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Oracle OpenWorld – What We Learned

Last week’s Oracle OpenWorld show was quite an event with many different story lines including the tie-in to the Iron Man 2 movie.  In fact, in the main area outside the keynote hall there were three Iron Man suites alongRead more →

Ten Ways to Tame The High Cost Of SaaS Customer Acquisition

While walking through the exhibit area of Salesforce.com’s recent Dreamforce event in San Francisco, I was struck by large number of enterprise customers present and the low number of enterprise applications being marketed. I started to think about my experienceRead more →

Force.com Starts to Gain Momentum with Partners

Last week at Salesforce.com’s Dreamforce conference, it was interesting to see how their Platform-as-a-Service offering, Force.com is starting to gain momentum among the Independent Software Vendor community including Computer Associates and BMC Software. What is clear for traditional software providersRead more →

Dreamforce: Latest Salesforce Announcement is Chatty

Last week at Salesforce.com’s Dreamforce conference, the big news was around the launch of the new business collaboration set of platform capabilities called “Chatter”. After updating the audience on Service and Sales Cloud 2, which both had some really coolRead more →

SaaS Providers Are Happy About Private Clouds

I often hear the question, “What is the difference between Software-as-a-Service and Cloud Computing?”  The answer is that the Cloud is a utility based resource that companies can use to deliver software and services.  This can sometimes even be moreRead more →

Intuit’s Big Move to SaaS

June has been a big SaaS month for Intuit!  Over the past few months I had noticed that Intuit had quietly started moving more into the Software-as-a-Service market.  These moves became more apparent this month with these announcements: June 2 - Intuit acquiresRead more →

SaaS Sector Report: SMB Office Productivity Software

SMB Financial Productivity Software There is an increasing number of Software-as-a-Service (or SaaS) firms jumping into the smallest end of the Small and Medium-size Business (SMB) market, and they are offering a variety of office productivity solutions. This is theRead more →

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