Taking on Business Intelligence: Lucidera CEO Ken Rudin (Part 4)

SM: What was the market landscape like when you founded the company? KR: When we founded the company in 2005, the BI market was pretty stagnant. Not much innovation had happened in that market in the prior 10 years. It was basically a lot of vendors selling expensive solutions that were difficult and time consuming

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Taking on Business Intelligence: Lucidera CEO Ken Rudin (Part 3)

SM. Where did you get the idea for LucidEra? What is your domain experience in the Enterprise 3.0 business? KR: The idea developed in two stages. First, when I ran my Business Intelligence consulting company many years, it became obvious that while Business Intelligence solutions were common in large enterprises, they were rare in small

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Taking on Business Intelligence: Lucidera CEO Ken Rudin (Part 2)

SM: So your professional career began at Oracle. KR: Yes. I left Oracle to get a business degree at Stanford University. When I graduated in 1994, I started a consulting company called Emergent that focused on designing and building Business Intelligence solutions for large companies. We were acquired by Keane (a public systems integration company)

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Stocks Surfing Software’s Next Wave

My debut column on Jim Cramer’s RealMoney launched yesterday: :: If you like to invest in technology, it pays to understand the trends and the market dynamics. And one of the more compelling trends in the software industry is the evolution from licensed software to on-demand software, otherwise known as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). It’s hosted software

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Happily Bootstrapping: Zoho CEO Sridhar Vembu (Part 7)

Sridhar’s thesis around Zoho is to ride on top of the market awareness already created by Salesforce.com, Webex and others around On-Demand / SaaS delivery models for business applications like the Office Suite, CRM, Web Conferencing, Project Management, etc. and simply do a dramatic undercutting based on price. He insists that the amount of Sales

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Google’s Enterprise 3.0 Strategy

Google acquires Postini for $625 Million. This is an excellent acquisition, as Google was already using Postini’s spam filtering technology for Gmail earlier. This acquisition also marks Google’s next move into the Enterprise 3.0 space. Postini is a global leader in on-demand communications security and compliance solutions serving more than 35,000 businesses and 10 million

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Citrix’s Collaboration Business Offers Strategic Options

I wrote about Citrix being an acquisition target for Oracle recently on the grounds of their on-demand collaboration product suite. Since then, I did a bit of digging on the numbers for the Citrix Online business. Whereas Citrix (NASDAQ: CTXS) is primarily an enterprise software company with: * $1.134B revenue 2006 * 60 million users

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Panel on Enterprise 3.0 & Collaboration

On June 25th, I am moderating a panel discussion on the future of Enterprise 3.0 Collaboration. If you are in the Bay Area, and interested in the topic, do consider attending. You can register here. And if you are one my readers, please do come up and introduce yourself.