Showing posts with label saas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label saas. Show all posts

Thursday, December 10, 2009

ZDNet.com, Software as Services, 09.12.2009: Cloud computing, so much more than multi-tenancy

ZDNet.com, Software as Services, 09.12.2009: Cloud computing, so much more than multi-tenancy
by Phil Wainewright: "I thought about the role of multi-tenancy in cloud computing. The keynote hall was full of customers and prospects — a thousand or more altogether — and I’m guessing that, even though Salesforce.com always makes a big deal of multi-tenancy and how fundamental it is to cloud computing, very few of these business people really care what technology the platform is built on, so long as it delivers the goods."

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

ZDNet.com Enterprise Web 2.0, 13.01.2009: 8 Predictions for Enterprise Web 2.0 in 2009

ZDNet.com Enterprise Web 2.0, 13.01.2009: 8 Predictions for Enterprise Web 2.0 in 2009
by Dion Hinchcliffe: "I predict a rebuilding year for most organizations, with a few that will use innovative new ideas to break out with major successes."

Friday, December 19, 2008

CMSWire, 18.12.2008: 2009 Predictions for Web CMS, ECM, Mobile, MOSS and more

CMSWire, 18.12.2008: 2009 Predictions for Web CMS, ECM, Mobile, MOSS and more
by Barb Mosher: "Like the 12 days of Christmas, CMS Watch has chosen to offer up 12 predictions for the technology world for 2009."

Saturday, November 22, 2008

ReadWriteWeb, 21.11.2008: Is SaaS Cheaper Than Licensed Software?

ReadWriteWeb, 21.11.2008: Is SaaS Cheaper Than Licensed Software?
by Jason Rothbart: "Most people quickly answer this question in the affirmative. I certainly do. However, there are people out there who aren't sure. They look at the monthly cost of a SaaS application and compare it to the equivalent licensed product over an extended period of time. Given enough time, you will eventually hit a point when the SaaS product appears to be more expensive. Let's look at it from the perspective of the total cost of ownership (TCO)."

Sunday, April 13, 2008

ZDNet.com Enterprise Web 2.0, 11.04.2008: Comparing Amazon’s and Google’s Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) Offerings

ZDNet.com Enterprise Web 2.0, 11.04.2008: Comparing Amazon’s and Google’s Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) Offerings
by Dion Hinchcliffe: "instead of just offering applications over the Web in the form of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Amazon and Google are actually offering an entire Platform-as-a-Service because they provide the foundational upon which to build highly scalable and robust Web-based applications"

Friday, February 08, 2008

ZDNet.com, Enterprise Web 2.0, 04.02.2008:openid: The once and future enterprise Single Sign-On?

ZDNet.com, Enterprise Web 2.0, 04.02.2008:openid: The once and future enterprise Single Sign-On?
by Dion Hinchcliffe: "Enterprises will be able to manage the growing problem of the proliferation of accounts created in external, off premises Web apps."

Monday, January 21, 2008

ZDNet.com, Software as Services, 14.01.2008: Is 2008 the year the telcos crack SaaS?

ZDNet.com, Software as Services, 14.01.2008: Is 2008 the year the telcos crack SaaS?
by Phil Wainewright: "If the world is converging on The Big Switch to utility computing, then where are the telcos? As utility providers of the access and transmission infrastructure of the Internet, you’d think they’d be at the forefront of the SaaS revolution."

Thursday, January 17, 2008

The FASTForward Blog, 14.01.2008: Where is Internal IT Going?

The FASTForward Blog, 14.01.2008: Where is Internal IT Going?
by Bill Ives: "Nitin Karandikar raises some interesting points about IT outsourcing and the increasing complexity of the outsourcing value chain. If the outside partners become more strategic, will they become tied to one enterprise so the chain becomes simply an extension of the enterprise for accounting purposes?"

Monday, January 07, 2008

ZDNet.com, Enterprise Web 2.0, 03.01.2008: 12 predictions for Enterprise Web 2.0 in 2008

ZDNet.com, Enterprise Web 2.0, 03.01.2008: 12 predictions for Enterprise Web 2.0 in 2008
by Dion Hinchcliffe: "The worlds of SOA, SaaS, and Web 2.0 have been swirling around each other for a couple of years now and in 2008 we’ll finally see these gel into a practical, modern vision of next generation enterprises. And a variety of forces are coming together to make 2008 the year that enterprises refit themselves for the 21st century."

