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WebSideStory becomes Visual Sciences; bolsters enterprise focus: Web analytics company WebSideStory has changed its name to Visual Sciences and launched a bevy of new software products to expand more into enterprise software. Image Gallery: These screenshots show the latest Web/data analytics software from Visual Sciences. ...; Tags: Web Technology, Software Infrastructure, General, Enterprise 2.0, Datacenter, Business Intelligence; Blog posts 2007-05-09
Visual Sciences: Web analytics style throughout the enterprise: Visual Sciences, formerly known as WebSideStory, is bolstering its reach into the enterprise with a series of 3D applications.; Tags: WebSideStory Inc., Web analytics, analytics, 3D; Image galleries 2007-05-09
Web 3.0: The API-driven application: Although some people enjoy futzing about with raw API services from the likes of Google, Amazon et al, most people just want software to help them get their work done faster. That will create an opportunity for vendors to build a new generation of applications that convert bare API...; Tags: API; Blog posts 2005-12-08
Era of the content engineer: Most people now realize that a business shouldn't think of its website as the online equivalent of a marketing brochure. The technology and skills exist today for a company's web presence to perform as a highly efficient, proactive marketing machine that draws in visitors and shepherds them towards...; Tags: WebSideStory Inc.; Blog posts 2005-12-06
Firefox has 3% of the browser market share, IE on decline: Microsoft Internet Explorer lost 3% since its decline first began in early June, WebSideStory reported. Internet Explorer dropped to 92.9 percent of the browser market as of end-October 2004,which is a 2.6% drop overall. Firefox, the Mozilla Foundation's standalone browser, was the biggest beneficiary of IE's most recent losses, WebSideStory...; Tags: Web browser, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, WebSideStory Inc.; Blog posts 2004-11-02

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The four horsemen of SaaS: Taleo's acquisition of Vurv, announced today, is a clear play by the SaaS vendor for breakout leadership of the people management sector — one of the hottest segments of the enterprise SaaS landscape, populated by fast-growing startups such as recent Nasdaq entrant SuccessFactors along with privately held Authoria, Cornerstone OnDemand,...; Tags: Revenue, Acquisition, Software-as-a-service, Taleo Corp., Vurv, Software As A Service (SaaS), Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Emerging Technologies, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Phil Wainewright; Blog posts 2008-05-06
Surge in Mac users good for Apple, not so good for security: Surge in Mac users good for Apple, not so good for securityThe huge selling point is fast VMsWhile I admit that BootCamp isn't a huge selling point, VM software like Parallels is. I have been a build it myself Windows PC user for years, but have always wanted to...; Tags: Desktops, Apple Mac OS X, Operating systems, Apple Macintosh, Mac-user, virus, security, Microsoft Windows, Apple Inc.; Discussion threads 2007-05-09
Surge in Mac users good for Apple, not so good for security: According to web metric analysts WebSideStory and Net Applications, the number of people surfing the web in the US on a Mac doubled over the past eight months. This represents an increase from a long-term flat-line of about 3% to around 6%. Switching from the PowerPC to Intel...; Tags: Apple, Mac, Security, Trends; Blog posts 2007-05-09
Comscore: AJAX, panel churn and spyware are business risks: Comscore has filed to go public and the risk factors--AJAX, many rivals, and being classified as spyware--in its prospectus make for an interesting read. Comscore, which will use the ticker "SCOR," had 2006 revenue of $66.3 million up from $50 million in 2005. Earnings were...; Tags: Wired & Wireless, Web Technology, General; Blog posts 2007-04-03
Salesforce.com automates sales process for SMBs: The acquisition of Kieden and subsequent launch of Salesforce for Google AdWords marks a crucial turning point for Salesforce.com. Until now, the vendor's own applications have slavishly mirrored the application categories of conventional enterprise software vendors — salesforce automation, contact management, customer relationship management, marketing automation, partner relationship...; Tags: Salesforce.com Inc.; Blog posts 2006-08-23
