• Holiday season sales online down just 1% despite 5 days shopping missing vs 2007

    According to ComScore, this online holiday season is impacted by 5 fewer shopping days this year compared to last year. The impact seems to be contained to 1% decrease. The increased average online spending per day between Thanksgiving and Christmas ($643M, up 5% from last year) does not compensated for 16% decreased number of shopping… Read more

  • 2009 IT Trends: can community based IT services on the cloud help?

    As 2009 sets itself to unfold, major IT trends are starting to shape our future.In a nutshell we should be watching: Green IT Expense Cutting Cloud Computing Virtualization Mobile Computing SOA/WOA Leaning Architecture Social Software, Enterprise 2.0 and Communities It’s going to be tough and only those who can go beyond their fears and control… Read more

  • Do you see the elephant?

    http://cl1.clipster.ws/sf/flashcount.php?a=lp&cpath=DSG20080070070&cfile=elephant01_00&cid=4&pid=0You know I usually never discuss matters directly relating to the company I work for, but today I need to make an exception.I was fortunate enough to participate to the public launch of Sage ERP X3 in Germany. Kudos to the team! Big milestone in our expansion, well prepared, executed with fun.So here is why… Read more

  • What are the key forces driving to Enterprise 2.0 transformation?

    Tectonic forces displacing enterprise applications boundaries are very diverse, I don’t pretend to be exhaustive here, but I’d like to highlight the ones having in my opinion a significant impact: Ubiquitous good quality (bandwidth) web access – check broadband stats – encouraging employees mobility Web crazy expansion (5.5M new users per week, 1.3B Internet users… Read more

  • Mobile Web 2.0 revenues to reach $22.4B in 2013

    Fellow Marketers, I know I’ve been busy like crazy since a while but let’s believe that I’ll be back here with more regularity.I’ve been tracking Internet users growth since Scott McNealy, in one of his colorful keynote, reminded all of us that the Internet was still growing fast. Most of us in the western world… Read more

  • Music, Video and Software business models paradigm shift underway

    When did you last buy a CD? I didn’t buy one for a pretty long time and the last one I bought was from an artist I like nearly every single piece of work he creates, Pat Metheny. Is then the music business going away for a free show? Of course not, because one buys… Read more