Coda2go and Salesforce – Oh the Irony
There is some poetic irony in the news today as the originator of the SaaS acronym, salesforce.com, announces an investment in one of the copybook examples of moving from on-premises to SaaS, Coda2go. (More on Coda here). Here we see a marriage between salesforce – the king of the on-demand world, and Coda, a traditional vendor [...]
LegalSoftOnline – Delivering to the Legal Profession
A few months ago I wrote a post discussing some interesting vertical offerings that I’d seen built on top of the salesforce.com platform. I alluded to a new offering that was, at that time in stealth mode – the company behind that offering, Trineo has been invited to San Francisco next week to pitch to [...]
Making PaaS Like Lego
Recently I was briefed by WorkXpress about their Platform as a Service that they tout as being “the world’s most functional PaaS”. That’s a pretty lofty claim given the competition in the marketplace so I thought I’d take a look under the hood. I spoke with Treff LaPlante, President and CEO of this seven year [...]
Leveraging Platforms
Disclosure – I was assisted in attending the recent Enteprise 2.0 conference in Boston by Intuit – however, while they are mentioned in the post, this is not a look at Intuit in particular, rather generally at platform plays. After spending time talking to Intuit about it’s Partner Platform a few weeks ago, and getting [...]
Platform Interoperability: Force.com Talks To Google App Engine
In my opinion, the future of Cloud Computing will be a more federated ecosystem than few players holding a monopoly kind of dominance. In such a federated ecosystem, interoperability becomes very important. I have emphasized the importance of interoperability many times in this space. Unless we have Clouds talking to one another, we will end [...]
Balancing Platforms and Applications at Salesforce.com
With steady growth, more than $1Bn in revenue last year, and a PR-grabbing tour just getting underway, Salesforce.com remains a company to watch in the Cloud Computing space. As the New York Times‘ Ashlee Vance put it this week, [Salesforce CEO Marc] Benioff describes himself as ‘the Billy Graham of cloud computing.’ And last week, [...]
All’s Fair in Love and War – Ubikwiti Pushing Hard
I came across a press release (and oh how I love those) from SaaS business software platform Ubikwiti. In it they’re pushing hard to move users from Xero (or those considering using Xero) by saying; Why Pay $$s to Xero When You Can Have Ubikwiti for Zero $$s? From what I can see their offer [...]
Salesforce to Announce New Cloud Computing Initiative Today
Salesforce.com will announce a new initiative, called Force.com Sites, today at the end of the keynote by Marc Benioff, CEO, at the Dreamforce User Conference. They plan to extend their Force.com platform and compete with other platform as a service offerings like Google App Engine. Till now, the Force.com platform served business users to develop [...]
