Recent Posts Tagged With 'saas'

• SaaS Providers Are Happy About Private Clouds

  Posted on Wednesday September 16th, 2009 at 06:28 in saas, sarbanes-oxley, amazon.com, amazon ec2, cloud computing, private cloud, gogrid, sas70, saas trends, saas sector report, twitter security, public cloud

  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...

• SaaS Business Profile: Enwisen

  Posted on Tuesday June 2nd, 2009 at 08:24 in saas, knowledge management, on-demand, onboarding, cloud computing, enwisen, saas companies, saas business profile, answersource, hr portal, hr shared services, total reward statements

    Company:        Enwisen Started:            1999 Located:           Novato, California Geography:      Global Market:            On-demand Workforce Communications Products:         AnswerSource Â...

• SaaS Business Profile: MarketBright

  Posted on Tuesday May 26th, 2009 at 08:00 in saas, CRM, social network, marketing automation, on-demand, sales 2.0, saas companies, saas business profile, marketbright

            Company:    Marketbright Started:        March 2005 Located:       San Bruno, California Geography:  Global Market:        On-Demand Marketing Automation Solution              Products:          Â...

• SaaS Perspectives: Managing in a Recession

  Posted on Monday May 18th, 2009 at 13:51 in saas, fortinet, deloitte, on-demand, cloud computing, mrr, customer acquisition costs, ken goldman, netmagic, saas trends, saas tips, adaptive planning

  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...

• SaaS Business Profile: Sonoa Systems

  Posted on Tuesday May 12th, 2009 at 09:31 in saas, cloud computing, sonoa systems, saas companies, saas business profile, chet kapoor

        Company:     Sonoa Systems         Started:        2005               Located:       Santa Clara, California           Geography:  North America, APAC       Market:        Cloud Computi...

• SaaS Business Profile: M-Factor

  Posted on Tuesday May 5th, 2009 at 09:03 in saas, on-demand, cpg, saas companies, saas business profile, lawrence whittle, m-factor

         Company:        M-Factor Started:            2004 Located:           San Mateo, California Geography:      Global Market:            Predictive analytics for marketing and trade investment manag...

• Doing Everything to Lower Customer Acquisition Costs

  Posted on Tuesday April 28th, 2009 at 10:43 in saas, social networking, budgeting, on-demand, jive software, financial applications, customer acquisition costs, saas tips, saas companies, adaptive planning, bill soward

      I had an interesting briefing with Bill Soward, CEO and Greg Schneider VP of Marketing at Adaptive Planning the other day, which I wanted to share.  In the spirit of full disclosure, I will let you know that I worked with Bill years ago at E...

• Comparing Darwin’s Evolution and HCM SaaS Software

  Posted on Tuesday April 21st, 2009 at 08:51 in saas, oracle, amazon, sap, talent management, stepstone, hcm, peoplesoft, workday, adp, on-demand, kenexa

  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...

• SaaS Business Profile: RightNow

  Posted on Monday April 13th, 2009 at 15:00 in Marketing, saas, CRM, sales, service, on-demand, rightnow, cloud computing, rnow, saas companies, saas business profile, greg gianforte

       Company:         RightNow Started:             1997 Located:            Bozeman, Montana Geography:       Global Market:              On-Demand Customer Relationship Management Products:          Right...

• SaaS Business Profile: SuccessFactors

  Posted on Tuesday April 7th, 2009 at 07:38 in saas, performance management, talent management, on-demand, cloud computing, successfactors, saas companies, saas business profile, lars dalgaard

      Company:        SuccessFactors Started:            2001 Located:           San Mateo, California Geography:      Global Market:             On-Demand Performance and Talent Management Products:     Â...

• SaaS Business Profile: Mint.com

  Posted on Tuesday March 31st, 2009 at 08:10 in saas, taxact, mint.com, aaron patzer, cloud computing, saas business profile

      Company:        Mint.com Started:            October 2006 Located:           Mountain View, California Geography:      North America Market:            Online Personal Finance Management Products:   ...

• What are Venture Capitalists Saying About SaaS?

  Posted on Thursday March 26th, 2009 at 09:00 in google, saas, craigslist, amazon, intuit, facebook, salesforce.com, merrill lynch, vc, intel capital, yousendit, pehub

  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 Business Profile: QuickArrow

  Posted on Tuesday March 24th, 2009 at 09:00 in asp, saas, billing, project management, psa, microsoft outlook, resource management, codie, expense management, siia, on-demand, professional services automation

       Company:        QuickArrow Started:            1999 Located:           Austin, Texas Geography:      Global Market:            Professional Services Automation Products:         Project Manage...

• SaaS Business Profile: Workday

  Posted on Tuesday March 17th, 2009 at 09:00 in saas, Payroll, hcm, financial management, peoplesoft, workday, total cost of ownership, saas companies, saas business profile, aneel bhusri, dave duffield, stan swete

                Company:              Workday Started:                  Founded in March 2005 by former PeopleSoft executives Dave Duffield an                                       Aneel Bhusri ...