What to look for in a SaaS vendor: What to look for in a SaaS vendorSome clarity at lastSo SaaS is a new method of application provision, not some new kind of application. Therefore there is no real radical break from existing packaged software.Of course exactly the same software does meet everyone's needs then it makes sense to...; Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), software-as-a-service, SaaS company, software; Discussion threads 2006-08-16
Forget about implementation, focus on results: I'm often asked, what's the big deal with software as a service SaaS? If all you're doing is hosting the application instead of installing it locally, it's just an alternative delivery mechanism. So why do people talk as though it's a whole new category of software? ...; Tags: delivery mechanism, software, packaged application; Blog posts 2006-06-20
HBX and SiteCatalyst: Comparative Analysis: There are many third-party web analytical tools available, among which WebSideStory's HBX and Omniture's SiteCatalyst are among the most prominent. With SiteCatalyst aiming for an IPO later this year and grabbing a larger market share, and WebSideStory doing everything they can to prevent that from happening, it is important for...; Tags: Analysis, Web Analytics, Tool, Visual Sciences Inc., Productivity, Marketing Research, IPO, Marketing, Financial Services; White papers 2006-06-01
NetSuite preps ground for IPO: In interviews with the San Francisco Business Times, NetSuite executives have confirmed plans to prepare for an IPO later this year. "We're hoping to see something in the ballpark of what Salesforce got in terms of valuation," NetSuite CEO Zach Nelson told the paper — which would value his company...; Tags: NetSuite Inc., IPO; Blog posts 2006-03-29
UK search engine market shares: Google - 75%, Yahoo! - 9.3%, MSN - 5.46%: Information Week quotes WebSideStory report on search engine usage in the UK. Google is leading the market with 75% of the search traffic, followed by Yahoo! with 9.3%, MSN with 5.46%, AOL with 4.21% and Ask with 2.28%.; Tags: MSN, Yahoo! Inc., Google Inc., Information Week; Blog posts 2006-03-25
Best search engines by conversion rate: AOL - 6.17%, MSN - 6.03%, Yahoo! - 4.07%: According to WebSideStory, AOL Search in January 2006 generated the best conversion rate at e-commerce sites (6.17%), followed by MSN (6.03%), Yahoo (4.07%) and Google (3.83%).; Tags: Web technology, E-business/E-commerce, MSN, America Online Inc., Yahoo! Inc.; Blog posts 2006-02-16
Wall St cools on leading on-demand vendors: It's not been a joyful week for investors who believe in the on-demand model. Yesterday saw one stock tumble more than 25% in the first hours of trading, while earlier this week another slid 20% in two days. Meanwhile, that 8.5% drop in Google's stock price (as of...; Tags: wall, on-demand, trailing twelve month, Wall St; Blog posts 2006-02-03
What to expect from Web 3.0: What to expect from Web 3.0what happened to Microsoft?The list of major players associated with web 3.0 mentioned included Amazon, Google and eBay.Then WebEx, WebSideStory? were mentioned ...While I am no Microsoft fan, I still believe they should have been mentioned before WebEx.At this rate, we'll be at Web 4.0...; Tags: Channel management, Web 3.0, Web, Phil, WebEx Communications Inc., General Motors Corp.; Discussion threads 2005-11-30
What to expect from Web 3.0: Any veteran of the software industry will tell you that version 2.0 of any product tends to be a shortlived staging post on the way to 3.0, which is where it finally hits the mark. Windows was a classic example. 1.0 was so buggy it...; Tags: Web, Web 3.0; Blog posts 2005-11-29
Ad-supported applications: just say no: I asked several on-demand CEOs for their views on ad-supported applications last week. Everything they said bears out what seems to be the majority opinion of TalkBack posters who've been commenting on my posts (1, 2, 3 and 4), John Carroll's (1 and 2) and ZDNet's news coverage of the...; Tags: advertisement; Blog posts 2005-11-22