Well, this isn’t right. Without disclosing our 2004 revenue number, suffice it to say that SuccessFactors rightfully deserves to be called one of the "Top 25 on-demand providers" as determined by this IDC report. Phil Wainewright knows his stuff though. He very appropriately mentions that the report is "skewed by the omission of some potentially significant names."

I know you mean us, Phil. 

It leaves me curious about IDC’s methodology…

Check out this post by Phil Wainewright over at ZDnet. He talks about the Enterprise SaaS Working Group of which we are a charter member and interviews Greg Gianforte from RightNow  about how On-Demand vendors are working to make Software as Service make sense to larger enterprises.

White paper here (PDF), if you’re interested.