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- VCs put big sums into SaaS
- Several SaaS vendors have announced some big funding rounds the past couple of weeks, which suggests that SaaS is still able to command strong VC support where vendors can show good traction for their offerings. The three rounds that caught my eye were: Rearden Commerce, $100 million....
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, Rearden Commerce, Analytics, Sales Compensation, Intacct, Software As A Service (SaaS), Sales Force Management, Sales Strategy, Emerging Technologies, Sales, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-05-09
- Is there life after QuickBooks for intacct?
- Is there life after QuickBooks for Intacct?Can't see itYep, I agree. I don't think anyone has really succeeded against Intuit, even though 5 years ago everyone saw the opportunity to beat them on scalability, functionality and integration. Intuit has done a brilliant job, moving from limited, disparate products...
- Tags: Intacct, Intuit Inc., Intuit QuickBooks
- Discussion threads 2007-06-28
- Is there life after QuickBooks for intacct?
- A few months ago, I interviewed Mike Braun, CEO of Intacct, literally five minutes after he showed up for work on his first day at the company. Understandably, he wasn't able to say much at the time about what changes he planned to make at Intacct, but he did promise...
- Tags: Venture capital, ERP
- Blog posts 2007-06-28
- CEO switch signals change of pace at intacct
- CEO switch signals change of pace at IntacctIntacctI always throught that Bob Jurkowski was promoting Intacct at every chance he had. I saw him at every SaaS event over the past year or two. Bob was a great speaker at conferences and really had a great SaaS message....
- Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), Intacct
- Discussion threads 2007-02-02
- CEO switch signals change of pace at intacct
- On-demand ERP vendor Intacct has a new CEO at its helm today, its third in three years. Mike Braun has taken over from Bob Jurowski, who held the post for just under two-and-a-half years, and has now "decided to pursue other interests," according to the companys press statement. Jurowski joined...
- Tags: ERP, Intacct
- Blog posts 2007-02-01
- intacct Leverages the IBM Brand to Win O.J. Pipelines Deal
- O.J. Pipelines is one of Canada's largest gas and liquid pipeline contractors. The company was juggling multimillion-dollar projects and needed to reduce operating costs and more effectively collaborate with remote field teams. While O.J. Pipelines looked at other vendors and considered an in-house solution it chose Intacct's on-demand ERP applications,...
- Tags: Accounting, Brand, ERP, Canada, Back-office, IBM Corp., Intacct, O.J. Pipelines, Operational Accounting, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Financial Services, Enterprise Software, Finance, Software
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- CODA2Go and the economics of PaaS
- I had the opportunity to talk money last week with Jeremy Roche, CEO of CODA, the venerable UK-based business software vendor that has become the poster child for Salesforce.com's platform ambitions after the release at DreamForce Europe of its new on-demand financials application, built and delivered entirely on Force.com. Why...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Roche Holding AG, PaaS, On-demand, CODA2Go, Force.com, Coda, Sales Force Management, Sales, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- Zoho can come second and still win
- Earlier in the week I spoke with Raju Vegesna, evangelist with Zoho about the upcoming Zoho CRM for Enterprise. Larry Dignan has all the key facts and correctly surmises: Let's be clear about Zoho's motives: It wants to take on Salesforce.com's CRM, which Zoho portrays as bloated. I...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., CRM, Zoho CRM, Com, Raju, Sales Force Management, Sales, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-04-16
- Making cash with SaaS and Web 2.0
- Ever wondered why so many Web 2.0 or SaaS offerings are free or bundled? It's because the vendors can't work out how to bill for them. Don't believe me? Here are some real-life examples: A monitoring vendor that switched a $10,000-a-year data extraction option to free because...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Web, Software-as-a-service, Web 2.0, Billing, On-demand, Aria Systems Inc., Zuora, Software As A Service (SaaS), Emerging Technologies, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-03-13
- Another ERP vendor buys into middleware
- The scale may be different, but the same market forces that fueled Oracle's acquisition of BEA have sealed another acquisition announced today: that of SOA middleware vendor Cape Clear Software by on-demand enterprise applications vendor Workday also covered today here on ZDNet by Dan Farber and Dana Gardner. Increasingly, customers...
