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SAP Buys Concur - Interesting Mix!

SAP Buys Concur – Interesting Mix!

By Sadagopan on September 22, 2014

I have used Concur system for several years and had seen it evolve over time. Earlier this quarter, when I saw this announcement about Concur, Uber and AirBnb coming together, I knew that they are aiming big, given Concur’s active partnership with the likes of United, Marriott, IHG and Avis. There is definite meat behind […]

Posted in Enterprise, Featured Posts | Tagged business model, cloud, Digital Enterprise, enterprise software, sap

An HR business model for Millennials

An HR business model for Millennials

By Michael Krigsman on September 15, 2014

Innovation requires rethinking how we do business. Here is a proposed approach for HR to re-examine how it serves the needs of Millennial workers.

Posted in Business, Enterprise, Featured Posts | Tagged Business Innovation Factory, business model, Business Model Canvas, Deb Mills-Scofield, generation y, Millennial, Recruitment

Challenges For On-premise Vendors Transitioning To SaaS

Challenges For On-premise Vendors Transitioning To SaaS

By Chirag Mehta on January 13, 2014

As more and more on-premise software vendors begin their journey to become SaaS vendors they are going to face some obvious challenges. Here’s my view on what they might be. The street is mean but you can educate investors Sharp contrast between Amazon and Apple is quite clear. Even though Amazon has been in business […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged business model, cloud computing, saas

Why Startups Need a Well Articulated Strategy (And How to Think About Yours)

Why Startups Need a Well Articulated Strategy (And How to Think About Yours)

By Mark Suster on June 4, 2013

I recommend you read Fred Wilson’s recent blog post about the need for a well articulated business strategy before pushing a particular business model. Since Arrested Development is back I thought I’d resurrect Gob Bluth’s answer when he was told he needed a “business model” – he quickly figured out that he was missing one […]

Posted in Entrepreneurship, Featured Posts | Tagged business model, Entrepreneurship, Geoffrey Moore, lean startup, Startup Advice, startups, vc funding, venture capital

Xeround, and a tale of evolving business models

Xeround, and a tale of evolving business models

By Paul Miller on May 3, 2013

Cloud database company Xeround announced that they’re shutting down the version of their service hosted in public clouds such as Amazon, Rackspace, GreenQloud, and others. Users of the free service have until 8 May to move elsewhere, whilst paying customers have until 15 May. The company describes this as an attempt to “re-focus,” with the […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Open Source, Platforms | Tagged amazon, business model, cloud computing, cloud database, database, Enterprise Computing, freemium, greenqloud, mysql, rackspace, saas, software as a service, xeround

Challenges For On-premise Vendors Transitioning To SaaS

Challenges For On-premise Vendors Transitioning To SaaS

By Chirag Mehta on January 12, 2013

As more and more on-premise software vendors begin their journey to become SaaS vendors they are going to face some obvious challenges. Here’s my view on what they might be.The street is mean but you can educate investorsSharp contrast between Amazon and Apple is quite clear. Even though Amazon has been in business for a […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged business model, cloud computing, saas

I Want USPS To Think Outside The Box

I Want USPS To Think Outside The Box

By Chirag Mehta on June 1, 2012

Recently I had to go to a consulate to get a visa and the consulate would only accept a USPS money order and a USPS pre-paid envelope. I went to a post office to get those. That particular post office decided to change their business hours that day to open late. I hurriedly drove to […]

Posted in Business | Tagged business model, mail, usps

Cloud And New Roles For Players

Cloud And New Roles For Players

By Sadagopan on October 15, 2010

It’s often widely acknowledged that all players in the software ecosystem needs to make adjustments and put efforts to embrace the world of cloud. We saw in the earlier posts the nature of issues that need to be confronted by buyers, IT service providers/Outsourcing firms, internal IT . Now lets look at some issues to […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged business model, Clouds, Emerging Models, Emerging Trends

A Laundromat Entrepreneur

A Laundromat Entrepreneur

By Chirag Mehta on September 7, 2010

In my previous post “While Entrepreneurs Scale On The Cloud The Angels Get Supersized” I wrote about how cloud computing is disrupting the VC industry. Continuing on the thread of entrepreneurship I am seeing more and more entrepreneurs building applications who do not belong to any formal organization, start-up or otherwise. The definition of what […]

Posted in Entrepreneurship | Tagged business model, cloud computing, entrepreneurial, Entrepreneurship, paas

Twitter’s Acquisition, Chirp & Managing Developer Relationships

Twitter’s Acquisition, Chirp & Managing Developer Relationships

By Mark Suster on April 12, 2010

So Twitter is buying and building Twitter clients.  I don’t find this surprising at all.  In fact, I said as much in September 09 at a Twitter conference in LA on a panel that Guy Kawasaki was moderating.  I said in the following video that I thought Twitter would by Seesmic, the company that makes one of […]

Posted in Entrepreneurship | Tagged acquisitions, business model, chirp, ecosystem, social media, Tech Market Analysis, twitter

ScanCafe: Great Service, Lousy Spam

ScanCafe: Great Service, Lousy Spam

By Zoli Erdos on February 19, 2010

That’s yours truly on the left in full glory, albeit a bit scared at a photographer’s studio. Why black-and-white, you may ask?  Well, there was no color photography back in 19xx  (date censured). This formerly black-and-white photo has turned sepia, but that may just be acceptable over 4 decades (oops, I let it slip out), […]

Posted in Marketing, Product reviews | Tagged business model, digital conversion, digitization, marketing, photo management, photography, scancafe, scanning, spam

@jowyang and the Circle of Life

@jowyang and the Circle of Life

By Chris Yeh on August 27, 2009

A hot news item out of Silicon Valley is that my old friend Jeremiah Owyang has left Forrester Research to form the equivalent of a rock supergroup by joining Charlene Li, Ray Wang, and Deb Schulz at Altimeter. This is great news for all of those aforementioned rockstars, but it is also a classic example […]

Posted in Analysis | Tagged altimeter, altimeter group, analysts, business model, charlene li, consulting, forrester, jeremiah owyang, ray wang | 1 Response

The Cat is Out of the Bag (Again): The Hidden (?) Business Model in SaaS

By Zoli Erdos on June 1, 2009

Forget software: it’s all about (your) data. Hyper-growing Financial Management system  provider and Quicken / MS Money challenger Mint recently raised eyebrows announcing their plan to sell anonymized aggregate customer data.  Some reviewers were screaming, we saw bombastic titles like Personal Finance Startup Mint Wants To Sell Your Money Trail – but in reality the […]

Posted in Strategy | Tagged aggregate data, benchmarking, business model, ByD, data ownership, data privacy, freshbooks, mint, saan, saas | 5 Responses

Has SaaS Killed OSS?

Has SaaS Killed OSS?

By Ben Kepes on January 30, 2009

Anish Kapoor, CEO of SaaS web conferencing start-up YuuGuu posted asking whether SAAS has killed open source as a business model. His contention that in fact this is the case was articulated as follows; Open source is always driven by… a central body that leads community development efforts to support developers and build revenue streams. […]

Posted in Analysis | Tagged business model, freemium, open source, oss, pay-as-you-go, saas, software, yuuguu | 5 Responses

SaaS Needs a Value-Add

By Ben Kepes on January 23, 2009

I’m a SaaS evangelist – not because it’s a better delivery mechanism per se, but because it opens up lots of possibilities which simply aren’t attainable with traditional installed software. The current economic climate and the cost cutting measures we’re seeing have made me think about different strategies SaaS vendors can use to create compelling […]

Posted in Strategy | Tagged business model, saas, saas/s, saas/v | 6 Responses

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