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Skytap Secures $10 Million Series C Funding
Image via CrunchBase Skytap (see previous CloudAve coverage), seattle based cloud automation provider, today announced that they have secured a Series C round of $10 Million. This marks a bright start...
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Enterprise microblogging should be pay-per-use
An article by Dennis Howlett about Socialtext and Yammer yesterday caught my attention. In essence SocialText announces that they’ll sell their product at 80% of Yammer’s price (being very brief here)...
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Real Profitability Part I: The Big Three and Four
After last post about the wondrous differences between absolute statistics and relative statistics, I decided to do a post and show you what I carry in my back-pocket before attending an event where...
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Real Profitability Part II: classical System Integrators
In my previous post I gave away financial stats on The Big Three and The Big Four, showing their revenue, profit and R&D – for the company as a whole but also calculated relatively for each...
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Real Profitability Part III: Indian players
Part III and second-to-last of this series, at least this one will be the last one with lists of figures In the first I gave you the Big Three (Google, Microsoft and Apple) and Four (Oracle, SAP, IBM...
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Real Profitability Part IV: The Verdict
In yesterday’s post I showed the absolute and relative revenue, profit and R&D figures of Tata Consulting Services and Wipro. The day before that, I showed the absolute and relative revenue, profit...
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Real Profitability Part V: The Aftermath
After the last 4 posts on the subject (1, 2, 3, 4), this is the final one I had a few chats with respected and “bearded” analysts in the field, and realised that my unorthodox calculations would be...
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Gamification – yet another one-size-fits-all?
Image courtesy of Johnny Mr Ninja I got into discussions today about gamification: Gamification is the use of game play mechanics for non-game applications (also known as “funware”), particularly...
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Twitter delegates the monetisation strain to its developers
On the Twitter Development Google Group, Twitter announced today that they’ll stop whitelisting. Whitelisting basically lifts an application developer’s limitation of 150 Twitter requests per hour,...
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SaaS And Cloud Computing Taking Off With Financials And Accounting Professionals
Proformative, an online community for corporate, finance, accounting, treasury and related professionals, recently conducted an online survey of their members and found that these professionals are...
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A new kind of Capgemini Consulting, errrrr attrition
I was attended on Twitter to this thoughtless, clumsy, mindless piece by Peter Sayer on PCWorld: Capgemini Consulting, a specialist in strategy and transformation, is about to transform its own...
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Does Google get enterprise? No – so what?
After a small conversation with Frank Scavo – whom I hold highly – it struck me: we old enterprise boys that keep kicking the #socmed chins might be on our way to retirement. Not saying that Frank’s...
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Innovation – today’s Golden Calf
This week I had a conversation about Innovation and IBM. Vijay Sankarav wrote a follow-up post on that as he was forced to “leave early” – this is my reply to that. I think the three of us usually...
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Consumer and enterprise IT company analysis
In January this year I did an analysis of “classical” US IT companies: Google, Microsoft and Apple, which are targeting consumers, and Oracle, SAP, IBM and HP, which are targeting companies. Yes that’s...
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Apple margin per device – expressed in Chinese
[Image by Sven Teschke] An article in the New York Times published 2 days ago suddenly gained a lot of traction and got discussed, reposted and reblogged today: Apple making money off of the United...
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Wanted dead or alive: any Facebook user, $ 125 reward
With the upcoming IPO of Facebook this week, I got a little worried. I told a few people “Mark my words, this IPO is going to blow the Social Media bubble once and for all” and even “Wouldn’t be...
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Traditional system integrators 2004-2011 financials
Traditionally, 31st of March is the date that all my favourite system integrators (SI) have released their annual report for the previous year. Oddly, however, I’ve seen some strange changes this year...
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2004-2011 financial analysis: Non-traditional SI (Indian players and IBM)
Yesterday I published my financial analysis of 4 traditional system integrators: Accenture, Atos Origin, Capgemini and Logica. In a conversation I got asked why IBM wasn’t on the list, and my answer...
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Apple Q3 2012 – for better or worse?
Yesterday Apple announced its figures for Q3 2012.I decided to have a good look at them, given the news and blog posts that flew around. Here are the clean stats: 2012 Q3 Revenue of $35.0 billion Net...
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Microsoft, the bleedin’ advertisers
This week Microsoft produced their annual report for 2012. It’s been commented on by many and the main theme seems to be that they’ve reported their first quarterly loss since ages (or ever). Well,...
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