill.com\/article\/top-predictions-about-software-companies-in-2014\/\">http:\/\/sandhill.com\/article\/top-predictions-about-software-companies-in-2014\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In the following link two particular lines resonate painfully. First is, &#8220;<em>For an ERP vendor to sell CX (customer experience) software and then mistreat their own customers so badly is more than ironic (or moronic).<\/em>&#8221; The second is, &#8221;\u00a0If your ERP solution predominately tracks internal transactions, facilitates reporting of same and helps your firm achieve a modicum of efficiency, congratulations \u2013 you are, at best, mediocre.&#8221; Here is the article on Zdnet:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/troubling-challenging-2014-erp-predictions-7000024439\/\">http:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/troubling-challenging-2014-erp-predictions-7000024439\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Over at Forbes contributor Louis Columbus advocates manufacturers drop their entreprise-grade ERPs for something newer and cloudier (except he never says such a thing):<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/louiscolumbus\/2013\/12\/27\/the-days-of-brute-force-erp-are-over\/\">http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/louiscolumbus\/2013\/12\/27\/the-days-of-brute-force-erp-are-over\/<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He does, however, explicitly expose top and bottom performers of the stock market:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/louiscolumbus\/2013\/12\/22\/best-and-worst-performing-cloud-computing-stocks-dec-16-to-dec-20-and-year-to-date\/\">http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/louiscolumbus\/2013\/12\/22\/best-and-worst-performing-cloud-computing-stocks-dec-16-to-dec-20-and-year-to-date\/<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>and addresses Mobile Strategy:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/louiscolumbus\/2013\/12\/02\/roundup-of-enterprise-smartphone-and-tablet-market-forecasts-2013\/\">http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/louiscolumbus\/2013\/12\/02\/roundup-of-enterprise-smartphone-and-tablet-market-forecasts-2013\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Do not forget Analytics:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/insights\/2013\/12\/analytics-eats-world-2014\/\">http:\/\/www.wired.com\/insights\/2013\/12\/analytics-eats-world-2014\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Looking for an ERP marketshare list? It downright surprises me that after ten sustained years of acquisitions Oracle is still where it was back before Charles Phillips&#8217; strategy began.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/dartongroup.com\/worldwide-erp-market-share\/\">http:\/\/dartongroup.com\/worldwide-erp-market-share\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Finally, Gartner is forecasting an even bigger uptick for enterprise software than it did previously, namely $22 billion by 2015.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gartner.com\/newsroom\/id\/1963815\">http:\/\/www.gartner.com\/newsroom\/id\/1963815<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought I would share several stimulating and thought-provoking, as well as a couple of factual pieces on the marketplace. Each is a good and succinct read. Here San Francisco&#8217;s Sandhill Group has compiled status updates and predictions of several industry figures regarding where we are at and what 2014 will bring enterprise software: http:\/\/sandhill.com\/article\/top-predictions-about-software-companies-in-2014\/ <a href='https:\/\/www.alighaemi.com\/wp\/?p=1567' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"modified_by":"Ali Ghaemi","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alighaemi.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1567"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alighaemi.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alighaemi.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alighaemi.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alighaemi.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alighaemi.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alighaemi.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alighaemi.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alighaemi.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}