Joshua Greenbaum

Tom Siebel played coy at his company’s last financial analyst call, but the fix was already in. The once high-flying terror of the CRM market slipped into the enterprise software danger zone last quarter, and Tom was pretending that all was for the best in this best of all possible worlds. It wasn’t. Meanwhile, SAP’s […]

This column is not about September 11. I had planned to write a column extolling the virtues of Internet-based architectures and how they protect businesses from terrorist attack. I had also planned to write that the enterprise software market would enjoy a boom in sales as soon as everyone realized that putting paper and people […]

PeopleSoft’s got a brand new market. It’s called enterprise service automation, or ESA, and CEO Craig Conway believes his company will take this new market sector by storm. Of course, ESA is so new that most of us don’t know it actually exists. But not to worry, enterprise service automation is real and the demand […]

Microsoft’s enterprise software gang came calling last month. Every year they say they’re serious about the enterprise software market. Every year their PR people scratch me off the “skeptics” list, call, and set up a briefing on the latest initiative, strategy, or project. Every year I disagree that they’re about to take the packaged enterprise […]

One of the more startling innovations that SAP failed to announce at a recent Sapphire user conference came in a presentation that showed the unshowable: a heterogeneous environment that included SAP and, in full, copyrighted glory, the logos of its two archrivals, Oracle and PeopleSoft. The message was almost revolutionary. SAP will actively support integration […]