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From The Ashes Of Oracle's Hostile Takeover Of PeopleSoft, Workday Rose To Fight Back

Aneel Bhusri was a top executive and board member at PeopleSoft in 2004 when Larry Ellison's Oracle made its hostile takeover bid.

After they lost a bruising 18-month battle, he and cofounder Dave Duffield quietly left the company and nursed their wounds.

A few months later, they teamed up to start a competitor: Workday.

Like PeopleSoft, the company started by focusing on human resources, although it's also moving into financial management.

But unlike Oracle, which has been slow to get into cloud-based services, Workday has been based entirely in the cloud from day one.

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via www.businessinsider.com

A Community Cloud Strategy for the Education Enterprise -- Campus Technology

As the director of enterprise services at the Virginia Community College System, Matt Lawson has seen his institution's legacy enterprise systems and services transformed through the implementation of the system's cloud strategies. VCCS serves a large and diverse population and comprises 23 colleges, 40 campuses, and many satellite locations. The scale and distribution of enterprise services at VCCS offers a unique opportunity for the institution to leverage a community cloud strategy, both for cost efficiencies and for improved services.

Campus Technology asked Lawson to comment on the community cloud strategy at VCCS.

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via campustechnology.com

Silicon Valley Pioneer Sandra Kurtzig Back In Start-Up Game With Kenandy - Venture Capital Dispatch - WSJ

Not many people could walk into one of Silicon Valley’s most prominent venture capital firms, ask to see a partner, and have him talk you into letting him fund your company.

But former ASK Group founder Sandra Kurtzig, one of Silicon Valley’s first female entrepreneurs and the first woman to take a Silicon Valley technology company public, did just that, walking into the offices of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and getting an immediate meeting with Managing Partner Ray Lane. 

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---- So excited that Sandy Kurtzig has started this new company.  ASK was one of the best places to work in Silicon Valley and it's wonderful to see this brilliant woman partnering with Salesforce! I spent 5+ years at ASK and know that KENANDY is going to be a great success!  -----  More on KENANDY... 

http://kenandy.com/

 

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Learning in the Cloud - CLO Magazine

A good article on using the Cloud for learning. Advantages include:

• Scalability
• Stability
• Reduced cost
• Improved Usability
  
  
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