Posted in Microsoft, Open Source, SaaS, SugarCRM, Uncategorized, salesforce.com on Feb 27th, 2008 1 Comment »
I had a phone call today with a SugarCRM customer who has deployed Sugar On-Demand in a big way. About halfway through the discussion, the chitchat sidetracked into a discussion about the advantages of linking open source with software-as-a-service (SaaS). The IT manager I was speaking with made a great point about the advantages of […]
Posted in CRM, Uncategorized, salesforce.com on Feb 27th, 2008 No Comments »
A few months back I wrote about some FUD documents that came across my desk from NetSuite. It was, overall, a poorly put together document, out of date, etc.
So, I guess I should not have been surprised when a prospect sent over a similar document from Salesforce.com. But in a way I was surprised, […]
Posted in Mobile, Open Source, SaaS, salesforce.com on Feb 13th, 2008 1 Comment »
The power/service outages that both RIM and Salesforce.com suffered the past week are nothing new. Both companies have dealt with these well-publicized events in the past, both because of technical issues or upgrades.
SaaS providers have always claimed non-disruptive upgrades are an important reason why customers should buy online, but as is often the case, the […]
Posted in Application Design, CRM, SAP, SaaS, Siebel/PeopleSoft/JD Edwards/Oracle, salesforce.com on Feb 12th, 2008 2 Comments »
With all the talk of Oracle purchasing Salesforce.com, it got me thinking…isn’t it kind of inevitable that Oracle would end up buying Salesforce? On-demand ERP/CRM provider NetSuite, which Ellison owns a majority share in, cannot by scaled to the size that Salesforce.com has been in the next decade, maybe not in the next two. In […]
Posted in Application Design, SaaS, salesforce.com on Feb 12th, 2008 No Comments »
Just read a New York Times article that describes how members of Facebook are having to fight Facebook to remove their data after they leave.
The more things change…
Lock-in strategies have come and gone, in different guises. But one of the most interesting is the one that occurs with web-based applications and data storage. Sure, development […]
Posted in CRM, SaaS, Siebel/PeopleSoft/JD Edwards/Oracle, salesforce.com on Feb 11th, 2008 1 Comment »
Just saw on TechCrunch that Salesforce.com might be shopping itself to Oracle for $75 per share. Hmmm…
On the one hand, this deal seems excessive - a 50% premium? But as I’ve seen inSaaS M&A in the past - a 5 or even 10x earnings number is common for an offer price. So, we are not […]
Posted in Conferences, Microsoft, Open Source, Random, salesforce.com on Feb 6th, 2008 No Comments »
I had the pleasure of meeting Daniel Lyons today, as he kicked off SugarCon 2008 with an erratic, humor-driven keynote. To say Daniel Lyons is funny is an understatement. His dry, witty, and intelligent brand of humor never ceases to amaze me, and he’s even funnier in person than via the Web.
During his keynote this […]
Posted in CRM, Microsoft, SaaS, salesforce.com on Jan 28th, 2008 No Comments »
Earlier this month I posited in a blog post that Cisco and WebEx will be our major competitors, not Salesforce.com when all is said and done.
I was thinking far down the road…but Cisco is continuing to impress me with its creation of great network pipes that will make really cool application visions possible, beyond what […]
Posted in Open Source, salesforce.com on Jan 24th, 2008 No Comments »
It is hard to shut up the analyst voice inside my head.
Last night I went to the movies to see “There Will be Blood” (Which was, probably intentionally, short on blood but long on amazing performances especially by Daniel Day Lewis. I highly recommend the film.) and when I went to the concession stand, […]
Posted in salesforce.com on Jan 22nd, 2008 No Comments »
In a Q&A interview in today’s Wall Street Journal (there’s no link because the article isn’t posted), Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff spoke to the importance that Internet-based software platforms, such as his company’s own Force.com, will play in creating the “virtual office” of tomorrow. It was an interesting article that addressed many of the trends […]
