Divining vendor intentions
February 9, 2006
In business, but especially in the technology world, you can sometimes figure out what a company is planning by looking through their job descriptions. As an example, here’s an old post from one of my favorite gadget blogs, engadget, about…
It’s all in the genes
February 7, 2006
A great post at ZDNet on the reasons why on-demand applications are truly different from traditional software. The models are so fundamentally different, it’s virtually genetic, as this quote explains:
The focus of a conventional software sale is getting the customer to buy…
SAP bows to on-demand
February 3, 2006
In case you were wondering if on-demand was really the future of software, we can now put that question to rest. SAP announced today that it is getting ready to offer an on-demand CRM product to counter the inroads made…
Recruiting software comparison
February 3, 2006
I don’t talk a lot about recruiting software, but I was directed to this article at a site I’d never heard about before: Hrbrief.com. It’s a fairly in-depth, feature by feature comparison of some of the well known players in…
Top 2006 Technology Trends for Small Business
January 10, 2006
The small business trends blog has a list of the top technology trends for small business. One of them (they aren’t numbered) is hosted applications. The author points out that:
While traditional PC based applications have a role to play,…
On-Demand is a power plant
December 27, 2005
A pretty good article in the San Francisco Chronicle on Christmas day about On-Demand software. More or less a primer on On-Demand, it profiles a number of SaaS (Software as a Service) companies including RightNow, Salesforce.com and NetSuite. Here’s a snippet…
On-demand HR apps for SMBs
December 14, 2005
Interesting report from AMI Research showing that On-demand HR applications are taking off among small and medium sized businesses. There’s a very strong case to be made for software as a service (SaaS) use among SMBs - low upfront costs, easy…
SAP/Oracle ignoring HR?
December 13, 2005
Jason Corsello asks the question about SAP after attending the company’s Industry Analyst Conference in Las Vegas. Apparently, not much time was spent on it - Jason says 15 minutes out of two days. Then, DubDubs wonders about Oracle - saying that…
Purposeless platforms
December 12, 2005
Greg Gianforte from RightNow Technologies published a piece in BusinessWeek Online today about the validity of the software "platform" concept. In his mind, a platform (like Oracle’s upcoming Fusion) is something customers don’t need or want and that doesn’t solve any…
Software’s Eve of Destruction
November 18, 2005
Is the era of traditional enterprise software (Hardware, Software, Configure, Integrate, Test, Deploy) ending? Our customers think it is, we think it is, and now Wall Street is coming around, too. In an article on thestreet.com called "Software’s Eve of Destruction,"…
