Daily Links 5/21/2012: SAP integrates Sybase; Motorola Mobility busy at Cable Show on eve of Google deal close

NetSuite and SAP: a tale of three development modalities (Dennis Howlett/ZDNet Blogs)

SAP Swallows Sybase, CEO John Chen's Role Uncertain (Information Week)

SAP Business ByDesign: an integral part of SAP’s Cloud portfolio (SAP on the Cloud)
by SuccessFactors CEO Lars Dalgaard,

VP of Palo Alto's SAP Arrested in LEGO Bar Code Scam (NBC Bay Area)


Motorola Mobility Says $12.5B Google Deal To Close Tuesday Or Wednesday. Layoffs Coming? (TechCrunch)
How will Motorola's Horsham operations be effected?

Motorola reinvents the TV interface with DreamGallery concept (video) (Engadget)
This is a big product for Motorola Mobility. Will it fit into Google's TV plans?

Cable Show 2012: Motorola's Moloney: 'We'll Still Be Here Tomorrow'
Exec Says Google Intends to Run Division as a Standalone Business (Multichannel News)

Fred Wilson: We invested in DuckDuckGo for the Reddit, Hacker News anarchists (VentureBeat)



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Philly Tech People News 5/20/2012

Campbell Soup Company Names Adam Kmiec Director, Digital Marketing and Social Media (Business Wire)

Adobe Names Three New Members to Its Board of Directors (Business Wire)
One of them is Amy Banse, managing director and head of funds for Comcast Ventures.

QlikTech CEO joins Alfresco Board (QlikPower's Blog)

WVT Communications Group Strengthens Management Team With Appointment of Panasonic Executive as Chief Marketing Officer (Marketwire)

Introducing Quewey’s CEO, David Luk (Quewey: The Blog)


Harmelin Media promotes John Camilleri to Senior Vice President (Philly Ad Club News)

DeVry University Appoints Joyce Wheatley as Philadelphia Metro President (Business Wire)

Villanova University Appoints Patrick G. Maggitti, PhD, as The Helen and William O'Toole Dean of the Villanova University School of Business (Business Wire)

City Year Names Arthur R. Block of Comcast Corporation the 2012 Idealist of the Year (Business Wire)


Todd Merry Named Chief Marketing Officer for Delaware North Companies (Delaware North Press Release)
Joins Delaware North from Unisys.

Bentley Systems Honors Tom Lazear With Inaugural Bentley Institute Lifetime Achievement Award (Business Wire)




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China signs off on Google's acquisition of Motorola Mobility, deal to close shortly; Gruber jumps ship

China clears Google, Motorola merger: Deal to close 'within days' (ZDNet Blogs)

John Gruber jumps ship (Fortune Tech)

Newtown-based Freedom OSS named subcontractor to Lockheed Martin on Army Private Cloud project

Tom Paine

Newtown-based Freedom OSS has been named a subcontractor to Lockheed Martin on a project to build a Private Cloud environment for the Army, according to a Freedom OSS press release issued last month. The project aims to consolidate Army data centers from more than 200 to fewer than 20, acccording to the Army's original RFI for the contract. Other vendors for the contract, which has an anticipated period of performance of one year with four optional one-year periods and an estimated ceiling of $249.8 million, include IBM, HP Enterprise Services, General Dynamics, and Northrop Grumman.

I didn't know exactly what had happened to this company. About one and 1/2 years ago I wrote a brief note about the interesting things Freedom OSS was doing in the Cloud with SAP and Amazon Web Services. Then it was like they almost disappeared for a while, and I couldn't find anything about them. The press release gives no indication of how much of the Lockheed portion of the contract might involve Freedom OSS.

Freedom OSS builds cloud platforms for customers with an emphasis on meeting security and compliance requirements.



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Daily Links 5/18/2012: Salesforce.com Reports Torrid Q1 Growth, Slams SAP

Schilling bad pitch (NY Post)
Report: Rubber check for $1 million payment by his video game to Rhode Island.

SAP Gets Serious About The Large Enterprise Application Cloud (Forrester Blogs)

Salesforce.com Reports Torrid Q1 Growth, Slams SAP (Information Week)

Janney planning 5-10 percent adviser growth: CEO (Reuters)

Bentley Introduces Shared 'OpenRoads' Information Modeling Functionality in InRoads, GEOPAK, and MXROAD V8i (SELECTseries 3) (Business Wire)

Motorola Mobility Showcases the Evolution of TV and a Smart, Simple Connected Home at The Cable Show 2012 (PR Newswire)


For This Social Enterprise Accelerator in Philadelphia, It's All About Rigor (Forbes)
GoodCompany Ventures' application deadline is Monday.



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Daily Links 5/17/2012: Philly Fed Index in sharp downturn; Comcast experiments with tiered broadband pricing

Comcast tries tiered data pricing, continues fight with Netflix (LA Times: Company Town)

Comcast answers data cap questions
"We're out of the cap business," Comcast says. (Ars Technica)

What's Comcast cooking for The Cable Show? (FierceCable)

Facebook To Start Trading At 11 A.m. Friday, Nasdaq Says
(Fox Business)

Philly Fed factory index turns negative in May
Manufacturing activity shrinks in May for first time since September (MarketWatch)
Rather dramatic change.

Philly Fed Undercuts the Growth Picture (Wall Street Journal: MarketBeat)

May 2012 Philly Fed Business Outlook Survey

The cult of code-writers, and no-bid contracts
(Dave Davies/Newsworks)

Verizon plans price hikes for Fios, wireless users (CNET News)

Salesforce.Com Tops Estimates As Corporate Deal Sizes Increase (Bloomberg)
Seems to defy some recent reports suggesting slower momentum in Salesforce's partner ecosystem.



