Like years past (this was my 4th Dreamforce), I was eagerly awaiting of Marc Benioff’s keynote, not just because of the entertainment value, but because I was expecting to hear the about the ‘next Cloud’ as in the last couple of years. While the theme of the event was the Social Enterprise, I left thinking […]
Enterprise Software
Big data: What can an energy company teach us about data science?
Is data science a new discipline to help us with big data ? I don’t agree, as the field has existed since WWII and the industry is innovating so that we are all data scientists.
Salesforce buys Radian6 for $326M: So What?
Two months ago I wrote a post lamenting over how the emerging enterprise social media/social CRM vendors are making the same mistakes we have made over the past 40 years in the enterprise software industry and alluding to the fact that I expected the major enterprise technology vendors to enter the market in earnest this […]
Enterprise social media software: User experience is not a pretty UI
As I was going through the painful migration of my wordpress.com blog to my very own and admittedly geeky sapountz.is URL this past weekend, I could not help but think about enterprise software and the transformation this industry has undergone during the past 40 years. In my current role, I get to see, play with, […]
What I learned at SAP’s Influencer Summit: Social Media can work!
Aligning your event goals with your social media, can ultimately increase your community and improve your brand awareness.