Looking Back 2010: Key Cloud Acquisitions
This is the final post in the Looking Back 2010 Series and, also, for the year 2010. After looking at the three key cloud events in this year (thanks to James Urquhart for kicking up the discussion on Twitter), I want to do a post talking about some of the key acquisitions in the cloud […]
Looking Back 2010: Netflix’s NY Times Moment
This is my third post in the Looking Back 2010 series where I highlight important cloud related events in this year. After OpenStack and Salesforce.com’s Heroku acquisition news, the third important news from my point of view is Netflix’s embrace of AWS for all their IT needs. This is very important for the validation of […]
Looking Back 2010: Salesforce, Heroku And Democratization Of Platforms
This is my second post in the series Looking Back 2010 where I plan to highlight some of the significant cloud related events in 2010. These year end picks are based on my observations of the industry over the past one year. In today’s post, I am going to talk about my second pick, the […]
Looking Back 2010: OpenStack Offers Promise
Looking Back 2010 is a series of posts I am planning for this week in which I will highlight significant cloud related events that happened in this year. Please keep in mind that these are my personal opinions based on my industry observations this year. My first pick is OpenStack project (see previous CloudAve coverage) […]
Gartner Forecasts 16% Increase In Enterprise SaaS Revenue During 2011
Gartner has released a forecast that predicts a 16.2 percent increase in SaaS revenue in the enterprise application market from 2010. The SaaS revenue in the enterprise application software market in 2009 was $7.9 Billion and, according to the analyst firm, it is forecasted to increase to $9.2 Billion in 2010, a solid 15.7 percent […]
Big Jump In SaaS ERP Interest
ERP has been considered the last frontier for SaaS and we have seen tremendous resistance from even organizations who were otherwise open to the idea of SaaS. Part of the reason was that SaaS ERP offerings were not robust enough for deployment, unlike say CRM applications. The most important reason for the resistance is that […]
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.
ASUG SAP BusinessObjects User Conference 2010 Keynotes
What do horse-drawn buses and 5,000 tons of manure have to do with Business Intelligence and Innovation?
Sailing Analytics for the SAP 5O5 World Championship
(Editor’s note: we tend to select posts from our Guest Bloggers that don’t focus on their own companies’ products. But Timo is an exception… he always finds ways of showing, that Enterprise Software can be sexy , after all. Of course it helps if your billionaire Founder is a sailing enthusiast:-) ) In business, we […]
Gartner Says SaaS Is Growing Big In Enterprise Application Software Markets
SaaS is slowly gaining adoption not just in the small and mid market range but also in big enterprises. According to a new Gartner report “Software as a Service 2009-2014”, the SaaS revenues within the enterprise software market will grow in 2010 by 14.1 percent from the 2009 revenues. In 2009, the revenues were $7.5 billion […]
OSCON Week: Open Source and Cloud Computing
OSCON 2010, O’Reilly annual Open Source conference, starts tomorrow at Portland, OR. This is the first time I am attending the conference and thought I will dedicate this week’s posts (well, most of them) to topics related to Open Source and Cloud Computing. Since this is such a hot topic, I thought it will be […]
Gartner Talks About The Role Of Cloud Computing In IT Organizations In The Coming Years
The analyst firm Gartner has made some predictions regarding how IT organizations will shape up in the next few years of this decade. Some of these predictions are about how Cloud Computing will transform IT and I will highlight them here in this post. One of the most important predictions by Gartner is that 20% […]
Cloudcamp Seattle – Cloudcamp Comes Back To Seattle
Last year I covered Cloudcamp Seattle organized at Amazon HQ here. Overall, it was an interesting collection of people talking about everything Cloud Computing. This unconference style camps will play a major role in promoting Cloud Computing with people who don’t know anything about it and it will also help us to advance the technology to […]
Smaller Firms trending towards Cloud Computing
If you are in Information Technology (IT) at all, then Cloud Computing is going to be one skill you need to start working on yesterday. As more companies start seeing the economics behind cloud computing, and as computing moves towards a more utility format, this is one skill that if you do nothing else in […]
The 2010 Enterprise 2.0 All-Star Blogger Roster
Now that the holiday hangover has worn off and the bills are coming due, I want to turn your attention to the individuals that are most influencing the Enterprise 2.0 space. Those of you that are early adopters or just starting to research Enterprise 2.0 can short cut the search for quality information by following […]
