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July 1, 2012 05:00 pm GMT

Rise Of The Enterprise Toys

image00The enterprise software market has been uncharacteristically turbulent of late. Beyond several hefty funding rounds and well-performing IPOs, the ecosystem has experienced some major consolidation with SAPs purchase of SuccessFactors and Ariba, Oracles acquisition of RightNow and Taleo, and even IBMs multiple cloud additions. All totaled, weve seen more than $10 billion in enterprise cloud consolidation over the past three quarters.But Microsofts $1.2 billion acquisition of Yammer is a little different. Not just because it underscores the importance of social in the enterprise and cements Yammers rapid rise to more than a billion dollars in value. Rather, its different because it signals the severity of the disruption occurring in enterprise software disruption that will make it very difficult for incumbent vendors to hold on, and disruption thats coming from entirely new places and in new ways.

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