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Category Archives: SaaS Trends

The Maturing of the Social Enterprise

  After attending CloudForce conference in San Francisco last week it started to become apparent that Salesforce.com’s strategy around the Social Enterprise might be real after all.I have to admit that the first time that I heard about Chatter andRead more →

Four Emerging Hybrid SaaS Strategies

Gartner projects that the global SaaS market will grow to more than $21 billion by 2015, with a CAGR in excess of 15%.  This means that the SaaS market will be growing 5 times faster than the traditional on-premise softwareRead more →

5 Tips For Starting a SaaS Business

At Montclare I work with many different types and sizes of software firms that are jumping into the SaaS business model for the first time.   Here are a few tips that I would tell a new client who isRead more →

SaaS Buyers: TCO vs. ROI

The buying habits of software buyers over the past couple of years has really shifted. The way software was sold in the recent past was by promoting its revenue-producing benefits or the Return On Investment (ROI). This changed when theRead more →

SaaS in 2011: What Might Happen?

It is always hard to predict the future, but here are my 10 Predictions for the SaaS market in 2011, and they might just happen: Blockbuster Subscription Software IPO’s A number of large consumer subscription software players including Facebook, Groupon,Read more →

Dreamforce ’10: Force.com Becomes a PaaS Suite

By Kevin Dobbs Montclare, LLC Dreamforce 2010 was in San Francisco last week and there were a lot of announcements and it is only now that I am starting post my thoughts.   This post is going be around Force.comRead more →

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 →

All About the Cloud: Public vs. Private Clouds

There were a number of keynotes at last week’s All About the Cloud conference that focused on Public and Private Clouds and the market. What was interesting is that the typical hype associated with Cloud Computing appears to be calmingRead more →

Glossary of Terms for SaaS and Cloud Computing

On a recent client engagement I was asked to provide a simple set of definitions for basic terms and concepts around Software-as-a-Service and Cloud Computing (which I often use inter-changeably).   What was interesting is that there is a lotRead more →

How Much Investment Does It Take To Start a SaaS Co?

When speaking with entrepreneurs and investors about the investment required to start up a new Software-as-a-Service company, I often refer back to this list.   At Montclare thought this would be a handy reference for those looking to start a SaaSRead more →

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