Rob Enderle

Both Samsung and Lenovo are moving to beat Apple. Lenovo is now ranked as the number one PC maker in the world and is stronger than Apple in China and other emerging markets, while Samsung has passed Apple in phones sales and is likely the firm that keeps Apple’s CEO, Tim Cook, up at night.   […]

As we watch Windows 8 move into market, we can increasingly see what was done right and what wasn’t. Clearly Windows 8, which is to a large extent a new OS, is technically not only very well turned out, but it is impressive in both its feature set and its quality. However, most of the […]

I’ve had a chance to work through some of HP’s allegations, and as an ex-IBM internal auditor, and one who was for a time focused on acquisitions, I found them chilling. What HP is alleging happened would have been near impossible to discover during due diligence and HP wasn’t exactly stable at the time. The […]

Boy, you talk about having a run of really bad luck. Over the last decade, HP has had the most incredible run of questionable decisions by ex-CEOs, board members and top executives, most of which are long gone from the company and yet the firm still is experiencing the fallout.   From Mark Hurd cutting the […]

Looking for a New Tablet? The Top Contenders in Today’s Market I’m traveling this week to Canada and this is the third week of living with the Microsoft Surface tablet. I still think it is the best tablet I’ve ever tried, but there are some interesting issues that I’ll bet the second generation addresses.   Let’s […]

While it often seems that in most companies data analytics is just another buzzword to be used to show a firm is trendy, but not implemented to make the firm more successful, EMC has gone down a much more interesting path. Jim Bampos leads the customer satisfaction effort at EMC and it is moving from […]

Both the Obama campaign and the Romney campaign used data analytics heavily, but while the Obama team insourced it using Harper Read and a team of hired and focused analysts, Romney chose to outsource the effort, relying on the firms TargetPoint and Buxton to create the data acquisition process and analyze the result. Details of […]

I’m at IBM’s analyst event this week and much of what is being said is convincing me that this is IBM’s lucky decade. HP appears to be in meltdown; Oracle has been caught repeatedly making false claims and its purpose to make its CEO wealthier at the expense of IT buyers has become far more […]

According to Rob Enderle, the top tablets in the market are very different from each other. Given the popularity of Apple products, it’s no surprise that the tablet to beat is the iPad 4. However, each of the contenders, including the iPad Mini, Microsoft Surface, Google Nexus 7 and Kindle Fire HD, has unique advantages […]

Twelve Best Practices for Mobile Device Management The top tablets are in the market and each is very different. The tablet to beat is the iPad 4 and each of these products has unique advantages over that offering. Of these tablets, the closest to a business tablet is Microsoft Surface, but since it comes with […]

The first technology wave was won by IBM and it was unbelievably powerful in the 70s and early 80s. Since then, there have been two big server revolutions: The first was from mainframes to client server configurations, and IBM was the big loser and Sun the big winner; the second was from RISC proprietary architectures […]

Right now, it is generally far easier for users to get services from Google, Amazon, Microsoft or a variety of questionable service providers than it is through their own IT department. Their frustration generally resides in a number of things: IT people often are connected more tightly to the technology they oversee than the business […]