These watershed changes pose both opportunities and threats to those who sell enterprise technology.
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Unlike liquor and lottery tickets, enterprise technology is not an industry that benefits from hard times.
My next blogs will discuss some emerging trends in both consumer and enterprise technology.
Five or ten years ago, attending Interop was a no-brainer for anyone interested in enterprise technology trends.
When it comes to enterprise technology, Frank Slootman has a knack for finding the next big thing.
Cisco's enterprise technology sales may be partially insulated by its international sales, which account for about half its revenue.
Now here is a disturbing possibility: Is enterprise technology spending now actually growing more slowly than global GDP growth?
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It certainly seems the disruptive innovation trajectory is happening in social enterprise technology.
This very large B2B enterprise technology vendor had an equally large retailer as a target account they wanted to win.
Consumer technology companies often get the press coverage, but enterprise technology companies are also making a major impact and building large businesses.
Several waves of enterprise technology were adopted through an end-around IT departments.
Turns out that girlfriend, Tuna, is a reporter for the Wall Street Journal in San Francisco where she covers enterprise technology.
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At Menlo, Ganesan will continue to focus on consumer and enterprise technology.
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For example, VCs he knows specialize in social media and enterprise technology.
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By blurring the lines between enterprise technology and communities, business networks eliminate the barriers to commerce, and frankly, make it more simple and effective.
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Naysayers argue that enterprise technology, still the bulk of overall tech spending, is a mature industry with a greater focus on cost savings than dramatic disruption.
Cloud technology company Workday has priced its initial public offering above its expected range, in a closely watched IPO in the enterprise technology industry.
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The firm has focused, for example, on how enterprise technology is moving to the cloud in a variety of areas, with companies like RightScale, Zuora and CloudPassage.
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And enterprise technology companies ignore the trend at their peril.
But he could just as easily have been talking about the Xerox of forty years ago, which was one of the most successful makers of enterprise technology the world has ever known.
It may also be that journalists, many of whom are not trained in technology, lack the understanding to explain enterprise technology companies in a way that will appeal to the general public.
The renewed focus on enterprise technology is being driven by the realization that new kinds of technologies incubated in the Big 10 no longer need to be limited to use by only the largest companies.
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Though there are hundreds of millions of dollars being exchanged in these acquisitions, the actual revenue being earned by SMMP vendors is a drop in the bucket compared to overall revenue in the enterprise technology sector.
Implementing enterprise technology solutions that are overly complex, difficult to use and expensive to maintain creates an unnecessary burden on your organization and its employees, resulting in a lack of adoption, negative ROI and disenchanted users.
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For a number of reasons, but most often attributed to the affinity most folks have to Apple products and the downfall of clunky enterprise technology products, employees have started to bring their own computing devices into the workplace.
Those interested in digital storage and the development of consumer, computer and enterprise technology will want to keep their eyes peeled for development next week and in the future as very useful solid state storage devices assumes greater importance in the overall digital storage hierarchy.
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Instead, the liberalization of enterprise client technology is the inevitable outcome of these forces.
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Use enterprise search technology to ensure the corporate left hand knows what the corporate right hand is doing.
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When you deploy enterprise social technology, you create more connectivity in the workplace.
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