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IBM Second Quarter Earnings Report Makes News

picture of the first frame of a video recording on comments about IBM's second quarter 2020 earnings report

IBM second quarter earnings report for 2020 makes news. Most analysts applaud an earnings beat and better than expected revenue. But some are skeptical a 30% jump in cloud business can be sustained. We think differently. A reported drop of… Read more ›

July 21, 2020

Ira Michael Blonder

comments on tech news

citizen developers, cloud, devops, ibm, quarterly earnings reports, saas, thin client applications

Three big questions you need to answer before you decide to offer your SaaS as a freemium solution

Best startup business practices in 2020 for software as a service (SaaS) usually include a freemium model; this means you offer your SaaS at no charge to anybody. Usually your free SaaS doesn’t include all of the features of your… Read more ›

June 15, 2020

Ira Michael Blonder

Choosing Markets

cloud, cloud saas, freemium, freemium business model, saas

Pivot Continuously While Avoiding Hard Pivots or No Pivots At All

Two software businesses once known as leading examples of the NoSQL tech theme made the news over the last couple of weeks — MapR & NewRelic. HPE announced they had purchased the intellectual assets of MapR on August 5th. The… Read more ›

August 14, 2019

Ira Michael Blonder

disruptive tech, Enterprise Computing

big data, brand management for ISVs, cloud, market disruption, product marketing

Perhaps accurate metrics on the extent of cloud adoption are not important

A lot has been made over the last few weeks about a skew between Microsoft’s announcements about sales of cloud SaaS and PaaS subscriptions to enterprise business and the extent to which these subscriptions are actually used. For any readers… Read more ›

March 5, 2015

Ira Michael Blonder

Cloud

azure, cloud, google, google apps, microsoft, office 365, PaaS, saas

Microsoft lowers the volume on its Mobile First Cloud First clarion call at least for SharePoint

In the aftermath of SPTechCon Austin, and a number of announcements from Microsoft, not the least of which being the planned debut of SharePoint 2016, later this year, it is safe to say the volume on “mobile first, cloud first”… Read more ›

February 17, 2015

Ira Michael Blonder

mature tech business

cloud, enterprise computing, hybrid computing, microsoft, office 365, platform as a service, sharepoint, sharepoint online

NoSQL is, for better or worse, inevitable

The following comments are based on a literal definition of the NoSQL acronym, “Not Only SQL”. So readers are advised not to interpret my comments as an endorsement of “NoSQL databases” (MongoDB, DocumentDB, etc). A lot has been written… Read more ›

February 7, 2015

Ira Michael Blonder

Cloud

analytics, cloud, data, ethernet, hypertext, nosql, prediction, rdbms, sql, sturctured data, unstructured data

Investors buy up shares of prominent social media ISVs despite slowing user growth

Perhaps investors are changing their taste in prominent social media ISVs. Could the search for a telltale sign of promise have shifted from substantial growth in users to what may be a meaningful increase in revenue? From the after hours… Read more ›

February 5, 2015

Ira Michael Blonder

Investors

barrons, cloud, facebook, financial times, linkedin, saas, social media, tiernan ray, twitter, wall street journal

Competitors exhibit a strong desire for some of the recent success of Microsoft’s Office 365

On Wednesday, January 28, 2015, Amazon announced the launch of a new product: Amazon WorkMail. This new offer is targeted to enterprise businesses in need of email and calendar management offered on a subscription basis via a cloud service. The… Read more ›

January 28, 2015

Ira Michael Blonder

Commodities

amazon workmail, cloud, commodities, competition to be the best, joan magretta, michael porter, office 365, productivity suites, saas

Accenture publishes a study pointing to an expanded IT systems decision-making role for CFOs at many enterprise businesses

With a publication date of December 29, 2014, Accenture released its annual High Performance Finance Study for 2014. The findings presented reinforce the notion of a changed decision-making hierarchy for IT systems and solutions within many enterprise businesses. In my… Read more ›

December 26, 2014

Ira Michael Blonder

Enterprise Business

accenture, cfo, cloud, complex systems, enterprise business, enterprise IT, legacy systems, saas

Microsoft’s October 20, 2014 Cloud Briefing includes some fine tuning for its “Mobile First, Cloud First” message

In the first few moments of Satya Nadella’s opening remarks at Microsoft’s Cloud Briefing, October 20, 2014 attendees were treated to a finely tuned presentation of the now familiar “Mobile First, Cloud First” market message. Nadella prefaced his remarks by… Read more ›

October 29, 2014

Ira Michael Blonder

Communications

cloud, microsoft, mobile first cloud first, satya nadella, scalability, unified computing experience