• SaaS Sector Report: SMB Office Productivity Software

  Posted on Thursday March 12th, 2009 at 08:30 in google, Microsoft, saas, Yahoo!, goog, google docs, microsoft office, yhoo, msft, corel, iwork, wordperfect

  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 Business Profile: Bill.com

  Posted on Tuesday March 10th, 2009 at 08:30 in saas, accounting, quickbooks, intuit, cloud computing, intacct, paycycle, bill.com, saas companies, saas business profile, rene lacerte

    Company:        Bill.com Started:            2003 Located:           Palo Alto, California Geography:      Global Market:            On-Demand Accounts Payable Products:         Accounts Payable Ma...

• SaaS Sector Report: SMB Financial Productivity Software

  Posted on Thursday March 5th, 2009 at 07:00 in saas, smb, accounting, quickbooks, intuit, netsuite, quicken, mint, salesforce, on-demand, openair, outright

   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: Host Analytics

  Posted on Tuesday February 24th, 2009 at 08:00 in saas, CRM, erp, budgeting, hcm, cpm, on-demand, cloud computing, corporate performance management, boomi, saas companies, saas business profile

       Company:          Host Analytics Started:              2000 Located:             Redwood City, California Geography:        North America Market(s):          Financial Budgeting and Planning Products:     ...

• SaaS Business Profile: eQuest

  Posted on Tuesday February 17th, 2009 at 08:15 in saas, ats, erp, job board, john malone, human capital management, on-demand, hr executive, taleo, equest, mrted, smartrecruiters

           Company: eQuest Started: 1998 Located: San Ramon, California Geography: Global Market: Human Capital Management – Recruiting and Job Boards Products: eQuest Job Posting Distribution eQuest OFCCP Compliance Job Posting Pac...

• SaaS Business Profile: MrTed

  Posted on Tuesday February 10th, 2009 at 08:15 in google, saas, smb, recruiting, ats, Yahoo!, LinkedIn, skype, staffing industry, on-demand, taleo, saas trends

      Company:            MrTed, Ltd Started:               1999 Located:              Across the globe with 10 offices – Headquarters in London, UK Geography:         Global presence, with strong ex...

• SaaS Business Profile: Zuora

  Posted on Monday February 2nd, 2009 at 08:00 in google, saas, oracle, efax, netflix, zipcar, salesforce.com, z-blog, webex, on-demand, postini, cloud computing

  Company:           Zuora Started:               2006 Located:              Redwood Shores, California   USA Geography:         North America Market:                Subscription Billing Product...

• Announcing 2009 Business Profiles Series

  Posted on Friday January 30th, 2009 at 18:16 in saas, hybrid, crossover, saas companies, smartsaas

  Starting on Monday February 2nd we are launching our SmartSaaS Business Profile series which will cover both Pure SaaS firms as well as those Cross-Over and Hybrid firms who are actively moving to a Software-as-a-Service model.  The idea is to get t...

• IDC Predicts SaaS Market to Grow by 42% in 2009!

  Posted on Wednesday January 28th, 2009 at 08:00 in saas, it, recession, salesforce.com, idc, capex, saas trends, mahowald

  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

  Posted on Monday January 26th, 2009 at 12:25 in saas, consolidation, m&a, on-demand, spm, centive, sales performance management, callidus, xactly, saas trends, saas companies

  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!

  Posted on Tuesday January 20th, 2009 at 08:00 in saas, sap, salesforce.com, business objects, autodesk, ariba, kana, cross-over, concur, saas trends, sumtotal, taas

  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

  Posted on Monday January 5th, 2009 at 07:00 in saas, roi, gartner, forrester, subscription, tco, on-demand, it spending, software-as-a-service, operating expense, saas trends, capital expense

  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

  Posted on Wednesday December 17th, 2008 at 07:00 in saas, oracle, cio, roi, sap, erp, tco, on-demand, software-as-a-service, saas trends, saas tips

  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...

• SaaS by the Numbers

  Posted on Wednesday December 10th, 2008 at 07:00 in saas, CRM, netsuite, salesforce.com, n, omniture, opex, on-demand, atg, sfsf, capex, magic number

  When most companies think about moving towards a Software-as-a-Service business model they often just change their pricing model.  You know the drill, instead of charging a big perpetual license fee upfront with some services and then an annual main...

• Give Away Software! Are You Crazy?

  Posted on Thursday December 4th, 2008 at 00:45 in google, ebay, saas, craigslist, Yahoo!, LinkedIn, skype, freemium, 37signals, on-demand, software-as-a-service, kijiji

  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...

• Movin on over to SaaS

  Posted on Friday November 21st, 2008 at 12:29 in saas, siia, saas tips, software migration

  I was just at the SIIA On Demand 2008 conference in San Jose this week.  There was a great panel discussion which covered one of my favorite SaaS questions; ‘How do I move over to a true SaaS business model?’   Just change the pricing m...