SaaS Growth, Dogfood, and Images :-)
Fellow Enterprise Irregular Evangelos Simoudis is definitely worth following. As an active Venture Capitalist he often focuses on his portfolio experience – but through that micro-lense gives us an overview of the market, “The State of SaaS” per se, confirming / contradicting based on real life, real companies what many of us see as trends. [...]
PaaS Strategy: Data not Code
This is part one of a two-part series I’ve wanted to do about strategy for PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service) vendors… The PaaS market is a fascinating one. Building SaaS and Cloud apps that really take advantage of the Cloud is non-trivial. And, as I’m fond of saying, at least 70% of the software you build winds up adding [...]
Insight as a Service
The survey data presented in last August’s Pacific Crest SaaS workshop pointed to the need for a variety of data analytic services. These services that can be offered under, Insight-as-a-Service, can range from business benchmarking, e.g., compare one business to its peers’ that are also customers of the same SaaS vendor, to business process improvement recommendations based on a SaaS application’s usage, e.g., reduce the amount spent on search keywords by using the SEM application’s keyword optimization module, to improving business practices by integrating syndicated data with a client’s own data, e.g., reduce the response time to customer service requests…
Coupa Heads for the Clouds — eProcurement, T&E and Beyond (Part 2)
The most important functional announcement in Coupa’s latest release (you can read the first post in this series here) is a new expense reporting capability designed to provide organizations with an integrated system to help capture, in Coupa’s words…
Coupa and Ariba — Analyzing Comparative Claims (Part 1)
Last week, Coupa launched an attack campaign against Ariba. Today, I’ll start a series in which I’ll analyze Coupa’s claims and compare them to reality. My goal is to clear the air for those who read the campaign and want an unbiased, outside opinio…
Monday’s Musing: The Hidden Value In SaaS Deployments
Gains In SaaS Adoption Driven By Speed And Cost Savings
Preliminary data from Q4 earnings data show continued traction among SaaS solutions. Expect SaaS deployments to gain steam in 2010 as organizations finalize their SaaS apps strategies to take advantage of 7 key benefits:
Richer user experience – SaaS apps bring Web 2.0 usability to the enterprise [...]
Fieldglass: Doubling Down on Analytics to Drive Contingent Spend Savings (Part 1)
Earlier this month Fieldglass announced a new suite of analytics capabilities designed to help their customers — and MSP partners on behalf of their customers — make better contingent labor spending decisions. Fieldglass positions these enhancement…
