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 salesforce.com on Aug 5th, 2008 No Comments »
I’ve been thinking about this Salesforce.com/AOL thing a bit more, and have a lot of thoughts…I won’t pile them up here….rather I’ll try to spread them out to give a good amount of thought and explanation to each.
But as I said in the past, the first thing to recognize is that while there are downsides […]
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 SAP, SaaS, Siebel/PeopleSoft/JD Edwards/Oracle, salesforce.com on Jul 22nd, 2008 No Comments »
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 […]
Posted in CRM, Open Source, SugarCRM, salesforce.com on Jun 30th, 2008 No Comments »
I came across this article on Forbes.com entitled “Kill the Data Center,” which as the title suggests, is about the pros and cons of hosting software. The author provides an excellent Q&A with Doug Harr, the CIO of open source database vendor Ingres.
All-in-all, the interview has some great tidbits of info about the decision-making that […]
Posted in Application Design, CRM, SaaS, salesforce.com on Jun 16th, 2008 No Comments »
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 […]
Posted in CRM, SaaS, salesforce.com on Jun 5th, 2008 No Comments »
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 […]
Posted in CRM, Siebel/PeopleSoft/JD Edwards/Oracle, salesforce.com on May 28th, 2008 No Comments »
Joshua Greenbaum, a personnel favorite of mine, wrote a great blog today on some of the emerging trends we’re seeing in the CRM market today, particularly with Salesforce.com and CRM 2.0.
I’ve always been a big history buff, partially because I’m a dork when it comes to history but more because it provides perspective on what’s […]
Posted in Application Design, Open Source, SaaS, salesforce.com on May 27th, 2008 No Comments »
A former colleague of mine forwarded me a new report by McKinsey & Company outlining some of the emerging trends taking place within the SaaS market.
The report is loaded with information, including an estimate that the SaaS market will grow to more than $35 billion in the next five years. But in particular, the report […]
Posted in CRM, SaaS, SugarCRM, salesforce.com on May 27th, 2008 No Comments »
I had a great long holiday weekend - especially since over the last two days of it I got to see my Phillies score 35 (yes, 35) runs in two games…now, if they only had a crack reliever and setup man in their pen (oh, and if their starters were as solid on the mound […]
