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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
Additional Resources
- Was Apple a "Liar Liar" to the FCC about the Google Voice app?
- right...So now you are milking 2 cows: M$ and Apple.Google rules when it comes to software!M$ & Apple would not hold a candle if it was not for their monopolies!Awaits the impending destruction of Google by "The Followers..." ...Yes, there must be an explanation other than "Apple lied... again"[i]Apple hasn't...
- Tags: FCC, Apple Inc., Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-09-18
- eBay to identify top sellers with badge
- In eBay, being considered a top-notch, honest and reputable seller is a good thing for the seller. It keeps people coming back. Now, eBay - with a virtual badge that identifies those top sellers - is looking to tap into and showcase those seller reputations to push...
- Tags: Seller, eBay Inc., Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-07-27
- PayPal opens payments platform, launches features for app developers
- PayPal said today that it will open its online payment system to third-party developers, allowing them to incorporate payment transactions to be conducted in their applications. Called Adaptive Payments Service, it was made available to 300 PayPal partners today and will be enter a public beta in November, right around...
- Tags: Developer, Payment, PayPal, Operational Accounting, Finance, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-07-23
- eBay's Q2: PayPal, Skype growth offset by declines at marketplace sites
- eBay today reported solid second quarter financial results that were slightly better than Wall Street's expectations but revenue growth of PayPal and Skype was offset, in part, by declines in the Marketplaces business. For the quarter ending June 30 statement, the company reported net income of $479...
- Tags: Revenue, Skype Technologies S.A., Quarter, PayPal, eBay Inc., Operational Accounting, Finance, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-07-22
- Why SOA really, really matters in a cloud computing world
- Back in early 2006, I published a piece on the impact of delivering SOA-ready services via online, on-demand venues such as online marketplaces. Here is an update on the piece, revised to meet today's cloud computing realities. Since I wrote the first piece, we have seen many of the principles...
- Tags: On-demand, SOA, Service, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Web Services, Managed Hosting, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2009-06-10
- SOA as 'iTunes for business': interesting analogy
- For quite some time, we have talked about the concept of accessing SOA-ready services through public online marketplaces, and how that could shake up the way we approach IT. We're seeing manifestations of this model through cloud computing. But I wish I could have expressed it the...
- Tags: SOA, Apple iTunes, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2009-06-09
- Automating the Quote-to-Cash Process
- Global marketplaces have spurred the growth of global supply chains, making them hotly contested areas for business. However, as the business environment continues to evolve, companies are rethinking these long, thin supply chains. Businesses today realize that the sourcing and manufacturing strategies that they adopted over the last two decades...
- Tags: Logistics Service Provider, Logistics, Supply Chain, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Business Services, Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2009-06-01
- The Elance Interview â€" The Elance you probably didn’t know
- I recently chatted with Fabio Rosati of Elance. Fabio’s been at the helm @ Elance since 2001 and the company has changed a lot during his tenure. By way of full disclosure, my one-time business partner and fellow blogger, Vinnie Mirchandani, and I once launched...
- Tags: eLance, Fabio, Telecom & Utilities, Strategy, Management, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2009-05-19
- Philadelphia Flyers Rock! - When It Comes To Customer Experience, That Is
- I need to make something clear from the start. I'm a diehard NY Rangers fan when it comes to hockey. In fact, with the exception of women's soccer where I root for the Women's Professional Soccer League's WPSL Washington Freedom, I root for New York everything when it comes to...
- Tags: Program, Fan, Customer Experience, Fan Stimulus Plan, Sales Strategy, Games, Sales Force Management, Sales, Personal Technology, Paul Greenberg
- Blog posts 2009-05-06
- eBay: Operating smarter?
- eBay's first quarter results were better than expected and the company argued that it is operating with more discipline and smarter. For the quarter ending March 31 statement, the company reported net income of $357.1 million, or 28 cents a share, on revenue of $2.02 billion, down...
- Tags: Revenue, eBay Inc., Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-04-22
- Senate telecom bill offers tepid net neutrality provision
- Senate telecom bill offers tepid net neutrality provisionVoice ExchangeTelecom marketplaces rarely provide a fully interactive environment where buyers can challenge sellers to provide their best price.=========jonathan=========MINUTETRADERS | Voice Exchange - Buy/Sell Wholesale AZ VoIP Termination RoutesRE: Voice ExchangeTelecom marketplaces rarely provide a fully interactive environment where buyers can challenge sellers...
- Tags: Telephony, Telecom & Utilities, telecommunications, Minutetraders, net neutrality provision, U.S. Senate, Net Neutrality
- Discussion threads 2009-03-18
- Apple iPhone 3.0 beta preview: The big takeaways
- Apple previewed its iPhone 3.0 beta on Tuesday and there were plenty of items that weren't earth shattering, but add up to a big deal. Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster says: We believe the many new features announced today add up to a major difference in...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., Beta, Engineering, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-03-17
- Mobile platform wars: Symbian top mobile OS globally; Mac OS X surges
- Gartner has tallied the global smartphone sales by operating system and the results put Symbian as the top dog with market share of 47.1 percent with RIM's BlackBerry OS a distant second at 19.5 percent. Here's a look at the figures for the fourth quarter (statement, Techmeme):...
- Tags: Developer, Apple Mac OS, Apple Macintosh, Mobile, Operating System, Smart Phone, Apple Mac OS X, Symbian Inc., Smart Phones, Advertising & Promotion, Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Operating Systems, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, Hardware, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-03-12
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