by John Rizzuto | April 23, 2013 | 3 Comments
The call is deafening – “Why doesn’t Microsoft reveal Windows 8 unit sales?” Windows 8 sales are tepid. We know this; we have seen many real data points confirming it. However, Microsoft didn’t build Windows 8 to save the PC industry; Microsoft built Windows 8 to enable the PC industry to transform itself. The financial [...]
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by John Rizzuto | March 27, 2013 | 1 Comment
It’s all because of connectivity, don’t ya know? The “Internet of Things” is a simple concept – anything can be connected to the Internet. Anything. An embedded electronic gizmo, smaller than a fingernail, and boom, there it is – in your browser or app – that “thing”, transmitting all sorts of information. Trivial things, such as [...]
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by John Rizzuto | March 7, 2013 | 2 Comments
Can a millisecond make a difference for a software platform? If it’s a digital marketing platform, it may separate the winners and losers as SVP of Adobe’s digital marketing business, Brad Rencher, explains. Adobe is aiming to build a millisecond of a lead on the competition. This millisecond lead, as Adobe would have it, may [...]
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by John Rizzuto | March 4, 2013 | 1 Comment
I paraphrase: We are transforming Informatica from a category leader to an Industry leader – Sohaib Abbasi, CEO, Informatica And so the theme was set for Informatica’s annual industry analyst summit held on February 26th to 27th. Informatica’s 2012 performance was a year to forget. Informatica, which had been on a solid multi-year double-digit revenue [...]
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by John Rizzuto | February 20, 2013 | 1 Comment
Beautiful enterprise software? A paradox. Enterprise software is not supposed to be beautiful – bits and bytes are not beautiful, sexy or pleasing. Need it be? After all, technology, in order to do anything useful for us, should effect an action or change in our physical environment; if it achieves that objective why be beautiful? [...]
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