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- SaaScon exuberance
- SaaScon exuberanceThe Innovators SolutionSaas favors the innovators in the classic style described by Christiansen & Clayton in The Innovators Solution. Companies like Salesforce & ExactTarget are prime examples of starting at the low end of a business and being dismissed by the bigger (in this case, "enterprise") vendors....
- Tags: SaaScon, innovator, Saas
- Discussion threads 2006-10-24
- SaaScon exuberance
- Eric Norlin, charged with developing content for the SaaScon conference, has been publicly debating what the theme of the next event should be. Its a brave move, and youre invited to join in. [Disclosure: I am on the advisory board for SaaScon. I dont get paid, but they do help...
- Tags: Saas, SaaScon
- Blog posts 2006-10-23
- Multitenant, yes. Hosted, not necessarily
- Noted Silicon Valley blogger and SAP emissary Jeff Nolan didn't enjoy sharing a panel about Web 2.0 in the enterprise with Salesforce.com's Adam Gross last week: "All throughout the discussion he kept dinging me as a representative of SAP and insisting that nobody should install software....
- Tags: software
- Blog posts 2006-08-07
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- Why Symantec bought Appstream (not)
- Of course we all know the real reason why Symantec is acquiring AppStream — a move announced yesterday at its user conference in Las Vegas. Virtualization is hot and Symantec is big in systems management. AppStream helps round out its offerings for packaging and streaming virtualized software. It's as simple...
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, Symantec Corp., AppStream Inc., On-demand, Software As A Service (SaaS), Security, Emerging Technologies, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-04-10
- Ever been Oprah'd?
- One of the measures of success for a tech website or blog is getting TechCrunched, Dugg or 'slashdotted' — the sudden surge of visitors that comes as a result of being highlighted by one of these big-traffic sites, often crashing the target site (it happened to one of...
- Tags: Cloud Computing, Oprah Winfrey, Web Site, Site, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Internet, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-03-29
- A plethora of PaaS options
- About that show of hands. I didn't expect my straw poll at last week's SaaS Summit would produce only two hesitant supporters for Salesforce.com's Force.com platform-as-a-service model out of a room full of two or three hundred ISVs. But this was a conference organized by specialist SaaS hoster OpSource, and...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Software-as-a-service, PaaS, OpSource, Application Infrastructure, Application Builder, Software As A Service (SaaS), Web Hosting, Emerging Technologies, Internet, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-03-06
- On the bleeding edge of platform-as-a-service
- At April's SaaScon show, Salesforce.com's head of platform development Steve Fisher demonstrated a vacation booking application he'd built with a colleague in a weekend using the since renamed as Force.com platform. As with all demonstrations, of course, what made it all look so easy was the preparation that had gone...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Intention, Application, Platform, Force.com, Sales Force Management, Sales, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2007-10-25
- Software as a concrete block
- One slide that I really enjoyed at last month's SaaScon conference came early in a presentation by Aneel Bhusri of Workday, the SaaS startup that aims to challenge SAP and Oracle's dominance in ERP software.It casts conventional packaged ERP software in the guise of a concrete block (see picture, below),...
- Tags: ERP, Workday
- Blog posts 2007-05-18
- Resistance fades as SaaS goes mainstream
- Saugatuck Research has been dribbling out findings from its latest annual SaaS research exercise, which is due for publication in full in the next week or so. Ive been having a read through the various alerts and extracts because Ill be doing a webcast later on today with Saugatucks CEO...
- Tags: Market research
- Blog posts 2007-04-27
- Gaming comes to business software
- One of the biggest challenges when businesses implement sales force automation — even after the softwares up and running — is getting sales people to actually use it. Entellium CEO Paul Johnston took to the stage for the end-of-day seesion at SaaScon yesterday to explain how his company...
