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- The as-a-service business model
- Insurance policyFor many small businesses, why would you want to invest into hardware and have to maintain that infrastructure?... The reality is that software companies must move this model down to the small business and show how a "monthly fee" pay as you go can save so much more money...
- Tags: SaaS Model, business model
- Discussion threads 2009-10-05
- The as-a-service business model
- Other industries are starting to take a lead from SaaS and learning lessons from the 'as-a-service' business model - even though most ISVs are so behind the curve they still haven't the least idea what SaaS really entails. by Phil Wainewright
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, Business Model, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Strategy, Emerging Technologies, Management, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2009-10-05
- Cloud Storage for Cloud Computing
- The Cloud has become a new vehicle for delivering resources such as computing and storage to customers on demand. Rather than being a new technology in itself, the cloud is a new business model wrapped around new technologies such as server virtualization that take advantage of economies of scale and...
- Tags: Information Technology, Business Model, Cloud, Open Grid Forum, Server Virtualization, Strategy, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Storage, Servers, Hardware, Management
- White papers 2009-09-01
- Court upholds RealDVD injunction; supports outdated laws and Hollywood business model
- RE: Court upholds RealDVD injunction; supports outdated laws and Hollywood Just shows you who the government actually works for.So what's new? [NT].broken systemWe have a broken judicial system that repeatedly favors the rich and the powerful at the expense of the citizens.Judge acknowledges system is brokenNo mavericks in the court,....
- Tags: Strategy, Digital Millenium Copyright Act, business model, agreement, MPAA, DVD
- Discussion threads 2009-08-12
- Canonical walks the talk with Launchpad release
- Canonical walks the talk with Launchpad releaseOK. Now we're getting somewhere.Canonical/Ubuntu is nuclear fissionable material.It has mass, inertia, momentum and it is more symbolic than any other Distro of what drives open source Linux.To be fair though, I don't believe Ubuntu could have been as successful as it is without...
- Tags: Linux, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Canonical/Ubuntu, Canonical
- Discussion threads 2009-07-23
- Google moves to show YouTube has 'a very credible business model'
- Google moves to show YouTube has 'a very credible business model'google's aceThere's definitely something going on with YouTube that Google either doesn't want to or isn't ready to talk about. They keep on talking about this dependable business model, etc., etc., but so many people are calling it a bad...
- Tags: Strategy, Google Inc., YouTube Inc., business model, YouTube HAS
- Discussion threads 2009-07-20
- When you see Chrome OS think business model
- Chrome OS isn't an attack on anyone so much as it is an effort to crack the Netbook business model. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Business Model, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Strategy, Hardware, Management, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-07-10
- Free is not a business model
- Free is not a business modelPutting mium in free-miumHi Phil,Excellent post. I share your shock about people's mis-characterization of the importance of "free," particularly in SaaS business models.One minor comment on freemium models. As I talk to "Web 3.0" as you call it entrepreneurs, I realize that the...
- Tags: Strategy, Entrepreneurship, business model, advertisement, social networking
- Discussion threads 2009-07-06
- Free is not a business model
- Chris Anderson, author of the new book about giving stuff away free on the Internet, says that freemium is now the main business model of the SaaS industry. I'm not so sure, but I do think some applications will end up free at the point of use. by Phil Wainewright
- Tags: Business Model, Software As A Service (SaaS), Strategy, Internet, Emerging Technologies, Management, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2009-07-06
- Silicon Valley VCs proposed a plan to save newspapers in 1996
- At the recent SDForum 2009 Visionary Awards, Vinod Khosla, one of Silicon Valley's top VCs, gave an inspiring and very humble speech. How To Succeed In Silicon Valley By Bumbling And Failing... Afterwards, I...
- Tags: Silicon Valley, Business Model, Vinod Khosla, Foremski, Internet, Strategy, Management, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2009-07-01
- Disruptive technologies disrupt - goodbye newspaper companies
- Last week my Saturday Post was about how Internet based technologies have been used to create applications and services that devalue existing business models. It's a hugely disruptive process. [The Internet devalues everything it touches . . .] This trend is occurring because it can occur -- because...
- Tags: Craigslist, Business Model, Internet, Strategy, Management, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2009-06-27
- The cure for YouTube's ills: Charge for uploads
- Business models that revolve around "free" are never free since someone always foots the bill. Meanwhile, far more companies think they have more growth and scale to lower costs than they actually do. YouTube may be one of those companies that merely thinks it has the scale to eventually make...
- Tags: Google Inc., Advertisement, YouTube Inc., Business Model, Video, Jeffrey Lindsay, Hulu, Corporate Communications, Strategy, Marketing, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-06-01
- Conficker botnet stirs, with a scareware business model
- Conficker botnet stirs, with a scareware business modelGluttons for punishmentSo the Conlicker botnet only runs on Windows PCs? How long must Windows users put up with this stuff before Microsoft pulls the plug on Windows and starts over. I just don't understand why they can't make an OS without all...
- Tags: Operating systems, operating system, Conficker, business model, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2009-04-09
- Twitter still has no business model, and that's OK
- Twitter still has no business model, and that's OKThey already have a business model.It's called duping investors of their money...
- Tags: Strategy, business model, Twitter
- Discussion threads 2009-03-27
- Proprietary advantage the argument against health IT?
- Health turns out to have a lot in common with auto mechanics. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Information Technology, Business Model, Health Care, C|Net, Trinity, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-03-19
- Avalere research demonstrates business model point
- Avalere research demonstrates business model pointCall it "subsidized fee for service"The existing system is not a pure fee for service system which IMHO would be sustainable. but a fee for service system subsidized by employer and government provided health insurance. Since the price of anything is directly proportional to...
- Tags: Strategy, Channel management, Insurance, HEALTHCARE, Vertical industries, Benefits, Avalere, business model, service system
- Discussion threads 2009-03-11
- Avalere research demonstrates business model point
- Someone needs to talk straight with the American people. The present fee-for-service business model of medical practice is doomed. It is unsustainable. Call it Medical Home, call it coaching, call it the new Medicare, but medicine is moving to a per-patient wellness business model, one in which good healthIT is...
- Tags: Medicare, Business Model, Health Care, Avalere, Healthcare, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Management, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-03-11
- HealthIT benefits tied to changing business models
- The main goal of health reform is to transform business models. HealthIT is a carrot, it makes the new model profitable. But how many doctors will cross the business model bridge? by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Patient, Business Model, Health Care, HealthIT, Strategy, Benefits, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Management, Human Resources, Enterprise Software, Software, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-03-10
- How to make freemium pay
- At the heart of a 'freemium' business model is a notion that makes me viscerally uncomfortable: giving something away for nothing. But in the right hands, it can work well. Here are three examples of how it can work for SaaS providers serving the business market. by Phil Wainewright
- Tags: Premium Service, Business Model, Service, Helpstream, SlideRocket, Help Desk, Call Centers, Strategy, It Operations, Management, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2009-03-09
- Will telcos ever embrace open source?
- Will telcos ever embrace open source?You're not really discussing open source here.You're talking about the business model for the delivery of information.So when you write:The Internet itself grew up in defiance of the telcos. Its business model is anathema to them. Thus telcos and cable operators do all they can...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Network technology, open source, telecommunications company, Internet, cable, business model
- Discussion threads 2009-02-23
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