A Software Insiders Point of View

With a few days left in the year, it’s hard to believe that 2008 is almost over.  Just like our paltry .401K’s and lowered gas prices, it’s like we reverted to the Dot Com bust.  Extreme contrasts in positions and tremendous change made 2008 both exciting, suspenseful, and frankly sobering like 2002.  In fact, it [...]

So it’s that time of year for holiday cheer and pundits to tempt fate and pontificate.  Here are some very very draft predictions for 2009 in order of most likely to least likely to pan out:
End user predictions

Heavy discounting continues for new license. Discounts include non-monetary concessions such as training, implementation, integration, and other [...]

Tuesday
2nd December 2008
9:00 am to 11:00 am

Mumbai
Greetings!

As part of NASSCOM Speakers Club, we take pleasure in inviting you to attend the session on “The Emerging IT Services & Software Ecosystem: Seven Strategies For IT Services Firms To Shift The Balance Of Power” and the speaker for the session is Mr. [...]

In both the enterprise and SMB space, recent market conditions point to a lack of available financing for enterprise software purchases.  This trend will continue as the credit markets tighten.  The result - vendors will be more inclined to discount.  Enterprises engaged in contact negotiation with software vendors should take this opportunity to seek [...]

Announced today, Workday’s big win at Flextronics further bolsters the thesis that SaaS is more than just CRM and SMB. The 200,000 seat implementation for Flextronics and the 26,000 employee deal at Chiquita demystify the notion that SaaS ERP can not be successful.
Key points why 40 clients have considered WorkDay include:

SaaS model - Quick [...]

As the software industry matures and transforms itself, four key forces converge to shape a new future for the software industry. Despite these tectonic shifts impacting clients, enterprise software strategies should focus on the business users and the processes they support.
The 4 tectonic shifts impacting clients include:

The post Y2K upgrade cycle harkens the technology [...]