Let’s compare two ways big tech companies are differentiating themselves this week: using contrarian marketing angles and using existing assets to enter new markets. We’ll look at four stories of disruptive… Read more »
The ability of larger organizations to spend more on technology is a threat to small business. However, social media can be a mitigating force to help counter the resource advantage that… Read more »
Larry Ellison leads Oracle with a dramatic, and often insightful, flair. Last week it was president Mark Hurd who spoke to Oracle’s strategy and trends in the market. Per usual, Oracle’s… Read more »
The fourth quarter of 2013 found companies grappling to manage the transformation being brought on by cloud, mobile, analytics, and social technologies. Firms must now adapt to all this new technology… Read more »
According to a Deloitte study out this month, consumer packaged goods (CPG) executives overwhelmingly (92%) consider e-commerce to be a strategic sales channel, but fewer than half (43%) believe their company… Read more »
Cloud ERP vendors have addressed many SaaS security concerns, but regulatory, geographic, or scale issues will lead to on-premises implementations of private or hybrid clouds in many environments. Read more »
“Social customer service” refers to those services that provide customer support via social media channels. Providing such services is no longer merely a niche or specialty sideline. Challengers, or disruptors who… Read more »