On-Premise to SaaS: Road Less Traveled
As SaaS becomes increasingly the preferred way for delivery and consumption for all things software, incumbent on-premise vendors are feeling the heat to come up with their own version of SaaS...
View ArticleIs SaaS making Open Source irrelevant?
Open Source software and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) represent the two real disruptions in the arena of enterprise software. In the last decade both have experienced real success and challenged the...
View ArticleSaaS Space quotas: Penny-wise, Pound-Foolish?
I was part of a small group of SaaS/Cloud leaders who got together to talk about Pricing strategies, organized by Lincoln Murphy (@lincolnmurphy). The group consisted of founders of early stage...
View ArticleAnd then they all looked just like General Motors
The recent acquisition of Sybase by SAP got me thinking. Is it me or most leading large companies, thanks to their acquisition binge are beginning to resemble the erstwhile General Motors?Take a look...
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SaaS Grid Express: Expressway to get there
Apprenda, the leading Software-as-a-Service platform for building .NET based SaaS applications, announced the release of their free community edition SaaSGrid Express yesterday. I think this is the...
View ArticleCompiere gets acquired by Consona
Compiere, the leading Open Source ERP vendor, announced today that it is being acquired by Indiana based Consona Corporation.This provides further evidence to what I alluded to in one of my earlier...
View ArticleCustomer Acquisition Cost (CAC)
Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC) is the average cost of acquiring a customer for a business. While it applies to most businesses, it assumes a higher degree of importance in a subscription based...
View ArticleSaaS: Track, Measure, Monitor, Adapt
Software-as-a-Service business with all the virtues that it purports also demands that the service provider be agile. Agile, not only, in terms of the way product is built but delivered and managed....
View ArticleTop SaaS Bloggers
I know there have been other Top bloggers lists that have been created elsewhere. But there have been a few bloggers that I have been following who probably don’t care about being in any lists...
View ArticleMulti-Tenant architecture for Enterprises?
The world is shrinking and the traditional boundaries between Desktop, Client-Server, Web and Cloud technologies are getting blurred. While some of your business applications should be strictly...
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Cloud Computing 2011, through my binoculars
2010 was a blockbuster year for Cloud Computing, no two ways about it. The year started with naysayers pooh-poohing Cloud Computing as YATF (Yet Another Technology Fad) only to come back and endorse...
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Oracle acquires Taleo – reactionary or strategic acquisition?
Uncle Larry is at it again!!. First he threw a left hook at SAP by announcing a in-memory offering just when SAP was hoping to bask in the glory of their results and highlighting how, with HANA, they...
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Multiple Personalities of Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS)
Cloud Computing has slowly but surely seeped into every aspect of technology. All the Cloud-in-a-box, not-in-a-box, babble notwithstanding, there has been steady progress made on multiple fronts. With...
View ArticleCan I have a trial please…
This question was originally posted on Quora and I had responded. I am expanding on that answer in this post.As companies push firmly into a SaaS delivery model, providing ability to do a...
View ArticleEvaluating a SaaS Subscription Billing Service
With increasing number of software solutions moving to SaaS, the way to charge, collect the fee for the service is also changing. License (lump-sum) fee is being replaced by (monthly/annual)...
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Have you mapped your Customer Success Journey yet?
We have all heard and know about Buyer’s Journey. The process they go through from the time a technology need arises, all the way through the decision process, involving inputs from all the...
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