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MAY 22, 2023

On this blog we have covered many aspects of Zoho – its unique culture, its vertical integration, its business model, its commitment to. In the 89th episode of Burning Platform, we host Tony Thomas, one of the co-founders of Zoho.

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AUGUST 21, 2021

New Renaissance innovation blog was born in March 2005. The New Florence. Facebook had a different name then. No one had heard of the iPhone. Honestly, I thought I would run out of material in a.

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MARCH 5, 2020

That puzzle led me to consider writing the New Florence, New Renaissance blog, in addition to the Deal Architect blog. Both blogs are celebrating their 15th birthday. I kept asking that question during a family trip to Italy in 2004.

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JULY 7, 2020

This blog post laid out the reasons why I was thinking about it. Last August, I had floated the idea of writing Oracle Nation. I added in a comment the changing industry landscape I hoped to explore "The next wave.

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DECEMBER 6, 2019

Over the last couple of weeks, as we get ready to welcome the 20s, I have been reviewing blog posts, books I have written and notes from advisory work helping clients pick vendors, negotiate contracts, review vendor performance etc from.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2021

He is a fellow Enterprise Irregular who blogs and videocasts on enterprise trends. In the 56th episode of Burning Platform, we host Jon Reed, a co-founder of Diginomica. One of his most popular, regular features is Enterprise Hits and Misses.

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MARCH 15, 2020

It is also the 15th anniversary of both my blogs, Deal Architect. Which means the beautiful town of Oberammergau in Bavaria, Germany will be hosting its 42nd once-a-decade Passion Play this summer.

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OCTOBER 8, 2020

My two blogs, Deal Architect and New Florence have averaged 800 posts a year over the 15 years they have been running. 7 books have added another 2,000 pages. A subtle shift occurred during the last two quarters which reflect.

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MARCH 17, 2019

He also blogged about it: "we are bringing together marketing, sales, and service with. Steve Miranda, EVP, Applications Product Development at Oracle briefed analysts about this week's co-located Modern Business Experience (MBX) and Modern Customer Experience (MCX) in Las Vegas.

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JANUARY 9, 2020

My innovation blog, New Florence will celebrate its 15th birthday this March. I recently looked at various patterns on that blog. It will have clocked over 6,500 posts. Innovation stories and news ebb and flow from different industries and geographies.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2018

I don’t want to steal her thunder as she plans to blog about it but it is a play on a Gap Year and what us. My daughter, Rita is about to embark on what she calls a Gap Quarter.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2014

I have attached below the “front matter” for my blog readers – the table of contents and the preface. This weekend I emailed preview copies of my new book on the SAP economy to select media around the world. SAP Nation, the book'

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NOVEMBER 29, 2017

It would be easy to be pessimistic about SAP when you read Dennis Howlett’s recent blog “It’s a hot mess and everyone, whether that is SAP, customers, partners or User Group people want it to go away. The issue comes.

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JULY 1, 2019

I excerpt 10% from every book in a series of blog posts. I posted several on SAP Nation 3.0 in April, then took a break after the Sapphire event. Over the next week I will excerpt the final batches.

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JUNE 25, 2019

I excerpt 10% from every book in a series of blog posts. I posted several on SAP Nation 3.0 in April, then took a break after the Sapphire event. Over the next couple of weeks will excerpt the final batch.

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AUGUST 24, 2017

Salesforce has the honor of becoming “the first enterprise cloud software company to break the $10 billion revenue run rate" Amazingly, just a short 8 years ago I was blogging about its “second billion”. They have gone from strength to.

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AUGUST 16, 2017

In my book, Silicon Collar and in several blogs I have critiqued the 2013 study by two Oxford researchers which reached this alarmist conclusion about the impact of modern day machines on jobs: “According to our estimates, about 47% of.

