Tag Archives: SaaS

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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03/06/2008 Posted in Business, Design, IT, SaaS, Strategy, Web x.0 Leave a comment

Android – people are missing the point.

By The Unreasonablemen

A Guest post from the unreasonablemen.net There has been a bunch of commentary about Google’s mobile platform Android. Most commentators seem to be banging on about how it is going after the Apple iPhone (R/WW seems to be fixated on this aspect). This analysis misses the point. Of course Android

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25/05/2008 Posted in Business, Design, SaaS, Strategy 2 Comments

Can Microsoft be rebranded? or are they doomed to the position of ‘nerd’ forever?

By Julian Stone

Rod Drury wrote an interesting post over on his blog about what he would do if in charge of Microsoft. Have a read of the post – here’s the link: http://www.drury.net.nz/2008/05/24/if-i-was-in-charge-2/ But as much as I agree with nearly all his points, I wanted to expand on point number 15

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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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06/05/2008 Posted in Design, Efficiency, IT, New business, SaaS 1 Comment

Some Morning Thoughts on Scale, Profitability and Margins in Software and SaaS companies.

By Julian Stone

It’s a hard balance being in the Software/SaaS (Software as a Service) industry. We can put lots of time and focus into systems and development, but sales may suffer… or we focus on sales and then development suffers… ProActive Software (www.proworkflow.com) has bootstrapped (growth through no funding, and only sweat

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05/05/2008 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Where incumbents go wrong

By The Unreasonablemen

A guest post from the unreasonablemen.net I saw this from Ovum analysing SAP’s Q1 financials. There are a couple of take outs from this that really struck me with respect to SaaS and incumbent business models. 1) The company is still growing its core business (double digit growth no less)

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18/04/2008 Posted in Design, IT, PaaS, SaaS, Strategy 5 Comments

Has SaaS become what it disrupted?

By The Unreasonablemen

I read a piece about 2 weeks ago that gave me one of those moments: you know, when a whole lot of pieces fall into place and your mind races. It was titled You Become what you disrupt Since that moment I’ve become increasingly aware of this trend in the

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10/04/2008 Posted in SaaS Leave a comment

SaaS Vendors: Practice what you preach.

By TroyWing

I have been quiet in March, due to my company acquiring new customers. Writing blog posts about specialist topics such as SaaS requires a fair bit of regular reading, which was reduced to a minimum for me. So in lieu of that I am posting on an area which was

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30/03/2008 Posted in Collaboration, Design, IT, SaaS, Web x.0 Leave a comment

Zoho filling in the SME accounting space?

By Ben Kepes

A few weeks ago I posted and said; Next move I’m picking [for Zoho] is a filling out of the space between the current small business offerings and People, the first larger business offering. That remark was particularly made to comment on the release of Zoho’s first offering that seemed

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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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