- Tags: CRM
- Blog posts 2007-04-19
- Workday: 'parity' with SAP in 18 months
- Peoplesoft founder and former CEO Dave Duffield wowed attendees at SaaScon today with his endorsement of the software-as-a-service model, which his new venture Workday has espoused to deliver ERP to medium-sized and large enterprises. "Why didnt we call it Peoplesoft On Demand? If the name hadnt been taken, perhaps...
- Tags: ERP
- Blog posts 2007-04-18
- Miss Concur at your expense
- Steve Singh, CEO of travel and expense management vendor Concur, spoke to a handful of attendees at an early-morning breakfast session at SaaScon today. It wasnt an ideal forum — he would have been better pleased with the opening keynote slot, which Salesforce.com president Jim Steele filled an hour later....
- Tags: Business applications, Companies
- Blog posts 2007-04-17
- Web 2.0: Putting webware on the webtop
- David Thomas, executive director of the software division at the software industry lobby group the SIIA, pulled me to one side last night to confide a guilty secret: "I invented the term software as a service," he told me, "back in 2000." But since then, the term has taken...
- Tags: Web 2.0, Architecture
- Blog posts 2007-04-16
- Salesforce.com's Koral buy changes the game
- Thank you Salesforce.com. Your acquisition of AppExchange partner Koral will certainly liven up the keynote discussion Ill be moderating at next weeks SaaScon show in Santa Clara, CA, entitled Understanding SaaS Platforms and Ecosystems. Im sure panelist Rene Bonvanie, general manager of AppExchange and developer relations will face some...
- Tags: Salesforce.com, Collaboration, Web 2.0, Ecosystems
- Blog posts 2007-04-11
- Microsoft shares SaaS architecture insights
- As I mentioned yesterday, there are some smart people at Microsoft who really understand what SaaS and on-demand is all about, which is just as well considering how much buzz surrounds the whole concept of service-oriented computing, from SaaS to SOA to Web 2.0. Some of the most actionable insights...
- Tags: Service level management, Microsoft, Architecture, Web 2.0
- Blog posts 2006-11-07
- Incremental adoption sells SaaS to the enterprise
- I spent yesterday talking to a number of UK and European SaaS adopters, courtesy of RightNow Technologies, which has been holding its European user conference. More than 100 people attended from 72 different organizations, which is double the number last year, a sign both of RightNows growth and of the...
- Tags: RightNow Technologies, Saas
- Blog posts 2006-10-11
- The consumerization of enterprise applications
- This is a phrase I seem to have been hearing non-stop during my trip to California, meeting with SaaS vendors or listening to presentations at SaaScon, which finished yesterday [see disclosure]. Ease of use is a big focus for on-demand SaaS vendors. Of course it is for conventional software vendors...
- Tags: Ketera, on-demand
- Blog posts 2006-09-27
- Liveblogging SaaScon: CIO skepticism
- Liveblogging SaaScon: CIO skepticismSaaS implementation is differentPhil,This is certainly a sceptical group. I don't agree with their experience that SaaS is not any easier to implement and use. This is actually a topic that we have been debating within the Enterprise Irregulars along with TCO.We haven't seen any...
- Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), SaaS implementation, software-as-a-service, Liveblogging SaaScon
- Discussion threads 2006-09-26
- Liveblogging SaaScon: CIO skepticism
- I was surprised yesterday in conversation with Bob Jurowski, CEO of on-demand accounting provider Intacct, to learn that his company is finding there are some CIOs who are now standardizing on the on-demand or SaaS model for delivery of their IT. "If you look at the world as a portfolio...
- Tags: Saas, on-demand
- Blog posts 2006-09-26
- Liveblogging SaaScon: Tim Chou and the end of software
- I'm here in San Francisco at SaaScon, which is the first major conference on Software as a Service since the ASP boom dot-busted back in 2001/2002 (by the way, I'm on the SaaScon advisory board — see disclosure page). The opening keynote is Tim Chou, who led Oracle's...
- Tags: software, Tim Chou
- Blog posts 2006-09-25
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