I just read an interesting article on Internetnews about a recent panel at the AlwaysOn Conference at Stanford being held this week. The article asks if change is coming to the SaaS world - yet gives no definitive answers.
I think the main problem was that many of the SaaS players involved are thinking too “Salesforcey” […]

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This week, Snap Logic announced the SugarCRM Solution Pack, a back-end, open source integration tool that lets SugarCRM be integrated with other SaaS applications, on-premise solutions, Web sites, databases, etc. Customers could use the Solution Pack for both on-premise and on-demand SugarCRM solutions.
Uses of the SugarCRM Solution Pack can include:
- Integrating SugarCRM account records with […]

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Colin brought up some interesting points about vendor lock-in and the recent price increase by Oracle and SAP, etc. There will definitely be a lot of CIO’s forced to re-think their 2009 budgets and strategies…
But what I will be more interested in seeing is how this affects the older SaaS providers like Salesforce.com, who have […]

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We all know that gas prices suck…and we know energy costs are going to affect everyone in foreseen and some unforeseen ways.
But I have been thinking a lot about open source, SaaS providers, and the older sales models of many proprietary software vendors. A lot of these companies are still depending on the older enterprise […]

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Intelligent Enterprise poised an interesting question in this article it ran last week: How can you integrate SaaS solutions with on-premise?
Companies such as Cast Iron and Boomi (mentioned in the article) are both great at accomplishing what they set out to do: integrating solutions with other solutions of preexisting partners. Yet in the end, the […]

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While Salesforce.com and other companies (SugarCRM included) were busy growing at triple digit growth rates via a subscription model, a lot of established vendors kept their distance.
And even when companies got into a subscription model, it was closely tied to their SaaS offerings. Some people, sad to say, still feel SaaS and subscription revenue models […]

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I read over the weekend that Oracle, paying scant attention to the tough economic climate, has jacked up its product prices by upwards of 20 percent. BEA customers really took it on the chin, with price increases nudging 50 percent….ouch!
While understand these increases get offset by discounting, that discounting makes it all the more difficult […]

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I’m in Boston for our CRM Acceleration event…and it’s good to be back on the east coast. Of course, the one time my Phillies play the Red Sox in inter-league play WHILE I’m here - it’s in Philadelphia…sigh…
But looking over the blogosphere in my hotel room I came across an interesting blog post. It is […]

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We live in a strange world. One where we can buy one of Bill Cosby’s hideous sweaters for charity with the click of a mouse.
But that is not my primary annoyance today. I just came across a blog that posits that Salesforce.com should be considered in the same size range as General Motors (yes, the […]

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So Facebook has announced that they’re opening up part of their platform and making it open source. It’s certainly a reaction to Google’s recent success with OpenSocial, and should make it easier for developers to add applications to the Facebook platform.
That said, I’ve always had mixed feeling about Facebook, particularly in terms of their ability […]

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