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Choosing how to connect up the dots in 2.0: The pantheon of entities tagged 2.0 grew ever more bloated with the unveiling of 'Travel and Expense 2.0' at the business travel industry's annual convention in Boston this week.Concur was the vendor trying to thrust T&E management into 2.0 territory. But its press release headline misses the point about 2.0...; Tags: Web 2.0, Ecosystems, Business applications; Blog posts 2007-07-26
SIs putting product onto AppExchange: Microsoft partners wondering in the wake of last week's Worldwide Partner Conference how they'll adapt to the vendor's evolving 'Software plus Services' strategy may be enheartened by the experiences of some leading Saleforce.com partners. It seems that the SaaS model really does make it easier to create reusable code, which...; Tags: Ecosystems, CRM, Business models; Blog posts 2007-07-16
Microsoft CRM Live: still a lot to learn: Undercutting Salesforce.com is an obvious ploy for Microsoft to attempt with its CRM Live product, so the pricing it announced today shouldn't come as any big surprise. Salesforce.com has always priced at the high end of what it could get away with, and it's benefitted from five years of being...; Tags: Salesforce.com, Microsoft, Ecosystems, CRM, Business models; Blog posts 2007-07-10
How SaaS changes the SI universe: Is SaaS disruptive enough to shake up the systems integration business as ferociously as it promises to shake up the software business? SIs that specialize in SaaS are banking on it. In the past few months I've had some interesting conversations with two leading Salesforce.com partners who believe they're building...; Tags: Ecosystems, Development; Blog posts 2007-06-12
SaaS integration without the lock-in: After reading my post about Appirio's eat-your-own-dogfood SaaS integration at the weekend, Zach Nelson of NetSuite wrote me an email to point out some of the downsides when integrating many different services in the way that Appirio has done:"How much would it cost to do what you described, and how...; Tags: Ecosystems, Development, Integration, Mashups, NetSuite, Uncategorized, Web 2.0; Blog posts 2007-05-16

How is AppExchange really doing?: After last months AppExchange announcements, I thought it might be a good moment to try and take stock of Salesforce.coms application platform and how well or otherwise its been doing. Some observers, such as ZDNet blogger Joshua Greenbaum, suspect that AppExchange is all hype and no revenue. At the opposite...; Tags: CRM, Ecosystems, Marketplaces, Salesforce.com; Blog posts 2007-05-10
Salesforce.com's Koral buy changes the game: Thank you Salesforce.com. Your acquisition of AppExchange partner Koral will certainly liven up the keynote discussion Ill be moderating at next weeks SaaScon show in Santa Clara, CA, entitled Understanding SaaS Platforms and Ecosystems. Im sure panelist Rene Bonvanie, general manager of AppExchange and developer relations will face some...; Tags: Salesforce.com, Collaboration, Web 2.0, Ecosystems; Blog posts 2007-04-11
NetSuite joins the eBay ecosystem: On-demand business automation provider NetSuite today adds eBay integration to its ecommerce functionality, giving customers direct visibility into and control over their eBay listings and transactions from within the NetSuite application. The integration takes advantage of eBays web services API, which provides direct programmatic access to the companys online auction...; Tags: eBay, Ecommerce, Ecosystems, ERP, NetSuite; Blog posts 2007-02-15
Will WebEx Connect challenge SFdC's AppExchange?: Financial results from on-demand collaboration vendor WebEx got a warm welcome yesterday on Wall St, which bid up the stock price 21% over the course of the day. The reaction was probably down to simple financial metrics: WebEx maintained its growth momentum, increased its operating margins and said it expected...; Tags: Ecosystems, Collaboration, WebEx, WebEx Communications Inc.; Blog posts 2007-02-02
What flavor is your ecosystem?: Marc Benioff, explaining Salesforce.coms programmable new Apex platform to Dan Farber last week, likened it to Windows: "We want to have the same open environment and to create competition." He genuinely wants the world to write its applications to Apex — even on-demand ISVs who are already well-established in their...; Tags: Salesforce.com, Ecosystems, Marketplaces, Web 3.0; Blog posts 2007-01-30
