Insource the strategic stuff
November 19, 2007
Cost, talent, or innovation – which of these three challenges will drive Human Capital Management decisions in the future? The answer is easy: all of them. The question of how to address these drivers is a far more strategic and important…
A spoonful of sugar
May 17, 2007
Dion Hinchcliffe, a well-known blogger and thought leader in the Enterprise 2.0 space wrote a post recently in which he talked about the next generation of business software – social, interactive tools easily delivered over the Web – and how they…
Six SaaS lessons
January 3, 2007
If you’re still debating the merits of Software as a Service there’s an article from The Economist you should read. It’s not about SuccessFactors (though it could be) it’s about Google. Why is an article about Google relevant to SuccessFactors? Well,…
The SaaS/On-Demand Benefits Test
November 30, 2006
A post over at Vendorprisey (with a very clever title) got me thinking about Software as a Service (SaaS) again. So often, conversations about SaaS involve an argument about what is and what is not considered SaaS.
To a certain extent these discussions…
The future
September 6, 2006
Another post from a few days back on SystematicHR (I just can’t keep up with the guy) in which Dubs hopes that the future of SaaS is a world in which vendors can use abstracted data from their systems to…
Guest Post: Don’t Believe the Counter-Hype: Software as a Service Is Here To Stay
July 18, 2006
A Note: this post was written by a guest writer, and does not necessarily represent my opinion. That said, I think it’s important to host a variety of thoughts and perspectives on the blog and thus, I give you the…
SaaS is about results
June 27, 2006
My favorite SaaS blogger, Phil Wainewright, has a great post from last week about the real benefit of SaaS: It lets everyone focus on results.
He puts it better than I could:
Now, for the first time since that wrong turn the…
ZDNet’s SaaS (Tang) epiphany
May 18, 2006
David Berlind on the ‘Between the Lines’ blog at ZDNet tells of the unique pleasure of sitting next to SuccessFactors’ own Marty Pitkow (pictured) on an airplane the other day. And believe it or not, Marty helped him experience a SaaS epiphany.
How, you might…
Dear IT, fear not On-Demand
March 28, 2006
Often, we run into opposition from the IT departments at potential customers. A frequent refrains goes: “We should just go with our ERP vendor. It’s the safe bet.”
Remember the old saying that went: “No one ever got fired for buying IBM?” Well…
I see your 400k, and raise you a million
February 23, 2006
I was wandering around the Internet today as I tend to do. It’s a nice place, you should visit. Anyhoo – I landed at the SalesForce.com website. Anytime I’m looking for enterprise software communications best practice, I end up there. It’s…
