SAP Looks Strong

SAP released their second quarter earnings last Tuesday. The company’s revenue surged 18%, beating Wall Street expectations and causing the stock to close up nearly 10%. Since the results were released, the stock has been trading in the same price band, which is near its seven-month high. The stock closed at $57.86 yesterday, just two

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Lars Dalgaard and his Success Factors (Part 10)

SM: How did you go from 2001 with $1M in financing to the scale you are today? Didn’t you have to finance the company further? LD: I basically did not have a life for six years. SM: Didn’t you need more financial resources? LD: When you are cash flow positive, you don’t need any more

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Lars Dalgaard and his Success Factors (Part 9)

SM: How do you view your competitive landscape right now? The HR, human capital landscape is moving online and becoming very big as we are penetrating more of the mid-market and small businesses. How do you view the rest of the players in your ecosystem and how do you position? LD: Let’s just look at

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Does SaaS Threaten Indian Outsourcing?

Here’s an issue for readers to weigh in on: Does SaaS Threaten Indian Outsourcing?

Deal Radar 2008: Lucidera

LucidEra, the on-demand business intelligence solution provider was founded in 2005 by Ken Rudin, John Sichi and Tai Tran. We had featured Ken Rudin, the CEO of LucidEra last year in an interview.

Today’s Two Big Acquisitions

Sun is buying open source database maker MySQL for $1 Billion. More than 100 million copies of MySQL’s database software have been downloaded and 50,000 copies are downloaded daily. MySQL had raised $39 million from Benchmark, Index, IVP, Intel, and SAP, and was in IPO discussions. It’s good to see that MySQL has found a

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European Software Consolidation

SAP (Nasdaq: SAP) made an uncharacteristic move yesterday by announcing that it is acquiring French company Business Objects (Nasdaq: BOBJ) for $6.78 Billion. The $59 a share price being offered is a 20% premium over Friday’s closing price for the Business Intelligence market leader. I had said in an earlier column, that SAP’s strategy would

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Why BI Appliances?

By David Hatch, Guest Author As I wrote in last week’s blog entry, the term “appliance” is now being applied to BI. This term is used to define a technology offering that combines some form of software with some form of either hardware or other platform software (see Wikipedia URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_appliance for a really detailed

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