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- Enterprise software to grow 0.3% in 2009
- Worldwide enterprise software revenue is forecast to total $222.6 bln in 2009, reflecting a flat 0.3% growth rate from 2008 revenue of $221.9 bln, according to Gartner. by AM
- Blog posts 2009-04-02
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- Putting SaaS revenue in perspective
- Yes, but SaaS revenues aren't front-loadedComparing SaaS revenues with on-premises software revenue isn't very valid, as the on-premises providers count all the revenue up-front when they ship their CD or transmit the software, while SaaS recognizes all revenue (software-related and hosting-related) over the term of the contract.For enterprise customers, however,...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-18
- Understanding Enterprise 2.0 Tolerances & Scale
- We're at an interesting intersection in the collaboration world where projects both large and small tend to be discussed with the same terms. This can be very confusing to the lay person since it's hard to know what sort of scale is being described. ...
- Blog posts 2009-11-14
- Putting SaaS revenue in perspective
- Software as a service enterprise revenue is expected to hit $7.5 billion, up 17.7 percent from 2008, according to a report this week from Gartner. Now let's put that sum in context relative to enterprise software giants. by Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-11-11
- Figuring the value of software
- Phil Wainewright's discussion about the cost of running highly scalable SaaS applications like SuccessFactors comes at the right time. He says: Speaking in the opening keynote of SIIA OnDemand in San Jose this morning, SuccessFactors CEO Lars Dalgaard let slip a statistic that set several...
- Blog posts 2009-11-02
- SAP: Enterprise software market 'difficult'; Emerging markets weak
- SAP's third quarter was a mixed bag. Earnings were a touch better than expectations, but revenue and the outlook disappointed investors. Meanwhile, SAP said the software market showed "signs of stabilization," but remained difficult. by Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-10-28
- SAP Q3: sales down, profit up
- SAP's Q3 results demonstrate continuing softening in the enterprise software sales market. Revenues were down year on year by 31% to €525 million ($787 mill) from €763 million ($1.144 bn) in the same period 2008. Software and software related service revenues declined 3% or €57 million...
- Blog posts 2009-10-28
- The maintenance renewal landscape
- A small and therefore statistically dubious quarterly CIO survey undertaken by Kash Rangan's team at Bank of America Merrill Lynch published earlier this month makes revealing reading. On the general spending front, it should be no surprise that the survey believes CIO's are under spending relative...
- Blog posts 2009-10-23
- Google's Schmidt: Mimicking Office completely not 'a good use of our time'
- Commonsense! Please get rid of MS Office!Please do NOT copy anything MS Office has leavethis lethargic conglomeration of software vendorsMS purchased and created the 2G office suitethat is full of security holes.I hope they go their own route and NO one needsa office suite that cost $400+$700 for a companyseat...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-22
- SaaS: Shelfware as a service?
- Think the conclusions are a bit flawedI think we can all agree that SaaS saves operational expenses, increases agility and improves the user experience. I don't think the fact that Salesforce.com has been successful can be held against the category.The shelfware point is a bit more subtle. The...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-21
- Gartner in the dock over Magic Quadrant
- Persona Non GartnerOver the years, I've watched, participated in researching and experienced the results of the positing of Gartner's disclosures. My analysis is as follows:On any given subject at any given time, there is a .90 probability that the opinions expressed by Gartner will be either flat out wrong or...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-20
- Art of the software deal can get messy
- Software buyers and vendors are increasingly butting heads amid a budget squeeze and increasingly aggressive sales tactics, according to Gartner. In a series of presentations at the Gartner IT Symposium in Orlando, analysts walked buyers through a few negotiating tactics with the likes of SAP, Microsoft, Oracle,...
- Blog posts 2009-10-20
- News to know: Droid, Moffat, Android, Amazon, 3D HDTV, Net Neutrality
- 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. Andrew Nusca: Verizon unveils 30-second ad for Droid Android phone; slams iPhone Jason Perlow:DROID aims to make Apple...
- Blog posts 2009-10-19
- Oracle's big plan: Double revenue in five years
- Oracle capped off its OpenWorld conference with a powwow with analysts where management was described as extremely confident about the company's prospects. Although I'm not sure you could ever describe Oracle management as timid---does Larry Ellison allow that?---analyst notes seem to portray executives as exceedingly confident. Judging...
- Blog posts 2009-10-16
- Oracle Fusion - a damp squib
- Earlier in the week I speculated that Larry Ellison, CEO Oracle would make a monster announcement about Fusion apps. I was wrong. According to Sam Diaz, it's worse: Ellison spent some time talking about new Fusion applications coming down the pipeline. But first, Ellison said he recognized that companies...
- Blog posts 2009-10-15
- Oracle OpenWorld 2009 - Social CRM Technology Rears an Actual Head
- I am almost always in awe of Oracle OpenWorld. The scope of this conference is spectacular. Can you imagine an event that the attendance is down to 37,000 attendees? Actually, that puts me in awe of their event planners more than even the event. How in the name of whoever...
- Blog posts 2009-10-14
- News to know: Windows 7; IBM; Sony; Apple
- 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. Ed Bott: Measuring Windows 7 performance Dancho Danchev: Click fraud facilitating Bahama botnet steals ad revenue from Google ...
- Blog posts 2009-10-09
- News to know: AT&T; Apple; Google; Verizon; Microsoft
- 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. Dancho Danchev: Weak passwords dominate statistics for Hotmail's phishing scheme leak Larry Dignan: The Android army: Verizon Wireless, Google...
- Blog posts 2009-10-07
- Missing what open source cannot afford
- FOSS needs some town hallsto get free air time on the news and to educate the users on the perils of closed source.I have to disagree ...I'm not sure how isolated you are, but my experience with open source through OpenNMS has been quite different.Sure, companies like mine that are...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-30
- Revisiting RIM: Are the enterprise storm clouds brewing?
- In the context of the scenario...it could very well come down to iPhone v. RIM. If, as posited, businesses adopt a BYOP model. That kind of thing doesn't matter what wireless network your using, if they'll open exchange up for you to hook your iPhone to. Which may - and...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-30
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