First up are the 2011 Ariba Commerce Summits, which kick off next week in New York City on October 11 and 12. The Summits carry on the following two weeks, moving to Chicago and San Francisco. Then, in early November, the Hubspan team joins NetSuite and three other NetSuite partners in a series of Executive Briefings, scheduled for Nov 1 to 3 in Cleveland (okay, maybe not a hotspot), Chicago and Memphis.
I have to also admit I was impressed by SalesForce.com CEO Mark Benioff. In his keynote speech, he emphasized how the enterprise is becoming humanized, and we are entering into an “Enterprise Spring,” paralleling the ongoing “Muslim Spring” which has seen the fall of leaders in Egypt, Libya and maybe Syria. And he stated this is all fueled by the power of social media.
While the event season typically cools off in the summer months, there is a lot of activity in the cloud and integration arena the next couple of months, with both online and live events on the docket. Upcoming events include the Cloud Control Conference in Boston, a NetSuite Webinar on EDI Integration in the Cloud, and a Webinar focused on Order-to-Invoice Integration for the Ariba Network.
Our newest solution – Hubspan’s NetSuite B2B Integration Solution for Wholesale Distribution – builds on both companies expertise and market leadership in the wholesale distribution market.
Hubspan was a sponsor once again, giving us a 5-minute lightening talk at the start of the camp, following Dave Nielsen’s definition of cloud computing. I spoke with my colleague and Hubspan software architect, Vipul Sabhaya, on how to approach the cloud and key pitfalls to avoid. When it came to the un-panel portion of the camp, it was all about Big Data and how to manage it, store it, scale it, and secure it in the cloud. I’m guessing this was directly associated with the number of government agencies there, although there were companies like Comscore, who are leading the way with managing terabytes of data every day
If you are a buyer or supplier on the Ariba Network or you are a customer of Ariba’s spend management applications or you would just like to learn more about the Ariba Commerce Cloud or how to improve your business commerce, then you should attend the upcoming Ariba LIVE conference.
This week, my colleague and I attended and presented at the IBM WebSphere Foundation and Connectivity Summit in the beautiful and snowy up-state New York community of Palisades. Other attendees who made it through the east coast’s arctic winter to get here included IBM customers, partners and personnel wanting to learn more about IBM’s connectivity [...]
At Cloud Camp San Diego last night, there was a sold out crowd and lively discussion. Attendees from the Open Group San Diego Conference going on this week hosted the camp and comprised about a third of the participants. That meant there were more cloud experts or people who thought they were cloud experts than [...]
