From the Blogs

These are stories aggregated from the blogs and news feeds of EuroCloud UK members.  Please note this material is published by individual member companies and may not reflect the views of EuroCloud:
Speed of business propels SaaS expansion
Thursday, May 17, 2012
SaaS adoption is rife among fast-growing companies that want to adapt to change and stay up-to-date. That leaves conventional on-premise vendors competing for the laggards.
The idiot guide to multi book accounting
Thursday, May 17, 2012
Is SuccessFactors operating multi book accounting across its parallel NetSuite and ByDesign instances? Or is it just pantomime?
SuccessFactors swaps NetSuite for ByDesign
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
NetSuite CEO Zach Nelson claims SuccessFactors is a NetSuite customer. SAP says it runs on ByDesign now. Who’s right?
Paving the cowpaths to the denial cloud
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Enterprises are being sold over-specified, inefficient private cloud infrastructure that will end up as shelfware, a conference heard last week.
Tech-hugging eurocrats imperil innovation puppy
Thursday, May 10, 2012
Europe needs growth and cloud computing has a role to play. But are policy makers too eager for rapid results? An event later this month may yield some answers.
Crowd scale, friction and the nature of the firm
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Why a new, digitally enabled, contract-based online business model is disrupting long-established enterprises.
The day software ate Cisco
Sunday, April 22, 2012
Cisco’s track record with software tells us the company will not survive the shift to software-defined networking
Marketo buys Crowd Factory? You read it here first ...
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Read my analysis of today’s news in the blog post I published last November … the trouble with prescience is that people forget too easily these days
Cloud apps, big data and the wisdom of swarms
Friday, April 06, 2012
Siri’s approach to deciphering voice recognition has lessons for SaaS vendors who are debating how to mine their stores of big data for value.
Cloud: disruptive good, disruptive bad
Thursday, March 29, 2012
Adoption of cloud in the enterprise is disruptive in a bad way for IT and in a good way for business. No wonder IT wants to put the brakes on.