• Video from BarCampChristchurch….

    September 27, 2007

    Business, IT, SaaS
     

    My presentation to BarCamp was all about SaaS. Marek videoed the day and he’s posted edited vid’s on his website. The camera wasn’t the best but if you’re interested in SaaS check out my presentation here.

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  • What it would take for me to ditch MS Office….

    September 26, 2007

    Design, IT, SaaS
     

    I work in an office with some pretty committed open sourcies that, in my opinion, are prepared to sacrifice functionality for actively not using a MS product. This isn’t neccessarily a bad thing, it’s just that for mission critical…

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  • Another point of view on the ISV to SaaS connundrum….

    September 26, 2007

    Business, IT, SaaS, Strategy
     

    Over on Smoothspan, Bob interviewed the CEO of SaaS expense claim and business travel booking automator Concur, Steve Singh. It is an excellent interview but the defining moment for me came in the following excerpt; Do you think SaaS…

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  • You don’t say?

    September 25, 2007

    IT, SaaS
     

    From SaaS week; IDC has released a study on the emerging SaaS channel in which it concludes that Software-as-a-Service may have a serious impact on traditional partner revenue streams. In the press release, senior analyst Erin TenWolde said, “Two…

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  • Larry Ellison and SaaS…

    September 25, 2007

    IT, SaaS
     

    In InformationWeek’s CIOs Uncensored blog, Mary Hayes Weier reported that Larry Ellison has no interest in the SaaS trend because “there’s no money to be made there.” Now either; Ellison has way too much money or His investment advisors…

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  • New version of Gmail coming….

    September 25, 2007

    IT, SaaS
     

    Some reports here and here about a new version of Gmail in testing.Apparent changes known thus far include; Google gears inclusion for offline email work Account activity reporting for security checking Gmail 2.0 is still hidden inside Google (and…

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  • Some more on BusinessByDesign…

    September 20, 2007

    Business, Design, IT, SaaS
     

    Jim doesn’t like the name, me well I’m kind of partial to the word Design so I’m not dead set against it. According to a report by Computerworld, SAP states it would invest $400 to $550 million by the…

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  • A response to the challenge…

    September 20, 2007

    Business, Design, IT, SaaS
     

    I posted here about needing to build brand champions for SaaS startup’s. Bob the Smoothspan wordsmith commented with this challenge; Turning your customers into “Brand Ambassadors” has always been the dream. The biggest difference between most SaaS and Open…

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  • Take the best of opensource and the best of SaaS…

    September 20, 2007

    IT, SaaS, Web x.0
     

    I read something the other day that discussed whether or not SaaS and OpenSource were in competition. That got me thinking down a tangent and what I want to talk about now is communities. First a disclaimer – there…

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  • SAP BusinessByDesign

    September 20, 2007

    Business, IT, SaaS
     

    I’ve had a look at he introductory webcast. Wow – there’s a whole lot of functionality in there to introduce in one swoop – that’s what having the resources of SAP behind you gives. The question I guess isn’t…

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