Thursday 24 May 2012 The most surprising of the 27,000 job loses at HP announced by Meg Whitman last night was that of Autonomy founder Dr Mike Lynch. HP’s Chief Strategy Officer, Bill Vegthe, will take over. To show how unexpected this was, reread Lynch's interview in the FT in March 12 - Autonomy's new horizons in California. Whitman said last night that Autonomy had suffered very disappointing licensing revenues in Q2 ‘with a significant decline year-over-year.’ Whitman said “it is not the product ... It’s not the market ... It’s not the competition. This is classic entrepreneurial company scaling challenges – it’s a whole different ball game’. You will remember that Autonomy was one of the UK’s major software success stories. A FTSE100 company ... Continue reading →
Thursday 24 May 2012 The most surprising of the 27,000 job loses at HP announced by Meg Whitman last night was that of Autonomy founder Dr Mike Lynch. HP’s Chief Strategy Officer, Bill Vegthe, will take over. To show how unexpected this was, reread Lynch's interview in the FT in March 12 - Autonomy's new horizons in California. Whitman said last night that Autonomy had suffered very disappointing licensing revenues in Q2 ‘with a significant decline year-over-year.’ Whitman said “it is not the product ... It’s not the market ... It’s not the competition. This is classic entrepreneurial company scaling challenges – it’s a whole different ball game’. You will remember that Autonomy was one of the UK’s major software success stories. A FTSE100 company ... Continue reading →
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SAPPHIRENOW Orlando is just over… SAP TechED 2012 is just around the corner… It’s time for you to start thinking about competing at the SAP TechEd 2012 Demo Jam. Whether you want to become famous or you want to genuinely share your knowledge and talents with others, Demo Jam is the stage for you. Demo Jam is not new but we always try to bring something new every year. So, what’s new about this year’s SAP TechEd Demo Jam? We have changed the rules. Although we love to see SAP employees at the Demo Jam finals, we want to see more non-SAP employees competing on the finals’ stage. To increase the number of non-SAP finalists and encourage partnerships, SAP Employees can only compete on stage ... Continue reading →
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I have attended many SAPPHIREs during my 17-year career at SAP, but SAPPHIRENOW 2012 in Orlando was a really great event; they just get bigger and more impressive every year. The agenda was well represented by the hottest topics of interest to SAP, our customers, and our partners. And the topics neatly tied in to SAP’s five market categories of Cloud, Mobile, Applications, Analytics, and Technology & Database. Watching the executive keynotes, it became clear to me that SAP is putting a lot of innovation into the market across all five of these areas. This in turn means that many people will need to be ramped up, re-skilled, or up-skilled. And our ecosystem needs to be prepared to support this in order to be a ... Continue reading →
