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Freemium Pricing: Unsuited for Most Business Applications

By Dick Weisinger

In the freemium model, a base product or service is given away for free, but proprietary features, functionality or virtual goods are available only for a fee.  The term Freemium was coined by Jarid Lukin in 2006.  The freemium model…

HashiCorp Atlas: Automating DevOps Application Delivery on Any Infrastructure

By Dick Weisinger

Today HashiCorp announces the general availability of their Atlas commercial product.  Atlas is a cloud service that wraps their six open-source products: Vagrant, Packer, Serf, Consul, Terraform, and Vault.  The goal of the service is to dashboard and control the total DevOp application…

Enterprise Software: CRM Market Still Strong

By Formtek

The global CRM market grew 13.3% in 2014, reaching $23.2 billion, according to Gartner.  Of that money, 47 percent of it were for SaaS-based CRM applications. The report noted market share as follows: 18.4 percent – Salesforce 12.1 percent –…

Cloud ERP: 2015 will be a Turning Point for SaaS ERP

By Dick Weisinger

ERP software has been a straggler when it comes to moving to the cloud.  The complexity of ERP software, the worries of cloud security and performance, and the many existing integrations with on-premise ERP systems are factors that have held…

Containers: “Build Once, Run Anywhere” Technology a Boon for Application Services

By Dick Weisinger

Containers are next-generation technology for packaging, deploying and running applications.  While not a direct substitute for virtual machines, they provide a better solution for the use case of creating an environment where an isolated application run.  Containers package applications in…