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- Salesforce.com's Outage: Will It Derail the SaaS Market?
- The service disruption which Salesforce.com CRM experienced last week came at a bad time for the Software-as-a-Service SaaS and cloud computing markets. Although I believe the long-term prospects for SaaS and cloud computing remain strong, there are plenty of short-term challenges facing SaaS and cloud computing vendors in today’s tough...
- External links 2009-01-11
- Why Intuit Could Become A Major Cloud Player
- I had the privilege of attending a local forum at Bentley University hosted by Intuit this past week entitled “Startups and the Cloud: Entrepreneurship in the Age of Cloud Computing”. The size of the turnout for this event was another indication of the growing level of interest in...
- External links 2009-06-15
- LucidEra?s Demise Shouldn?t Diminish SaaS and Cloud Computing Promise
- LucidEra’s decision to close its doors this past Friday will spark a new round of debate regarding the viability of the Software-as-a-Service SaaS and cloud computing business models. Some established vendors will use this event as further proof that the SaaS and cloud computing models are not sustainable....
- External links 2009-06-23
- Microsoft and Google's Duel In The Cloud
- Much has been written regarding Google’s latest challenge to Microsoft–its announcement last week that it plans to unveil a new operating system (OS) in the second half of 2010. There is no question that Google’s GOOG ambitious plans can have a significant impact on the computing world. And,...
- External links 2009-07-14
- The Latest SaaS Consolidation: NetSuite Merges OpenAir and QuickArrow
- Yesterday’s announcement that NetSuite N is acquiring QuickArrow and merging it with OpenAir is the most recent example of a consolidation process in the Software-as-a-Service SaaS industry which I predicted would accelerate at the beginning of the year. This particular transaction is very similar to Xactly’s acquisition of...
- External links 2009-07-23
- Moving Between the Legacy Software and Cloud Computing Worlds
- In the ongoing tug-of-war between on-premise and on-demand vendors, much was made of Steve Lucas’ jump from the SaaS unit of SAP’s Business Objects to Salesforce.com CRM to lead its new Force.com Platform-as-a-Service PaaS initiative a little over a year ago. With far less fanfare, Lucas returned to...
- External links 2009-09-10
- Salesforce.com's First Foray into Financial Apps, Joint Venture
- Salesforce.com CRM has teamed with Unit 4 Agresso to create a new company, called FinancialForce.com, that will build upon the Coda 2go on-demand financial application. This move is another indication that CFO receptivity toward SaaS-based accounting, financial management and enterprise resource planning (ERP) applications is rising. by Jeffrey...
- External links 2009-10-02
- Dell Becomes Salesforce.com Channel Partner
- I’ve been suggesting for years that PC vendors could be great channel partners for Software-as-a-Service SaaS vendors, and Dell DELL now has an opportunity to prove me right. Monday, Dell and saleforce.com CRM announced that Dell will offer salesforce.com’s SaaS solutions to its small- and mid-size business (SMB)...
- External links 2009-10-12
- Cloud Computing and Data Center Mishaps Reveal Vendor Differences
- A series of service outages over the past few days has brought into focus all the worst fears about the ‘cloud’ computing and Software-as-a-Service SaaS movement. These incidents have also demonstrated how data center experience doesn’t necessarily translate into cloud computing excellence. The most damaging outage affected T-Mobile...
- External links 2009-10-13
- Internet Capital Group Well-Positioned for SaaS and Cloud Computing Trends
- Last week, I had the privilege of attending and presenting at Internet Capital Group’s ICGE 2009 Strategic Growth Conference in Philadelphia, and came away impressed with the company’s portfolio of web-oriented businesses and vision for the future. ICG was one of the pioneers of web-based businesses during the...
- External links 2009-06-11
- Siemens Adopts SaaS-Based Solution from SuccessFactors
- SuccessFactors announced yesterday that Siemens AG SI has agreed to adopt its Software-as-a-Service SaaS based, on-demand performance and talent management solutions across its worldwide operations of approximately 420,000 users across 80 countries in 20 different languages. This is the latest indication of the rapid adoption of SaaS-based solutions...
- External links 2009-06-09
- Is Apple Getting SaaSy?
- Anyone who follows the Software-as-a-Service SaaS market knows that every major SaaS player, starting with Salesforce.com CRM, uses the success of consumer-oriented, on-line services as the model for its business-to-business solutions. SaaS vendors, executives and ‘experts’ myself included point to the way these web-based services created an enjoyable, effective and...
- External links 2009-01-11
- SAP's CEO and SaaS: Is Denial Working?
- In an InformationWeek interview last Tuesday, SAP’s SAP CEO and president of global field operations, Bill McDermott, downplayed the platform capabilities and enterprise-readiness of Software-as-a-Service SaaS and cloud computing. Although Salesforce.com’s CRM outage last week gave McDermott’s comments some immediate validation, they were still reminiscent of the views of...
- External links 2009-01-12
- Tough Times at Salesforce.com
- Over a year ago, I stated that the Software-as-a-Service SaaS market would be recession-proof as we entered 2008. And, last year proved to be a boom-time for nearly every SaaS company with a quality service aimed at a legitimate business need. Now that the economy has sunken into a deeper...
- External links 2009-02-09
- SAP: Snaps Up Coghead, More Acquisitions to Come?
- Among my predictions for 2009, was that the on-demand services industry will experience a shakeout and consolidation. I also suggested in a recent post that platform and cloud computing companies, which don’t offer a combination of solid enabling technologies plus attractive channels to customers won’t survive the shakeout. Sure...
- External links 2009-02-23
- Microsoft's View Of Customer Preference for Computing Choices Is Right On
- I moderated a panel at OpSource’s SaaS Summit this week entitled “Selling SaaS to the Enterprise” which included representatives from Cast Iron Systems, Oracle ORCL and the Business Objects unit of [[SAP]], as well as the Manager of Global Operations Business Technology at Pfizer PFE. They all agreed...
- External links 2009-03-15
- NetSuite's Game Plan for the SaaS Market
- One of my predictions for 2009 was that this would be the year of the channel in the Software-as-a-Service SaaS market. While the direct sales and delivery model associate with SaaS fundamentally disrupts the traditional role of the channel, the SaaS industry still needs to establish a successful...
- External links 2009-03-23
- HP Tries to Assure the Cloud
- HP unveiled a new Cloud Assure program this week, in conjunction with SaaScon, which responds to the growing concerns among enterprise decision-makers about the availability, security and performance of today’s rapidly evolving cloud computing services. I think HP’s announcement is timely because enterprise IT/business decision-makers are interested in...
- External links 2009-04-03
- Will Google Outage Derail Cloud Computing?
- Google’s latest service outage this past week generated a new round of attention and debate regarding the viability of the ‘cloud computing’ movement. Although Google’s GOOG service disruption raises legitimate concerns about the reliability of today’s web-based solutions, the extent of the press coverage also demonstrated how pervasive...
- External links 2009-05-18
- Salesforce.com: The Double-Edged Sword of Iterative Marketing
- I’ve always been an admirer of the marketing prowess of salesforce.com… although it always drives me crazy to comply with the lower-case spelling of their name because it seems to genericize their value in my eyes. One of the specific aspects of the company’s marketing tactics which I’ve...
- External links 2009-11-25
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