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2012

Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Six Tips for Compelling Marketing Presentations

2011

Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Winning Moves of Software Leaders in 2011

Monday, December 12, 2011

Challengers for 2012 Software Market Share

Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Study Ranks 9 Technologies Related to Biz Intelligence

Tuesday, November 29, 2011

New Standard for Desktop Virtualization

Tuesday, November 15, 2011

CIOs Reveal Mobile Risks & Strategies

Wednesday, November 9, 2011

7 Key Traits of Top Tech Salespeople

Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Mobile Gobbling Up BI Software

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Are You Missing the Key to Customer Loyalty?

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Three megatrends impacting big data value

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

4 Readiness Checkpoints for Private Cloud

Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Top 5 Cloud Myths and Risk Strategies

Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Why Social Networks Inside Businesses Have Failed (And What We Can Do About Fixing It)

Wednesday, August 3, 2011

ERP as a Service: A Discussion of Cloud-Based ERP Considerations

Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Software Developer Pain Points and Tradeoffs in the Race to Market

Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Open Source Drives Software Innovation

Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Building a New Kind of Software Company

Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Conducting a Fit and Readiness Assessment for Public Cloud IT

Wednesday, June 29, 2011

API 2.0 Radically Reshapes Software Value Chain

Wednesday, June 29, 2011

API 2.0 Radically Reshapes Software Value Chain

Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Four Pitfalls for Software Startups

Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Early Adopters Innovating around Big Data Analytics and Unstructured Information

Wednesday, June 8, 2011

$1,000,000,000 Battle Bedevils IBM: Lessons from Start-Up Software Licensing Lawsuit over Code, IP, and Contracts

Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Essentials for Selling Software to the Midmarket

Wednesday, May 25, 2011

The Innovator

Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Avoiding Risks in Channel Partner Relationships

Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Migrating to SaaS Delivery: Decision or Reaction?

Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Confronting Software's Blind Spot

Tuesday, April 26, 2011

CEO Outlook 2011 Report: The Gains and Pains of Growth

Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Penny Wise, Pound Foolish

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Five Rules for Software Sales Discussions

Wednesday, April 6, 2011

How to Succeed at Innovation and Differentiation

Wednesday, March 30, 2011

How to Hire the Best

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Conquering SaaS around the World

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Inside

Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Cloud Leaders Face a Changing Tide

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

5 Success Factors for Mobile 'Business Discovery'

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

The New ERP Software Haves/Have Nots

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Meet Tomorrow's High-Performance Companies

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

The Impact of Workshifting

Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Grasping the Cloud

Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Confessions of an Old Software Designer

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Mapping 2011: Secular Overtakes Cyclical

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Five Cloud Trends for 2011 - and Beyond

Wednesday, January 5, 2011

10 Drivers of Software Innovation in 2011

2010

Thursday, December 16, 2010

Five Questions Software Companies Must Answer

Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Finding Gold in Enterprise Social Networking

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

The State of Software M&A: A New Mindset

Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Four Key CIO Challenges in the Transition to the Cloud

Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Predicting the Future of Work

Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Rethink Your Marketing for 2011

Wednesday, November 3, 2010

The Secrets of Frictionless Software Sales

Thursday, October 28, 2010

The New Era of Cloud-Powered Services

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Software Pricing & Licensing Trends – 2010

Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Thrive on Pressure

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

How Smart Enterprises are Riding the Cloud

Wednesday, September 29, 2010

The Innovation Secrets of Steve Jobs

Wednesday, September 22, 2010

The Surprising Synergies of Intel-McAfee

Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Startup CEOs: The Time is Now

Thursday, September 9, 2010

The New World of Cloud-Powered Outsourcing

Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Joining the Integration Revolution

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

7 Key Requirements for Private Clouds

Wednesday, August 18, 2010

It

Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Will India Shine in the Cloud?

