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Making cash with SaaS and Web 2.0

Ever wondered why so many Web 2.0 or SaaS offerings are free or bundled? It's because the vendors can't work out how to bill for them. Don't believe me? Here are some real-life examples: A monitoring vendor that switched a $10,000-a-year data extraction option to free because...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Web, Software-as-a-service, Web 2.0, Billing, On-demand, Aria Systems Inc., Zuora, Software As A Service (SaaS), Emerging Technologies, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2008-03-13

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News to know: Yahoo; VMware; Apple; DNS vulnerability

Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Vulnerability disclosure gone awry: Understanding the DNS debacle RIM ships fix for BlackBerry code execution bug Dancho Danchev: Georgia President's web site under DDoS attack from Russian hackers 75% of online banking sites found vulnerable to security design...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Larry Dignan, DNS, Yahoo! Inc., Vulnerability, Dana Blankenhorn, Health Care, Apple Inc., VMware Inc., App Store, Banking, Vertical Industries, Domain Names, Benefits, Healthcare, Security, Financial Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Internet, Human Resources

Blog posts 2008-07-23

Zuora: the future business model?

I recently caught up with Tien Tzou, CEO of Zuora, the billing management company that offers Z-billings, an on-demand service. In his opinion, the business model of the future will be subscription based and this brings challenges of its own. "Pricing is a much more complex...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Billing, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-07-22

The future of SaaS billing

In the past few weeks, all of a sudden, I've been approached by any number of vendors wanting to tell me about their billing, settlement and subscriber management offerings to the SaaS market. I must say, it's about time. For the past ten years, SaaS vendors have struggled to manage...

Tags: Software-as-a-service, Billing, LeCayla, Vindicia, Enterprise Software Buyer, Software As A Service (SaaS), Emerging Technologies, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2008-04-03

Making cash with SaaS and Web 2.0

Making cash with SaaS and Web 2.0Great postThanks for raising the profile of this important issue.RE: Making cash with SaaS and Web 2.0Very interesting post. To me it sounds very similar to issues telco's faced in the early days of cell phone usage where their billing systems were for created...

Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), software-as-a-service, billing, Web 2.0, Web

Discussion threads 2008-03-13