Business, Strategy, Web 2.0, Collaboration and a whole lot more Home Newsletter Archive About Me Papers Contact Home Newsletter Archive About Me Papers Contact Oracle delivers document signing a big win for HelloSign September 15, 2016 Business Its been many years since I had to physically sign forms. Since then, I have been an avid user of electronic document signing services, in particular HelloSign. I take great delight at electronically signing every form that I receive, Read more In an attempt to disrupt Splunk, Elastic makes another acquisition September 15, 2016 Business Elastic is the commercial vendor that sits behind the Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash and Beats open source projects. Elasticsearch was created back in 2010 by Shay Banon, current CEO of the Elastic company, and is built upon the Apache Lucene Read more FinancialForce releases its subscription and billing product September 15, 2016 Business Were seeing a huge move toward consumers buying products on a subscription basis. It used to be just electricity, phone lines and magazines, but now everything from underwear to razors, auto usage and software can be bought by subscription. Read more Vonage, on the back of its Nexmo acquisition, tries to do a Twilio September 14, 2016 Business If enterprise agility and innovation is the key to survival and success, then much of those outcomes will be driven by enterprise developers building solutions be they internally facing ones or eternal customer-facing ones. In the quest to Read more GitLab fills need for enterprise developer tools, picks up funding round September 13, 2016 Business Recently I chatted with Dawie Olivier, the CIO of Westpac Bank. Olivier has a long history within the financial services industry, and we talked about helping these kinds of organizations become agile and innovative. This is no small challenge Read more BMC jumps on the make everyone a developer bandwagon September 12, 2016 Business At its Engage conference last week, BMC unveiled a beta version of a new development suite that it hopes will take the company out of its existing IT service management sphere, and onto greater things. (Disclosure: BMC covered my Read more AppDirect scores major milestone partnership with Canadian telco September 8, 2016 Business A decade or so ago I was involved in a consulting project with a large telco that wanted to smart the dumb pipes and add extra services to its regular phone and tolls packages. The theory went, back then, Read more Newly public Twilio moves up the food chain September 8, 2016 Business There is a typical model for growing technology companies once they pass their IPO milestonesa move towards quickly broadening the product base to derive additional revenue in order to keep the Wall Street analysts happy. Given there has been Read more HPE: I really want to believe, but you make it so hard September 8, 2016 Business First the news: HPE, the relatively new company that itself was the creation of the cleaving of Hewlett-Packards printer and other businesses, is undergoing yet another change. After a series of HPE divestments, the company announced yesterday that it Read more DigitalOcean jumps on the startup support bandwagon September 7, 2016 Business Readers would be amazed at how much effort large technology vendors go to in order to woo young startups to their platforms. Amazon Web Services, Google, Microsoft, Rackspace they all have significant initiatives aimed at getting startups on Read more 1 2 3 4 5 ... Site Search Sign Up For The Newsletter! My Tweets