ProfitBase has announced their partnership with GoIWx to bring a cost effective SaaS Business Intelligence (BI) solution to businesses in North America. "We have ready-to-use connectors for many business systems, including Microsoft Dynamics™ GP, AX and NAV, AS/400, Oracle and LS Retail AX and NAV to mention a few, and we can quickly configure new connectors for other business systems as well." Said Larry LeBlanc, President and CEO of ProfitBase NA Inc.
Woodforest Financial Group signs with Transoft for SaaS cash management solution
Transoft International
It pains me to say it but I’m a Gen X-er – admittedly I’m towards the younger end of Gen X but I’m there nonetheless. As such I’m no doubt seen as prehistoric, decrepit and pretty much due for the scrap heap. Despite all of this I’m fairly certain I’ve got a couple of years productive life left in me so I thought I’d advocate a little for the *aged* amongst us.
A few months ago, and a little fatigued from carrying my functional but heavy Dell Vostro 1500 around the world for conferences, I decided to go
As people in US enter the long weekend of July 4th (independence day), we have something to ponder about the independence of SaaS users. Alistair Croll, writing on
GigaOm
, points us to the possibility of SaaS vendor lock-in as a result of network effects.
Once a SaaS provider hits a certain size, secondary business models based on network and ecosystem effects can eclipse the initial business. This makes the economics of running a SaaS provider a bit strange: Too much focus on short-term revenues may undermine long-term success, because free helps reach critical mass, where new models can emerge.
Nuxeo Takes Enterprise Doc Management to the Cloud
According to news, the open source Enterprise CMS vendor Nuxeo has taken its document management product to the cloud. Nuxeo DM Cloud Edition is now available in SaaS and promises security and reliability among other things. Nuxeo DM Cloud Edition takes advantage of the Nuxeo Cloud Services infrastructure (leveraging Amazon Web Services), which enables any application based on Nuxeo’s ECM platform to be cloud-friendly.
Issue Management Application by Roundedcube Officially Released
Roundedcube Inc. announced the release of RC On-Track Issue Management 2009. The product was originally created for internal use by Roundedcube
Often people wonder how Open Source Software vendors will adjust to the Cloud Computing era. We are increasingly seeing some traction in this regard. Recently, Redhat, the grand daddy of Open Source software, and Canonical, the company behind the glamorous Linux distribution Ubuntu, are making some noises in this space. Recently, Redhat announced a certification program and partner program with an aim to capture the imagination of Cloud users. Canonical also announced a similar plan in the name of "Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud Services". In this post, I will do a short recap on their plans.
Redhat has announced what
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After I reviewed IT service management tool Beetil a few weeks ago I had a tweet from Rhett Glauser of Service-now.com asking if I’d take a look at their offering. I’m always happy to take a peek under the hood of different applications and so I was happy to take service-now for a test drive. I have to preface this service with the same disclaimer I gave previously, namely that I’m not a veteran of service management and so I’m looking at ease of use, features and UI from a layman's perspective. That said let’s
This does not require any further commentary 
RT
Bennie_sweety Cisco to Expand Mobile Collaboration Features (PC World)
Bear with me for this somewhat long post, ‘cause I am not only discussing the sweeping changes Gmail made today, but in the end will also tell you what they are going to do next year – or perhaps after that.
The Gmail label changes announced today and to be released to accounts slowly (you may not see them yet, I only have them on one account) are ones that I’ve long been waiting for, and that most reviewers seem to underestimate, thinking of them as mere cosmetic or usability changes, i.e. “drag and drop”, “right-side labels retired”..etc.
Yesterday I took part in a meeting for an advisory group that I belong to that’s looking at ways to deliver Government services to small businesses in a more integrated, simple and customized way. At the session, interestingly enough, were the GM of a traditional desktop accounting software product, and the CEO of a SaaS accounting product.
It was interesting to see the back and forth between the two which basically went along the lines of;
SaaS vendor - “connected services change everything and give businesses the ability to leverage real value by their very connectedness”
Trad vendor - “but
Someone sent me an email the other day alerting me to the fact that Accomplish, a vendor of desktop small business accounting software, has just announced that it’ll be providing a SaaS product.
Nothing overly interesting in that, but what was interesting was reading the interview with Accomplish General Manager Grant Hewson and seeing the tightrope he tried to walk in the interview. He attempted (and made a good show of the spin to be fair) to talk up his own SaaS product while pouring a dose of cold water on the importance of SaaS accounting at all.
As
Project Management 2.0 can be considered as the combination of traditional project management with collaborative and social components (see our previous
PM 2.0 coverage
). Project Management tools have evolved very much from the days of traditional approach using Microsoft Project. It is only natural to evolve from the traditional tools that actually didn't help much beyond the planning stage. A project is not just about planning but also execution. If a Project Management tool doesn't provide any help for the execution of the project, then it only helps you cross half the river. The traditional approach included using the
Download Day for Firefox 3.5 is decidedly more understated than 3.0 was. A lot less hype prior to the release, no spectacular outages , and a respectable 1M+ dowloads so far, which is nice, but way behind Firefox 3.0's Guiness Record .
Blog visitor stats are very biased metrics, they tend to lean towards the "new and cool" stuff, so they don't represent real browser market share. That said, since I provided 3.0 Dowload Day Progress , let's do a little comparison. Barely halfway through Download Day, 40% of my readers were already using Firefox 3.0. It became the top
(Warning: this is a long post. Only read it when sitting in a comfortable chair. Or a pool lounge, holding your CrunchPad.
)
Two recent posts by Enterprise Social Software vendors Jive and Atlassian set up a huge debate amongst my fellow Enterprise Irregulars. Here’s the money-quote from Jive:
It’s not so long ago that it felt embarrassing to say the words "SaaS" and " single-tenant" in the same sentence. For years, it's been an industry mantra that it's simply impossible to have a scalable SaaS business without multi-tenancy.
Yes, we’re talking about
Oracle Launches Oracle 'SaaS for ISVs' Monthly Licensing Model
It was announced today by Oracle that it has launched a new commercial licensing model that will enable ISV’s to purchase license and support for components of the Oracle Platform for SaaS on a monthly basis. "With the new monthly licensing model, not only can ISVs leverage Oracle's leading platform for SaaS, they can also scale their investment to meet the evolving demands of their business. The combined Oracle Platform for SaaS and licensing options deliver the power and flexibility ISVs need to compete and win in today's global SaaS marketplace."
