Author: Johannes Ernst

  • Very Nice VRM Article

    CRM Magazine has a very nice article about Vendor Relationship Management. Titled, “It’s Not Your Relationship To Manage”, it has plenty of quotes from Doc Searls and the VRM community. Not a hint of critizism that I can spot in a CRM magazine? VRM has come a long way. Congrats Doc!

  • Attending Big Data Workshop April 23, Mountain View, CA

    The first time I heard of an “unconference” I was very sceptical. No program? No speakers? What kind of conference is that? Well, it’s the kind of conference in which you skip sitting in the audience falling asleep because the speakers drone on or the panelists are just trying to get you to buy their…

  • Gluecon: Why The iPad Is Important

    Interesting take and very consistent with my series of posts on how computing is moving all around us: I truly believe that the models of human-computer interaction (”HCI”) that all of us grew up with are going to change dramatically in the next 3, 5, 7, 10 years. … the iPad is such an important…

  • NoSQL and the End of the SQL Cash Machine

    A techie debate is raging on the relative merits of relational vs. so-called NoSQL databases. I have a techie opinion and a stake in the debate, but in this post I’d like to make a business prediction that has nothing to do with the technical merits of one vs. the other at all. It’s only…

  • NoSQL and the End of the SQL Cash Machine

    From my other blog: NoSQL databases are a perfect disruptive technology in Clayton Christensen’s Innovator’s Dilemma model … I’m predicting that the relational database is going to die. Read more.