Tag Archives: SaaS

March 30, 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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March 11, 2008 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Microsoft’s picture of a unified future…

By The Unreasonablemen

{this is a mirror post of unreasonablemen.net} And no it has nothing to do with Vista…. BUT, it does have everything to do with Microsoft Mesh and MS’s S+S strategy. Gianpaolo from the development team outlines a simple S+S example here. I love Office 2007, the interface is clean, efficient

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March 10, 2008 Posted in SaaS Leave a comment

Is the collaboration war just Google v Microsoft?

By The Unreasonablemen

This is a mirror post of my own blog unreasonablemen.net Pop quiz. Who is the second largest software company in the world? Who is the second largest provider of on-premise email & collaboration software?   The answer to both is IBM. The interesting thing about IBM is that they have

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March 7, 2008 Posted in Business, IT, SaaS 2 Comments

Ever wondered how a SaaS based project management software company manages software projects?

By Julian Stone

Our SaaS business focuses on a project management solution we rent to a global userbase (servers in the USA, the business is remotely run from NZ). No matter how hard we drive home the ‘Value & ROI’ message, there’s always a large number of ‘Price driven’ customers as we all

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March 4, 2008 Posted in SaaS, Web x.0 Leave a comment

Who is using Force.com?

By TroyWing

A number of prominent blogs including Renee Boucher Ferguson, Sinclair Schuller and Bob Warfield this morning wrote about the outcome of an informal straw poll conducted during a panel discussion hosted by Phil Wainewright at the OpSource SaaS summit this week. In a show of hands, Out of 250 ISV’s

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March 1, 2008 Posted in SaaS, Web x.0 4 Comments

SaaS Presentation Layers exist out of the browser

By TroyWing

In a recent blog post, SaaS Blogger Phil Wainewright made some excellent points on what defines a SaaS client. Some purists may disagree, but my definition of a SaaS client goes outside of the browser to include a client that runs on the desktop machine so long as it’s still

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February 25, 2008 Posted in SaaS Leave a comment

The impact of Scale and Economics on SaaS and broadband

By The Unreasonablemen

NOTE: this is a mirror post of my unreasonablemen.net blog. There have been a few posts recently about broadband in NZ, some well thought through, others not so. The crux of this issue is about scale & economics. This of course is massively applicable to SaaS too. So in the

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

“Word of Mouse” will drive adoption of SaaS

By TroyWing

Recently, I attended the Small Business Summit hosted in Times Square, New York. The catchphrase of the summit was ‘Technology: Its time to reinvent your business’ The key note speaker was Karen Quintos of Dell Inc, VP of Marketing , Small and Medium Business and in a superb presentation she

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February 12, 2008 Posted in IT, SaaS, Society, Web x.0 7 Comments

Anonymity. The web and SaaS.

By The Unreasonablemen

Note: This is a mirror post from my unreasonablemen blog. Ben Kepes and I recently locked horns over this topic. As you can tell I like having anonymity on the web. There are various reasons for this, but my primary concern is security and keeping some clear demarcation between my

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February 9, 2008 Posted in Business, IT, SaaS 1 Comment

Software+Services or SaaS, the key word is Service not Software.

By TroyWing

Having read with interest Ben’s previous post on Microsoft’s Software + Services strategy, I feel like adding my 2 cents worth from a slightly different angle. The keyword here is Service, which leads to me to think that Microsoft Office and competing disruptive products are not the best examples of SaaS.  A critical strength of

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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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