Wednesday, November 21, 2007

CNET Blogs The Open Road, 19.11.2007: Gartner: SaaS and open source pressuring proprietary software vendors to drop prices

CNET Blogs The Open Road, 19.11.2007: Gartner: SaaS and open source pressuring proprietary software vendors to drop prices
by Matt Asay: "Gartner has issued a research note that finds that proprietary software is facing serious pricing pressure from a range of different software trends, among them Software as a Service (SaaS) and open source."

Friday, November 09, 2007

ZDNet.com, Software as Services, 08.11.2007: Web collaboration: Cisco and Adobe duke it out

ZDNet.com, Software as Services, 08.11.2007: Web collaboration: Cisco and Adobe duke it out
by Phil Wainewright: "Software as a service is much more than the packaging option ... While Cisco is focusing on a platform that offers a framework for collaboration, Adobe is creating its own portfolio of applications to enable online collaboration."

Thursday, October 04, 2007

ZDNet.com, Software as Services, 3.10.2007: SAP, Adobe, Microsoft: three monkeys take on SaaS

ZDNet.com, Software as Services, 3.10.2007: SAP, Adobe, Microsoft: three monkeys take on SaaS
by Phil Wainewright: "The challenge: transition from a business model where you earn revenues by selling perpetual software licenses to one based on monthly subscription payments. Not only that, but achieve the transition while continuing to report rising revenues and protecting your profitability. Can it be done?"

Sunday, September 23, 2007

Rough Type - Nicholas Carr's Blog, 21.09.2007: The week that Big Software shattered

Rough Type - Nicholas Carr's Blog, 21.09.2007: The week that Big Software shattered
by Nicholas Carr: "For the foreseeable future - five to ten years, anyway - competition in the market will no longer be between vendors selling similar products; it will be between vendors selling fundamentally different approaches to business automation."

Thursday, September 20, 2007

ZDNet.com, Between the Lines, 19.09.2007: SAP rolls out SAP Business ByDesign

ZDNet.com, Between the Lines, 19.09.2007: SAP rolls out SAP Business ByDesign
by Larry Dignan: "SAP rolled out SAP Business ByDesign, the software formerly known as A1S, Wednesday. The on-demand application targets the midmarket."
First thougts about SAP's new offering by ZDNet's Phil Wainewright and an analysis by Zoli Erdos

Monday, September 10, 2007

ReadWrite Web, 09.09.2007: Google Apps Goes After Enterprise Market - "Team Productivity" The Catchphrase

ReadWrite Web, 09.09.2007: Google Apps Goes After Enterprise Market - "Team Productivity" The Catchphrase
by Richard MacManus: "UK newspaper The Guardian is reporting that Google has partnered with major IT consultancy and outsourcing specialist CapGemini, to sell Google Apps to enterprises."

Tuesday, August 21, 2007

The Future of Software, 17.08.2007: Service Providers 2.0: It’s All About Scale

The Future of Software, 17.08.2007: Service Providers 2.0: It’s All About Scale: "SaaS and Web 2.0 companies demonstrate every day that there’s real money to be made providing a myriad of services over the Internet, and if history is any indication, the service providers are taking notice."

O'Reilly radar, 17.08.2007: Predicting the Next Decade of Enterprise Software

O'Reilly radar, 17.08.2007: Predicting the Next Decade of Enterprise Software
by Tim O'Reilly: "Enterprise software consultancy Sandhill.com just published the results of an interesting survey entitled Predicting the Next Software Decade. This is info-porn rather than statistically significant, but the results are still very interesting."

Friday, August 17, 2007

ZDNet.com, Software as Services, 14.08.2007: SaaS invades enterprise software markets

ZDNet.com, Software as Services, 14.08.2007: SaaS invades enterprise software markets
by Phil Wainewright: "New research from Gartner sees SaaS taking a growing slice of the enterprise software market, rising from $4.2 billion last year to $11.5 billion in 2011. That’s an average annual growth rate of around 22.3%."

Tuesday, February 27, 2007

Read/Write Web, 26.02.2007: Enterprise 3.0 = (SaaS + EE)

Read/Write Web, 26.02.2007: Enterprise 3.0 = (SaaS + EE)
by Sramana Mitra: "In the same vein, that I have proposed a framework for Web 3.0 = (4C P VS), I would like to discuss in this piece, a framework for Enterprise 3.0."