By Zoli Erdos on March 9, 2010
If you think I am here to spill the beans, you’re wrong. On a purely speculative level, if there is some news to come, and if there is an embargo related to it, then I respect that. And it’s all a big IF.
So no, I am simply dusting off an old post I wrote [...]
Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged accounting, all-in-one, AppExchange, Atlassian, bbd, Business ByDesign, business software, crm, enterprise software, google, google apps, lightweight software, netsuite, On Demand, SaaS, salesforce.com, sap, small business suite, smb, sme, software as a service, zoho
By Phil Wainewright on March 2, 2010
Having read (hat-tip Dennis Howlett) Randy Bias’ article at Kendallsquare on Debunking the “No Such Thing as a Private Cloud” Myth I have to say — rather like the apocryphal Irish direction-giver — if I’d wanted to make a case for private cloud, I wouldn’t have started from there. Randy and I joined a civilized [...]
Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged Amazon Web Services, Cloud Computing, IT Outsourcing, On Demand, Platform as a service, Private Clouds, San Francisco, Utility computing
By Phil Wainewright on February 16, 2010
Published here for the first time, my interview last summer with SAP CTO Vishal Sikka may shed some light on the company’s intentions for SaaS and cloud after its tumultuous management shake-up last week.
Posted in Software | Tagged collaboration, enterprise software, erp, On Demand, sap, social computing, software as a service, Uncategorized, Web 2.0
By David Terrar on February 12, 2010
Over on AccountingWEB’s forums (you need an AWEB account to log in, but it’s free) there have been some heavy exchanges discussing the barriers to adoption of Cloud solutions by accountants in practice in the UK. I found it interesting, but sadly the dialogue has been too vendor driven, with plenty of verbiage from the [...]
Posted in Software | Tagged Accounting & Finance, Cloud Computing, CloudAve, collaboration, enterprise, General Business, Groupware, On Demand, PBWorks, SaaS, Wiki, Wikipedia, Wikis, Xero
By Jason Corsello on February 2, 2010
Last week, we launched a revolutionary new service at Knowledge Infusion…KI OnDemand. KI OnDemand is the only on-demand insight, consulting and advisory service of its kind. What the heck does that mean? Simply stated, our goal of KI OnDemand is to provide insight, knowledge, and guidance for our clients with three simple outcomes in [...]
Posted in Business | Tagged advisory service, Consulting, HR consulting, Human resources, On Demand, Twitter
By David Terrar on January 28, 2010
The newly formed EuroCloud UK group held their first member meeting a week ago at the Thistle City Barbican Hotel – a panel led group discussion on Cloud standards and security. Chaired by Phil Wainewright, the panel experts were Dr. Guy Bunker, independent consultant and blogger, formerly Symantec’s chief scientist and co-author of ENISA’s cloud [...]
Posted in Business | Tagged basda, Cloud, Cloud Computing, cloud industry forum, enterprise, eurocloud, events, iaas, icaew, intellect, Networking, On Demand, PaaS, SaaS, salesforce.com, SAS 70, standards
By Jason Busch on December 14, 2009
On the second day of SAP’s Influencer Summit, the venerable ERP
provider disclosed quite a bit about its broader On-Demand strategy,
products, and pricing in the sourcing and contract management areas.
But from a new-product perspective, it …
Posted in Software | Tagged erp, On Demand, SaaS, sap, sapsummit, supplier management
By James Governor on December 10, 2009
I just got back SAP’s Influencer Summit for 2009 in Boston. The company seem to be finally emerging from what can only be described as an annus horribilis. 2009 was not a good year for SAP. Sales are down, perceptions are more negative than they have been in a long time because of potential maintenance [...]
Posted in Business | Tagged BusinessObjects, ByDesign, Cloud, microsoft, On Demand, PaaS, SaaS, sap, smb, Visual Studio
By Phil Wainewright on December 9, 2009
I settled in for one of Marc Benioff’s legendary two-hour-long CloudForce keynotes in London yesterday morning (an abridged, snappier version of the nigh-on-three hour marathon delegates sat through at last month’s DreamForce, Benioff had assured me beforehand). As I listened, I thought about the role of multi-tenancy in cloud computing. The keynote hall was full [...]
Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Architecture, Marc Benioff, multi-tenancy, On Demand, Platform as a service, salesforce.com, software as a service, Utility computing
By Jason Busch on December 9, 2009
While I plan to provide additional details on some of what I
learned around SAP’s On-Demand E-Sourcing
developments (from pricing to modular component break-out information),
not to mention providing some context around how
customers curre…
Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged Business, e-sourcing, erp, Jason Busch, On Demand, sap, SAP Influencer Summit, sapsummit, software pricing, Third Party Tools, transparency
