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MuleSoft’s IPO kicks up some interest and, here, a brief check-in with SnapLogic and Liaison. Including some market-sizing: The iPaaS market is expected to reach $2.9 billion in 2021, which Consoli said is a fraction of the overall integration market, which stands at about $12 billion today Link

MuleSoft’s IPO kicks up some interest and, here, a brief check-in with SnapLogic and Liaison. Including some market-sizing: The iPaaS market is expected to reach $2.9 billion in 2021, which Consoli said is a fraction of the overall integration market, which stands at about $12 billion today Link

MuleSoft’s IPO kicks up some interest and, here, a brief check-in with SnapLogic and Liaison. Including some market-sizing: The iPaaS market is expected to reach $2.9 billion in 2021, which Consoli said is a fraction of the overall integration market, which stands at about $12 billion today Link

MuleSoft’s IPO kicks up some interest and, here, a brief check-in with SnapLogic and Liaison. Including some market-sizing: The iPaaS market is expected to reach $2.9 billion in 2021, which Consoli said is a fraction of the overall integration market, which stands at about $12 billion today Link

Having something to sell is always key to a profitable business. We explore this life-hack of the business world in discussion Twitter and then Amazon licensing Thursday night football. There’s also some brief talk of Akamai buying SOASTA, Cloudera filing to IPO, and the lost dichotomy of agent/agentless. Also see full show notes.

Having something to sell is always key to a profitable business. We explore this life-hack of the business world in discussion Twitter and then Amazon licensing Thursday night football. There’s also some brief talk of Akamai buying SOASTA, Cloudera filing to IPO, and the lost dichotomy of agent/agentless. Also see full show notes.

Commonwealth Bank of Australia, for instance, replaced its core banking platform in 2012 with the help of Accenture and software company SAP SE. The job ultimately took five years and cost more than 1 billion Australian dollars ($749.9 million). Being conservative, multiply $500m across the top 20 banks, and you’ve got $10bn, using $749.8m directly, you get much closer to $15bn. Better start planning. Source: Banks scramble to fix old systems as IT ‘cowboys’ ride into sunset

The Register closes out it’s reporting on the rumor that Oracle was considering buying Accenture: ...spokeswoman Deborah Hillinger has since denied that an acquisition will take place, claiming: "The Accenture rumour is completely untrue. Never even considered it." Meanwhile, Dennis covers the many reasons why the deal wouldn’t make sense in the first place. The margin argument is always a good, quick one: ...consultants are not normally selling software solutions, but are selling the bodies and expertise needed to make the chosen solution work, the second part of this model.

Now that they don’t have to compete with AWS, they have an extra $300m floating around in the spreadsheets: "Ultimately now it's about how are we going to build a stronger company. If we don't have to go spend $300 million a year in capital competing against Amazon, building computing storage and networking, where should we go put that? In things like managed cybersecurity and professional services," said Rhodes. On OpenStack, finding the product/market for for private cloud:

In 2014, more than 93% of our transactions took place in stores, less than 7% digital. That season we had just started shipping from a small number of stores. In 2015, that same timeframe, digital sales reached almost 10% of our total sales. We more than doubled our ship-from store-capability to nearly 500 stores. We fulfilled 41% of all our digital orders inside of a store. For 2016, just a few months ago, just last year, digital sales climbed to 14%, more than twice what we did two years earlier.