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Sapphire 2012 Wrapup

Good news for SAP HANA developers: free is a four letter word (Dennis Howlett/ZDNet Blogs)

SAP Releases Visual Intelligence, Innovates in BI (BIScoreboard)

SAP Builds Ecosystem To Boost Hana
SAP forges closer ties with Intel, IBM, analytics vendors, and systems integrators to jump start its in-memory database. (Information Week)

For Univ. of Kentucky, SAP's HANA is 'disruptive' (Computerworld)

Sapphire 2012 (Jeff Nolan/Enterprise Irregulars)



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News from SAP's SAPPHIRE NOW 5/16/2012: SAP demos huge HANA setup; launching QlikTech-like product?

SAP Considers External Candidates to Oversee Personnel (Bloomberg)

SAP Chairman Plattner Courts Startups, Asian Customers (Bloomberg)

SAP Sapphire: Hasso Plattner talks in-memory computing, slams Oracle (ZDNet Blogs)


SAP Catches Data Visualization Wave
SAP Visual Intelligence, debuting Wednesday, taps into two hot trends in BI and analytics. (Information Week)
Entering QlikTech's space?

SAP puts its HANA in-memory database in the spotlight (Computerworld)

SAP Cloud Exec: Not Much Has Gone Right With Business ByDesign (CRN)

SuccessFactors Leading SAP Cloud Away From Business ByDesign (Information Week)

SAP has a new star (Fortune Tech)

SAP Almost Killed A Cloud Product That It Now Says Is Super Important (SAI: Enterprise)



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Daily Links 5/16/2012: FCC asks pointed questions of Verizon on spectrum deal; Comcast launching Skype on Xfinity

Comcast fires back over Xfinity TV on Xbox 360, says no way, no how it's violating net neutrality (Engadget)

FCC to Verizon: what's wrong with that spectrum you never built out? (Ars Technica)

DirecTV accuses Verizon of 'abandoning initiatives that would compete with cable' (FierceCable)

Comcast's Skype on Xfinity adds video calling to HDTVs for $9.95 a month (The Verge)

Mulesoft's Cure To SaaS Integration Headaches (Information Week)
A Dell Boomi competitor.

How to build a vibrant cloud community (ZDNet Blogs)
Guest post by Dell Boomi's Rick Nucci.

TicketLeap partners with ABC reality star Daymond John (TicketNews)

Quality Systems, Inc. Acquires the Poseidon Group, Inc.
Acquisition extends NextGen Healthcare's Inpatient Solutions to Hospital Emergency Departments (Business Wire)
NextGen Healthcare is based in Horsham.

Dow Electronic Materials Expands its LED Technologies’ Portfolio to Include Specialty Phosphor Technology (Business Wire)


PA Securities Commission Warns of Potential Dangers of Crowdfunding Investments Promoted Online (PR Newswire)

Einhorn Says Amazon’s Future a ‘Riddle’ After Profit Lags Sales (Bloomberg)



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News from SAP's SAPPHIRE NOW 5/15/2012: SAP unveils Cloud strategy; some might still be confused

SAP chief makes hard sell (The Australian)

SAP Unveils Accelerated Cloud Strategy (PR Newswire)

SAP Lays out Cloud Strategy Post-SuccessFactors Deal (PC World)

SAP Faces Uphill Battle On Database, Mobile, Cloud (Doug Henschen/Information Week)

SAP Plays Social Collaboration Game By Own Rules (Information Week)

SAP’s Facebook for Companies Trails IBM in Soaring Market (Bloomberg)

Daily Links 5/15/2012: After pivot, Storably now Curalate, with funding from FRC, NEA & MentorTech

Look Out: Pinterest Marketing Platform Curalate Lands $750k Seed From NEA, First Round, MentorTech (TechCrunch)
Curalate is based in Philly.

Pinterest Prompts a Start-Up’s Pivot: Meet Curalate, an Analytics Engine for Images (All Things D)

Facebook Boosts IPO Price Range (Fox Business)

Exclusive: New Google+ Study Reveals Minimal Social Activity, Weak User Engagement
(Fast Company)
Study conducted by Philly-based RJMetrics.

Symphony Technology Group Acquires Source Healthcare Analytics From Wolters Kluwer; Will Combine With ImpactRx, TargetRx and AlphaDetail to Create Symphony Health Solutions (Marketwire)
PE firm continues to roll up Pharma marketing analytics companies around Horsham-based ImpactRX.

Coalition formed to oppose Verizon spectrum deal (The Hill)

T-Mobile USA's Philipp Humm announces restructuring, 'difficult decisions' to staff (The Verge)

Bentley comes to Center City (Philly.com: Philly Deals)
Says it will add up to 50 jobs at new office over the next couple of years.

Bentley Acquires InspectTech, Leading Provider of Software-as-a-Service for Bridge Safety
(Business Wire)

Dell adds secure application data synchronization to cloud portfolio (through Boomi) (Betanews)

Veeva Systems Announces New Cloud-Based Customer Interaction Repository for the Global Life Sciences Industry (Business Wire)

Life & Annuity Industry Veterans and Technology Innovators Chris Doggett and Chris Gali Launch Adminovate (Business Wire)
AdminSever (sold to Oracle) founders launch new Philly startup.

NetSuite Moves to ‘Commerce as a Service’ (New York Times: Bits)




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