deal architect

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

I am looking forward to the Salesforce event next week, and expect to be spending time in the “Industries” Zone in the Dreamforce Campground. My FitBit is going to be pleased - the Campground is 40,000 square feet in size!

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deal architect

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

As we have moved to virtual briefings, I have increasingly been excerpting short video segments (with permission) as part of my Analyst Cam series. This time it is Achyut Jajoo · SVP and GM, Manufacturing and Automotive presenting an update.

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JUNE 18, 2022

As we have moved to virtual briefings, I have increasingly been excerpting short video segments (with permission) as part of my Analyst Cam series. This time it is Chris Knight, Global Industry Director for Construction and Engineering presenting on trends.

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JUNE 6, 2022

As we have moved to virtual briefings, I have increasingly been excerpting short video segments (with permission ) as part of my Analyst Cam series. This time it is Soma Somasundaram, Chief Technology Officer and President of Products at Infor.

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deal architect

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

As we have moved to virtual briefings, I have increasingly been excerpting short video segments (with permission) as part of my Analyst Cam series. This time it is David Fan, GM of the Salesforce Communications Cloud He discusses trends in.

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deal architect

OCTOBER 13, 2022

As we have moved to virtual briefings, I have increasingly been excerpting short video segments (with permission) as part of my Analyst Cam series. This time it is Achyut Jajoo · SVP and GM, Manufacturing and Automotive presenting on their.

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deal architect

DECEMBER 22, 2022

As we have moved to virtual briefings, I have increasingly been excerpting short video segments (with permission) as part of my Analyst Cam series. This time it is Christopher Dean, GM and SVP, Communications and Media for Salesforce. He provides.

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deal architect

DECEMBER 21, 2022

As we have moved to virtual briefings, I have increasingly been excerpting short video segments (with permission) as part of my Analyst Cam series. We are running a series of posts on Workday’s Industries. Tom Peff in Product Marketing kicked.

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deal architect

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

I have been imploring software vendors to globalize and verticalize their applications for a while now - after two decades of cloud apps, less than 20% of the grid of applications across countries and operational processes is filled.

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deal architect

AUGUST 7, 2019

I had a chance to talk to Larry Bridge, SVP Healthcare Strategy at Cognizant about the sector and how healthcare vertical solutions have evolved in his 30+ year career. Every industry is unique, but it would seem the healthcare vertical,

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deal architect

JUNE 23, 2022

As we have moved to virtual briefings, I have increasingly been excerpting short video segments (with permission) as part of my Analyst Cam series. This time it is Eran Agrios, SVP and GM of Financial Services at Salesforce. Vendors tend.

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deal architect

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

I have long believed navigating SAP is like going on an Easter egg hunt. You know there are lots and lots goodies, but it takes effort to find them. That was reinforced when I wrote SAP Nation 3.0.

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deal architect

DECEMBER 19, 2014

Infor’s continued focus on micro-verticals and deploying them in the Amazon cloud is starting to pay off. In its quarterly earnings announcement it said “it has more than 25 million users of its cloud applications, and industry-specific certifications in healthcare, Industry Commentary'

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deal architect

JULY 20, 2022

As we have moved to virtual briefings, I have increasingly been excerpting short video segments (with permission) as part of my Analyst Cam series. This is part 2 of the conversation with Maggie Slovic and Andy Burton, Global Directors for.

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deal architect

JULY 19, 2022

As we have moved to virtual briefings, I have increasingly been excerpting short video segments (with permission) as part of my Analyst Cam series. This time it is Maggie Slovic and Andy Burton, Global Directors for Process and Discrete Manufacturing,

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Vertical Global Video Marketing 195

deal architect

APRIL 8, 2018

Readers know I have lamented for a while that enterprise software has paid lip service to verticals. Two decades of cloud and in-memory computing and still most of the available functionality is around horizontal areas - accounting, HCM and CRM.

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deal architect

JULY 16, 2021

While there is a lot of noise about "Industry Clouds", I have been encouraged to see specifics in the form of new product launches and M&A/ownership changes in the last few weeks. They promise to bring a lot more industry.

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deal architect

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

As we have moved to virtual briefings, I have increasingly been excerpting short video segments (with permission) as part of my Analyst Cam series. This time it is Nasi Jazayeri, EVP and GM, Public Sector at Salesforce. He summarizes the.