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DECEMBER 3, 2014

It is an honor to welcome Unit4 to the past and present gallery of innovators and disruptors who sponsor the Deal Architect and the New Florence. New Renaissance. Unit4, headquartered in the Netherlands, specializes in business applications for service-intense. Industry Commentary'

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

Hasso Plattner has written a long blog post about Business Suite on HANA. He has 12 reasons justifying why. His passion for the product screams through the post. I wish he would make it a Baker’s dozen and add. Cloud Computing Enterprise Software (IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP)'

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FEBRUARY 18, 2014

I kept asking questions and not really getting answers from its executives and I felt like a jerk writing lukewarm or negative blog posts after being. Couple of years ago I asked SAP to take me off their events list. Enterprise Software (IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP)'

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JULY 16, 2019

I excerpt 10% from every book in a series of blog posts. I posted several on SAP Nation 3.0 in April, then took a break after the Sapphire event. This is the final batch I am excerpting. The book is.

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JULY 9, 2019

I excerpt 10% from every book in a series of blog posts. I posted several on SAP Nation 3.0 in April, then took a break after the Sapphire event. Over the next week I will excerpt the final batch.

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AUGUST 19, 2017

In a blog post he says “It is clear to me that despite our successes over the last three years, and the powerful seeds of innovation that we have sown, I cannot. Vishal Sikka has resigned as CEO of Infosys.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2018

I have written extensively about Workday, Salesforce, Oracle, Plex and other summits on this blog and at New Florence. Readers know my favorite vendor event format is the analyst summit. Interestingly, while other vendors have been perfecting the art of.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2017

My blogs, now 12+ years old, my 6 books and much of my consulting in those years have cataloged and celebrated cloud computing, renewable energy and digital transformations. I have been a big booster of each, but think we are.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2017

My blogs, now 12+ years old, my 6 books and much of my consulting in those years have cataloged and celebrated cloud computing, renewable energy and digital transformations. I have been a big booster of each, but think we are.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2017

My blogs, now 12+ years old, my 6 books and much of my consulting in those years have cataloged and celebrated cloud computing, renewable energy and digital transformations. I have been a big booster of each, but think we are.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

In 2009, I wrote a blog about Parker Harris, the co-founder of Salesforce.com titled The Loneliness of a Pioneer. in some ways he wishes the larger vendors would be there today. There are common engineering and plumbing challenges. Cloud Computing, SaaS'

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MARCH 23, 2013

on the innovation blog Technology at the NBA All Star Game Technology at Toy Fair 2013 The Elon Musk Tesla Blog Asteroid DA-14 fly by The Science behind the Russian Meteor Cell phone data to fine tune traffic data Coming.

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AUGUST 10, 2014

Its is being sued and a whole slew of blogs and articles have piled on. Once again Gartner is in the news. My summer project researching and writing about the SAP economy has allowed me a chance to go back. Industry analysts (Gartner, Forrester, AMR, others) Industry Commentary'

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FEBRUARY 14, 2018

I have written extensively about Workday, Salesforce, Oracle, Plex and other summits on this blog and at New Florence. Readers know my favorite vendor event format is the analyst summit. Interestingly, while other vendors have been perfecting the art of.

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MARCH 25, 2014

In a recent blog post I discussed canine expert Cesar Millan’s view of a pack of dogs – alpha, those in the middle, those at the back. He talks about a role for each. Interestingly, in the IT world, lots. Industry Commentary Vertical Markets (Banking, Retail etc)'

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DECEMBER 1, 2013

Every month the New Florence blog averages 50 to 60 posts. In 2005, when this blog started the whole year. 2 a day is not bad. But November out did its peers with 90 posts. December looks just as promising. Innovative Business Uses of Technology'

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JANUARY 27, 2014

The New Florence blog has number of software innovation categories, my books are chockfull of.' I am a lifelong software guy – developer, analyst, blogger, author– and have marveled how the industry has grown around the world over the decades.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2017

My innovation blog, New Florence, turns 12 next month. Across 5,000+ posts I have seen many patterns and memes, some of which have led to books like The New Polymath and Silicon Collar. It has also made me realize so.

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JUNE 29, 2014

Two of my New Year’s resolutions were to walk 10,000 steps a day, and to post 1,000 entries over 2014 on my innovation blog. Half way through the year, FitBit tells me I have walked nearly 2 million steps –. Industry Commentary'

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JANUARY 29, 2014

Apple has been sliced and diced in countless books and blogs to find its “secret sauce”. To me, Steve Jobs created a petri dish and threw in all kinds of rare elements – Tim Cook’s operational excellence, Jony Ive’s design.'

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