- Tags: Acquisition, Cape Clear Software, Oracle Corp., ERP, Workday, Integration, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Software As A Service (SaaS), Middleware, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Emerging Technologies, Enterprise Software, Software, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-02-06
- Software business model challenged by SaaS, says Plattner
- Remarks by SAP chairman and co-founder Hasso Plattner last week caused a bit of a kerfuffle back at SAP headquarters in Walldorf, Germany.Speaking last Tuesday at his own Hasso Plattner Institute in Potsdam, Plattner pictured said that "delivering software over the Internet would present a critical challenge to traditional business...
- Tags: SAP, ERP, Business models
- Blog posts 2007-07-04
- Salesforce.com/Siebel 2.0: Criticism and a Refutation
- Salesforce.com/Siebel 2.0: Criticism and a RefutationThis has been enjoyableJosh, although both EIs, we haven't had the occasion to exchange many ideas directly. I want to thank you for taking the time to thoughtfully address my concerns with your original take. I also want to say that it's been a long...
- Tags: Blogging, Sales force management, Josh
- Discussion threads 2007-05-25
- So much more than software, as a service
- Today, on-demand financials vendor Intacct teamed up with National Bank of California to announce an integrated solution for small businesses. It links electronic banking into Intaccts accounting and supply chain software suite so that customers can, for example, deposit checks electronically and have the cleared funds show up in their...
- Tags: on-demand, small business, software
- Blog posts 2006-11-20
- Office 2.0 meets the enterprise
- The morning discussions at the Office 2.0 conference centered on bringing 2.0 (Web, Office, Enterprise, Lunch, Dinner, and my favorite, Work, etc.) into the mainstream of business usage. CIOs and IT departments were singled out as gatekeepers who try to keep Web cloud applications from getting on their networks--lack of...
- Tags: Microsoft Office, Office 2.0
- Blog posts 2006-10-12
- Liveblogging SaaScon: CIO skepticism
- I was surprised yesterday in conversation with Bob Jurowski, CEO of on-demand accounting provider Intacct, to learn that his company is finding there are some CIOs who are now standardizing on the on-demand or SaaS model for delivery of their IT. "If you look at the world as a portfolio...
- Tags: Saas, on-demand
- Blog posts 2006-09-26
- 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
- Why business is driving SaaS adoption
- Why business is driving SaaS adoptionDirty rhetoricPhil I really must protest that you are playing very dirty here. Some people raise some very real question marks over some of the claims made by SaaS vendors and these get dismissed as being the product of fear, ignorance or blind conservatism.It seems...
- Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), SaaS Adoption, software-as-a-service, unstoppable tide, SaaS company
- Discussion threads 2006-08-17
- SaaS seeks definition with help from SIIA
- The US software industry's leading advocacy group has launched a much-needed initiative to define some key metrics around SaaS. Building on work begun at the SIIA as much as a year ago, the SaaS Executive Council launched yesterday PDF of release here and will be rolling out its programs over...
- Tags: Saas
- Blog posts 2006-07-26
- Siebel/Salesforce.com war of words update
- I checked in with Marc Benioff to get his response to Siebel exec Bruce Cleveland's note, which took issue with some of salesforce.com's claims about the Siebel/Oracle mating and said that Benioff was "running scared." First, Benioff told me that all the vendors will benefit from the shaking and moving...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Siebel Systems Inc.
- Blog posts 2005-09-16
- Workflow on demand
- One sign that the on-demand applications sector is thriving is when companies start to prosper on the back of it. One such company is Nsite, which last week announced a new $4 million slug of funding from its existing investors. Nsite helps automate the decision-making and approval processes that dog...
- Tags: NSITE, Nsite pricing, on-demand
- Blog posts 2005-09-02
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