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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

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

SaaS: Killer Platforms

By Dick Weisinger

“You have to move from being a killer app to a killer platform” said Salesforce.com’s Marc Benioff.  The Spreadsheet was the first ‘Killer App’, and now Salesforce has spun off their Apex SaaS environment, something they’re calling a ‘killer platform’.  Salesforce.com

2007 — Year of the SaaS EcoSystem

By Dick Weisinger

SAP has one.  There’s Salesforce.com’s AppExchange.  There’s WebEx Connect.  And there’s Progress Software. These companies are creating ecosystems of enterprise on-demand applications — and they are all about SaaS and SOA.  While the approach taken by these vendors varies significantly in terms of how much control