Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Sameer Patel, Senior VP and GM – Enterprise Social and Collaborative Software, SAP (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: In the example that you gave us about training, you talked about crowd sourcing through videos of enterprise tips and knowledge. That’s essentially the use skills that you described. It sounds like the real power of the system that you are trying to develop is both providing the employees and the enterprise the

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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Sameer Patel, Senior VP and GM – Enterprise Social and Collaborative Software, SAP (Part 1)

SAP plans to step-up business integration a notch further with an extension to SAP Jam that aims to deliver personalized information to enhance organizational productivity. Join us in this interview with SAP’s Senior VP and GM, Sameer Patel, as he gives us a blow-by-blow account on this new addition to its arsenal and other latest

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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Penny Herscher, CEO of FirstRain (Part 1)

The sales and marketing teams of large enterprises have their work cut out for them when it comes to curating new business. So, they welcome companies like FirstRain that facilitate the research that’s required to effectively cultivate relationships with prospects. FirstRain is an international company based in San Mateo, California. With satellite offices in New

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More SaaS: Concur, Taleo, RightNow

Concur, the expense management software maker, released its earnings for the second quarter of 2008. Subscription revenue growth was the main driving force behind their robust earnings. The company posted net income of $4.5 million or $0.09 a share, compared with $1.8 million or $0.04 a share in the corresponding quarter last year. Total revenue is

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Deal Radar 2008: Mimosa Systems

Mimosa Systems has designed a solution to archive and manage email, attachments, IMs and files so that companies can easily access historical communication.

Obama’s Economic Policy

I am frustrated with Obama for not addressing the questions about what he plans to do to turn around the economy. I am also frustrated with his anti-business, anti-globalization, and anti-free-trade rhetoric. It has led me to ponder the question, what should US economic policy focus on to get some vitality back into the system?

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Deal Radar 2008: Daptiv

Daptiv is one of the leading on-demand collaborative business software that allows companies of all sizes to transform their mid-office business transactions. Daptiv provides solutions which simplify employees’ daily association and communication while dramatically reducing the difficulty of managing multiple teams, projects and tasks.

Apple’s Dramatic Risks and Ambitions

News from Apple is often big news. Apple released its second quarter results yesterday. Revenue was $7.51 billion, down 22% q-o-q and up 42% y-o-y driven by strong demand for Macs and the ever-popular iPhone. Net income was $1.05 billion, or $1.16 per diluted share, up 36% y-o-y. International sales, which were 44% of the

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