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SaaS: Growth, but not Problem Free

By Dick Weisinger

Cutter Consortium has released a report by Jeffrey Kaplan titled Software-as-a-Service on the Rise.  The analysis says that their survey gives “proof” that the “interest and adoption of on-demand software solutions is accelerating” and that “a third of organizations are already using…

Oracle: The Trend Towards Embeddable

By Dick Weisinger

‘Embeddable’ is becoming a characteristic of competitive advantage.  Embeddable usually implies a software component that is small, self-contained and can be easily ‘dropped into’ an application.  In mid-2006, Oracle raised the level of promotion of ContentDB, Oracle’s content management middleware, and signed…

Adobe releases PDF file format to AIIM / ISO

By Dick Weisinger

  Adobe’s PDF (Portable Document Format) standard was first released in 1993 and has become one of the most widely used file formats for exchanging electronic documents.  Today Adobe announced that PDF version 1.7 is being turned over to AIIM, the…

SaaS: Infrastructure Platforms Needed for Success

By Dick Weisinger

Will Price of Hummer Winblad in a recent blog points again to the higher costs involved in starting a successful SaaS operation compared to a pre-SaaS software company.  Price’s numbers are similar to those found by others (see here and here).…

SaaS: Lack of IT Innovation Leading to Crisis?

By Dick Weisinger

Dave Girouard, Google’s general manager of enterprise business, warns of a crisis in IT.  The “insane complexity” of technology causes many companies to spend 75-80% of their IT dollars maintaining existing systems. The solution to budget-busting never-ending maintenance projects says…