Posted in SaaS on Sep 16th, 2008 No Comments »
So all I’ve been reading about recently is what appears to be the end of the world as I know it….Wall Street and the economy is collapsing on the credit crunch, technology CEO’s are predicting the end of SaaS, and cloud computing is toast. Truly positive times, positive thinking.
Lawson’s CEO spoke along these lines so […]
Posted in SaaS, SugarCRM on Sep 4th, 2008 No Comments »
I have been doing a lot of training and marketing of SugarCRM’s On-Demand product with some of our UK partners over the past few months, most notably with BT as part of our well documented alliance.
One question that surprisingly continues to come up is the security question. For some reason, anti-SaaS pundits, or those new […]
Posted in Google, Open Source, SaaS on Sep 4th, 2008 No Comments »
With Google’s recent announcement of Chrome, it will be interesting to see the fallout that the new Web-based browser will have on the SaaS market and cloud computing in general. Being open source, it has the potential to improve the customer’s cloud computing experiences, yet it also represents yet another Web browser that application providers […]
Posted in Application Design, CRM, SaaS, SugarCRM, salesforce.com on Aug 28th, 2008 No Comments »
Looking over Colin’s last post - it appears to me that there seem to be two schools of thought when it comes to “hybrid” application providers that offer both SaaS and on-site versions of their software. One school says, “No way can these guys survive juggling both.” While the other school says - “the […]
Posted in SaaS on Aug 28th, 2008 No Comments »
I came across this interview with the CEO of Lawson Software, who boldly predicts that the SaaS “industry will collapse,” starting with Salesforce.com in the next two years, and everything SaaS-related after that. In a nutshell, Debes argues that the current SaaS model is heading down the same road that previous iterations, such as the […]
Posted in Application Design, SaaS on Aug 15th, 2008 No Comments »
I’ve read a number of articles lately and spoken with some industry pundits, all of whom have varying definitions of what does or doesn’t qualify as cloud computing.
I often hear cloud computing getting thrown into the same bucket as grid computing, and while many cloud computing environments leverage grids, cloud computing is the next step […]
Posted in Apple, SaaS on Aug 14th, 2008 No Comments »
Some very interesting numbers released around the iPhone App Stores first month of operation.
60 Million Downloads.
Wow…
Apple amazes me for so many reasons. The sheer volume of demand they are able to generate is mind boggling, and they get things done. I can think of another “App Store” that was announced years ago and is still […]
Posted in Application Design, Google, SaaS on Aug 12th, 2008 No Comments »
Lately there has been a lot of talk about how the consumer web has set a great standard for usability, robust features and reliability that needs to be replicated in the business world.
OK, but what does that say when a property like Gmail - which people tend to associate with a sort of high standard […]
Posted in Application Design, Open Source, SaaS on Aug 5th, 2008 No Comments »
I came across a great blog today by David Young, the CEO of cloud computing vendor Joyent. He lists a number of interesting points within the blog, but in a nutshell, speaks to the importance that cloud computing should be open and transparent; they shouldn’t be proprietary.
“Developers should be able to interact with the cloud […]
Posted in CRM, Open Source, SaaS on Aug 4th, 2008 No Comments »
Gartner has found that 90 percent of e-commerce sites will leverage SaaS in some capacity by 2013, such as sales capabilities or product feedback. In short, the same fallout that SaaS has had on the CRM market over the past decade, Gartner says it will have on ecommerce applications.
But as the study notes, rarely do […]
