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 Application Architecture is a Good Fit for Enterprises
When applications are designed (On-Premise or On-Demand), they are typically architected based on the number of users they are intended to serve as the architecture vastly varies based on the type/size of deployment. The architecture of a Cloud application like Gmail for example is majorly different from the architecture of an on-premise application like Exchange. [...]
A Tale of Two Strategies
KashFlow went public the other day proudly boasting that it had reached the 2500 paying customer mark. This figure puts them at roughly USD700k revenue and, according to founder Duane Jackson, they’re already at breakeven point and meeting the costs of their ten person organisation. The KashFlow strategy is very much one of local immersion, [...]
