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Another word-esque development from Google docs

May 10, 2008

Design, IT, SaaS

google docs, microsoft office

Announced today that Google docs now supports customisation of style sheets. This change opens up the templating and styling options that have always been available in word, but does so obviously in an easy to collaborate, available anywhere, in…

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Another SaaS accounting player following Xero’s lead

May 9, 2008

Design, New Zealand, SaaS, Strategy

free agent central, Xero

Freeagentcentral is a nice little accounting application out of the UK. It’s a similar offering to Xero but as Xero themselves would be quick to point out, doesn’t offer the automated bank feeds (at this time) that Xero does.…

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Google moves up a gear for enterprise

May 9, 2008

IT, SaaS

google, postini

Back in July, when Google acquired Postini, I posted saying that the acquisition would give Google the level of archive, security and compliance that enterprise requires. Great to read then this morning that Google has begun offering enterprise web…

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SaaS for Developers

May 7, 2008

SaaS

development, SaaS

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…

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Google hosted apps satire

May 7, 2008

Efficiency, IT, SaaS

Google apps

I ran into this the other day… Intermedia.NET, the US leader in Microsoft Exchange hosting for small and medium businesses (SMBs), today praised the innovative new service, Google Apps for Your Domain. By offering 24×0 support, no wireless access…

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On digital brown outs and SaaS

May 7, 2008

IT, SaaS

Marc has an interesting post looking at strategies for surviving a digital brown out – some take outs from his post; Go wireless, most businesses have a USB wireless internet dongle or a WiFi internet account for sales purposes…

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

May 6, 2008

Design, Efficiency, IT, New business, SaaS

Business, marketing, Model, Profitability, Resource, SaaS, software, Startup

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…

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Telcos and SaaS, a happy fit…

May 5, 2008

Design, IT, SaaS, Strategy

british telecom, netsuite, sugarcrm

Interesting that British Telecom has entered into a partnership with Netsuite to provide Netsuite’s business management solution to BT’s 1.6million business customers. BT is also partnering with SugarCRM to provide their CRM product to users. Some might see these…

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The perils of online storage…

May 3, 2008

Governance, IT, New business, SaaS, Web x.0

omnidrive

I’ve talked about online storage and sync in the past (see here and here). My perspective has always been two fold; Don’t store, but sync. Storage at one location only is a recipe for disaster – websites go down…

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Xobni walks away, what now?

May 2, 2008

Efficiency, IT, New business, SaaS, Strategy, Web x.0

worklight, xobni

Staunch move by Xobni to walk away from Microsoft’s takeover offer. Apparently they felt uncomfortable with Microsoft’s intentions for them. I wonder if Bill Gates will continue to use the Xobni plugin? Xobni sees itself as much more than…

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