ZDNet Resources
- VCs put big sums into SaaS
- Several SaaS vendors have announced some big funding rounds the past couple of weeks, which suggests that SaaS is still able to command strong VC support where vendors can show good traction for their offerings. The three rounds that caught my eye were: Rearden Commerce, $100 million....
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, Rearden Commerce, Analytics, Sales Compensation, Intacct, Software As A Service (SaaS), Sales Force Management, Sales Strategy, Emerging Technologies, Sales, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-05-09
- SaaSplaza opens European SaaS marketplace
- Europe's first pureplay SaaS hosting venture opened its doors last month with a roster of 50 vendors and integration partners on board and an estimated 1 million end user subscribers. Based in the Netherlands but with a Europe-wide reach, SaaSplaza projects its platform will generate more than €100 million (around...
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, Microsoft Corp., SaaSplaza, Siennax, SaaSplaza Venture, Software As A Service (SaaS), Emerging Technologies, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-05-08
- Interview: IBM Cognos chief Rob Ashe
- Rob Ashe, general manager of IBM's business intelligence and performance management unit, has had a busy year. He sold his company, Cognos, to IBM for $5 billion and has stayed on as a member of IBM's leadership team. Ashe's role day to day hasn't changed too much....
- Tags: Cognos Inc., Software-as-a-service, IBM Corp., Pricing, Tools & Techniques, Business Intelligence, Software As A Service (SaaS), Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Management, Software, Data Management, Emerging Technologies, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-07
- The four horsemen of SaaS
- Taleo's acquisition of Vurv, announced today, is a clear play by the SaaS vendor for breakout leadership of the people management sector — one of the hottest segments of the enterprise SaaS landscape, populated by fast-growing startups such as recent Nasdaq entrant SuccessFactors along with privately held Authoria, Cornerstone OnDemand,...
- Tags: Revenue, Acquisition, Software-as-a-service, Taleo Corp., Vurv, Software As A Service (SaaS), Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Emerging Technologies, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-05-06
- SAP's SaaS pull-out will help rivals in Europe
- The news that SAP has pushed back the roll-out of Business ByDesign by twelve to eighteen months should be music to the ears of its SaaS competitors, especially on SAP's home turf in Europe. By announcing its own SaaS product for the midmarket late last year, SAP put its stamp...
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, On-demand, NetSuite Inc., SAP AG, Software As A Service (SaaS), Emerging Technologies, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-05-02
- SAP Business By Design likely to be delayed
- Sketchy reports coming out of Germany are saying that SAP's Business By Design is likely to be delayed. According to Handelsblatt: An SAP developer speaking to Handelsblatt claimed (in German) that ByDesign was suffering from performance issues and bugs that would delay general availability until perhaps the end of...
- Tags: SAP AG, Sales Force Management, Software As A Service (SaaS), Sales, Emerging Technologies, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-04-28
- SaaS is the secret sauce for OpenProj
- Projity CEO Marc O'Brien called with his first update in a few months on OpenProj, the open source project management tool his company is pushing. The top line number is 1 million. That's how many OpenProj downloads he expects, just from Sourceforge, just this calendar year. ...
- Tags: Software, Software-as-a-service, Open Source, OpenProj, Line Number, Software As A Service (SaaS), Tools & Techniques, Project Management, Emerging Technologies, Management, It Operations, It service Management, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-04-21
- Intuit opens its QuickBase platform to developers; Plans to get SaaSy
- Intuit on Thursday will open its QuickBase platform to third party developers with the aim of creating a software as a service business that will launch this summer. QuickBase is a Web tool used by half of the Fortune 100 to collaborate, manage projects and customer data....
- Tags: Developer, Software-as-a-service, Intuit Inc., Intuit QuickBase, Intuit QuickBooks, Adobe Flex, Eclipse IDE, Software As A Service (SaaS), Emerging Technologies, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-16
- Traditional software licensing: Why you pay more and a look at your options
- It's hard to believe that some of the most profitable software companies in the world--Oracle, Microsoft and SAP--are sitting on a licensing model that is untenable in the long run and will increasingly irk customers. But there may be a revolution in the cards that could tip the balance of...
- Tags: Software, Software-as-a-service, Open Source, Software Company, Margin, Tools & Techniques, Software As A Service (SaaS), Management, Emerging Technologies, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-11
- Why Symantec bought Appstream (not)
- Of course we all know the real reason why Symantec is acquiring AppStream — a move announced yesterday at its user conference in Las Vegas. Virtualization is hot and Symantec is big in systems management. AppStream helps round out its offerings for packaging and streaming virtualized software. It's as simple...
