The Best Cloud Companies and CEOs to Work For in 2013

Hiring great people and creating a culture of achievement that is fun, focused and able to get challenging tasks done is not an easy task.

Keeping that culture strong and focused on the customer takes a unique leader that consistently earns trust and respect.  Those are the qualities I think of whenever I’m asked to recommend the best cloud computing companies to work for.  Using the scores from Glassdoor.com I’ve put together the table below comparing cloud computing companies and when available, the percentage of employees who approve of their CEO.

If you’re not familiar with Glassdoor, it’s a website that gives employees the chance to rate their companies and CEOs anonymously, along with reporting salaries.  Friends in the Human Resources community tell me it’s an effective recruitment site as well.

Cloud computing companies are sorted based on the percentage of employees would recommend their company to a friend.  I added in CEO scores to get a sense of which companies have a significant gap between morale and the perception of the CEO.  As of today according to employee rankings, Microsoft has the largest gap between percentage of employees who would recommend the company to a friend (77%) and  CEO rating (48%).

The highest rated CEOs you’d want to work for based on their Glassdoor ratings are as follows, with their ratings shown as of today:

Jyoti Bansal of AppDynamics (100%)

Drew Houston, Dropbox (100%)

Aneel Bhursi, Workday (100%)

Scott Scherr, Ultimate Software (97%)

Jim Whitehurst, Red Hat (97%)

Larry Page, Google (95%)

Aaron Levie, Box (94%)

Marc Benioff, Salesforce (93%)

Tom Georgens, NetApp (92%)

Mark Templeton, Citrix Systems (91%)

Bill McDermott & Jim Hagemann Snabe, SAP (90%)

Courtesy – Louis Columbus

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Stop This….Its Enough Loss Already

Recent Hyderabad blast for me was beyond Human to Human Cruelty. Its tarnishing human dreams, hopes and futures….A Dream of a young athlete girl who wanted to run for her state and do her MBA; Hopes of a 24 year old of seeing their only son becoming a police officer, Future of family that were planning a Haj for their Father…..

And it seems after any such incidents the stories are same…of grief, pain and shame…

Is this religion, NO…..This is an act of people who don’t dare to come in front and stay in hiding…This is an act of people who are many thousands of miles away from any religion, country or even humanity….

Of course, it’s a shameful moment for my own inability to make any difference to stop this cruelty. I know what does a loss means and how one feels when the dreams get tarnished or simply taken away….If you can’t help someone to make or build his/her dream then you don’t have any rights of taking it away from anyone….

Stop This…..Don’t take Someone’s Dreams Away, even if yours were taken….

Where the Meteorite has hit since 2300 BC

Firstly, how they are able to go back to 2300 BC, well…..I don’t have a clue.

The Below map shows every meteorite earth hit (fell or found) since 2300 BC and its interesting to know how USA in general had to take the grunt of the Meteorite shower (Once you will click the below link and see it enlarge you will know what I am talking about). With over 34,000 meteorite hits on earth its joyful to see we all are still living….or at least most of us. Equally I am surprised to see to less activities in Amazon and Russia.

Though, a recent Russia meteor that was about 55 feet in diameter, weighed around 10,000 tons, and even the largest reported meteor since the one that hit Tunguska, Siberia, in 1908, according to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration; seems to be rare one for Russia according to the map below.

Its also baffling for me looking at the picture is so less meteorite landing in the oceans. Are they not recorded or is it they make so less of damage that its not worth recording.

You can see the full map here and find out if where you live has been struck. Though, either ways, keep looking at sky and be safe  

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/science/2013/02/19/russian-meteor-was-largest-in-century/#ixzz2LOR5fmSm

Why {Infographics} make a great marketing tool?

Mobile Apps in Education Sector

My friends at http://www.onlinephdprograms.com today shared an interesting infographic with me. We all acknowledge that we are witnessing a big shift in the “mobility device”, and of course, there is no signs of slowing it down. However, one area for me personally was how this can amend the education sector, and from the creator’s perspective, does it makes money.  I am happy to see with the inforgraphic below that its enabling both the above elements. Changing how we teach and equally making profit from that.

Though, I would certainly say that the potential of mobility devices is huge and I hope to see (in very near future) on how this is changing the education landscape in emerging and under developed countries.

Roundup of Cloud Computing & Enterprise Software Market Estimates and Forecasts, 2013

When the CEO of a rust-belt manufacturer speaks of cloud computing as critical to his company’s business strategies for competing globally, it’s clear a fundamental shift is underway.

Nearly every manufacturing company I’ve spoken with in the last ninety days has a mobility roadmap and is also challenged to integrate existing ERP, pricing and fulfillment systems into next-generation selling platforms.

