Information Rights Management interest increasing globally

It has been an amazingly busy year so far and I only get to write about 25% of the posts I would really like to put on this blog. Oracle has made more acquisitions in the security space, Sun adding a massive amount of new security technology and the recent database firewall technology from Secerno. [...]

The Relationship Between JD Edwards World and IBM

Get an update from Denise Grills, Senior Director of Product Strategy and Marketing for Oracle JD Edwards World and Gordon Orr, Global Systems Marketing Manager – Oracle Alliance on how the two companies have successfully built a partnership that has been very beneficial to their customer base and also get an update on the new [...]

Call for Customer Examples and Stories–PeopleTools 8.50

PeopleTools 8.50 was a big release for us, and one that we think will provide a lot of value for customers. We’ve been having some interesting conversations with customers about this release at conferences, advisory board meetings, and technical group meetings. However, we would like to solicit some examples and success stories from you, our [...]

The Relationship Between JD Edwards World and IBM

Get an update from Denise Grills, Senior Director of Product Strategy and Marketing for Oracle JD Edwards World and Gordon Orr, Global Systems Marketing Manager – Oracle Alliance on how the two companies have successfully built a partnership that has been very beneficial to their customer base and also get an update on the new [...]

Open Innovation

A provocative comment by Jason on This Week In Startups had me stop and think about the open innovation “fad”. He said something to the effect that all the open feedback and idea suggestion sites like UserVoice and GetSatisfaction were nothing but a great way for your competition to sponge on your success and out-innovate [...]

Coherence March 2009 Update

It’s probably pretty obvious, but I’ve found it difficult to blog much lately. Given that I’m finally coming up for air, I did want to write while I had the notion to blog (and during one of the seemingly few periods of time that aren’t considered a “quiet period” when I’m not supposed to say [...]

Pitfalls in Moving from Services to Software

Got a lot of positive feedback on my post from yesterday about some lessons learned while growing OctetString, so will write a few more articles along these lines… Given that consulting billing rates and hours go down in tough times, many consultants will undoubtedly decide to build businesses to “product-ize” some of their solutions. This [...]

Pitfalls in Moving from Services to Software

Got a lot of positive feedback on my post from yesterday about some lessons learned while growing OctetString, so will write a few more articles along these lines… Given that consulting billing rates and hours go down in tough times, many consultants will undoubtedly decide to build businesses to “product-ize” some of their solutions. This [...]

The Relationship Between JD Edwards World and IBM

Get an update from Denise Grills, Senior Director of Product Strategy and Marketing for Oracle JD Edwards World and Gordon Orr, Global Systems Marketing Manager – Oracle Alliance on how the two companies have successfully built a partnership that has been very beneficial to their customer base and also get an update on the new [...]

Oracle Positioned in Leading Analyst Firm’s Leaders Quadrant for Master Data Management of Customer Data

Oracle Press Release Oracle Positioned in Leading Analyst Firm's Leaders Quadrant for Master Data Management of Customer Data Redwood Shores, Calif. – July 9, 2009 News Facts Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Master Data Management of Customer Data positions Oracle Siebel Universal Customer Master in the Leaders Quadrant.(1) The Gartner Magic Quadrant positions vendors within a [...]