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Digital Transformation & Digital Advantage

Digital Transformation & Digital Advantage

By Sadagopan on October 13, 2014

On my flight to Boston, I came across this article titled: We Need Better Managers, Not More Technocrats from Harvard Business Review. This set me thinking for not many articles have touched the issues of digital transformation at its core, in so far what I have seen and so mentally egged me to draw this […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged business models, Digital Enterprise, Digital transformation

AppFog Announces Java Support - What The Heck Is Happening In PaaS Space?

AppFog Announces Java Support – What The Heck Is Happening In PaaS Space?

By Krishnan Subramanian on October 26, 2011

Yesterday AppFog (previous CloudAve coverage), formerly known as PHPFog, announced that they are adding support for Java. With the addition Java support, they can now target enterprise developers who still believe in Java over the modern day languages. Along with Java, AppFog now support PHP, Ruby and Node.js. AppFog has a dual strategy in the space. […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Platforms | Tagged appfog, business models, insights, paas, paasfuture, phpfog, platform, platform as a service, platform services | 5 Responses

NGINX Starts Commercial Operations

NGINX Starts Commercial Operations

By Krishnan Subramanian on October 12, 2011

NGINX, the open source alternative to Apache web server, today announced their plans to start a commercial company around their software. Yesterday, they announced a $3 Million Series A funding round and how they are planning to monetize their open source software. As an analyst focussing on both open source and cloud computing, this is […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Open Source | Tagged business models, cloud computing, insights, nginx, open core, open source, open source business models, opensource

AWS Outage & Customer Readiness

AWS Outage & Customer Readiness

By Sadagopan on May 1, 2011

Reddit, Foursquare, EngineYard and Quora were among the many sites that went down recently due to a rather prolonged outage of Amazon’s cloud services. On Thursday April 21, When Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) went offline, it took many of its Web and database servers depending on that storage down. With Amazon working aggressively to […]

Posted in Infrastructure | Tagged Amazon Elastic Block Store, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, aws, aws outage, business models, cloud computing | 1 Response

OpenERP offers Cloud Option To Their Customers

OpenERP offers Cloud Option To Their Customers

By Krishnan Subramanian on January 20, 2011

OpenERP, the open source ERP and business applications provider since 2005, today announced the new version of their offering giving customers choice between on-premise and SaaS options. The new version OpenERP v6, a major upgrade from the previous version that makes implementation and use of a comprehensive set of business applications (CRM, Purchase Management, Manufacturing, […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts | Tagged briefs, BUSINESS APPLICATIONS, business models, erp, open source, openerp, saas | 2 Responses

The Cloud & Enterprises

The Cloud & Enterprises

By Sadagopan on December 29, 2010

This is in continuation of the previous note: Thomas Friedman makes the case that Value creation is becoming so complex that no single firm can master it without closely collaborating with a wide set of partners. John Hagel brings this up : We are shifting from a world where the key source of strategic advantage […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged business models, cloud computing, IT Business Value, John Hagel, Thomas Friedman

XMarks May Live On

XMarks May Live On

By Krishnan Subramanian on November 4, 2010

Late September, we wrote a post about the possible demise of XMarks, a browser plugin that syncs bookmarks, password, tabs, etc.. At that time XMarks announced that they are shutting down because they couldn’t find a sustainable business model to keep running the operations. This announcement brought them tremendous amount of support from the users […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts | Tagged browser extensions, business models, xmarks

Cloud Powered Outsourcing

Cloud Powered Outsourcing

By Sadagopan on October 13, 2010

I wrote an Op-Ed piece for Sandhill.com on “Cloud Powered Outsourcing” available here. The focus is to highlight how services firms can leverage the disruptive nature of cloud computing to deliver new value to their enterprise clients. Thought I shall leave here a quick synopsis. In the fast changing world of technology and outsourcing, many […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged business models, cloud computing, Emerging Models, outsourcing

RIP XMarks - Can You Build A Viable Business Around Browser Extensions?

RIP XMarks – Can You Build A Viable Business Around Browser Extensions?

By Krishnan Subramanian on September 27, 2010

XMarks, formerly Foxmarks, announced shutting down of their service today. XMarks is the first plugin that brought browser bookmarks synchronization to Firefox browser in 2006. Later, they brought in password synchronization, tab synchronization, etc. to Firefox and, also, expanded to support other browsers. They tried many different options to monetize and scale but they failed […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Strategy | Tagged browser extensions, business models, cloudmagic, xmarks | 3 Responses

Making Money In Open Source: Does It Matter?

Making Money In Open Source: Does It Matter?

By Krishnan Subramanian on April 1, 2010

Yesterday, I attended the GigaOm bunker series on Open Source and Cloud Computing. The event had two panels, one featuring Larry Augustin of SugarCRM and Jim Zemlin of Linux Foundation and the other with Joe Tobolsk, Rich Wolski, Shelton Shugar and Tom Hughes Croucher. There were some interesting discussions on both panels and an overall […]

Posted in Analysis | Tagged business models, cloud computing, GigaOM, open source | 2 Responses

The New Economics of Technology Startups?

The New Economics of Technology Startups?

By Guest Authors on September 22, 2009

I have recently been reading the book “Free: The Future of a Radical Price” by Chris Anderson.  Well I am not actually reading it as I find I do not have time for reading books any more.  These days I do all of my “book reading” using audio books from Audible.com.  I find that by […]

Posted in Analysis, Strategy | Tagged advertising, business models, Economics, freemium, michaud, software revenue, startups

Cognitive Dissonance: Are you a technology or a service?

Cognitive Dissonance: Are you a technology or a service?

By Derek Pilling on August 5, 2009

One of the trends I’ve observed over the past several years is that more and more technology entrepreneurs are starting service-delivery business.  By services businesses, I’m referring to the category of businesses that some venture investors refer to as technology-enabled services (“TES”). We at Meritage prefer the term network-enabled services (“NES”), which we think more […]

Posted in Analysis | Tagged business models, capital efficiency, cloud computing, compeititve advantage, Economics, execution, lessons learned, risk, saas, service business, services, Technology, venture capital | 1 Response

Not All "Free" is Created Equal

Not All "Free" is Created Equal

By Derek Pilling on July 27, 2009

I’m still mired in reading Chris Anderson’s latest book; “Free”. I doubt I’ll finish it. 130+ pages in, I haven’t discovered anything illuminating. In fact, I’d argue that by combining a number of very different applications of free under one umbrella, Anderson does not clarify free, but rather makes it more confusing. For example, a business model […]

Posted in Marketing, Strategy | Tagged business models, chris anderson, free, freemium, pricing, value

No, Commoditization Of Software By SaaS Doesn't Lead to Death By Communism

By Krishnan Subramanian on July 14, 2009

In the light of a recent announcement, I was discussing with a developer about SaaS. His main argument against the SaaS era was that the low margins will lead to the death of software industry. Our conversation was more political but I will try to focus on the techbiz side of it than the political […]

Posted in Analysis | Tagged business models, margins, saas | 2 Responses

Are Free Customers Disposable?

Are Free Customers Disposable?

By Krishnan Subramanian on May 6, 2009

Image by CC Chapman via Flickr Phil Wainewright writes on ZDNet.com about how web giants are treating their customers More than any of these acts, though, the most constructive change would be to get rid of the mindset that leads these Web giants to belittle the circumstances of its ‘consumers’. Is it unreasonable of us […]

Posted in Strategy | Tagged business models, customer support, free users, freemium, saas, support | 2 Responses

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