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- Taking SaaS to market: a European perspective
- Taking SaaS to market: a European perspectiveDelivering SaaSThe ideal channel for delivering SaaS is greatly dependant on what the specific SaaS application is. Telcos, for example, already deliver outsourced infrastructure services to SMBs (i.e. broadband, pop / webmail, hosting, and in the cloud security). Vendors who offer services...
- Discussion threads 2008-02-11
- Taking SaaS both ways
- Taking SaaS both waysSaaSI see that we agree on a few things even though the post makes it seem we completed disagree. For instance,[i]"During the transition period, it's often right for them, as Anshu suggests, to "adopt a range of delivery model options to fit the customers need and economics...
- Discussion threads 2007-09-04
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- Cloudy issues around risk: the large enterprise user perspective
- Is the cloud as safe as it needs to be in order to lure business critical data? Are we placing enough emphasis on security or simply taking SaaS/cloud vendors on trust? What is the large enterprise view? by Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-11-30
- Conference energy levels
- Coming to Dreamforce has been a revelation. The news was dominated by Chatter but that only tells a fraction of the real story. As I sat in the media room chatting sic to an old buddy it occurred to me this was a conference that annoyed for all...
- Blog posts 2009-11-20
- 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...
- Blog posts 2009-11-02
- With Chargify, Web 2.0 and SaaS businesses can bill with ease
- Nice approach of ChargifyI think the approach Chargify is taking, is a real good one. In the beginning, we at MoneyBird also found it hard to setup the billing environment for our customers. Delivering a service like Chargify to the starting businesses makes really sense. Maybe this also starts these...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-31
- Live Webcast: Saving Money with Software as a Service (SaaS)
- Small and midsize businesses SMBs face the same challenges as larger companies when it comes to cutting costs and saving money in a difficult economy. All but the most critical capital expenditures are on hold and even the most common operating expenses are more closely scrutinized by SMB decision...
- Webcasts 2009-10-14
- SaaS Customer Bill of Rights: right thing, right time
- AG Customer Bill of Rights - SaaS - Live I'm not pimping this because Ray Wang and I happen to be collaborators or that I got a credit in the Altimeter Group report but because Ray and Jeremiah Owyang's SaaS Customer Bill of Rights is the right thing at...
- Blog posts 2009-10-12
- What we may/may not hear @ Oracle Open World this week
- Watch for movement on these matters Last night, Oracle’s annual mega event, Oracle Open World, opened. This event draws some 37,000 people to San Francisco to hear, see and speak all things Oracle. With the keynotes starting in mere minutes, I thought I’d offer up my thoughts...
- Blog posts 2009-10-12
- The troubling thoughts re: outsourcing
- Watch this space for future problems! There’s a lot going on in the outsourcing world lately. Things like: - Perot Data Systems being acquired by Dell - ACS getting bought by Xerox Add to these deals,...
- Blog posts 2009-10-05
- The 2010 Productivity Tool Bonanza - Microsoft, Google, Zoho & Open Standards
- On the eve of what looks to be a major Microsoft productivity products year in 2010 with the Windows 7 operating system, Exchange 2010, Office 2010, MOSS/SharePoint 2010 and Azure it's interesting to look at how the market for these products serve has changed. ...
- Blog posts 2009-09-25
- 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
- Blog posts 2009-09-14
- Brent Leary Expounds: The SMBs Rejoice
- Brent Leary, who is not only my bud, but one of the leading, no, the leading, small business consultant and analyst when it comes to small business (duh!), CRM, social CRM and social media, Â is someone that I want to highlight on these pages. Â Not that you need to come...
- Blog posts 2009-09-14
- HP to Cut Loose its BPO operations?
- Why sell what you just bought? A recent Channel Insider article raised the concern that HP might sell off or shutter some of its outsourcing business. Specifically, the article speculated on the BPO operations that EDS brought into the firm as part of HP’s acquisition of EDS....
- Blog posts 2009-09-07
- How the Web OS has begun to reshape IT and business
- What a BS conclusion ...Are you serious or just plain delusional???Using a server is not using cloud computing. In fact, any decent professional company would never even think about anything "cloud" except for basic web hosting.Let me just give you the top two most logical reasons why real companies...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-06
- IBM, Dell gain server share amid server sales carnage; HP share flat
- Socialism taking over...Yes, salary caps and no profit Obama is working...Is this an anomaly because of the recession?We are in the digital printing industry and print volumes are dropping at an alarming rate for the first time ever. Some including ZDNet have attributed this to the widespread use of...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-02
- Mid-range European ERP portending the future?
- On my personal blog, I skimmed over recently published results for Agresso and COA Solutions. Agresso is emerging in the US as a small if solid player in public sector as well as for those businesses that need a more agile approach to business configuration than you'd likely get from...
- Blog posts 2009-09-02
- Cast Iron, Amazon partner to push migration to EC2 cloud
- You've no doubt heard all the buzz about virtual data centers and doing business in the cloud, as well as all the money that can be saved. But when it comes time to do make the move, there are a lot of things to think about. Will...
- Blog posts 2009-09-01
- Salesforce.com fires back at Oracle in SaaS war
- In recent quarters Oracle has been taking aim at Salesforce.com, noting that its Siebel On Demand was poaching customers. On Thursday it was Salesforce's turn to return fire. Following Salesforce's fiscal second quarter earnings, CEO Marc Benioff, as chatty as ever, took aim at his trash talking...
- Blog posts 2009-08-21
- BriefingsDirect analysts debate the 'imminent death' of enterprise IT as cloud models ascend
- who's going to maintain the workstationsyeah it's a cloud system, but the hardware at the desk still needs to be maintained. Waiting for your 3rd party IT people could waste valuable time in the office.RE: BriefingsDirect analysts debate the 'imminent death' of enterprise IT as cloud models ascendI think...
- Discussion threads 2009-08-10
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