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WebEx augurs ill for Cisco's cloud ambitions

Cisco's track record with WebEx belies its pretensions as a big player in cloud services, PaaS and SaaS. Despite its market presence, the Web meetings platform has not matched the pace of innovation seen elsewhere in Web collaboration by Phil Wainewright

Tags: WebEx Communications Inc., Cisco Systems Inc., Software As A Service (SaaS), Emerging Technologies, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2009-07-01

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

Cheap jibe sullies SAP's SaaS strategy

Is SAP as serious about SaaS as John Wookey claimed in his widely reported speech last week? A comment by SAP CTO Vishal Sikka, trashing Salesforce.com in an interview published this week, suggests not. by Phil Wainewright

Tags: Strategy, Software-as-a-service, SAP AG, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2009-06-18

Adobe morphs the online spreadsheet

Adobe's new online spreadsheet, Tables, is more like a database than a financial modeling tool. Its target is all those business people who collaborate on datasets such as inventories, price lists, mailing lists and downloads from corporate applications. by Phil Wainewright

Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Financial, Spreadsheet, Modeling, Research & Development, Productivity, Business Operations, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2009-06-17

Netviewer aims to outshine WebEx in Europe

One of Europe's largest indigenous SaaS players is NetViewer, a web meetings rival to US players WebEx and Citrix Online. NetViewer is pursuing partnerships and a freemium strategy to win market share, but is its hybrid SaaS/on-premise strategy a winner? by Phil Wainewright

Tags: Strategy, WebEx Communications Inc., Europe, Netviewer, Software As A Service (SaaS), Emerging Technologies, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2009-06-16

SAP's John Wookey: the task ahead

Phil Wainewright has provided a first take on John Wookey, SAP executive VP's saas strategy session at SIIA Europe. As Wookey outlined the strategy, I could not help but feel 'about time.' SAP has been dancing around the whole saas/on-demand topic for some time. On the one hand it came...

Tags: On-demand, SAP AG, Frictionless Commerce, Phil Wainewright, Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-06-10

Wookey: SAP's future is on-demand

SAP executive VP John Wookey set out the software giant's commitment to embracing on-demand applications at a conference in Amsterdam today, outlining how it will enable delivery of on-demand to large enterprises in its existing customer base. by Phil Wainewright

Tags: On-demand, SAP AG, Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2009-06-10

Intuit makes two-pronged PaaS and SaaS push

Hard on the heels of its $170 million acquisition of SaaS vendor PayCycle, Intuit is extending its platform-as-a-service offering to support applications built and hosted on third-party development platforms - a PaaS strategy we've not seen from other vendors by Phil Wainewright

Tags: Software-as-a-service, Intuit Inc., PaaS, Cloud Computing, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Emerging Technologies, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2009-06-03

What your bank can teach you about freemium

People are talking and writing a lot about freemium just now as if it's a completely new business model that was invented for the Web. It seems to me the financial services industry perfected the freemium model many years ago. by Phil Wainewright

Tags: Bank, Finance, Financial Planning, Financial Services, Management, Phil Wainewright, Strategy

Blog posts 2009-06-01

SaaS in Europe at the tipping point

A strong line-up of European companies and findings from research to be unveiled at the upcoming OnDemand Europe conference suggests SaaS in Europe has grown more than most people think and is about to blossom. by Phil Wainewright

Tags: Software-as-a-service, Europe, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2009-05-31

Intalio takes multi-tenancy on-premise

Intalio's new cloud platform has taken some of the core principles of multi-tenancy and moved them on-premise, challenging the received wisdoms of cloud purists and on-premise diehards alike. by Phil Wainewright

Tags: Intalio Inc., Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2009-05-27

B2I is the new Web opportunity

To divide the world unthinkingly into B2C and B2B ignores the reality of the Web today. We must start taking account of an emerging segment that I call business-to-individual (B2I). by Phil Wainewright

Tags: Web, B2I, B2C, Channel Management, B2B, E-business/E-Commerce, Internet, Marketing, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2009-05-15

Another week, another $70m vote for SaaS

Last week it was Workday with $75 million, this week email marketing provider ExactTarget snags a $70 million VC round. Even in today's funding climate, there seems to be plenty of VC money around for successful SaaS propositions. by Phil Wainewright

Tags: Software-as-a-service, Email Marketing, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, E-mail, Cloud Computing, Marketing Research, Emerging Technologies, Online Communications, Marketing, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2009-05-08

Hybrid cloud or half-hearted kludge?

Nine times out of ten, hybrid clouds are an attempt to accommodate outdated structures that are no longer appropriate for forward-looking enterprises. A hybrid approach can be justified in certain cases, but you should always carefully probe the motivation. by Phil Wainewright

Tags: Appropriate, Leadership, Management, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2009-05-07

Web giants and the helpless individual

When these mass-market automated online services fail, the victims discover there's no information to be found anywhere as to what was the cause or what actions they should take. These web giants need to acknowledge the possibility of exceptions and treat individual users with respect. by Phil Wainewright

Tags: Web, Channel Management, Marketing, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2009-05-05

How far will Workday go with its $75 million?

Workday's latest $75 million round brings the SaaS poster child's total venture funding to date to $150 million. It all leaves me wondering how exactly the vendor will use the cash, and what the size of the investment tells us about the provider's ambitions by Phil Wainewright

Tags: Workday, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Investment, Emerging Technologies, Finance, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2009-04-29

Microsoft's software-plus-services disinformation

Microsoft's FUD around software-plus-services is deliberately muddling up two very different things. It lamely cites Google Gears as a justification for installing Office locally, while behind the scenes it's building the next generation of Office servers to run best in the cloud. by Phil Wainewright

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2009-04-23

Oracle goes down on Sun

Oracle's corporate site found itself unable to cope with the traffic volumes hitting its news pages looking for information when it announced its acquisition of Sun yesterday. Will buying Sun really help its cloud aspirations? by Phil Wainewright

Tags: Oracle Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2009-04-21

SaaS adoption swells in Europe

There are some interesting patterns to adoption of SaaS in Europe, which is growing faster than many think, and not always in the countries you'd expect to be furthest ahead. by Phil Wainewright

Tags: Software-as-a-service, Adoption, Europe, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2009-04-16

Opening the kimono on Salesforce.com's green crystals

Salesforce.com's chief technology guru Parker Harris, speaking at Cloudforce London this week, mapped out the secret sauce that makes the company's multi-tenancy so special. Why suddenly expose details of something it has always previously kept schtum about? by Phil Wainewright

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Sales Force Management, Sales, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2009-04-09