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Phil Wainewright is an influential commentator and strategist on emerging software industry trends. He first spotted the significance of on-demand software services in 1998, when he set up ASPnews.com, which rapidly became a standard-bearer for the nascent industry. He sold ASPnews in January 2000 and went on to found Loosely...- more about Phil Wainewright »
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- Can the Economist entirely be trusted?
- The Economist is debating the proposition, 'This house believes that the cloud can't be entirely trusted.' A leading question, if ever I heard one, but clearly the outcome should be a resounding 'No' vote. by Phil Wainewright
- Tags: Economist, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2009-11-15
- Microsoft cuts BPOS price to squeeze Lotus
- IBM's Lotus unit, rather than Google, was the main target of Microsoft's price cuts to its online email and collaboration suite this week. But MS execs still happily turned their fire on Google in media briefings. by Phil Wainewright
- Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., IBM Corp., Collaboration, E-mail, Groupware, Online Communications, Enterprise Software, Software, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2009-11-05
- Figuring the value of software
- Phil Wainewright's discussion about the cost of running highly scalable SaaS applications like SuccessFactors comes at the right time. He says: Speaking in the opening keynote of SIIA OnDemand in San Jose this morning, SuccessFactors CEO Lars Dalgaard let slip a statistic that set several...
- Tags: Software, Software-as-a-service, SuccessFactors Inc., SAP AG, Phil Wainewright, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-11-02
- Cloud cuts everyone's cost of ownership
- Conventional software perpetuates a scandalous waste and duplication of resources. SaaS and cloud platforms drastically compress the aggregate cost of ownership and operation, delivering better value for less cost. by Phil Wainewright
- Tags: Ownership, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2009-10-29
- Box.net wants to be the Switzerland of data
- Online storage and collaboration provider Box.net announces integration with Salesforce.com today, part of a plan to become the preferred home for users' data as they move between online applications. by Phil Wainewright
- Tags: Box.net, Sales Force Management, Sales, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2009-10-22
- What EuroCloud means for SaaS in Europe
- A new industry organization to promote cloud and SaaS launches in seven European countries today. EuroCloud will help European providers build a network and speak with a common voice to government and business. by Phil Wainewright
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Government, Emerging Technologies, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2009-10-20
- Beware the allure of Fool's Cloud
- Private cloud, like fool's gold, isn't the real thing. It omits some of the most crucial elements of cloud computing and will disappoint and deceive most enteprises that fall for its allure. by Phil Wainewright
- Tags: Allure, Cloud, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Hardware, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2009-10-19
- How to avoid the amateur cloud
- When people take outdated data center management practices and label them as cloud computing, that's amateur cloud. There's a lot of it about and it won't be easy to spot, making the transition to cloud computing lengthy, troubled and painful. by Phil Wainewright
- Tags: Data Center, Data Centers, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2009-10-16
- The cloud: no place for amateurs
- IBM and Microsoft have been left looking like rank cloud amateurs after this weekend's events. It's typical of how big, established companies over-estimate their competence at cloud computing and SaaS. by Phil Wainewright
- Tags: Amateur, Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Managed Hosting, Virtualization, Emerging Technologies, Hardware, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2009-10-12
- The as-a-service business model
- Other industries are starting to take a lead from SaaS and learning lessons from the 'as-a-service' business model - even though most ISVs are so behind the curve they still haven't the least idea what SaaS really entails. by Phil Wainewright
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, Business Model, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Strategy, Emerging Technologies, Management, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2009-10-05
- Blind to the elephant in the cloud
- Larry Ellison's anti-cloud rant at the Churchill Club last week, now in circulation as a 5-minute YouTube clip, reminds me of the old parable of the blind men and the elephant. by Phil Wainewright
- Tags: Elephant, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2009-10-02
- Why you should be glad about Gmail failures
- The way I look at it, every Gmail outage is a small investment I'm willing to make towards a future when I'll be able to take its reliability utterly for granted. by Phil Wainewright
- Tags: Google Gmail, E-mail Providers, Cloud Computing, Internet, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2009-09-24
- SaaS for your business in the cloud
- Is it just lower upfront cost and faster time-to-live that's driving businesses to adopt SaaS? Or is it simply that the cloud is where business gets done today, and that's where business systems should operate too. by Phil Wainewright
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, Cloud, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2009-09-23
- Is keeping big media alive good for the future of journalism?
- The Web didn't kill print media, it was the owners' own callous lust for profit during the boom years when making money was easy and good journalism was too hard to cost-justify. New online business models will save journalism, not bankrupt old ones. by Phil Wainewright
- Tags: Journalism, Media, Strategy, Management, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2009-09-22
- Computing by the people, for the people
- Across several different sectors of computing, participants are talking about a trend to add social, collaborative or self-service features to certain application categories. Perhaps it's now time to join the dots. by Phil Wainewright
- Tags: Computing, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2009-09-21
- The democratization of IT
- Web 2.0 was a grassroots revolution, not consumerization but democratization. That is the trend that is now transforming IT - even IT service management, as Service-now.com demonstrates. by Phil Wainewright
- Tags: Information Technology, Web 2.0, Service Level Management, Strategy, Internet, It Operations, It service Management, Management, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2009-09-18
- Adobe ties web design to business results
- Acquiring Omniture looks like a smart move. It will bring much-needed SaaS DNA into Adobe and joins up website content creation to results measurement in a way that suits the needs of today's real-time Web. by Phil Wainewright
- Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Web, Web Design, Software As A Service (SaaS), Channel Management, Managed Hosting, Web Site Development, Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Marketing, Internet, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2009-09-16
- Sage dresses SoSaaS in cloud clothing
- Taking the same old software and dumping it in the cloud doesn't make a SaaS strategy. Vendors who do this show an abject failure to understand what SaaS and cloud computing are all about. by Phil Wainewright
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2009-09-14
- Finally, technology is about people
- By refocussing its software on business execution, SuccessFactors is putting people, rather than technology, back at the center of enterprise endeavors. by Phil Wainewright
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Management, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2009-09-12
- Survival of the fit-most
- The Web emphasizes connections, sharing and community. In this environment, the individuals, tools and organizations best adapted to thrive are those best able to connect. Not the fittest so much as the fit-most. by Phil Wainewright
- Tags: Survival, Productivity, Channel Management, Marketing, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2009-09-10
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