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The norm with IT departments used to be that they had just a single set of devices to deal with: Laptop or desktop computers bought by the company for use by employees. Your organization could be among many that battle with fuzzy lines imposed by tablets and personal mobile gadgets; perhaps the approach to take [...]
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You may have heard the term Cloud Washing before. It relates to the practice of legacy enterprise software vendors slapping a Cloud sticker on everything they do. That’s how antiquated enterprise software products that were engineered 20 years ago all of a sudden become Cloud-Ready and the vendor’s next Customer Advisory Board becomes a [...]
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The Wharton Business School, on its “Knowledge Wharton” website (highly recommended), acknowledges the power of the cloud, particularly SaaS. The article digs into both the delivery model and the changes that SaaS is driving in software pricing. It also recognizes the business challenges that traditional vendors are experiencing:
“Cloud [...]
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For some, it is easy to forget that the success of Salesforce is entirely built on its uncompromising position as a multi-tenant SaaS vendor. Surprisingly, the argument of whether or not multi-tenancy actually delivers benefits to both the vendor and the customer still continues in some circles.
It is worth going back to [...]
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Most enterprise software is boring and a pain to use. Each process takes dozens of actions to complete, often resulting in the user not sure how to take the next action. Usability is a decade (or more!) old and far removed from modern, web based applications that today’s users have grown to love. Innovation [...]
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SaaS vendors are disrupting markets and taking market share from “established” vendors. We have known about Workday for some time. Their “Real SaaS Manifesto” is a must read for anyone currently engaged in the software industry, either on the vendor side or as a user. Dave [...]
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Many legacy enterprise software vendors are jumping on the cloud computing bandwagon and position their legacy software offering as a SaaS solution. We at SAManage have been long advocating that not all SaaS offerings are created equal and that there are significant benefits to customers that understand why its important to explore if [...]
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Isn’t it sad to watch the demise of what was once a technology icon? Isn’t it ironic that Kodak is having a fire sale of its patent treasure chest in a last minute effort to avoid bankruptcy? From the Wall Street Journal:
The one-time blue chip suffered with the transition to digital cameras and [...]
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I came across a rather interesting and different way of describing what is perhaps the key reason why “pure-play” SaaS vendors are disrupting and will continue to disrupt the enterprise software market. It was written by renowned blogger Dan Callahan. Dan digs into the history books to find his very apt comparison — the [...]
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In a recent discussion regarding SaaS meta-data and the potential for using it to provide benchmarking solutions to customers of multi-tenant services, Liz Herbert, an analyst with Forrester Research in Cambridge, Mass., said “That’s where SaaS has a huge advantage.”
What is the background and why is this so important? SaaS has moved through two [...]
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