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 […]
Posted in CRM, SaaS, SugarCRM on Aug 4th, 2008 1 Comment »
Ok, this is an all out, bold faced plug for how great SugarCRM is as a CRM application…I was looking at the Linux forums and saw a post from someone looking for a new CRM system…They had 4 main requirements for the system:
1. Must allow import from Goldmine (I believe XML)
2. Must allow “linking” with […]
Posted in SaaS, SugarCRM, salesforce.com on Jul 31st, 2008 1 Comment »
I was talking with our CEO John Roberts the other day and he brought up an interesting point/observation…that Salesforce.com has a lot of similarities to AOL. I have thought about it, and I think John has something here…
Both companies saw very rapid growth. Both companies were innovators when it came to the internet: AOL brought […]
Posted in SaaS on Jul 28th, 2008 No Comments »
If you read the trade journals and even the Wall Street Journal, you would think every single company in the universe was running their CRM system or some other part of their IT stack via a SaaS model.
But as we in the real world of IT know, this is definitely not the case. But SaaS […]
Posted in SaaS on Jul 25th, 2008 No Comments »
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” […]