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deal architect

JULY 21, 2022

As we have moved to virtual briefings, I have increasingly been excerpting short video segments (with permission) as part of my Analyst Cam series. This time it is Amit Khanna, SVP and GM, Health and Life Sciences at Salesforce.

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Vertical Video Global Marketing 195

deal architect

DECEMBER 20, 2022

As we have moved to virtual briefings, I have increasingly been excerpting short video segments (with permission) as part of my Analyst Cam series. We are running a series of posts on Workday’s Industries. Yesterday, Tom Peff in Product Marketing.

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Vertical Analytics Video Marketing 195

deal architect

MARCH 3, 2016

I predicted 2016 will be the year of verticals in the enterprise software space. We are off to a good start. This morning Jose Duarte, CEO of Unit4 updated us about the Higher Education acquisition they made a few months.

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deal architect

DECEMBER 22, 2021

When my daughter, Rita was younger, she was a chess fanatic and good enough to be ranked number 1 among Florida girls. She wrote a column about chess and technology for me 12 years ago here. I take no credit.

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deal architect

APRIL 8, 2018

Readers know I have lamented for a while that enterprise software has paid lip service to verticals. Two decades of cloud and in-memory computing and still most of the available functionality is around horizontal areas - accounting, HCM and CRM.

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Vertical Cloud Software 150

deal architect

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Readers know I have been hounding software vendors on why they are not investing in vertical functionality. After two decades of cloud computing we have very few choices in books of record for industry after industry – utility billing, retail.

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Vertical Software Cloud Marketing 170

deal architect

DECEMBER 19, 2022

As we have moved to virtual briefings, I have increasingly been excerpting short video segments (with permission) as part of my Analyst Cam series. Over the next few days, we will profile a series of posts on Workday’s Industries. Kicking.

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Vertical Analytics Video 273

deal architect

MAY 23, 2016

I wrote in January I expect this to be the year of the vertical for cloud applications. There are too many horizonatal cloud apps in accounting, hr and crm, not enough in industry specific functionality. Every event I have gone.

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 18, 2017

When describing the Everyday Economy, it is helpful to talk about some of the verticals that are seeing wholesale redesign and the opportunities within those verticals. We have blogged about a few of the verticals so far, including housing , food , entertainment , and others.

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deal architect

MARCH 4, 2013

In the late 90s, Gartner used to grade outsourcers on a poster with scores for verticals, horizontals, geographies. Couple of those years, I was on the team which graded the offerings. A provider gave us the same reference client for.

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deal architect

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Five years ago, I wrote a note titled Infor: a grown-up sleath startup. I wrote about investments Charles Phillips and his team were making including those in ION middleware and in beautification its captive design agency Hook and Loop was.

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deal architect

DECEMBER 15, 2021

In the 64th episode of Burning Platform, we host Rainer Zinow, who heads product management for SAP’s mid-market ERP offerings and Jory Lamb, CEO and Founder of VistaVu, a SAP midmarket partner which also offers their own complementary products In.

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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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deal architect

JANUARY 13, 2020

Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft kicked off NRF 2020 Vision, the annual retail industry mega event in New York yesterday. He had some great sound bites "There’s death, there’s taxes and there’s ever-increasing online advertising spend. There’s not much we.

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deal architect

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

As SaaS vendors took off in the early 2000s, I was encouraged by their business model. They had collapsed software, hosting, application management and upgrades into one contract. But in recent years I have seen a reversal and a lot.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Vertical integration is a strategy where a firm owns or runs several stages of production, including taking raw materials and turning them into finished products. Therefore, firms that adopt vertical integration own numerous parts of the supply chain. Vertical integration is capable of reducing cost through improving production.

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deal architect

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

Readers know I think the software market is at a pivot point. We have plenty of hr, financial and basic CRM functionality, but very little in the way of industry specific functionality. I have always liked IFS’s focus on complex,

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Vertical Software Marketing 170

deal architect

JULY 30, 2020

I have been doing video interviews with a number of CIOs, software executives and practitioners about acrobatics they have been seeing in various vertical sectors during the COVID-19 crisis and the "New normal" they can expect as the economy wakes.

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deal architect

JUNE 28, 2020

I have been doing video interviews with a number of CIOs, software executives and practitioners about acrobatics they have been seeing in various vertical sectors during the COVID-19 crisis and the "New normal" they can expect as the economy wakes.

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