Wednesday, August 4, 2010

Best of Breed vs. Suite in the SaaS Era

Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Mastering Cultural Opportunities in Outsourcing

Wednesday, July 21, 2010

The Need for a Cloud Development Framework

Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Eight Keys to Enterprise ISV Success in the Cloud

Wednesday, July 7, 2010

The Limits of Strategy

Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Making Cents in the Cloud

Wednesday, June 23, 2010

The E2.0-SOA Connection

Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Software in an Age of

Tuesday, June 8, 2010

Cloud Strategy: To Disrupt - or Be Disrupted

Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Why Traditional Enterprise Software Sales Fail

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

The Future of Open Source 2010

Wednesday, May 19, 2010

5 Tips for Delivering True Business Value

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

The Data-as-a-Service (DaaS) Revolution

Thursday, May 6, 2010

CEO Outlook 2010: New Decade, New Realities

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Battle in the Cloud

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Remembering C.K. Prahalad: A Champion of Innovation

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Selling Software to the C-Suite

Tuesday, March 30, 2010

5 Steps to Drive Sales with Social Media

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Cloud Leaders: Act Now

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Seven Summit Strategies for Reaching the Top

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

New Leaders in Open Source

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Marc Benioff on Software 2020

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Accelerating Out of the Great Recession

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Complex Times Demand Simpler Solutions

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

The New How: Five Practices for Busting Out

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Its 2010. Why are You Still Outsourcing?

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Rethink Your SaaS Channel Strategies

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Strategy Matters: Q&A with Taleo CEO Mike Gregoire

Thursday, January 14, 2010

Predictive Analytics: Changing the Game

2009

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

2009: The Year in Software

Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Time to Get Branded

Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Driving Effectiveness - From Offer to Order

Wednesday, November 25, 2009

The Power of “Spiritual Capitalism”

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Ten Laws for SaaS Sales & Marketing Success

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

BessemersTop 10 Laws for Cloud Computing

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

"Show Me the Money!"

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Improving Software ROI for Your Customers

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Winning at SaaS: Only the Bold Survive

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Getting Customer Data Integration Right the First Time

Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Software Development: It?s About the People

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

When the Time is Right to Sell a Company

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Weapons of SaaS Destruction

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Tales from the Front

Wednesday, September 9, 2009

The Outsourcing-Open Source Connection

Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Winning in a World with 'Less Software'

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

A VC Model for the Recession

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Better Training = Better Sales

Monday, August 10, 2009

Reducing the Cost of SaaS Implementations

Monday, August 3, 2009

IT Spending Stabilization?

Tuesday, July 28, 2009

How to be an Extraordinary Leader

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Best Practices for Enterprise SaaS Growth

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Moving to a SaaS Offense

Tuesday, July 7, 2009

Get Content, Get Customers

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Understanding Tomorrows? CIO

Wednesday, June 24, 2009

IT Drives Corporate Eco-Strategy

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Who Needs Leads?

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Stop Thinking Like Software Companies!

Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Passing the ISV Stress Test

Wednesday, May 27, 2009

The 4Ps of Content Marketing

Wednesday, May 20, 2009

The Death of Enterprise Software?

Tuesday, May 12, 2009

The Pulse of Software M&A

Wednesday, May 6, 2009

The Impact of Oracle-Sun

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Finding ROI in Enterprise Mobility

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Understanding Digital Body Language

Tuesday, April 14, 2009

The Key to Sales Performance

Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Strategic Considerations for 'Going Mobile;

Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Preparing Today for Tomorrows Rebound

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Embracing a Reinvention Opportunity

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Conquering Enterprise Productivity's Last Frontier

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Software's Billion-Dollar Question

Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Meet 'Generation SaaS'

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

The Disruptive Power of Virtualization

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Innovation in the Era of Economic Uncertainty

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Building A Recession-Proof Packaged Applications Strategy

Tuesday, February 3, 2009

How to Increase Business Value in 2009

Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Top 10 Global Business Trends for 2009

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Software's Clear and Present Danger

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Predictions for On-Demand Services in 2009

