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What could Open Office do with a business model?: You can say Microsoft has found a way to crush open source. Or you can say open source has been shown a business model it can use to crack the mass market and gain a sustainable revenue base. by Dana Blankenhorn; Tags: Software-as-a-service, Business Model, Microsoft Corp., OpenOffice, Software As A Service (SaaS), Open Source, Office Suites, Software, Emerging Technologies, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-07-05
$34m VC round for Spanish SaaS venture: One of the largest rounds of VC funding for a SaaS venture this year was closed earlier this month by Barcelona-based NTRglobal, which although little known outside its own market is one of Europe's biggest SaaS players. by Phil Wainewright; Tags: Software-as-a-service, NTR Global, NTRglobal, Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Remote Administration, Emerging Technologies, Phil Wainewright; Blog posts 2008-06-30
Time to blow up the software industry: Vinnie Mirchandani's post, Call to Steve Jobs: Please reshape the enterprise software market was bound to get a reaction out of my Irregular chums. 70 reactions to be precise as at the time of writing this post. That's the number of posts to our Google Group on the topic with...; Tags: Software-as-a-service, Financial, Software Company, SAP AG, Vinnie Mirchandani, Software As A Service (SaaS), Tools & Techniques, Cloud Computing, Enterprise Software, Emerging Technologies, Management, Software, Dennis Howlett; Blog posts 2008-06-24
Why multi-tenancy matters: Why do so many SaaS providers put so much emphasis on multi-tenancy? Intacct's CTO reveals some of the operational and economic reasons why running customers on identical code matters to his company. TalkBack commenters have their 2c too. by Phil Wainewright; Tags: Software-as-a-service, Oracle Corp., Intacct, DB, Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Phil Wainewright; Blog posts 2008-06-20
Authoria challenges some SaaS mantras: Leading HR SaaS vendor Authoria challenges the conventional wisdom that SaaS favors best-of-breed specialists over all-in-one integrated applications. Unlike many other SaaS vendors, it also lets its customers choose when to upgrade to new releases. by Phil Wainewright; Tags: Software-as-a-service, Customer, Authoria, Performance Appraisal Data, Software As A Service (SaaS), Workforce Management, Cloud Computing, Performance Appraisal, Benefits, Emerging Technologies, Human Resources, Phil Wainewright; Blog posts 2008-06-18

Dell launching into the cloud: Steven Schuckenbrock, CIO of Dell and Senior VP of the computer makers' multi-billion dollar Global Services business talks with CNET News.com’s Dan Farber about transforming IT at the venerable computer maker and the company’s “green” promise. He also speaks about developing cloud computing and software-as-a-service solutions for its customers around...; Tags: Software-as-a-service, Dell Computer Corp., Computer Company, Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Dell, CIO; Videos 2008-06-17
Salesforce.com, Partners, and Value-Added SaaS: As the resident Salesforce.com basher at ZDNet, it is with some smugness that I am watching the birth of a fellow naysayer on the future of Salesforce.com's efforts to break forth from its CRM on-demand origins into its next big thing. The new critic in the Salesforce.com-watcher camp belongs to...; Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Software-as-a-service, SFDC, Force.com, Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Joshua Greenbaum; Blog posts 2008-06-16
Many degrees of multi-tenancy: In SaaS circles, suggesting that a vendor's architecture is anything less than fully multi-tenant is tantamount to questioning a man's virility or impugning an American's patriotism. by Phil Wainewright; Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Software-as-a-service, Database, Pod, Oracle Corp., Intacct, Software As A Service (SaaS), Sales Force Management, Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Sales, Phil Wainewright; Blog posts 2008-06-16
Etelos puts more 'sass' into SaaS with four additional hosted Web 2.0 offerings: The new additions are designed to help enterprises, small businesses, bloggers, and individual users connect with customers and other online communities on an on-demand basis. Users can set up a blog or a wiki with nothing more than a browser and Internet access. Technical details are handled by Etelos. by...; Tags: Web, Software-as-a-service, On-demand, Detail, Etelos, Software As A Service (SaaS), Web 2.0, Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Internet, Dana Gardner; Blog posts 2008-06-14
Want cash? Buy SaaS: US software vendors that want to impress their stockholders with enhanced cash inflows should look to acquire SaaS vendors, according to JÃ©rÃ´me Fougerat, regional director of M&A specialist Corum Group, based in Seattle WA and Zurich, Switzerland. That's why SaaS companies have been holding their value better than other software...; Tags: Software, Acquisition, Software-as-a-service, Europe, Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Phil Wainewright; Blog posts 2008-06-10
