Using Platforms as Service Glue
Peter Coffee is director of platform research at Salesforce.com and will be joining me for a panel this afternoon. This morning however he led us all on a journey into platforms and the value they bring. He gave some good examples of peak to average discrepancies that show the value of a cloud based platform. [...]
GlueCon – It’s All About the User
What am I doing blogging at 2am? Preparing for my panel tomorrow which, although entitled “Platforms and Clouds: Building Out Web Apps in the Sky”, we’ll subvert to a different theme. The panel includes; Sam Charrington from Appistry Peter Coffee from Salesforce.com Jeff Collins from Intuit Jeff Fedor from Parkvu I met with some of [...]
QuickArrow Releases Small Business Edition
QuickArrow Small Business Edition is a new offering launched yesterday that comes from a ten year veteran of professional services automation software. QuickArrow’s other products are used by over 30000 users worldwide and is used by some high profile companies. QuickArrow is based in Austin, Texas and is a privately held company. The solution provides [...]
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 [...]
Has Best-of-Breed Won?
Let’s face it: enterprise applications will never be cool – and that is part of the reason why small-business focused applications such as Basecamp and Xero get more buzz. But apart from NetSuite and 24SevenOffice, who else is offering all-in-one fully integrated business applications in the cloud? Surprisingly very few. About once a year or [...]
Salesforce.com’s India Plans
Image by via CrunchBase Salesforce.com is planning to invade Indian market. According to a report in the Industry Standard, Doug Farber, Vice President of Salesforce’s Asia Pacific operations, told the media that they are planning to focus on some select cities like Hyderabad, Bangalore, Gurgaon and Mumbai. They are hoping to slowly create awareness about [...]
And Next to Attack Salesforce is….
I reported a couple of weeks ago about the aggressive stance salesboom is taking in order to acquire Salesforce.com customers. Hot on the heels of that comes Netsuite‘s Renewforce program. Renewforce seeks to migrate SFA customers to Netsuite’s own product line and is guaranteeing; A 50% cost saving (including service and support) when compared to [...]
Salesbook and Faceforce Doing the Samba
I kind of think those two names have quite a nice ring to them….. Anyway, I’ve always been somewhat dubious about the true utility of Facebook. Having said that 120 million users create their own utility – merely from the momentum of the crowd. Given my doubt it was interesting to see the announcement at [...]
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 [...]
All's Fair in Love, War and Business
They say that all is fair in love and war – and most people extend that saying through to business. It was interesting to receive an email the other day from CRM vendor salesboom. A quick disclaimer before I launch into this post – I'm not intending to review the salesboom offering – that's been [...]
S+S/SaaS – So What's in a Name?
Steve Clayton from Microsoft is a great guy with one of the blogs I religiously follow (and I follow a lot of RSS feeds). I actually quite like his somewhat defensive stance – it must be hard working for a company that, from appearances, is reviled by all the cool kids in town, and to [...]
