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- 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
- 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
- Build, buy or rent? Salesforce says build
- Earlier this year I joked that perhaps Salesforce.com could use its rival NetSuites platform to add missing transaction capabilities into its on-demand application suite. While such an alliance was never a realistic possibility, I could easily envisage Salesforce turning to a third party as a means of adding much-needed billing...
- Tags: software, Salesforce.com Inc., Business models, Marketplaces, Salesforce.com
- Blog posts 2006-12-12
- Salesforce rebrands its platform ... again
- Under cover of todays announcements, Salesforce.com has quietly rebranded its API platform for what seems like the umpteenth time. For the first few years of its existence, the API was known as sforce, while last year the application-building platform first saw the light of day under the really lame-sounding name...
- Tags: Apex, Salesforce.com Inc., Salesforce.com AppExchange, API, ApexConnect
- Blog posts 2006-11-27
- 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
- The Web grows up
- Part of the reason people get dissatisfied with terms like Web 2.0 and Web 3.0 is that we all know the Web is an unfinished project and were somewhat impatient to see some more progress made on getting it built. So its good when an announcement comes along that suggests...
- Tags: Business applications, Companies, Marketplaces, Web 3.0
- Blog posts 2006-11-15
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- eBay beats expectations; calls PayPal a "gem" and Skype a "killer" app
- Updated: eBay reported second quarter earnings today, beating Wall Street's expectations with revenues of $2.2 billion, up 20 percent from the second quarter of 2007. It reported non-GAAP profits of $568 million, or 43 cents per share. GAAP profits were $460 million, or 35 cents per share. Wall Street...
- Tags: Revenue, Skype Technologies S.A., Quarter, PayPal, eBay Inc., GAAP, Operational Accounting, Financial Accounting, Finance, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-07-16
- Yahoo nears Google search deal; Icahn's plan goes kaput as Microsoft talks end
- Yahoo is reportedly near a search deal with Google and plans an unrelated reorganization. Meanwhile, Microsoft says it's no longer interested in Yahoo. Add it up and billionaire investor Carl Icahn's grand plan to cash in on Yahoo just went kaput. First, the news. News.com's Stephen Shankland...
- Tags: Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Google Search, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Corporate Governance, Construction, Search, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-06-12
- Is Microsoft's open systems promise reliable?
- Is Microsoft's open systems promise reliable?Threat assessmentYour point on the ever-shifting sands of Microsoft intentions simply underscores one of the basic rules of threat assessments: "assess enemy capabilities, not enemy intentions."In the present instance, that means that the only things that others should count on from Microsoft are the enforceable...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, SECURITY, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-05-29
- The four horsemen of SaaS
- Taleo's acquisition of Vurv, announced today, is a clear play by the SaaS vendor for breakout leadership of the people management sector — one of the hottest segments of the enterprise SaaS landscape, populated by fast-growing startups such as recent Nasdaq entrant SuccessFactors along with privately held Authoria, Cornerstone OnDemand,...
- Tags: Revenue, Acquisition, Software-as-a-service, Taleo Corp., Vurv, Software As A Service (SaaS), Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Emerging Technologies, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-05-06
- eBay's first quarter, outlook solid
- EBay's reported solid first quarter results and upped its earnings outlook for 2008. The auction giant reported first quarter net income of $460 million, or 34 cents a share, on revenue of $2.19 billion, up 24 percent from a year ago. Excluding charges, eBay had earnings of...
- Tags: Revenue, Earnings, eBay Inc., Operational Accounting, Financial Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-16
- Borough of Lewisham Leverages Purchasing Power With Online Marketplaces
- Lewisham Council wanted to leverage purchasing power by using online marketplaces to gain access to the broadest possible range of goods and services and cut administration costs, reduce off-contract spend, and enforce process controls while maximizing spend with Small-and-Medium-sized Businesses SMBs, local companies, ethnic minority businesses, and third-sector organizations in...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Small And Medium Business, Smb/Sme
- Case studies 2008-04-01
- The Longtail of IT Governance
- Open source has shown how marketplaces can thrive on doing good, but can whether the same concept be applied to IT governance? Archer Technology hopes so. The risk assessment and compliance company announced Archer Exchange, an open marketplace for governance applications here at its user conference in Orlando. ...
- Tags: Application, IT Governance, Information Technology, IBM Lotus SmartSuite, Archer Exchange, Groupware, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Dave Greenfield
- Blog posts 2008-03-14
- Wikinomics 3: Ideagoras
- Wikinomics 3: IdeagorasProblems with categorization of ideagorasWe faced the same problem at SparkIP (www.sparkip.com) when trying to categorize patents into static top-down categories ontologies. To solve the problem, we built the categories from the bottom up, using the "natural marketplaces" that form within the patent collection to determine how...
- Tags: Wikinomics 3, Ideagora
- Discussion threads 2008-02-11
- Escrow fraud. Ruining Craigslist?
- Escrow fraud. Ruining Craigslist?This dude is a racistYeah, this author makes a point by saying one needs to be careful when using Craig's list. But to imply Nigerians and Russians business people are crooks is racist. Just because some of them commit crimes does not mean ALL of them do....
- Tags: Litigation, personals section, Craigslist, scammer, Ruining, Escrow Services, fraud
- Discussion threads 2008-01-30
- Architecture in Practice, Part 6: Why Business Process Management (BPM) Is Important to an Enterprise
- One of the most interesting economic developments of the 21st century is globalization. New marketplaces, new workforces, new competitors, and a diverse cultural mix must be taken into account by any enterprise that wants to stay ahead of the competition. The last decade has brought constant change to enterprise IT...
- Tags: Business Process, BPM, Enterprise, Operational Planning, Globalization, Business Process Automation, Strategy, Business Operations, Management, It Operations
- White papers 2008-01-29
- Sears picks new online leader; Let's hope he gets the security thing
- Sears Holdings is expected to name a Microsoft veteran to head its online business. According to the Wall Street Journal, Sears will name James Barr, who was the general manager of Microsoft's MSN Shopping and Marketplaces. Barr will become a senior vice president of Sears Holdings. ...
- Tags: Sears Roebuck & Co., Leader, Sears Holdings, James Barr, Security, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-01-26
- eBay CEO Whitman steps down; execs shuffled amid weak outlook
- eBay said Wednesday that CEO Meg Whitman will step down as president and CEO as of March 31. She will be replaced by John Donahoe, president of eBay's marketplace unit. The move was expected as reports leaked out that Whitman was leaving. Donahoe joined eBay in 2005...
- Tags: President, Earnings, eBay Inc., Financial Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-01-23
- Is 2008 the year the telcos crack SaaS?
- Is 2008 the year the telcos crack SaaS?Telcos Being Behind the Curve Worries MeDoes it worry anyone else that the Telcos, the underlying architecture of the Internet is so being the curve when it comes to emerging trends in technologies.The are so burdened by their traditional way of thinking they...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Software as a Service (SaaS), Mobile Phone Technology, Salesforce.com AppExchange, telecommunications company, British Telecommunications, software-as-a-service
- Discussion threads 2008-01-14
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