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Automated PaaS migration now a reality

The first reports of Coghead customers successfully migrating applications to a new platform are starting to come through. Some automated tools even do instant migrations, a potentially ground-breaking innovation born of the necessity of Coghead's demise. by Phil Wainewright

Tags: Platform, PaaS, Migration, Coghead, Cloud Computing, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2009-02-27

Coghead

CogheadWell yes and no@phil - I see this as a symptom of immaturity coupled to the fashionista blindness the Valley culture engenders. Who thought that anyone would be stranded? After all, software companies never die - they just get acquired. And that usually meant customers, who would get looked after....

Tags: Coghead, SAP AG

Discussion threads 2009-02-23

Coghead's demise highlights PaaS lock-out risk

Coghead's new owner SAP will impose a lock-out from April 30, leaving all its current customers in the impossible position of having around eight weeks to completely rewrite all their applications on an entirely new platform. by Phil Wainewright

Tags: Software, Platform, PaaS, Coghead, Cloud Computing, Tools & Techniques, Management, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2009-02-23

Cloud Bursts as Coghead Calls It Quits

Cloud Bursts as Coghead Calls It QuitsCoghead's ???It is pity to watch such a product based company like Coghead going out of business. I personally feel nothing is constant.It is an opportunity for the competitors to grab Coghead's customer and partner them. Offering 6 months or 2 months free period...

Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), Managed hosting, cloud computing, Coghead, Cloud-burst, Coghead Calls

Discussion threads 2009-02-19

SAP snags Coghead

SAP snags CogheadGood to Hear!!Good to Hear SAP's smart move :-) This will definitely gear up.Cheers,Kathiravan Manoharanhttp://kathyravan.blogspot.comhttp://paisamechanic.blogspot.comRE: SAP snags CogheadDennis,The reason Coghead went bust was all to do with their lack of sales and marketing skills. The Force.com platform is still the only real ecosystem play for ISVs and Service...

Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), cloud computing, Strategy, Coghead, SAP AG, Force.com, information technology

Discussion threads 2009-02-19

SAP snags Coghead

SAP has acquired the assets of Coghead minus any of its customers following Coghead's demise. As Rafe Needleman says over at CNet, this paves the way for others to swoop in and sweep up stranded customers although there is some doubt whether this will work. I received a 'safe harbor'...

Tags: SAP AG, Coghead, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Firewalls, Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Networking, Software, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-02-19

Cloud Bursts as Coghead Calls It Quits

It's been a stormy week in Northern California with torrential rain and power cables downed. People used to flicking a switch and getting electric power have been deprived of that utility. Coghead, a web-based service for building and hosting custom online database applications...

Tags: Web, Intuit Inc., Customer, Coghead, Caspio, Software As A Service (SaaS), Channel Management, Cloud Computing, Operational Planning, Managed Hosting, Emerging Technologies, Marketing, Business Operations, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-02-19

PaaS embraces client access licensing

Platform-as-a-service is going through a similar rite of passage as conventional software did when it met the Web in the late 1990s - trying to work out the fairest way to license occasional users. by Phil Wainewright

Tags: Software-as-a-service, Enterprise Software, PaaS, Extranet, Coghead, Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Business Services, Pricing, Emerging Technologies, Marketing, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2008-07-23

Coghead Gallery signals new new opportunities for developers

Coghead Gallery signals new new opportunities for developersInterestingCoghead's model is interesting and I will want to wait to see how it evolves.This has the real benefit of making online applications more lightweight. BTW I must admit I don't understand the meaning of today's increasingly in use phrase 'cloud computing'.

Tags: Coghead, Coghead Gallery

Discussion threads 2008-04-15

Office 2.0: The future of applications

The application as we have known it is being redefined. During the Office 2.0 Conference, a panel of software vendors discussed the future of application and rise of Web-based applications with collaboration at the core. The panelists included Mark Bagley, vice president of technology at British...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Google Inc., Application, Office 2.0, Coghead, OpenSAM, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-09-07

JotSpot gets out just in time and gives into the G-borg

JotSpot gets out just in time and gives into the G-borgGoogle doesn't care about making money?It's big picture time - Google will make big time money out of this. The models have changed, and businesses have to understand you're not playing the same game as your opponents. That doesn't make...

