On the consumerization of enterprise side I'm focused on productivity, particularly tools used across business units.
And given that the market may well be over-saturated for straight consumer business in the current market, "Gift cards are growing much faster on the enterprise side than on the consumer side," Leeds notes.
"The real fear is that local number portability [LNP] will really hurt the carriers on the enterprise side more than on the retail side," says Ken Hyers Ken Hyers, a senior analyst with telecom market research firm In-Stat MDR.
So what we do with that is, inside our box, we have… almost like an air gap process between handling everything on the merchant side, on the enterprise side, and then saying — once you've sorted everything out — then saying to the bank now do this transaction".
Those ideals are embodied by several new partners who've come aboard since it's last fund including John Lilly, Josh Elman, and Simon Rothman on the consumer side; Joseph Ansanelli and Jerry Chen on the enterprise side; and operators Jeff Markowitz, Dan Portillo, and Tom Frangione.
The weakness remains geographic specific on the carrier side and competition based on the enterprise side, he said.
What he's doing there is carefully positioning HP's relationship with Microsoft on new products going forward as being focused on the enterprise side of things.
There's a case to be made that Microsoft can continue to dominate far longer on the enterprise side of things, which are generally slower to move on new computing trends.
"If you're on the enterprise side of things, you want some of that".
And, to be honest, it's not much fun hanging out on the enterprise side of the software business.
