Adobe and SAP head towards the cloud
Adobe and SAP head towards the cloud Not unexpected but with the idea of the subscription model to even out income at Adobe, and the success of other cloud ERP providers SAP had to do this, expect more large companies to watch this roll out and see what happens. I have not gotten into Adobe [...]
The Law of Attach Rates, And Why Partners Can’t Really Move the Needle For You (Directly)
I want to spend a little time on some learnings about Strategic Partners in SaaS. First, let me be clear — to make it in SaaS, you’re probably going to need to achieve real success with Strategic Partners. Because it takes a Village. And because your partners will likely, through integrations in particular, make your [...]
About Cloud. And SaaS. And How “Big Apps” Will Always Stay Local
I’ve been doing this whole SaaS thing for a few years now, and fondly remember at the start when people said that only the most svelte of applications (or, more correctly, the applications with the most svelte of payloads) would ever move to the cloud. The people who used to say his would point to [...]
THE SOCIAL PHD: 9 Sure Fire Ways to Become a Social Business (Video)
We were able to assemble a powerful cast of experts to give the rest of us advice on becoming a Social Business. But we did it with one catch. We asked these 9 experts to do it in under 60 seconds. Thank you Robert Lavigne for essentially doing all of the video, post production and [...]
Chrome Update With Print Preview, Better PDF
I’ve long switched to the Chrome browser and have not looked back. Our readers seem to agree (partial stats based on last 500 views). Chrome is my favorite not beacuse they say users of that other browser are dumb (ouch…), but because of the constant innovation, the added features I am getting without ever having [...]
Adobe Acquires Echosign
Adobe System Incorporated announced a few hours back that they have acquired EchoSign (see their blog post), the Palo Alto based company offering electronic signature solution. According to the company, EchoSign’s solution will be part of the Adobe document exchange platform for exchanging documents for universal access, review and approval. The solution will also be [...]
Great Analytic Dashboards on the BlackBerry PlayBook
Corporate tablet alternatives to the iPad are now on the horizon.
At the recent Adobe Max 2010 conference, Mike Lazardis demonstrated SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards running on the brand-new Adobe-Flash compatible BlackBerry PlayBook.
Adobe's Hot Air x2
I’ve said it once, and if it was true while Adobe claimed 100 million installs, it’s just as true now that they claim 200 million. So why repeat myself, here’s the original. And yes, I might as well have tweeted this. Related posts: Adobe AIR now installed over 200 million times Adobe Releases Spreadsheet SaaS [...]
Adobe Releases Spreadsheet SaaS Application And Adds Premium Version
After pushing RIA strongly for sometime, Adobe decided to embraced SaaS format (in their own way though) and they released Adobe Buzzword after they acquired Virtual Ubiquity, the company behind the Buzzword app. Buzzword is built on Flex framework and offered through a web browser. The release of Buzzword exposed the dilemma faced by Adobe [...]
Does iPhone’s Success Validate Microsoft’s S+S Strategy?
Image via CrunchBase Whenever I criticize Microsoft on Cloud Computing, in general, and SaaS, in particular, to people affiliated with Microsoft, they show the success of iPhone to add legitimacy to their Software + Service strategy. In one of my posts criticizing Microsoft’s attempts to frame SaaS as something similar to S+S, one of the [...]
Death by PDF
Image via Wikipedia It’s Sunday morning, I’ve barely finished my coffee and here’s an email pitch to check out a site – vendor supported but neutral resource, blah, blah … hm… dunno… Oh, well, let’s spend 5 minutes. Click, click, nice design, Web 2.0-ish, lightweight, easy to view – until I click another page button, [...]
I’ve Seen The Future and It’s Flex
Warning – Some expletives follow – NSFW The inimitable Stephan Fry wrote on the subject of music in his autobiography. He says it so much better than me so I’ll quote his words here; Music is everything and nothing. It is useless and no limit can be set on its use. Music takes me to [...]
Adobe’s Hot Air
Adobe boasts record download and installation numbers for Flash and Air, and Venturebeat claims they are winning the platform race. But are they really “winning”? Some of the software Adobe makes is a MUST have on any computer, no matter how often you use it, just to allow basic browsing. The first time you can’t [...]
Flash Player Still a Pain in the Flesh
If your favorite browser is Firefox, chances are you’ve experienced Flash Hell, perhaps just did not realize what it was: the vicious circle of frozen videos with Flash Player 9, then upgrading to Flash 10, which resolves the frozen video issue, but is not recognized by many sites… then using the removal tool to eradicate [...]