Tags: Wiki, Quality, Groupware, Strategy, JotSpot, Google Inc., Coghead, JIT

Discussion threads 2006-11-01

Additional Resources

Microsoft Convergence 2009: Hybrid Technology

Hybrids are the buzz in the auto industry, and now hybrid applications may be the next buzz in technology, both in licensed, behind-the-firewall mode as well as developed and hosted in the cloud. I spent time with Brad Wilson, GM of Microsoft’s Dynamic CRM team, and some executives...

Tags: Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Chris Fletcher, Convergence, Dynamics CRM, Hybrids, It Operations, Management, Microsoft Corp., Team, Team Management, xRM

Blog posts 2009-03-12

Automated PaaS migration now a reality

Automated PaaS migration now a realityYou will probably see people gravitating to standards based platforms, and/or using wrappers to isolate things specific to a platform to aid in easy migration if and when necessary.The Ubuntu initiative to offer an open source platform if very interesting, so that companies might be...

Tags: Business process automation, Web services, PaaS, migration, BPEL, Automated PaaS, Automated PaaS migration

Discussion threads 2009-02-27

News to know: Microsoft's reversal, Obama's policies, MySpace, Apple netbook

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily.  For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft lets laid-off employees keep overpayments Sam Diaz: Microsoft backpedals on severance payback ...

Tags: Larry Dignan, Citrix Systems Inc., Mary Jo Foley, Apple Inc., SOA, Microsoft Corp., Sam Diaz, Netbook, MySpace, HL7, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware

Blog posts 2009-02-24

Intuit's chief on economy: Welcome to the 'new normal'

Intuit delivered second quarter results that illustrate that it is recession resistant, but a lot of the game plan revolves around cost cutting and innovating in a downturn. The rub: Intuit CEO Brad Smith doesn't consider the economic landscape a downturn per se, but a "new normal." ...

Tags: Revenue, Intuit Inc., Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-02-20

News to know: Google antitrust; Bin Laden; Yelp Mafia; HP pay

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily.  For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage Garett Rogers: Will Google be targeted by new Attorney General for Antitrust? Sam Diaz: Where's Bin Laden? New theory,...

Tags: Google Inc., Osama Bin Laden, Hewlett-Packard Co., Antitrust, Dana Blankenhorn, Matthew Miller, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Sam Diaz, Advertising & Promotion, Corporate Law, Pricing, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Public Relations, Marketing, Business Operations, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Corporate Communications

Blog posts 2009-02-20

PaaS embraces client access licensing

PaaS embraces client access licensingAt least they offer SSLI checked out this company and they seem to address a few of the concerns for PaaS and SaaS.That being SSL. So at least when communicating with your web apps it would take an unreasonable effort to sniff your data traffic.However I...

Tags: cloud computing, extreme user, PaaS, client access licensing

Discussion threads 2008-07-23

PaaS and the patent trolls

PaaS and the patent trollsSafety in the Long TailPhil - you are technically correct that a user could stumble into a patent infringement. But I believe these PaaS offerings for biz users such as Coghead will appeal most to the long tail of business apps - the apps that have...

Tags: PaaS, patent troll

Discussion threads 2008-05-29

PaaS and the patent trolls

Many of the emerging Platform as a Service offerings encourage business users or specialist business solution providers to create their own custom applications. From Coghead to Iceberg, Quickbase to Rollbase and Longjump to Zoho, the message is one of unlimited freedom to custom-build your own business process automation. ...

Tags: Patent, Patent Troll, PaaS, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2008-05-29

More SaaS ISVs to let enterprises have it their way on deployment models

More SaaS ISVs to let enterprises have it their way on deployment modelsOn demand or on-premiseYou raise a good point here - the problem is that the early crop of Platform as a Service vendors (e.g., SalesForce and Coghead) are offering proprietary hosting based on a proprietary development platform.This market...

Tags: Sales force management, deployment model, software-as-a-service

Discussion threads 2008-05-22