Is Facebook an open source hero or Microsoft clone?: Neither. Facebook is a currently popular site with very personal information stuck in the crosshairs of dueling expectations. The Canadian InquisitionÂ is, for all the heated rhetoric attached to it, not that big a deal. Canadian authorities want to use Facebook to set rules...; Tags: Facebook, Microsoft Corp., Canadian Inquisition, Software As A Service (SaaS), Government, Blogging, Channel Management, Open Source, Emerging Technologies, Internet, Marketing, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-06-03
Sharing your login is a criminal offence: It looks like security-as-a-service is going to be one of the themes I cover here next week, and meanwhile I'm mulling a new post about SaaS and software pricing. So it seemed like a good moment to relay a comment that I heard from one of the panelists speaking back...; Tags: Software, Commoditization, Pricing Strategy, Software As A Service (SaaS), Pricing, Tools & Techniques, Marketing Research, Emerging Technologies, Marketing, Management, Phil Wainewright; Blog posts 2008-05-30
Does it blend? Zoho and Google: The announcement earlier today that Zoho has added an import capability for those using GoogleDocs to its Writer apps is great news. It is something I asked for a short while ago and is an excellent example of how an agile cloud computing vendor can respond to a need when...; Tags: Google Inc., Google Docs, Commoditization, Abundance, Zoho Writer, Business Services, Tools & Techniques, Software As A Service (SaaS), OpenOffice, Management, Emerging Technologies, Office Suites, Software, Dennis Howlett; Blog posts 2008-05-28
We got your microtransactions right here: Ever since the Web was spun, nearly 15 years ago now, one story has come around, and around, and around like a bad penny. Microtransactions. A penny here, a penny there. Buy this story, it's super-cheap. And of course there are always tales of...; Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Software As A Service (SaaS), Emerging Technologies, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-05-27
Paglo launch talks SaaS and an open source process: Ever since it was spun out ofÂ a company called Network Chemistry a year ago, I have been closelyÂ tracking the development of the company now called Paglo. The name comes from Francisco Paglo right, a fictitious Italian explorer who supposedly discovered New Zealand for Portugal. ...; Tags: Software-as-a-service, Network, Software As A Service (SaaS), Open Source, Networking, Emerging Technologies, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-05-27
SAP's Business byDesign: the perfection conundrum: SAP's software runs the world's largest enterprises 24/7 x 365. As a mission-critical infrastructure provider of enterprise applications, SAP's cultural DNA is hard-wired to deliver stable and reliable backbone software to large organizations. Given this background, one might ask whether that "perfection-oriented" culture is ideally suited to meeting the needs...; Tags: Software-as-a-service, SAP AG, Software As A Service (SaaS), Emerging Technologies, Michael Krigsman; Blog posts 2008-05-21
Is BBD hoist by SAP's on-premise petard?: On-premise vendors never have to run their own software*. This is by far the largest and least often anticipated handicap suffered by on-premise vendors when embarking on the on-demand model. [*OK, maybe some of them 'eat their own dogfood' by using it in-house. But they never really experience it as...; Tags: Software, Software-as-a-service, SAP AG, Business ByDesign, Software As A Service (SaaS), Tools & Techniques, Emerging Technologies, Management, Phil Wainewright; Blog posts 2008-05-19
Run by Wall Street? A Cause or a Company?: Guest post: Anshu Sharma is author of Anshu's blog, which focuses on Software as a Service and the emerging SaaS Ecosystem. He is an Enterprise Irregular. In light of the Yahoo! - Microsoft fiasco, fellow bloggers Larry Dignan and Vinnie Mirchandani have been asking the question whether...; Tags: Shareholder, Yahoo! Inc., Vision, Wall, Management Team, Software As A Service (SaaS), Financial Accounting, Construction, Strategy, Emerging Technologies, Finance, Management, Anshu Sharma; Blog posts 2008-05-16
EIC podcast: HP-EDS; Google; SaaS: On this week's EIC squared podcast Dan and I talk about HP's purchase of EDS, Google's Friend Connect and the latest happenings in SaaS. First up, HP's big purchase of EDS has brought along a lot of Carly 2.0 analogies, but the argument doesn't hold up too...; Tags: Google Inc., Software-as-a-service, Hewlett-Packard Co., Electronic Data Systems Corp., Software As A Service (SaaS), Podcasts, Emerging Technologies, Internet, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-05-14
Putting Workday on SAP's radar: Now that SAP's SaaS project Business ByDesign has gone on the back burner, I've been wondering how I'm going to pass the time next week at SAPPHIRE Berlin. One thing I'll be asking the enterprise software giant is how it feels about losing out to SaaS startup Workday for a...; Tags: Software-as-a-service, SAP AG, Radar, Workday, Flextronics International Ltd., Software As A Service (SaaS), Human Capital, Emerging Technologies, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Phil Wainewright; Blog posts 2008-05-14