Monday, January 5, 2009

Seven Predictions for Open Source in 2009

2008

Wednesday, December 17, 2008

2008

Wednesday, December 10, 2008

How to Survive - and Thrive

Monday, December 1, 2008

Moving from Closed to Open

Monday, November 24, 2008

SaaS Revamps the Supply Chain

Monday, November 17, 2008

Delivering Predictable Revenue Streams

Monday, November 10, 2008

The Trials of Today’s CEO

Monday, November 3, 2008

The Race for Perfect

Monday, October 27, 2008

The Baseball-Business Connection

Monday, October 20, 2008

Killing Ideas That Waste Resources

Monday, October 13, 2008

When the Levee Breaks

Monday, October 6, 2008

Thriving in Difficult Times

Monday, September 29, 2008

How to Select A Software Partner Solution Offering

Monday, September 22, 2008

Capitalizing on the Cloud

Monday, September 15, 2008

Closing the Innovation Gap

Monday, September 8, 2008

How to Expand into the U.S. Market

Tuesday, September 2, 2008

SaaS Suites Struggle in the Enterprise

Monday, August 25, 2008

Growing a Software Company on a Shoestring

Monday, August 18, 2008

C.K. Prahalad on the New Age of Innovation

Monday, August 4, 2008

Bridging the IT-Business Information Gap

Monday, July 28, 2008

SaaS: A Blue-Chip Enterprise Solution?

Monday, July 21, 2008

The Mobile Bang Theory

Monday, July 14, 2008

Deliver Your Apps in the Cloud

Monday, July 7, 2008

A Checklist for Change

Monday, June 30, 2008

Improving Business Value with DRM

Monday, June 23, 2008

Building a Recurring Revenue Business

Monday, June 16, 2008

Strategic Entrepreneurism in the New Economy

Monday, June 9, 2008

David DeWalt: Switch to a Security Suite

Tuesday, June 3, 2008

Oracle: A New Value Proposition

Tuesday, May 27, 2008

The Global Transformation to On-Demand

Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Citrix CEO: Think Do Something Different

Monday, May 12, 2008

Winning the Emerging Platform Wars

Monday, May 5, 2008

Prescription for a Slow Economy

Monday, April 28, 2008

Old Rules for a New Era

Monday, April 21, 2008

Incrementalism and “The New New Thing”

Monday, April 14, 2008

The “Rock” of Enterprise Software

Monday, April 7, 2008

Success through Visualization

Monday, March 31, 2008

Simplicity: What's Next in Business Software

Monday, March 24, 2008

The Application Software Suite is Yesterday's News

Monday, March 17, 2008

Software VC Outlook for 2008

Monday, March 10, 2008

Winning with an Ad-Supported Model

Monday, March 3, 2008

Software Marketing in a Recession

Monday, February 25, 2008

Bessemer's Top 10 Laws for Being 'SaaS-y'

Tuesday, February 19, 2008

7 Trends in Enterprise Software Adoption for 2008

Monday, February 11, 2008

Patterns of Project Management Success

Monday, February 4, 2008

The New Integration Mandate

Monday, January 28, 2008

Re-learning Marketing for the SaaS Model

Monday, January 21, 2008

Unlicensed Software Attacks the Bottom Line

Monday, January 14, 2008

Geekonomics: The Real Cost of Insecure Software

Monday, January 7, 2008

2008 : A Year for Real Choices

2007

Monday, December 17, 2007

Looking Back at 2007

Monday, December 10, 2007

India Arriving: The IT Story

Monday, December 3, 2007

Between the Lines: SaaS Business Model Execution from Top to Bottom

Monday, November 26, 2007

Ready for a Downturn?

Monday, November 19, 2007

Meet the New CIO

Monday, November 12, 2007

The Trouble with Software M&A

Tuesday, November 6, 2007

After the M&A Frenzy: Whats Next?

Monday, October 29, 2007

CRM 10 Years Later: How Good is Your Service?

Monday, October 22, 2007

The Open Source Threat

Monday, October 15, 2007

Where are Softwares Children?

Monday, October 8, 2007

The Software Industrys Missing Link

Monday, October 1, 2007

The Next Wave of Commercial Software Engineering

Monday, September 24, 2007

Ten Steps to Tech Transfer

Monday, September 17, 2007

The Power of Going Private

Monday, September 10, 2007

How to Be a Disruptor

Tuesday, September 4, 2007

Avoiding Failure in Technology Partnerships

Monday, August 27, 2007

The Biggest Software M&A Myths

Monday, August 20, 2007

The Reality of Virtualization

Monday, August 13, 2007

The 'Hollywood' Model for Software Success

Monday, August 6, 2007

Predicting the Next Software Decade

Monday, July 30, 2007

Killer KPIs to Drive Your Services Business

Monday, July 23, 2007

In Search of an Open Source Business Model

Monday, July 16, 2007

10 Lessons from a SaaS Transformation

Monday, July 9, 2007

Can Moores Law Apply to Corporate IT?

