Paul Miller

I’ve written and spoken before about the need to build some serious bridges between the semantic technology/ Semantic Web community and the multitudinous enterprises that rely for their livelihood upon the timely and appropriate exploitation of data.
The annual Semantic Technology Conference in San Jose plays an important role here, with ever-more ‘proper’ business people joining [...]

Having published last night’s post on the difficulty of moving any traditional software business toward offering a SaaS solution and gone to bed, I wake this morning to see the Web a-buzz with news of SAP’s latest hire. See, for example, Ben Worthen, Joshua Greenbaum, Vinnie Mirchandani, and Maureen O’Gara.
John Wookey, formerly an executive at [...]

Bob Warfield is amongst those reopening the self-inflicted wounds of European software behemoth SAP AG with his latest post on the SmoothSpan blog this week. The central question, though, isn’t whether they messed up; but whether what they’re attempting is even possible.
Facing the real prospect of significant disruption to the mid-range part of their business from [...]