The New Consulting Metrics (for SaaS)
Suppose a consulting firm is helping your company choose between upgrading your ERP software or replacing it with a new SaaS (software as a service) solution. If the functionality is close, which solution would they recommend? Some clients might be surprised to learn that a consultant would recommend the on-premise solution over the cloud/SaaS solution [...]
Got Lots of Google Docs? Spanning Backup Has You Covered.
If you’re a Google Docs power user, today’s update to Spanning Backup will make backing up and restoring your docs even faster. Some people use Google Docs for the occasional spreadsheet or as a convenient way to share notes in a small group. But other people have made Google Docs a central part of their [...]
Social Business and the Command & Control Excuse
A few days ago I had the usual pleasure of reading one of Euan’s posts, where there was one paragraph that triggered something in my mind: “On the same day I get an email from a senior official in a government job saying “I’m beginning to think that the inherently democratic nature of social media [...]
The Wealthy Pirate VC
Having been in the software business all my life, I’m no stranger to the idea that many people think it’s okay to steal digital property. After all, it costs virtually nothing to manufacture another copy, so the reasoning goes, and so therefore the owner isn’t out anything. It’s an unenlightened and unsophisticated rationalization of what, [...]
Can Facebook Alumni Remake Enterprise Collaboration?
Yesterday saw the long-awaited launch of a collaboration tool that’s been two years in development at stealth-mode startup Asana. What makes this launch notable is that the company’s two founders are alumni of social networking giant Facebook, and one of…
The Economics of SaaS
Not all SaaS vendors price their software the same. Some go month-to-month and others require upfront annual payments. Understand why a category of software can have such differing perspectives on pricing.
Dell lead 2010 SMB PC share according to new Spiceworks research
Spiceworks posted an analysis of PC (laptops and desktops) market share drawn from it’s its 1.3M user-base today. This kind of Big Data based analytics is a rosey looking future for IT folks looking to get real, “numbers” analysis on what’s going on out there. Previous to this, the company has been putting out more [...]
Indian IT Services: Quarter’s Roundup
Yesterday Cognizant announced their results for the quarter and the year. That rounded up the quarter for the major Indian IT services companies. I pulled some data together for the past five quarters. The results were pretty interesting. First, I wanted to see what was happening to growth. I built an indexed chart which just [...]