One of the most driven CEOs I’ve met in manufacturing implemented a cloud-based channel management, pricing, quoting and CRM system to manage direct sales and a large distributor network across several countries.  Manufacturers are bringing an entirely new level of pragmatism to cloud computing, quickly deflating its hype by pushing for results on the shop floor.

There’s also been an entirely new series of enterprise software and cloud computing forecasts and market estimates published.  I’ve summarized the key take-aways below:

• Enterprise sales of ERP systems will grow to $32.9B in 2016, attaining a 6.7% CAGR in the forecast period of 2011 to 2016.   CRM is projected to be an $18.6B global market by 2016, attaining a CAGR of 9.1% from 2011 to 2016.   The fastest growing category of enterprise software will be Web Conferencing and Team, growing at a 12.4% CAGR through the forecast period.  The following graphic compares 2011 actual sales and the latest forecast for 2016 by enterprise software product category.  Source:  Gartner’s Forecast Analysis: Enterprise Application Software, Worldwide, 2011-2016, 4Q12 Update Published: 31 January 2013

• Enterprise application software spending will reach $158B by 2016, with 20.8% being spent on ERP systems, 13.4% for Office Suites and 11.7% on CRM.  The following table breaks out spending by category and CAGRs for 2011 – 2016.  Gartner is projecting that 38% of revenues in the forecast period will be from maintenance revenues, 17% from subscription payments.  Source:  Gartner’s Forecast Analysis: Enterprise Application Software, Worldwide, 2011-2016, 4Q12 Update Published: 31 January 2013

• Cisco is forecasting cloud spending in small and medium busineses (SMB) will reach $16B in 2015 growing from just under $5B in 2010.  The company has published two studies on SMB cloud adoption that are worth reading.   Source: SMB Public Cloud Adoption: Opening a Hidden Market Source: http://www.cisco.com/web/about/ac79/docs/sp/IBSG_RE_SMB-Public-Cloud-Adoption.pdf Sequel: http://www.cisco.com/web/about/ac79/docs/re/IBSG-RE_SMB_Cloud-Adoption_Sequel.pdf

• SaaS and cloud-based business application services revenue will grow from $13.5 billion in 2011 to$32.8 billion in 2016, achieving a  five-year CAGR of 19.5%. Source:  Gartner’s Forecast Analysis: Enterprise Application Software, Worldwide, 2011-2016, 4Q12 Update Published: 31 January 2013

• By 2014, IT organizations in 30% of Global 1000 companies will broker (aggregate, integrate and customize) two or more cloud services for internal and external users, up from 5% today.   Source: Predicts 2013: Cloud Computing Becomes an Integral Part of IT Published: 4 December 2012 ID:G00230929.

• In 2012, 36% of CRM applications in the CRM software market were delivered on software as a service (SaaS) infrastructure. Gartner forecasts that SaaS use will increase to 40% in 2013, and that the crossover point to more than 50% SaaS in the CRM market will be reached during 2016.  Source: Predicts 2013: CRM Goes More Cloud, Becomes an App, Has a New Leader and Changes Nam Published: 4 December 2012.

• SaaS-based CRM will grow three times as fast as on-premises solutions. The compound annual growth rate (CAGR) for all CRM software is forecast to be 9.1% from 2012 through 2016, and 15.4% for SaaS-delivered CRM during the same period. Source: Predicts 2013: CRM Goes More Cloud, Becomes an App, Has a New Leader and Changes Nam Published: 4 December 2012.

• Gartner predicts worldwide spending on Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) will grow from $1.58B in 2013 to $3.05B in 2016, attaining a 17.9% CAGR.   Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) will grow from $19.8B in 2013 to $32.8B in 2016, attaining a 13.4% CAGR.  Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) will grow from $9B in 2013 to $24.2B in 2016, attaining a 28.02% CAGR.  Gartner’s latest public cloud computing forecast is provided below. . Source: Public Cloud Services End-User Spending by Segment for Region, 2010-2016 (Millions of Dollars)  Source: Gartner (December 2012) Please click on the image to expand it for easier reading.

• In the latest Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Cloud Databases, Q4 2012, Microsoft, Amazon RDS, Amazon DynamoDB and Database.com were ranked market leaders.   Source and free downloadable reprint, courtesy of Microsoft: The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Cloud Databases, Q4 2012

• IDC is predicting Cloud Services and enablement spending will hit $60 billion, growing at 26% through the year and that over 80% of new apps will be distributed and deployed on cloud platforms.  Their predictions also are saying that 2.5% of legacy packaged enterprise apps will start migrating to clouds.  Source: Top 10 Predictions, IDC Predictions 2012: Competing for 2020 by Frank Gens. You can download a copy of the IDC Predictions here: http://cdn.idc.com/research/Predictions12/Main/downloads/IDCTOP10Predictions2012.pdf

Courtesy – Louis Columbus

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