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One of our sales guys asked why we can’t just put a model in a bikini on our website. Sure that may reduce the bounce rate, but that doesn’t translate into more customers.
From the very beginning, we opted for “design” over Danica (no offense).
The merits to great design can be traced back to [...]
Continue Reading →Jonathan Feldman, writing in the CIO Insider section of Information Week, has challenged Enterprise Application vendors suggesting that customers appeal to their vendors to more quickly embrace the cloud (“Cloud Plans: An Open Letter to Enterprise Application Vendors”). In the article, Mr. Feldman [...]
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The Mac has become a fixture in many organizations, large and small. In a recent report by Needham & Co. analyst Charlie Wolf, it was reported that the Mac has achieved its largest market share in 15 years. In the consumer space, the Mac enjoyed growth of 24.6 [...]
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Justin James at TechRepublic reviewed five service desk tools, and guess who came in #1 ?
It lets you create customized workflows, and it provides a help desk portal for your end users. The pricing is competitive with other SaaS options, including an attractively priced small business option.
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NetSuite’s earnings sparked a round of commentary by prominent commentators. From Dennis Howlett at Constellation we saw:
“Netsuite’s earnings fire a warning shot to the incumbents.”
Arik Hesseldahl of the Wall Street Journal’s All Things Digital said:
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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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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Barney Beal of Techtarget had a great post on Is benchmarking data the next big step for SaaS:
SaaS companies – and their users – are uniquely positioned to turn customers’ aggregate data into a real business advantage.
SaaS benchmarking (aka analytics-as-a-service) enables users to view and compare their performance against similar users of the [...]
Continue Reading →Strong words from the 26-year old founder of Box.net! In a wide-ranging interview with Matt Rosof (http://www.businessinsider.com/author/matt-rosoff) of Silicon Valley Insider (http://www.businessinsider.com/), Levie spoke about how he took box.net from startup to enterprise market disrupter in just over five years.
Rosof summarizes the ascent of Box.net:
About three years in, he looked [...]
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The guys at Workday posted a great article on the 10 critical requirements for cloud applications and really nailed down the top requirements every “true SaaS” vendors should meet. My favorites:
True Multi-tenancy. Multi-tenancy is the only proven SaaS delivery architecture that eliminates many of the problems created by the traditional software licensing [...]
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