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Salesforce and Google Apps

April 15, 2008

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

Google apps, salesforce

The blogosphere is ablaze this morning on the formal announcement that Salesforce will be bundling (is it still called bundling when it’s SaaS!?) Google apps along with it’s CRM offering. There’s a bunch of analysis out there; Phil Waineright…

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Will the Google revolution engulf IT departments? No.

April 15, 2008

IT, SaaS, Strategy, Web x.0

(cross posting from Mike Riversdale: Enterprise 2.0 New Zealand style blog) Will the Google revolution engulf IT departments? is the question posed by Jason Hiner: Gartner has embarked on a wide-reaching new study of Google and its potential impact…

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Scoble on Google for Enterprise…

April 14, 2008

IT, SaaS, Web x.0

enterprise, google

Robert Scoble has an interesting perspective on Google’s moves into enterprise over here. His comments come after seeing a demo of a Cemaphore product called MailShadow for Google Apps, which synchronizes email and calendar items between Microsoft Outlook and…

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New version of groupSwim released

April 12, 2008

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

groupswim

I got an email from the GroupSwim guys this morning (I’ve reviewed their offering previously) proud to tell me that they’ve released the latest version of their software. Top of the list of improvements is file collaboration. Using GroupSwim,…

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A response to Zoli’s SaaS observation…

April 12, 2008

Design, IT, SaaS

Over on Zoli’s blog, he posted trying to dispel three myths about SaaS, namely; 1 – SaaS is simpler, easier to implement than On-premise software 2 – SaaS is for the SMB market 3 – SaaS is bought, not…

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New version of ProWorkFlow

April 11, 2008

Design, IT, SaaS

ProWorkflow

The folks over at ProWorkFlow sent me a message about the new version of their software just released. Version 6 has a bunch of changes which will be useful for project management peoples everywhere but one change that caught…

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Windows collapsing, but is it even relevant?

April 11, 2008

Design, IT, SaaS, Web x.0

browsers, operating systems

A report out from two Gartner analysts today claims that; Microsoft has not responded to the market, is overburdened by nearly two decades of legacy code and decisions, and faces serious competition on a whole host of fronts that…

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Silicon Alley Insider agrees…

April 10, 2008

IT, SaaS, Web x.0

Buddy Kaila sent me this post from Silicon Alley Insider. While the content interests me (more about that later), the humility REALLY interests me. SAI says; We wil be the first to admit we are not experts in the…

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SaaS for enterprise supply chain…

April 10, 2008

Design, IT, New business, New Zealand, SaaS

erp, supply chan management, viisibility

This morning I had a session with Viisibility, a company with an interesting supply chain management and reporting solution. Viisibiity builds customised web based communities that accesses member’s business systems, be they financial, planning, manufacturing, accounting or ERP. The…

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SaaS Vendors: Practice what you preach.

April 10, 2008

SaaS

SaaS, Source Control

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…

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