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Moving To The Cloud – Internal Business Considerations

June 29, 2012

Business

Application service provider, Business, cloudcomputing, Google apps, Organization

CloudU Notebooks is a weekly blog series that explores topics from the CloudU certificate program in bite sized chunks, written by me, Ben Kepes, curator of CloudU. How-tos, interviews with industry giants and the occasional opinion piece are what…

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On Trial Periods for SaaS Companies–Is Shorter Better?

March 26, 2012

Business

Application service provider, Business, cloud computing, Duane Jackson, kashflow, Services, Xero

Recently KashFlow CEO Duane Jackson made the decision to reduce the trial periods offered on his product from 60 days down to 14. In blogging about this change, Jackson explained the decision saying; We analysed our trial data and…

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Totango Powers SaaS Vendor Insights

October 10, 2011

Business

Application service provider, Business, Customer relationship management, Engine Yard, Software as a Service, Totango

Recently I’ve been doing a fair amount of advisory work with SaaS startups that are just taking their first tentative steps to market. I’ve sat in meetings at length trying to drill into sales cycles and pricing strategies and…

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What Does “Functionally Complete” Really Mean?

September 20, 2011

Business, Microsoft Word

Application service provider, cloud computing, google docs, Software as a Service

Last week I wrote about some issues that were raised at a recent CloudCamp I ran in Australia. Last week I looked at the contention (of some) that Software as a Service (SaaS) is no more than the Application Service Provider (ASP) approach of the nineties, albeit with a different name. This week I want to […]

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ASP Isn’t SaaS. Is It?

September 13, 2011

Uncategorized

Application programming interface, Application service provider, cloudcamp, Software as a Service, zendesk

A month or so ago I was running a CloudCamp in Australia. As always it was a great event but was made more so by a fascinating exchange between two very different people. On the one hand was Michael Folmer-Hansen from SaaS customer support vendor Zendesk, who was attending his first CloudCamp after Zendesk had […]

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Cloud ERP for Manufacturing

February 17, 2011

Business

Application service provider, BBD, Businessbydesign, Enterprise resource planning, Epicor, infor, netsuite, plex, SAP, Software as a Service

Derek Singleton of Software Advice has attempted to give some guidance to manufacturing organizations looking o roll our a SaaS product. In his post, he assesses the following vendors; Epicor Infor NetSuite Plex SAP BusinessByDesign In making his assessment, Singleton uses…

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Moving To The Cloud – Internal Business Considerations

On Trial Periods for SaaS Companies–Is Shorter Better?

Totango Powers SaaS Vendor Insights

What Does “Functionally Complete” Really Mean?

ASP Isn’t SaaS. Is It?

Cloud ERP for Manufacturing