http://www.monashreport.com/2006/04/06/microsoft-underscores-its-core-paradigm/ Technology ... politics ... marketing ... strategy ... life Wed, 08 Sep 2010 09:52:33 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.monashreport.com/2006/04/06/microsoft-underscores-its-core-paradigm/#comment-122901 Three kinds of software innovation, and whether patents could possibly work for them | DBMS2 -- DataBase Management System Services Tue, 23 Mar 2010 08:19:37 +0000 http://www.monashreport.com/?p=45#comment-122901 [...] Three standpoints from which to view a software product strategy Categories: Analytic technologies, Business intelligence, Cloud computing, Data warehousing, Parallelization, Software as a Service (SaaS), Theory and architecture  Subscribe to our complete feed! [...] [...] Three standpoints from which to view a software product strategy Categories: Analytic technologies, Business intelligence, Cloud computing, Data warehousing, Parallelization, Software as a Service (SaaS), Theory and architecture  Subscribe to our complete feed! [...]

]]> http://www.monashreport.com/2006/04/06/microsoft-underscores-its-core-paradigm/#comment-65173 DBMS2 — DataBase Management System Services » Blog Archive » How Hyperion will change Oracle Sun, 25 May 2008 02:03:15 +0000 http://www.monashreport.com/?p=45#comment-65173 [...] and “hypothetical” information simply haven’t mixed well. If this diagnosis is correct, Oracle is exactly the right company to finally solve the problem. And the stakes are certainly high enough to get Oracle’s attention — successful [...] [...] and “hypothetical” information simply haven’t mixed well. If this diagnosis is correct, Oracle is exactly the right company to finally solve the problem. And the stakes are certainly high enough to get Oracle’s attention — successful [...]

]]> http://www.monashreport.com/2006/04/06/microsoft-underscores-its-core-paradigm/#comment-62960 DBMS2 — DataBase Management System Services » Blog Archive » Oracle and SAP outline different market strategies Fri, 25 Apr 2008 04:07:32 +0000 http://www.monashreport.com/?p=45#comment-62960 [...] I’ve written extensively in the past about the differences between Oracle and SAP’s technical paradigms. (In a nutshell, Oracle is first and foremost about data, while SAP is about business process.) Last week, the respective companies’ CEOs outlined very different business strategies as well. Specifically, SAP’s Henning Kagermann called SAP’s new ByDemand SaaS offering “most important announcement I’ve made in my career,” while Oracle’s Larry Ellison outlined a continued high-end strategy as follows (excerpted from Oracle’s September 20 conference call transcript): Our strategy for growth is to find a way to add more value to the same customers we already serve, which are the large end of the mid-market and large companies. What we’re doing here is moving beyond ERP to industry specific software. So in the telecommunications industry that would be billing systems and network provisioning systems and network inventory systems; core applications to run their business, to run telco. Core applications to run a bank. Core applications to run a retail chain of stores. Core applications to run a utility. That’s our focus, and that allows us to leverage the existing relationships that we have because we already sell databases to these companies, we sell middleware to these companies. We sell ERP and CRM to these companies, and now we want to sell this industry-specific software. [...] [...] I’ve written extensively in the past about the differences between Oracle and SAP’s technical paradigms. (In a nutshell, Oracle is first and foremost about data, while SAP is about business process.) Last week, the respective companies’ CEOs outlined very different business strategies as well. Specifically, SAP’s Henning Kagermann called SAP’s new ByDemand SaaS offering “most important announcement I’ve made in my career,” while Oracle’s Larry Ellison outlined a continued high-end strategy as follows (excerpted from Oracle’s September 20 conference call transcript): Our strategy for growth is to find a way to add more value to the same customers we already serve, which are the large end of the mid-market and large companies. What we’re doing here is moving beyond ERP to industry specific software. So in the telecommunications industry that would be billing systems and network provisioning systems and network inventory systems; core applications to run their business, to run telco. Core applications to run a bank. Core applications to run a retail chain of stores. Core applications to run a utility. That’s our focus, and that allows us to leverage the existing relationships that we have because we already sell databases to these companies, we sell middleware to these companies. We sell ERP and CRM to these companies, and now we want to sell this industry-specific software. [...]

]]> http://www.monashreport.com/2006/04/06/microsoft-underscores-its-core-paradigm/#comment-44789 The Monash Report»Blog Archive » Oracle is mixing its paradigms Mon, 03 Dec 2007 00:47:21 +0000 http://www.monashreport.com/?p=45#comment-44789 [...] In the past, I’ve drawn a clear distinction between an IBM/Oracle data-centric view of applications and SAP’s long-standing process-centric view. And I pooh-poohed the appearance that IBM was fuzzing things up a bit. [...] [...] In the past, I’ve drawn a clear distinction between an IBM/Oracle data-centric view of applications and SAP’s long-standing process-centric view. And I pooh-poohed the appearance that IBM was fuzzing things up a bit. [...]

]]> http://www.monashreport.com/2006/04/06/microsoft-underscores-its-core-paradigm/#comment-75 The Monash Report»Blog Archive » IBM mixes its paradigms — or does it? Mon, 10 Apr 2006 09:39:01 +0000 http://www.monashreport.com/?p=45#comment-75 [...] I’ve been writing this month about the three different paradigms used by the leading enterprise software vendors: [...] [...] I’ve been writing this month about the three different paradigms used by the leading enterprise software vendors: [...]

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