Reuse, redundancy and the chasm 2.0: Reuse has been a constant and yet elusive goal throughout the history of software. Today its a key part of the argument for adopting SOA, SaaS and Web 2.0. But I have a feeling that people approach it with one of two contrasting mindsets, only one of which is destined...; Tags: SAP, Salesforce.com, Ecosystems, Web 2.0, Marketplaces, Development, mindset; Blog posts 2007-01-16
Microsoft Dynamics CRM faces all ways: It looks as though Microsoft aims to catch just about every wave out there with the launch of Titan, codename for the next version of Dynamics CRM. The products most notable claim to fame is a host-me, host-you multitenant architecture that can either be deployed in a conventional on-premises mode...; Tags: CRM, Microsoft, Architecture, Ecosystems, host-me, on-demand, partnership; Blog posts 2007-01-11
SaaS in 2007: It's about services, doh!: In my trio of predictions for SaaS in 2007, Ive saved the biggest trend till last. The coming year will see a growing acknowledgement that SaaS is just part of a wider move towards Internet-based automated services. This is such an all-embracing trend that it will drive several other sub-trends,...; Tags: basics, Ecosystems, Business applications, Saas; Blog posts 2007-01-02
Reality pricks the Second Life property bubble: Did we learn nothing from the dot-com bust? Its just five years after everyone woke up to the absurdity of investing in loss-making petfood retailers promoted by sock-puppets and other wonders of the dot-com bubble. Yet the only advance we seem to have made is that our financial naivety has...; Tags: Second Life; Blog posts 2006-11-23
What's next for SaaS?: Aggregation, integration, mashup platforms and ecosystems are going to be hot topics in software-as-a-service circles next year, according to a group of vendor CEOs who sat on a panel at the SIIAs OnDemand Summit in San Jose earlier this month. I was intrigued to hear how much unanimity there was...; Tags: Saas, Business applications, Ecosystems, Marketplaces; Blog posts 2006-11-22
Huge jump in SaaS adoption plans: Speaking on a panel at todays SIIA OnDemand Summit in San Jose, Abhijit Dubey of McKinsey revealed that a new survey by his organization has found that the proportion of CIOs considering adopting SaaS applications in the coming year has gone from 38% a year ago to 61% now. "Thats...; Tags: Market research, Ecosystems, Venture capital, Saas; Blog posts 2006-11-08

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Venture Arctic (dmg): Caribou and Wolves roam the tundra while Polar Bears and Orcas patrol the icy seas in this eco-friendly video game. The player must harness the forces of sun, snow, and wind to create balance in these fragile ecosystems. Global warming, extinction, and deforestation threaten to undermine the food chains that...; Tags: Pocketwatch Games, Games, Food & Beverage, Corporate Communications, Personal Technology, Manufacturing, Marketing; Software downloads 2008-07-08
Ticking bombs in enterprise land: I believe the enterprise software industry is heading for major problems. It started when I read Francine McKenna where she talks about what she sees as a doomsday scenario for at least one of the Big Four audit businesses. Francine's focus is on questioning the effectiveness of current methods for...; Tags: Software, Audit, Francine, Tools & Techniques, Financial Accounting, Management, Finance, Dennis Howlett; Blog posts 2008-07-07
More information on Yahoo's BrowserPlus: More information on Yahoo's BrowserPlusWebtop ConvergenceSeems as though we're not moving toward hybrid applications as much as we're moving into hybrid environment/ecosystems/frameworks that let us design, develop, and integrate our online/offline experiences.Answer 1/2Ryan as an Adobe employee you don't have to comment on my.. comment and I have to admin...; Tags: Yahoo BrowserPlus, Adobe Systems Inc., Adobe AIR, Fit Client, Yahoo! Inc.; Discussion threads 2008-05-29
The key to Windows success? It's all about the drivers: The key to Windows success? It's all about the driversTrialware payolaSo I read Item#5 as something of curiosity in terms of who pays and who gets. So if Widget Mfg. installs Widgette software as trialware, Widgette pays Widget Mfg. a fee to get into the installation rotation? Then...; Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista, Widgette, Widget Mfg, Microsoft Corp., OEM; Discussion threads 2008-05-13