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The End of One Era and the Beginning of Another

by Jim Holincheck | December 6, 2011 | 1 Comment

As I reflect on SAP’s agreement to acquire SuccessFactors, it takes me back to 2004. At the end of that year, after a long, bitter takeover battle, Oracle finally acquired PeopleSoft. Everything felt different. It was the end of an era. No longer did we have the JBLOPS (J.D, Edwards, Baan, Lawson, Oracle, PeopleSoft, and [...]

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Category: SAP Software as a Service Talent Management Application Suites Uncategorized Tags: Enterprise Software, ERP, SaaS, SAP

Trip Report: Workday Technology Summit

by Jim Holincheck | August 31, 2010 | Comments Off

I had the opportunity to spend the day (plus some additional time) this week with a group of about 20 influencers (analysts, bloggers, press) at the Workday Technology Summit. It is not the first time a group of influencers have been brought together by a vendor for in-depth discussions. However, this was a little unique [...]

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Will History Repeat Itself?

by Jim Holincheck | February 9, 2010 | 1 Comment

Any opinions expressed or implied here are purely my own (not an official Gartner research position). Once upon a time there was a vendor who was a dominant player in business applications. It had a large installed base. It had deep functionality. It helped automate business functions and processes and through that provided significant value [...]

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Plateau Insights Conference 2009

by Jim Holincheck | September 24, 2009 | Comments Off

I have been in the Bay Area for most of this week doing some consulting with clients and attending the Plateau user conference, Insights. Plateau had a analyst session (at which I arrived late – sorry about that) where were able to get an update on the state of the business. Plateau is profitable (on [...]

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