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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…
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).…
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…
“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…
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…