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SaaS: Traditional Software Succeeds on In Bubble Economies

By Dick Weisinger

Phil Wainewright wrote a provocative blog recently where he states that the economics behind the traditional software model are fundamentally flawed. Wainewright quotes an interview with Steve Singh, president of Concur, a software vendor that successfully transformed itself from an

SaaS: Analysts Slam SAP's On-Demand Initiative

By Dick Weisinger

SAP CEO Henning Kagermann called it “the most important announcement I’ve made in my career.” Henning called it a “complete solution” designed for “end to end, flexible, adaptable, business processes within the company and beyond the boundaries of a company.”

SaaS: Different Flavors of On-Demand, but does it matter?

By Dick Weisinger

A clear advantage of SaaS is its simplicity. There’s no need to really know what’s going on underneath the hood. With traditional software, if the core technology is in .Net, Java, ABAP, ColdFusion, or whatever, any kind of in-house customization

SaaS: SAP Targets on-Demand

By Dick Weisinger

SAP is planning an event in New York September 19th to announce code-named A1S, SAP’s answer to SaaS. A1S will allow SAP to begin to offer to middle-size companies business applications delivered on-Demand. SAP is spending $500 million around the

Oracle: Is Oracle Ready to Move on SaaS? Maybe. But how does Oracle define SaaS?

By Dick Weisinger

We’ve commented here before about Oracle’s small presence in the SaaS marketplace, and without Oracle Siebel CRM offering, there doesn’t seem much else to mention. But part of what’s different about Oracle is their perception and thought process around what