Articles by Nick Kolakowski

• Windows Phone Will Take 4 Percent Market-Share in 2012: Report

  [caption id="attachment_2661" align="aligncenter" width="580"] Windows Phone 8[/caption] Despite a massive advertising push in conjunction with partners such as Nokia and AT&T, Microsoft’s Window…
• Microsoft Introduces 'Napa' Toolset for Cloud App Model

  [caption id="attachment_2655" align="aligncenter" width="618"] Microsoft's "Napa" toolset is meant for developers interested in building apps for Office and SharePoint 2013.[/caption] Days after…
• SAP's Net Margin Analysis Shines a Light on Hidden Costs

  [caption id="attachment_2537" align="aligncenter" width="485"] A screenshot from SAP's Net Margin Analysis application.[/caption] SAP’s new Net Margin Analysis application relies on data analytic…
• Cloud Billing as Subscription Commerce Strategy

  As companies host more and more of their services through different web-based, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platforms, one service that has fallen under the radar is billing. Generally thought of…
• New York City Kicks Off Payphone Hotspot Experiment

  Whatever your opinion of New York City as a whole, it’s hard to argue that the local government doesn’t occasionally come up with an interesting public-works project. This latest one is a good ex…
• Microsoft Transforms Windows Server Into Cloud Host

  If anyone had any doubts that Microsoft views Amazon as a potential threat to its cloud strategy—or at the very least, that it desperately wants Amazon’s cloud customers—then the company’s recent…
• Business Analytics Market Will Hit $50.7 Billion by 2016: Report

  Worldwide spending on business-analytics software will hit $50.7 billion by 2016, according to a new report from research firm IDC. Furthermore, IDC predicts that the business-analytics market wi…
• Dropbox’s Upgraded Services Face iCloud, Google Storage, SkyDrive

  Although it remains a popular option for cloud-based storage, Dropbox faces a number of new and robust competitors for its customers, including Google Storage, Apple’s iCloud and Microsoft’s reva…
• Microsoft's Office 365: Success or Failure?

  Is Microsoft’s Office 365 a success? A little over a year after its cloud-based productivity suite hit the market, Microsoft still isn’t sharing much in terms of customer data. The company claims…
• Oracle Plans to Acquire Social-Marketing Firm Involver

  [caption id="attachment_2430" align="aligncenter" width="536"] Involver offers a platform for managing and monitoring social networks.[/caption] Having launched its enterprise cloud, Oracle finds…