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Microsoft gets a trifecta!

April 23, 2008

Design, IT, SaaS, Strategy

albany, Google apps, S+S, Zoho

I’d avoided posting about Microsoft’s latest offering, Albany, because there is really not much anyone in the SaaS world can find to say about it…. I can’t resist however so here goes. Basically it seems that Albany is a…

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Do you archive?

April 23, 2008

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

gmail, google

Vaibhav posted this saying that it was a mistake for Gmail users to automatically hit the archive button instead of delete. (For those who don’t use Gmail, Google encourages users to archive old mail rather than delete it –…

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Uptime/Downtime/Badline

April 20, 2008

Design, IT, PaaS, SaaS, Strategy, Web x.0

backup, hp, upline

The HP Upline system launched last week was yet another in the plethora of online (SaaS) backup solutions – I blogged about some others a few days ago. Only a week into the service however, Upline was down, with…

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Has SaaS become what it disrupted?

April 18, 2008

Design, IT, PaaS, SaaS, Strategy

SaaS

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…

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Google Docs … so what – the ONE reason why you should care

April 17, 2008

Efficiency, SaaS, Web x.0

(cross posting from Mike Riversdale: Enterprise 2.0 New Zealand style blog) Google Apps … on-line word processing … a slightly interesting “battle” between Google and Microsoft … !? … who, apart from those with shares or have their status/job…

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PaaS from a bookkeeping app? Think beachheads….

April 17, 2008

IT, PaaS, SaaS, Strategy

amazon, AppEngine, Force, intuit

Breaking news from Intuit that they are launching a cloud computing offering to compete with Force, AppEngine, Amazon etc. Intuit is the creator of Quickbooks (think 3.6million users for their bookkeeping offering) and it would seem that this offering…

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Zoho creating a Salesforce doppelganger… or more…

April 17, 2008

Governance, IT, SaaS, Strategy

crm, salesforce, Zoho

News this morning that Zoho CRM is launching an enterprise edition. I’ve always had a little bit of scepticism about enterprise editions – knowing what I know about enterprise it seems that the only different between SMB and enterprise…

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Microsoft LiveMesh

April 16, 2008

IT, SaaS, Web x.0

foldershare, livemesh, sugarsync, sync

RWW reports that next week MS is due to make an announcement at the Web 2,0 Expo. Apparently most pundits think this will be announcement of the Launch of LiveMesh. So what is Live Mesh? It is believed that…

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SaaS podcast

April 16, 2008

IT, SaaS, Strategy

Over on eBizQ, Krissi Danielsson interviews Paul Giurata of Catalyst Resources on good and bad ways of doing SaaS. It’s a fairly low level discussion, looking at the basics of ASP versus pure play SaaS models. A good primer…

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More on SFDC/Google apps

April 15, 2008

Collaboration, Design, IT, PaaS, SaaS, Web x.0

google, Microsoft, salesforce

I’ve just been alerted to the following video; It looks compelling, and Phil Wainewright goes hyperbolic to the extreme when he says; When it takes just a mouse click to open Gmail and have the message saved with the…

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