Salesforce takes it to Data Services Companies
I’m all about disruption. It never ceases to amaze me the impact that small agile players can have when up against the well funded big boys. Witness RedMonk going up against Gartner et al. As a SaaS CEO I know says: It’s not the big that eat the small, it’s the fast who eat the [...]
The Evolution of the Social CRM Process
A few weeks ago I wrote about the Social CRM Process (read this first before moving on) which received quite a lot of attention and feedback from the online community. The process that I have created has since evolved to incorporate some additional ideas and elements which were originally missing. I incorporated some feedback from [...]
What XAuth Means To SaaS
Image via CrunchBase In the weekend, Meebo, along with companies like Google, Yahoo, Myspace, Disqus, Janrain, etc., announced the release of an open identity platform called XAuth. For Meebo, it gives an option to make their Meebo Bar more relevant among the publishers. For Google, this gives them another stick to beat Facebook Connect and [...]
Are Suites Really Sour? The Best of Breed vs. Integrated Suite Debate.
The evergreen Best-of-breed vs. Integrated All-in-One Suite debate is back again. This will be a somewhat long post, so let’s sit back and start with some entertainment first. Episode 2, “Suites Are Sour” is from the mini-series SuiteMates, which I admit I find hilariously entertaining, albeit rather pointless. Why? It’s run by supply chain solution [...]
Dyyno Ramps Up Their P2P Based Video Streaming Platform
Image via CrunchBase Dyyno, the Palo Alto based company backed by Artiman Ventures and Startup Capital Ventures, offers a SaaS based video distribution platform that allows anyone from individuals to SMBs to enterprises share video and other media at a very low cost. The ease with which it can be done takes the IT out [...]
Apple’s Getting All Orwellian On Us…
The blogosphere is aghast with the latest salvo fired in the Apple vs the world war – this time it came in the form of an update to its iPhone Developer Program License Agreement that specifically bans the use of third-party compilers for creating apps that will run on the iPhone OS. Basically it looks [...]
Making Linux Relevant In Desktop With SaaS
Linux has been trying hard to crack the desktop market for long. Being an open source evangelist, I do admit that it didn’t gain much traction in the desktop era dominated by Microsoft. There are many reasons for this including Unpolished UI Lack of support for some of the consumer devices like webcam, printer, etc. [...]
Enterprises Sneaking Into Public Clouds?
Image via CrunchBase There is a widespread opinion among pundits and cloud practitioners that enterprises are running away from public clouds. Part of the reason for this impression is the real security concerns about the cloud and the rest is due to the misinformation campaign unleashed by vendors who have a lot to lose in [...]
Cloud Computing Outside the US
Information Week has an article that talks about the difference between the US and European Cloud Computing markets. The article points out to some numbers given by The 451 Group’s William Fellows The 451 Group’s William Fellows in a “Cloud Outlook 2010″ Webcast, says that 57% of spending on cloud computing is done in the [...]
The @TWTFelipe Story – A Tale of US Visa Policy Gone Awry (#startupvisa)
“Staple green cards to the diplomas of foreign students who graduate from any U.S. university in math or science” (Thomas Friedman) I’ve been meaning to write this post since September of last year when Brad Feld first wrote about the The Founders Visa Movement. I commented briefly on his blog and made a mental note [...]
Why The iPad Is Important
Alright, I’ve read the reviews. I’ve the read Cory’s piece about open-ness and closed platforms (and I agree, open is better). I’ve read from the nit-picking details to the high level geekery, and I’m here to say, the iPad is an important device. Of course, some have already heralded it as the inflection point in [...]
Making Money In Open Source: Does It Matter?
Yesterday, I attended the GigaOm bunker series on Open Source and Cloud Computing. The event had two panels, one featuring Larry Augustin of SugarCRM and Jim Zemlin of Linux Foundation and the other with Joe Tobolsk, Rich Wolski, Shelton Shugar and Tom Hughes Croucher. There were some interesting discussions on both panels and an overall [...]
Boomi’s Spring Momentum: Enterprise SOA To Cloud And Rightnow Integration
Image via CrunchBase Boomi, the Pennsylvania based SaaS integration provider, is continuing the momentum they created with the Widget Challenge contest during Dreamforce ‘09 with a slew of new announcements this spring. Last week they announced the new release of their platform, AtomSphere Spring ‘10, that could extend the enterprise SOA to the cloud. Today, [...]
Eucalyptus Systems Changes CEO – What’s Next?
Image via Wikipedia On Friday, Eucalyptus Systems, the open source software powering the private clouds in the enterprises, announced that the former CEO of MySQL AB, Mårten Mickos, has taken over as CEO of Eucalyptus Systems replacing Woody Rollins who will now be their CFO. This has taken the entire industry by surprise. I am [...]
The Impact of Collaboration on Enterprise Business Performance
When you really think about it, collaboration is at the very heart of every business on the planet. It’s very rare that you find someone that is isolated from the rest of the company. Most people are a part of a team that needs to work together to achieve the best possible results; that team [...]
