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- LucidEra's demise is about money, not SaaS
- LucidEra's demise is about money, not SaaSLucidera's DemiseAs one of the early adopters of Lucidera, I can say that we believe that BI in the cloud is a viable business offering. One of the challenges is to provide a platform with hooks into as many potential data sources as...
- Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), Pricing, Managed hosting, Business intelligence, Tools & Techniques, cloud computing, LucidEra, software-as-a-service
- Discussion threads 2009-07-14
- LucidEra's demise is about money, not SaaS
- Contrast reactions to the shutdowns this week of SaaS BI vendor LucidEra and airport security fast-track channel operator Clear. They tell us a lot about the fragility of startups; nothing about the viability of SaaS. by Phil Wainewright
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, LucidEra, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2009-06-24
- CRM 2009 - Companies to Watch For - Part Tree, er...Three
- To Recap We're heading into the homestretch. Which is why the Giants need to beat the Panthers....last night. Oh, snap. This isn't my NFL blog. I don't have one. This is the final episode in that hilarious sitcom, Greenberg's Fools Gold. For those of you who missed the previous...
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, CRM, Greenberg, Connectbeam Management, Zuora, LucidEra, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Paul Greenberg
- Blog posts 2008-12-22
- SaaS delivers return *before* investment
- On-demand BI provider LucidEra has ramped up its prospect conversion rate with an innovative sales approach that delivers a return on investment before the customer has even bought the product. by Phil Wainewright
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, Investment, CRM, LucidEra, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-12-19
- CRM 2009 Forecast - Part 2 - Sticking My Hands Out To Be Slapped
- CRM 2009 Forecast - Part 2 - Sticking My Hands Out To Be SlappedCRM Analytics in 2009?Hi Paul -- Great post! A question for you: what do you see regarding trends in Sales Analytics/CRM Analytics? There is now a huge base of CRM customers who've spent many quarters...
- Tags: Customer relationship management (CRM), Advertising & Promotion, Sales strategy, Enterprise software, CRM, sales
- Discussion threads 2008-12-06
- LucidEra opens for business intelligence on demand
- Dubbing itself the salesforce.com of business intelligence, LucidEra ends its beta period and formally opens for business. I covered most of the basics about LucidEra in this November 2006 post. The companys on demand business intelligence BI solution is targeting the SMB market, taking a bottom up approach that will...
- Tags: Business Intelligence, SaaS, General
- Blog posts 2007-03-06
- Cognos joins AppExchange but isn't going SaaS
- Cognos joins AppExchange but isn't going SaaSCelequest/Cognos SAAS vs LucideraI read with amusement Ken's comments on our SaaS offering and acquisition by Cognos. His comments are particularly rich coming from a company whose products have been in beta for ever. Perhaps you should speak with the salesforce.com folks...
- Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), Sales force management, Salesforce.com AppExchange, Cognos Inc., LucidEra, software-as-a-service
- Discussion threads 2007-01-18
- LucidEra: On-demand business intelligence
- Ken Rudin caught the on demand bug working as head of engineering for salesforce.com in its early days and then at Siebel as Vice President and General Manager of its CRM OnDemand business unit. Now Rudin is launching LucidEra, an on demand, multi-tenant service in hopes of becoming the salesforce.com...
- Tags: General, IT Management, Software Infrastructure, Web Technology
- Blog posts 2006-11-13
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- News to know: Vizio; Apple-Psystar; Buffett; Facebook status; Palm Pre; AT&T
- 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. Sean Portnoy: Vizio spills the beans on its Internet TV plans Sam Diaz: Court allows Apple-Psystar case to resume...
- Tags: Steve Jobs, Facebook, Hewlett-Packard Co., Palm Inc., AT&T Corp., Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Sam Diaz, Data Centers, Software As A Service (SaaS), Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Microsoft Windows, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Emerging Technologies, Security, Operating Systems, Software
- Blog posts 2009-06-25
- SAS preps cloud computing facility; Bets on on-demand BI
- SAS preps cloud computing facility; Bets on on-demand BISaas BI Hi,I agree on the problems of moving Business Intelligence towards an On Demand model. It is not as easy as creating an On Demand CRM, but data integration and modelling problems can be solved we have solved them. I'm glad...
- Tags: Pricing, Tools & Techniques, Enterprise software, SaaS BI, business intelligence, cloud computing facility, SAS Institute, on-demand, cloud computing
- Discussion threads 2009-03-20
- Live Webinar: The 6 Pillars of Sales Productivity
- According to IDC, sales productivity is the #1 priority of CEOs. In this difficult economic climate, where should you dedicate your time and energy in order to maximize productivity? Attend this live Webinar on Tuesday, February 10th at 1:00 PM ET/10:00 AM PT, sponsored by...
- Tags: Webinar, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales
- Webcasts 2009-02-10
- SaaS delivers return *before* investment
- SaaS delivers return *before* investmentBut is it SAAS that delivers?Sounds like a great win/win -- but the benefit is in the service, and the sales-pipeline expertise, surely, rather than in the SAAS part? What's to stop a non-SAAS vendor from doing exactly the same? LucidEra might argue that they can...
- Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), Managed hosting, cloud computing, traditional POC, POC, software-as-a-service, investment
- Discussion threads 2008-12-21
- Interview: IBM Cognos chief Rob Ashe
- Interview: IBM Cognos chief Rob AsheIBM is completely missing the SaaS BI trendI wasn't surprised by Rob's comment that "BI doesn't lend itself to SaaS" (though I suspect that the folks from Cognos' Celequest acquisition were caught a bit off guard.) But, I strongly disagree. The notion that...
- Tags: Sales strategy, Software as a Service (SaaS), Sales force management, Tools & Techniques, SaaS BI, sales, software-as-a-service, Cognos Inc., IBM Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-05-09
- Web 2.0: Putting webware on the webtop
- Web 2.0: Putting webware on the webtopThe SaaS MarketplaceThe market for this ideas is heating up. Microsoft + BT launching SaaS marketplace, Google bought Jotspot, Redhat Applicationexchange and hand full startups including Dabbled DB and Longjump. It will be an interesting year. I personally wonder where Oracle is at... they...
- Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), Tools & Techniques, Web, SaaS Marketplace, software-as-a-service, on-demand, Web 2.0
- Discussion threads 2007-04-16
- Cognos joins AppExchange but isn't going SaaS
- BI vendor Cognos has followed in the footsteps of its rival BusinessObjects in joining Salesforce.coms AppExchange marketplace this week, but that doesnt mean its embracing SaaS, oh no. UK-based title IT Week reports: "Graham Walter, vice president of Cognos in the UK, Middle East and South Africa, ......
- Tags: Business applications, Celequest, Cognos Inc., Saas
- Blog posts 2007-01-18
- Office 2.0 running over speed bumps
- LucidEra CEO Ken Rudin did stints at salesforce.com, NetSuite and led Siebels OnDemand business unit. Speaking on a panel of the Office 2.0 conference, Rudin shared his view of why the established companies, such as Microsoft, Oracle and SAP, are slow to adopt the business models based on demand and...
- Tags: Office 2.0, Rudin
- Blog posts 2006-10-12
- 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
- Commercializing open source--make it transparent
- Commercialization of open source--and Oracle's recent foray into acquiring open source components--was a major theme at the Open Source Business Conference. During a panel on the topic, Ken Jacobs, vice president of product strategy for servers, proclaimed that commercialization is not only beneficial but inevitable. Oracle has recently been on...
- Tags: Ken Jacobs, open source
- Blog posts 2006-02-16
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