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Force.com Starts to Gain Momentum with Partners
Last week at Salesforce.com’s Dreamforce conference, it was interesting to see how their Platform-as-a-Service offering, Force.com is starting to gain momentum among the Independent Software Vendor community including Computer Associates and B...
Dreamforce: Latest Salesforce Announcement is Chatty
Last week at Salesforce.com’s Dreamforce conference, the big news was around the launch of the new business collaboration set of platform capabilities called “Chatter”. After updating the audience on Service and Sales Cloud 2, which both ...
Reflections From OracleWorld: Does Oracle Finally Get SaaS … Sort of, kind of, almost
When I was learning to drive many, many years ago, I remember my dad telling me to pay attention to not only where the other driver’s eyes were looking but also to where their wheels were pointed. So it was with my search for SaaS at the recent ...
First Day: Oracle Open World 2009
Monday October 12th It has been several years since I went to my last Oracle User Group meeting, prior to them buying PeopleSoft, Siebel and BEA. Here are my thoughts around the first day: The Keynote Charles Phillips and Safra Catz kicked thing...
The Attributes That Define Cloud Computing Also Make It A Compelling Choice
While speaking at a recent meeting of the Silicon Valley Product Development Management Association, PDMA, I was struck by the uncertainty and confusion around the definition and implications of Cloud Computing. A quick poll of the audience, about ...
SaaS Providers Are Happy About Private Clouds
I often hear the question, “What is the difference between Software-as-a-Service and Cloud Computing?” The answer is that the Cloud is a utility based resource that companies can use to deliver software and services. This can sometime...
Will Oracle Really Take Over The SaaS Market?
After working at Oracle for almost five years in the early 90’s, I can tell you that when Larry sets his mind to something he usually gets it. Let’s take a trip down memory lane… It started by just p...
SaaS Perspectives: Managing in a Recession
I was listening to an interesting panel discussion at a recent SIIA show in San Francisco that a very good panel: Joe Talley, Partner at Deloitte who was the moderator; Ken Goldman CFO at Fortinet a large private...
Comparing Darwin’s Evolution and HCM SaaS Software
In Charles Darwin’s landmark work on the Theory of Evolution, he stated that “…Natural selection acts only by taking advantage of slight successive variations; it can never take a great and sudden leap, but must advance by short and sure, t...
What are Venture Capitalists Saying About SaaS?
I listened to an interesting panel discussion at the Opsource, SaaS Summit a few days ago and I thought I would share what I heard. Venture capital panelists were from Intel Capital, Emergence Capital Partners, CrossLink Capital and Hummer Winblad...
SaaS Sector Report: SMB Office Productivity Software
SMB Financial Productivity Software There is an increasing number of Software-as-a-Service (or SaaS) firms jumping into the smallest end of the Small and Medium-size Business (SMB) market, and they are offering a variety of office productivity so...
SaaS Sector Report: SMB Financial Productivity Software
SMB Financial Productivity Software There is an increasing number of Software-as-a-Service (or SaaS) firms jumping into the smallest end of the Small and Medium-size Business (SMB) market, and they are offering a va...
SaaS Business Profile: MrTed
Company: MrTed, Ltd Started: 1999 Located: Across the globe with 10 offices – Headquarters in London, UK Geography: Global presence, with strong ex...
IDC Predicts SaaS Market to Grow by 42% in 2009!
I always thought that the Software-as-a-Service market would expland during a recessionary economy because: 1) Companies don’t have capital dollars to buy software 2) The ability to pay-as-you-go appeals to CFO’s 3) No infrastructure to b...
SaaS Consolidation Starts in 2009
As the economy continues to struggle, it also presents some interesting opportunities for stronger SaaS companies to pick up marketshare and eliminate competitors. In a deal announced last Friday, Xactly - the leading SaaS company in the Sales Perfor...
Hybrids, Cross-Overs and TaaS, Oh My!
As I go out and talk to firms about Software-as-a-Service I am increasingly finding firms that offer technology solutions that won’t easily fit into a traditional software mold, but want to move to a real subscription model. Part of the rea...
Subscription for Success in 2009
As we enter 2009, I am hoping that the economic environment will begin to improve for technology firms. I realize that very few analysts feel positive about the economy but one thing I agree with them is that companies will have dramatically less c...
TCO is a SaaS Company’s Best Friend
Remember the good ol’ days of selling software, when you could talk to customers about the virtues of ROI, or Return on Investment? ‘Our new software can cut your costs by 90%, make you more strategic and you will get that raise you w...
Give Away Software! Are You Crazy?
Crazy like a fox. With the economy in such tough shape, with customers on the sidelines with no budget to buy software, maybe now is the perfect time to embrace a Freemium software strategy. This concept was originally proposed by a venture captial...