Monday, July 2, 2007

SaaS: Beyond the Tipping Point

Monday, June 25, 2007

EMCs CTO: ITs Next Inflection Points

Monday, June 18, 2007

Steve Ballmer: Unlocking the Value of Business Systems

Monday, June 11, 2007

TCS CFO: Mastering Global Innovation

Monday, June 4, 2007

Ed Zander: Innovation in a Changing World

Tuesday, May 29, 2007

Marc Benioff: Innovation, Not Infrastructure

Monday, May 21, 2007

HPs Software Reincarnation

Monday, May 14, 2007

Hasso Plattner: Innovation, Speed & Success

Monday, May 7, 2007

The State of the Software Industry 2007

Monday, April 30, 2007

New Rules for Software VC

Monday, April 23, 2007

The Enterprise Software "Threatdown"

Monday, April 16, 2007

Elephants in the Boardroom

Monday, April 9, 2007

Services 2.0: A New World for System Integrators

Monday, April 2, 2007

Globalize R&D without Outsourcing

Monday, March 26, 2007

Reaching the Holy Grail: SMB Markets

Monday, March 19, 2007

Powered by Innovation

Monday, March 12, 2007

Are You Really a SaaS Vendor?

Monday, March 5, 2007

The Next Wave of Enterprise 2.0

Monday, February 26, 2007

The Future of Globalized Services

Monday, February 19, 2007

The CIO Dilemma: Build, Buy or Borrow

Monday, February 12, 2007

Redefining PR in Enterprise 2.0

Monday, February 5, 2007

Connect with Today?s Software Buyers

Monday, January 29, 2007

Leaders of the Next Information Revolution

Monday, January 22, 2007

Succeeding with a Hybrid Strategy

Monday, January 15, 2007

The New SOA Opportunity

Monday, January 8, 2007

Is It 'The End of Software?'

Tuesday, January 2, 2007

Big Questions for 2007

2006

Tuesday, December 26, 2006

The Biggest Trends of 2006

Monday, December 18, 2006

Lessons for Software?s Evolution

Monday, December 11, 2006

Powering the Business Web

Monday, December 4, 2006

Cracking the Government Market

Monday, November 27, 2006

'Enterprise 2.0': Ready for Prime Time, or Not Yet?

Monday, November 20, 2006

The IT Utility: A Vendor Reality Check

Monday, November 13, 2006

How Reagan Would Sell Your Software

Monday, November 6, 2006

Looking Forward with Shai Agassi

Monday, October 30, 2006

Launching an Open Source Business

Monday, October 23, 2006

5 Steps to a Business Turnaround

Monday, October 16, 2006

Preparing for a Successful M&A Exit

Monday, October 9, 2006

Tackling the Growth-Cost Tradeoff

Monday, October 2, 2006

10 Tips for Evolutionary Success

Monday, September 25, 2006

Eliminating the Innovation Disconnect

Monday, September 18, 2006

The Software IPO Outlook

Monday, September 11, 2006

The Future of On-Demand Software

Tuesday, September 5, 2006

The Birth of Enterprise 2.0

Monday, August 28, 2006

Expanding a Global Organization

Monday, August 21, 2006

Finding an SaaS Exit

Monday, August 14, 2006

Must-Haves for Leading in Asia

Monday, August 7, 2006

Software's Sky is Not Falling

Monday, July 31, 2006

Is Enterprise Software Doomed?

Monday, July 24, 2006

CK Prahalad on Innovation through Co-Creation

Monday, July 17, 2006

Avoiding Software's Perfect Storm

Monday, July 10, 2006

The Bottom Line on SaaS

Monday, July 3, 2006

10 Tactics for Managing Offshore Costs

Monday, June 26, 2006

Software's Secret: Higher Usage = Higher Revenue

Monday, June 19, 2006

Why We Quit Offshoring

Monday, June 12, 2006

Strategies for Web 2.0 Success

Monday, June 5, 2006

Making Software M&A Work

Monday, May 29, 2006

The Death of Packaged Apps?

