• Thoughts on Google Sites, IT department threat?

    February 29, 2008

    Efficiency, IT, SaaS, Strategy
     

    Google released Sites today, a centralized repository for sharing information and collaborative workspaces. There’s been much commentary around the blogosphere on whether Sites is a threat to Microsoft’s SharePoint product, MiramarMike gives an excellent comparison over here. There’s been…

  • The lowdown on Google Apps

    February 12, 2008

    IT, SaaS, Web x.0
     

    Editorial comment – Diversity Blogs is a proponent of the move to SaaS and in-the-clouds software provision. Daniel Fowlie has a business implementing some of these services and to this and we asked him to write about Google apps…

  • “Word of Mouse” will drive adoption of SaaS

    February 12, 2008

    IT, SaaS, Web x.0
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    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…

  • What will YouDo with Xero?

    February 12, 2008

    Design, IT, New business, New Zealand, SaaS
     

    SaaS is quite the thing nowadays you know. Geez, Ben even seems to have dedicated most of his blog to it. As an early customer of Xero, Ben kindly asked me to post my experiences with what must be…

  • Ouch, Netsuite gets a roasting….

    January 12, 2008

    IT, SaaS
     

    Seems some customers of NetSuite’s on-demand business software are a little less than happy at the sales tactics, the product delivery and the customer service. Some customer comments include; NetSuite is a catastrophe: sales people promise the moon but…

  • Amazon making SaaS development a whole lot easier…

    November 21, 2007

    Business, Design, Efficiency, IT, SaaS, Web x.0
     

    In business, sticking to one’s knitting s generally a good plan. For a SaaS business, the knitting is, arguably, the development of a robust SaaS application with all the intricacies that involves. For some SaaS businesses what their knitting…

  • Google and Apple ruling the world…

    October 18, 2007

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

    Bob posted about a previous Nick Carr post surrounding a Google/Apple mass collaboration model. Nick’s concept went something like this; Apple is taking responsibility for “the user interface and people.” It’s designing the devices themselves, which will be typically…

  • The importance of advice…..

    October 1, 2007

    Business, Economic Development, Governance, IT, New business, Strategy, Web x.0
     

    I came across this post the other day which, for those of you who can’t be bothered reading it, discusses the steps needed in order to build a good board for a startup. Next week I’ll be attending the…

  • An OS-less world….

    September 8, 2007

    Design, Efficiency, IT, Web x.0
     

    Some stuff I said at BarCamp yesterday, and this post from Smoothspan, got me thinking about operating systems. First a proviso – I contend that more and more core tasks we use a computer for will move to being…

  • Xero in general release….

    August 24, 2007

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

    Xero investors and the NZX received a press release this morning advising that Xero have got systems place such that they can now offer Xero as a general release product. While this is an incremental step, it is an…

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