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, Symantec Corp., AppStream Inc., On-demand, Software As A Service (SaaS), Security, Emerging Technologies, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-04-10
- The future of SaaS billing
- In the past few weeks, all of a sudden, I've been approached by any number of vendors wanting to tell me about their billing, settlement and subscriber management offerings to the SaaS market. I must say, it's about time. For the past ten years, SaaS vendors have struggled to manage...
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, Billing, LeCayla, Vindicia, Enterprise Software Buyer, Software As A Service (SaaS), Emerging Technologies, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-04-03
- Concerns raised over content ownership, terms with Adobe Photoshop Express service
- New questions are cropping up about the terms of use for Adobe Systems' new photo editing software service, Photoshop Express. The company says it owns the rights to some of the content you make with Adobe Photoshop Express. And then there's the Big Brother concerns. In the...
- Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Adobe PhotoShop, Question, Software As A Service (SaaS), Team Management, Emerging Technologies, Management, David Morgenstern
- Blog posts 2008-03-28
- Should doctors' offices go SaaS?
- The recent Misys-Allscripts deal highlights how many medical offices are starting to see the advantages of going SaaS. (Illustration from Eric Berto's blog at Etolos, an open source software vendor.) Software as a Service (SaaS) means that you really only need simple PCs in your office, with perhaps a...
- Tags: Software, Software-as-a-service, Software As A Service (SaaS), Tools & Techniques, Emerging Technologies, Management, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-03-28
- A New Way to Store and Recover Government Data
- Information is the lifeblood of government. It is no surprise, then, that improving data availability, recovery, and storage utilization are among the top concerns of organizations in the public sector. However, it often seems like the deck is stacked against the government, as it is not only creating new data...
- Tags: Symantec Corp., Storage, Data Security, Government, Software As A Service (SaaS), Vertical Industries, Security, Emerging Technologies, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2008-03-25
- Misys-Allscripts deal is all about SaaS
- The complex deal under which Misys Healthcare is acquiring 54% of Allscripts, which Allscripts executives will run, is all about Software as a Service, or Saas. With SaaS, the software you use is hosted on a remote server, and you access it through a Web browser, with...
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, Misys, Allscripts, Software As A Service (SaaS), Emerging Technologies, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-03-18
- Benioff: Platform as a service needs a decade to cook
- Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff reckons that its platform as a service initiatives will take about a decade to truly bake. Benioff made those comments in an interview with News.com's Dan Farber and Charles Cooper. The interview is worth a read given that Benioff and Dan usually have...
- Tags: Marc Benioff, Platform, Service, Application Servers, Sales Force Management, Software As A Service (SaaS), Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Sales, Emerging Technologies, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-03-17
- 31% of medium US businesses use SaaS
- Among US small and medium businesses , SaaS adoption is rising steadily, AMI Partners says. 21% and 31% of SBs and MBs currently use SaaS solutions, which is double the share of adoption in 2004. by AM
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, Software As A Service (SaaS), Emerging Technologies, AM
- Blog posts 2008-03-16
- Making cash with SaaS and Web 2.0
- Ever wondered why so many Web 2.0 or SaaS offerings are free or bundled? It's because the vendors can't work out how to bill for them. Don't believe me? Here are some real-life examples: A monitoring vendor that switched a $10,000-a-year data extraction option to free because...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Web, Software-as-a-service, Web 2.0, Billing, On-demand, Aria Systems Inc., Zuora, Software As A Service (SaaS), Emerging Technologies, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-03-13
- A plethora of PaaS options
- About that show of hands. I didn't expect my straw poll at last week's SaaS Summit would produce only two hesitant supporters for Salesforce.com's Force.com platform-as-a-service model out of a room full of two or three hundred ISVs. But this was a conference organized by specialist SaaS hoster OpSource, and...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Software-as-a-service, Others, Option, OpSource, Application Infrastructure, Application Builder, Software As A Service (SaaS), Web Hosting, Sales Force Management, Emerging Technologies, Internet, Sales, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-03-06
- Microsoft's Liddell: Yahoo could be SaaSy if management would talk to us
- Microsoft CFO Chris Liddell said Yahoo--assuming it is acquired by the software giant--will play a big software as a service role in the combined company. Liddell, speaking at the Morgan Stanley Technology Conference, said that "clearly, software as a service is going to be a bigger component...
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Enterprise Agreement, Software As A Service (SaaS), Emerging Technologies, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-03-03
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