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SAP's John Wookey: the task ahead

Phil Wainewright has provided a first take on John Wookey, SAP executive VP's saas strategy session at SIIA Europe. As Wookey outlined the strategy, I could not help but feel 'about time.' SAP has been dancing around the whole saas/on-demand topic for some time. On the one hand it came...

Tags: On-demand, SAP AG, Frictionless Commerce, Phil Wainewright, Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-06-10

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Oracle jumps into the SaaS market with SaaS Sourcing

Oracle announced today that it is now selling SaaS sourcing products.  As the number two company in the Supply Management market, this product is long overdue.  SAP acquired Frictionless Commerce back in 2006, while Ariba - the best of breed SaaS market leader - acquired Procuri in 2007.      ...

Tags: Mickey North Rizza

Blog posts 2009-03-09

Billion dollar SaaS sectors

Billion dollar SaaS sectorsFact Checking 101I completely understand that your post was intended to fuel debate. But your position is drastically undercut by your representation of traditional installed application providers as SaaS providers.As a reminder to your readers, SaaS is about an entirely new business philosophy in which applications, content,...

Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), Supply chain management (SCM), Billion-dollar SaaS

Discussion threads 2006-09-25

Billion dollar SaaS sectors

The drawback of having Salesforce.com as such a dominant figure in the SaaS industry is that many casual observers form the erroneous impression that SaaS is just a handful of companies, largely confined to the CRM sector. Nothing could be further from the truth. To see the full extent...

Tags: Saas

Blog posts 2006-09-24

SAP's services roadmap

Since I'm frequently less than kind to SAP, for once let me hand out some plaudits to the company on the heels of its acquisition of Frictionless Commerce last week. Its pragmatic approach to software services may not be one that I agree with, but if I were running SAP,...

Tags: SAP AG

Blog posts 2006-05-22

Ether calling Edgeio

New companies, many under the Web 2.0 umbrella meaning not boring Web pages or siloed services, are popping up. I expect many more at ETech next week in San Diego, where I will be sampling the wares. Among the recent services now available to the public are Ether and Edgeio,...

Tags: Edgeio, Ether

Blog posts 2006-03-01