Monday, May 22, 2006

5 Paths to Software Growth

Monday, May 15, 2006

Lessons for the “Consumer Enterprise”

Monday, May 8, 2006

Get Ready for SaaS 2.0

Monday, May 1, 2006

Time for Software Marketing to Grow Up

Monday, April 24, 2006

Choking on Your Own Success

Monday, April 17, 2006

Pushing a “Pull Model”

Monday, April 10, 2006

7 Laws for the New Software Landscape

Monday, April 3, 2006

Software's Dramatic Revolution

Monday, March 27, 2006

Blueprint to a Billion

Monday, March 20, 2006

4 Ways to Play in Enterprise Open Source

Monday, March 13, 2006

Software VC Outlook: A Flight to Quality

Monday, March 6, 2006

CEO Strategies for Building Value

Monday, February 27, 2006

Software Turnaround: From Bubble to Breakthrough

Tuesday, February 21, 2006

Icing the 'Hot Seat'

Monday, February 13, 2006

The Mystery of Software Development Success

Monday, February 6, 2006

Geoffrey Moore's Top 10 Innovation Myths

Monday, January 30, 2006

Engineering a Renaissance

Monday, January 23, 2006

Software Agenda for 2006

Tuesday, January 17, 2006

From Startup to Grownup

Monday, January 9, 2006

The Innovate-Dominate Imperative

Tuesday, January 3, 2006

Looking Ahead to 2006

2005

Monday, December 26, 2005

Looking Back at 2005

Monday, December 19, 2005

8 Golden Rules for the Indian Market

Monday, December 12, 2005

Launching a Software Pricing Revolution

Monday, December 5, 2005

10 Challenges for Software CEOs

Monday, November 28, 2005

A Hybrid Strategy for On-Demand Success

Monday, November 21, 2005

The Next Wave of Open Source

Monday, November 14, 2005

Time for a New Software Model

Monday, November 7, 2005

Dealing with CIO Reality

Monday, October 31, 2005

Innovation: The Next New Thing

Monday, October 24, 2005

Software Chimps Take on The Gorillas

Monday, October 17, 2005

Mainstreaming the On Demand Revolution

Monday, October 10, 2005

5 Secrets to Staying Power

Monday, October 3, 2005

Software's New Economic Drivers

Monday, September 26, 2005

New VC Rules for On-Demand Software

Monday, September 19, 2005

Consolidation? What Consolidation?

Tuesday, September 13, 2005

New Software Compensation Trends

Tuesday, September 6, 2005

The Secret to Saas Success

Tuesday, August 30, 2005

Tomorrow's Software Business Model Today

Tuesday, August 23, 2005

New Ideas from Software Investors

Tuesday, August 16, 2005

10 Opportunities for Software Providers

Tuesday, August 9, 2005

Agile's CEO on the Truth About Consolidation

Monday, August 1, 2005

Kim Polese on Software's 'New World'

Monday, July 25, 2005

Inside Informix' Demise

Tuesday, July 19, 2005

Energize Your Go-to-Market Strategy

Monday, July 11, 2005

3 Ways to Maximize Revenue

Thursday, July 7, 2005

Software that Makes CIOs Happy

Monday, June 27, 2005

Tomorrow's Software Mega-Customer: China

Monday, June 20, 2005

What's Your Software Story?

Monday, June 13, 2005

What VCs Want Today

Monday, June 6, 2005

The Real Open Source Revolution

Tuesday, May 31, 2005

Software for Everyone

Wednesday, May 25, 2005

Software Finance: Outlook for 2H05

Monday, May 16, 2005

CEO Secrets for Growth

Monday, May 9, 2005

Jim Goodnight on Ways to Maximize Employee Value

Monday, May 2, 2005

The New Building Blocks for Success

Monday, April 25, 2005

Seismic Shifts for the Software Market

Monday, April 18, 2005

The Four Cs of Software Success

Monday, April 11, 2005

Delivering ROI via the SLA

Monday, April 4, 2005

Software's Great Divide

Monday, March 28, 2005

The New Game in Software

Monday, March 21, 2005

Ten Trends for 2005

Monday, March 14, 2005

Secret to Entrepreneurial Success

Monday, March 7, 2005

Software's New Menace: BPO

Monday, February 28, 2005

Software by the Numbers 2005

Monday, February 21, 2005

Craft a Winning SOA Strategy

Monday, February 14, 2005

Selling to Optimal-Edge CIOs

Tuesday, February 8, 2005

CEO's Outlook for 2005

Tuesday, February 1, 2005

Ray Lane on the Service Revolution

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