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December 22, 2009, 12:34 pm | Print This Post Print This Post | Email This Post Email This Post | 8 comments |

Tuesday’s Tip: 10 Cloud and SaaS Apps Strategies For 2010

Keep In Mind Basic Rules Still Apply Regardless Of Deployment Option

The proliferation of SaaS solutions provides organizations with a myriad of sorely needed point and disruptive solutions.  Good news - business users can rapidly procure and deploy, while innovating with minimal budget and IT team constraints.  Bad news - users must depend more on their [...]

July 13, 2009, 6:00 am | Print This Post Print This Post | Email This Post Email This Post | 2 comments |

Monday’s Musings: Why On-Premise Vendors and SI’s Should Go on the Offense with SaaS

On-premise vendors still see SaaS as a loss leader due to huge ramp up and punishing revenue recognition rules

When it comes to the topic of SaaS, many on-premise vendors appear to be living in denial, hoping that SaaS fails, and/or creating confusion in the market place.  These tactics have merit as a shift to SaaS [...]

July 1, 2009, 7:08 am | Print This Post Print This Post | Email This Post Email This Post | 2 comments |

News Analysis: Oracle Launches Fusion Middleware 11g

Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g launch starts countdown to 100 days of innovation until Oracle Open World
In short, Oracle is putting forth a suite of middleware solutions that not only enable developers and software publishers to build their future solutions, but also deliver the middleware tools that will serve as the foundation for its go forward [...]

June 2, 2009, 12:01 am | Print This Post Print This Post | Email This Post Email This Post | 11 comments |

Tuesday’s Tip: Now’s The Time To Consider SaaS Software Escrows

With 2009 rapidly becoming the “Year of SaaS” and the tipping point for Cloud Computing, it’s hard not to notice the growing number of SaaS start ups (along with the legacy application vendors rushing to provide an “On-Demand”, but not really multi-tenant deployment option).  My snarky SaaS bigotry aside, we can expect hybrid deployment options [...]

April 16, 2009, 8:55 pm | Print This Post Print This Post | Email This Post Email This Post | Leave a comment |

Research Summary: Shape Your Apps Strategy To Reflect New SaaS Licensing And Pricing Trends

FORWARD AND COMMENTARY
“Shape Your Apps Strategy To Reflect New SaaS Licensing and Pricing Trends” represent the seventh report in an on-going series to provide clients with insight on how to better align their packaged apps strategies.  As more and more clients seek SaaS solutions as options to pipe in innovation and potentially control costs, clients [...]

December 29, 2008, 3:33 am | Print This Post Print This Post | Email This Post Email This Post | 4 comments |

Monday’s Musings: A Year of Extremes Brings Us Back Full Circle to the Beginning of the Dot.Com Bust

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 [...]

December 9, 2008, 3:10 am | Print This Post Print This Post | Email This Post Email This Post | Leave a comment |

Speaking Engagement: The Cloud in Action- How Top Enterprise Firms are Using SaaS and Other Cloud Technologies to Improve their Business

Sponsored by Fujitsu Consulting
December 9, 2008

2:00 - 3:00 pm ET / 11:00 am - 12:00 pm PT
Featuring:
R “Ray” Wang, VP and Principal Analyst, Forrester Research
Joel Hoffman, SVP of CRM and Online Delivery, Citigroup MyFi
Join us to learn:

How SaaS and cloud computing is impacting the enterprise
How to successfully integrate SaaS solutions into your business
SaaS in Action [...]

December 8, 2008, 2:25 am | Print This Post Print This Post | Email This Post Email This Post | 2 comments |

Monday’s Musings: Can IT Services Firms Shift the Balance of Power To Create Choice for the Customer?

Current Model Lopsided Towards the Large ISV’s
Rapid enterprise apps vendor consolidation over the past 5 years leave end user enterprises with fewer vendor choices and less competition.  The impact to services firms is a continued and increased dependency on the fortune and “good will” of the software vendor by IT Services firms.  However, ISV’s [...]

October 7, 2008, 7:34 am | Print This Post Print This Post | Email This Post Email This Post | 2 comments |

News Analysis: IBM Storms Into Cloud Computing With an ISV Friendly Pricing Model

The War for Mind Share In the Skies
The recent announcement of IBM’s Cloud Computing initiatives represents the latest front in the marketing and delivery battle for customers, partners, and ISV’s.  IBM has pulled together a mix of existing technologies and new developments into a four pronged attack that focuses on:

Cloud service delivery to end [...]

September 23, 2008, 6:53 am | Print This Post Print This Post | Email This Post Email This Post | One comment |

News Analysis: Oracle SaaS Platform Offering Adds Choice to Emerging PaaS Platform Wars

Emerging SaaS platform wars akin to on-premise middleware wars
With consolidation in the middleware market fairly under way, adoption of SaaS platforms (i.e. PaaS) by solution partners represents the next land grab in the enterprise software space. Current key players include industry leaders and specialists such as Salesforce.com, NetSuite, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, and Magic [...]