Category Archives: PaaS

July 20, 2008 Posted in Business, Collaboration, IT, PaaS, SaaS, Strategy 4 Comments

Swisscom rolling out Zoho apps

By Ben Kepes

I got a heads up from Zoli that Zoho business is now live. This comes on the back of the announcement by Zoho that Swisscom, Switzerland’s second largest telco, is using Zoho for it business applications requirements. Zoho has created a customised version of their applications and this has been

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July 14, 2008 Posted in Business, Design, IT, PaaS, SaaS, Strategy 1 Comment

Aggregative marketing for SaaS

By Ben Kepes

Rod posted, in light of the recent Microsoft S+S announcements, saying that traditional sales channels may not add value to the new world of SaaS delivery. He then turned this around to suggest that what is needed is a buyer aggregation point for SaaS vendors. Now there are two ways

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July 11, 2008 Posted in Business, Design, Efficiency, IT, PaaS, SaaS, Strategy Leave a comment

On the move to the clouds, an awesome post…

By Ben Kepes

Stacey Higginbotham wrote a provocative post that fired up a lot of people detailing 10 reasons why cloud computing won’t take of within enterprise. The post is great – but more importantly there are some exceptional responses from different players – both evangelists for and detractors of, cloud computing. The

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July 7, 2008 Posted in Collaboration, Efficiency, PaaS, SaaS, Strategy 2 Comments

True Aggregation, The Browser as a Platform

By yves

This is a guest post from BeeBuzz, the voice of BeeBole. Every morning when I stop reading the last big news from about 30 blogs in Netvibes and switch to my countless SaaS Business Apps such as Gmail, Basecamp, Highrise, Remember The Milk, Google Docs, … I wonder why aggregation

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June 24, 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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June 21, 2008 Posted in Business, Design, Efficiency, IT, PaaS, SaaS, Strategy 2 Comments

Benioff on the future…

By Ben Kepes

Robert Scoble interviewed salesforce.com chairman and CEO Marc Benioff in a broad ranging discussion about the future of applications and platforms. It’s an interesting and insightful interview. Key takeouts and themes were; It’s not about the browser, it’s about the network. With a move to mobile and other non PC

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May 12, 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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May 8, 2008 Posted in Design, IT, PaaS, Strategy Leave a comment

Benioff – Web 3.0 is PaaS

By Ben Kepes

I love this – at the Salesforce.com mega conference in London, Marc Beniof stated that; We think Web 3.0 is now upon us. It’s the era of platforms….New platforms are coming right out of the cloud. It’s time to make a choice. You can continue to build your applications in

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April 30, 2008 Posted in IT, PaaS, SaaS, Strategy, Web x.0 Leave a comment

New McKinsey study on SaaS for enterprise…

By Ben Kepes

A new McKinsey report just released documents the paradigm shift evident in corporate IT. The survey canvassed 850 corporate software buyers and shows just how much attention on-demand is gaining in their minds. Key takeaways; SaaS is rapidly becoming mainstream 75% are favourably disposed to utilising SaaS for development and

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April 29, 2008 Posted in Design, Efficiency, IT, PaaS, SaaS, Strategy 3 Comments

Is there a SaaS 1.0 and a SaaS 2.0?

By Ben Kepes

With all the attention of late that PaaS providers are getting, it seems a good time to reflect on the stark contrast between two types of SaaS provider: those who do their own infrastructure, and those who farm it out. Everyone knows that salesforce.com is the grandaddy of SaaS vendors,

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The Author

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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