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SaaS: Four Waves Under the Clouds

By Dick Weisinger

Saugatuck Research identifies four waves of SaaS in their 2008 report on the state of SaaS: Wave I — isolated single-point solutions Wave II — solutions that integrate with on-premise data and processes Wave III — inter- and intra-company collaboration

SaaS: On-Demand Security

By Dick Weisinger

Security is one of the biggest obstacles for companies in deciding whether or not to adopt SaaS. As many as 62 percent of companies are concerned that SaaS may potentially expose sensitive company data to eyes outside their firewalls (survey

ECM/SaaS: On-Demand ECM Open Up Workflow Barriers

By Dick Weisinger

12 percent of companies survey in 2007 are planning to adopt an on-demand content management application. Their reasons: on-demand applications are faster, cheaper, easier to deploy, ansd offer greater flexibility. That’s according to a survey from Nucleus Research and reported

SaaS: Driver Behind Software Valuations

By Dick Weisinger

Mike Braun, former IBMer and now CEO of Intacct, said in a Wall Street Journal interview, that SaaS-modeled companies are exceeding customer expectations. It’s cheaper than on-premise solutions and faster to get up and running. Upgrades are frequent and painless.

SaaS: How Many Ways to Achieve Multi-Tenancy ?

By Dick Weisinger

SaaS vendors are either multi-tenanted, or they’re not, right? Some would even go so far to argue that if you aren’t running a multi-tenanted operation that you shouldn’t even be considered as a SaaS vendor. But it turns out that