Author Archives: Daniel Fowlie

24/06/2008 Posted in PaaS, SaaS Leave a comment

Salesforce and Google integrate some more

By Daniel Fowlie

Since the beginning of the year Salesforce’s Tour de Force event has been touring the world. The Tour de Force events are all about the Force.com platform as a service, leaving Salesforce’s CRM offering for discussion at the Dreamforce conference. Today’s stop on the tour was the home town stop

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20/06/2008 Posted in SaaS Leave a comment

SaaS VC 101

By Daniel Fowlie

Courtesy of Salesforce’s monthly newsletter I came across this webinar entitled SaaS VC 101. It’s naturally got a Force.com angle to it but it’s got some points of interest for SaaS in general. The webinar is presented by VC firm Emergence Capital who are 100% focused on SaaS and technology

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06/06/2008 Posted in New Zealand Leave a comment

Teaching business literacy

By Daniel Fowlie

(cross posting from itsjustbusiness.co.nz) Kiwi teenagers ‘business savvy’ Interesting article in today’s paper about businessman Tony Falkenstein’s efforts to educate teenagers to think about business opportunities. He says that most teenagers don’t grow up in a household that talk business so it never enters their minds that they could be

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12/05/2008 Posted in PaaS, SaaS 1 Comment

Accounting on Force.com

By Daniel Fowlie

Last week at Dreamforce Europe 08 Coda Group launched Coda2Go – an SaaS accounting application that runs on the Force.com platform. In their press release they note: Powerful international on-demand accounting application from one of Europe’s leading financial systems providers Biggest ever development project on Force.com Platform-as-a-Service First accounting application

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07/05/2008 Posted in SaaS Leave a comment

SaaS for Developers

By Daniel Fowlie

Australian company Atlassian whose web-based products have mostly been behind the firewall have now officially launched Jira Studio at the JavaOne conference going on San Francisco. Jira Studio is a hosted solution product bringing together a number of the Atlassian’s products into one cohesive unit. At the heart of software

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12/02/2008 Posted in IT, SaaS, Web x.0 Leave a comment

The lowdown on Google Apps

By Daniel Fowlie

Editorial comment – Diversity Blogs is a proponent of the move to SaaS and in-the-clouds software provision. Daniel Fowlie has a business implementing some of these services and to this and we asked him to write about Google apps deployment. While Daniel provides the service and his post can be

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Ben Kepes is an analyst, an entrepreneur, a commentator and a business adviser. His business interests include a diverse range of industries from manufacturing to property to technology. As a technology commentator he has a broad presence both in the traditional media and extensively online. Ben covers the convergance of technology, mobile, ubiquity and agility, all enabled by the Cloud. His areas of interest extend to enterprise software, software integration, financial/accounting software, platforms and infrastructure as well as articulating technology simply for everyday users. More on Ben

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