Guest Posts
The Future of Presentations and Dynamic Content
I spent some time recently with both the founder and the CEO of Sliderocket. I invited CEO Chuck Dietrich to guest post about his vision of the future of presentation applications and what that meant for the world at large. Sliderocket is an interesting product and it was interesting to talk to someone who left [...]
Update on the Enterprise Irregulars
(Editor’s note: I often refer to bloggers / analyts as fellow Enterprise Irregulars, and in fact am editing the group blog by the same name, but have never provided an explanation here. Therefore I’m glad that Michael Krigsman, CEO of Asuret and author of the popular IT Project Failures blog @ ZDNet agreed to re-publish [...]
When Browsers Are Just as Bad as Your OS
As any good Cloud evangelist worth his salt will tell you, a browser beats operating system hands down for all the usual reasons, e.g. platform agnostic, reduced complexity etc. etc. However, I get the feeling sometimes that browsers have gone the way of most operating systems lately. Let me explain. Quite often in recent days, [...]
BMC Reaches for the Cloud With a New Service Desk Express Offering
A guest post from Rhett Glauser, Service-now.com director of communications. Rhett has spent a decade talking and writing about the IT management industry from the perspective of companies like Service-now.com, Symantec, Altiris and Lineo. These days he spends most of his time communicating the benefits of modern IT service management applications, software-as-a-service, and IT best [...]
E-mail Is Dead…Long Live E-mail! From Enterprise2Open
A couple of weeks ago, I took part in the Enterprise 2.0 Conference San Francisco. As usual, it was a very interesting event, and I was glad to make my contribution to the discussion. Below is the presentation I prepared for the Enterprise 2.0 conference’s Enterprise2Open session. My session was not meant to be just [...]
Twitter and the Ricochet Effect
Defrag came to Denver. I couldn’t go, which was particularly difficult for those of us going through conference withdrawal after three great days at Enterprise 2.0 in San Francisco. I’m a conference junkie. I like the excitement of live events. To me, industry conferences are Shakespearian theatre wrapped in a religious revival tent. Live events [...]
Billing and the Services Tsunami: What Online Companies Really Need To Understand
Here at CloudAve we’ve had a recent theme of guest posts from subscription billing companies (Zuora and Aria). It’s a really interesting area (honestly) and the various vendors all have a slightly different take on it. This time it’s the turn of Gene Hoffman, CEO of Vindicia to give his perspective. Tien Tzou and Ed [...]
SaaS and the Art of Subscription Billing: An Inquiry into the Heartbeat of Your Business
Following on from the guest post by the CEO of Zuora, Ed Sullivan, CEO of Aria Systems, another SaaS billing provider has written another piece which adds to the body of work looking at the changes that a move to a subscription billing model brings. Subscription billing is an art. It takes skill and once [...]
Takeaways from the AWS Enterprise NYC Event
Last week I attended an event organized by Amazon in NYC with a focus on enterprise customers. Enterprise messaging is an area that AWS has a lot of work still to do. They need to work hard to lose the tag of being relevant only for start ups or the typical web2.0 type stuff. The events [...]
An Overview of the Subscription Economy: How It’s Affecting Traditional Businesses, Cloud Computing and You
A guest post from Tien Tzou, CEO of Zuora (more on Zuora here). At CloudAve we welcome guest posts and invite your submissions – feel free to contact us here. From DVDs to cars, products that we once purchased are transforming into services to which we now subscribe. Why buy a DVD, when you can [...]
Flowers and HCM Systems Architecture.
(The following is a Guest post by Thomas Otter, Research Director @ Gartner, and fellow Enterprise Irregular.) I’ve tried this metaphor on several client calls recently, so let me inflict it on you too. Cactus via Flickr, the cc licence of Rodolfo Cartas thanks. In this architecture, everything is from one vendor, and integration with [...]
SaaS v. On-premises Software: Which One is More Green?
(The following is a guest post by Chris Thorman @ SoftwareAdvice.com) In case you haven’t heard (or aren’t obsessively following IT trends like we are), the great trend in software is the evolution from traditional “on-premises” software (e.g. client/server software installed at the office) to Software as a Service (SaaS) (i.e. web-based applications that are [...]
