Executive Blog on SaaS and Application On-Demand

Just in time for the third part of my Silo Busting Trilogy (don’t be confused by the 4, the first post was just an overview) Sarah Lacy published her fantastic article On Demand Computing: A Brutal Slog.  (Sara, thanks for the set-up.  Let me know how I can return the favor.)
For those without the patience […]

Posted: August 29th, 2008 under Uncategorized.
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A couple of posts ago, I spoke to the busting of the SaaS Silo with Web Services and the impact that was having on the SaaS industry.  The last post spoke specifically about using Web Services to add functionality to your app.  While adding cool new functionality to the app is big for the product […]

Posted: June 30th, 2008 under Cloud, SaaS - Software As A Service, Uncategorized, Web Services, Web applications.
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Probably the simplest thing SaaS apps can do to improve their business is to use web services to improve the functionality of their application. By integrating third party applications in “Corporate Mash-Ups” SaaS companies can have the best of both worlds; a robust feature set and a complete focus on their core product.
Companies like […]

Posted: May 30th, 2008 under SaaS - Software As A Service, Web Services, Web applications.
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It’s time to grow up….and learn to play nice with others.
SaaS adoption in the enterprise has definitely increased. But with that organizations are increasingly asking SaaS applications to start working with both other SaaS applications and the company’s legacy applications as well. According to recent studies by both Saugatuck and Forrester suggest that […]

Posted: May 22nd, 2008 under SaaS - Software As A Service, Uncategorized, Web Services, Web applications.
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When Mike Mankowski sent me this blog post today, I figured “Yeah! My running buddy David Greenfield from Altera is writing a post about me. I didn’t even know he blogged.
Alas, it was a case of mistaken identity but the post was real. This David Greenfield disagrees with my hogwash, but that’s O.K., […]

Posted: February 4th, 2008 under Cloud, SaaS - Software As A Service, Web applications.
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As many who know me, know that I have not been a big fan of Google. I love the desktop search (or I did until I got a Mac with Spotlight) but am not a big fan of their corporate culture. Just because they got search right (emphasis on the past tense, but that’s a later […]

Posted: November 5th, 2007 under SaaS - Software As A Service, Uncategorized, Web applications.
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Just a quick update on the last post. I’ve seen a variety of articles on the decline of Educational Software, but I like this one the best. I like it because the time frame represents the delta between my oldest child, who we bought software for, and my youngest, who we have never […]

Posted: October 18th, 2007 under SaaS - Software As A Service, Web applications.
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Reading M.R. Rangaswami’s recent post Where are Software’s Children, I am struck by the continued belief that enterprises will continue to use installed applications through the next generation of software. That is simply not going to happen.
Mr. Rangaswami’s observation of the age of the ruling class of software companies is aging and that most […]

Posted: October 18th, 2007 under SaaS - Software As A Service, Uncategorized, Web applications.
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Let me be the last to post about “Open Source vs. SaaS”. Two excellent posts have been put up recently (O.K. not so recently.) Anshu Sharma’s and Dave Rosenberg’s. Both are very well written, and I agree with Anshu’s arguments. That said, they both are essentially missing one essential point: all applications will be Web […]

Posted: October 3rd, 2007 under SaaS - Software As A Service, Web applications, open source.
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When we first started getting in to SaaS back in 2004, there were a lot of companies still looking for shortcuts in to the space. Virtualization and terminal services were seen as a way to take your current app and “voila”, turn it in to a SaaS offering. Three years later, I cannot think of […]

Posted: September 4th, 2007 under SaaS - Software As A Service.
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