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By Phil Wainewright on March 2, 2011
Most of the discussion about SaaS in the enterprise talks about the consumption of SaaS applications by enterprise users. But there’s another side of the coin, in which enterprises themselves deliver applications to their customers, partners or subsidiaries. Online banking, for example, which pretty much all of us use to manage our money these days, [...]
Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Apprenda, Cloud Computing, ibm, OEM, PaaS, Platform as a service, SaaS, SaaSGrid, software as a service |
By R "Ray" Wang on December 28, 2010
This blog was jointly posted by @Chirag_Mehta (Independent Blogger On Cloud Computing) and @rwang0 (Principal Analyst and CEO, Constellation Research, Inc.) Part 1 was featured on Forbes: 2011 Cloud Computing Predictions For CIO’s And Business Technology Leaders As Cloud Leaders Widen The Gap, Legacy Vendors Attempt A Fast Follow Cloud computing leaders have innovated with [...]
Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged 2011 Predictions, Business Analytics, business technology, business value, CFO, Chirag Mehta, CIO, Cloud, Cloud BPO, Cloud Computing, cloud integration, Cloud options, cloud security, Cloud Wars, CTO, DaaS, enterprise applications, enterprise apps, Enterprise apps strategy, Enterprise architecture, Enterprise Business Apps, Enterprise Business Apps Vendors, enterprise collaboration, enterprise software, enterprise strategy, iaas, information broker, integration, IT Strategy, next gen apps, next gen cio, next gen CIO's, next gen CIO’s, next gen enterprise, next gen IT leaders, next generation, Next generation apps, PaaS, Platform as a service, Private Cloud, Private Clouds, R "Ray" Wang;, R “Ray” Wang;, Research Report, rwang0, SaaS, SaaS Integration, SaaS offensive, SaaS strategies, social business, Social Business Software, Social Enterprise, social enterprise apps, software as a service, Software Insider, SoftwareInsider, trends, vendor strategy |
By R "Ray" Wang on December 8, 2010
Acquisition of Heroku In Line With Platform Future of Salesforce.com At Marc Benioff’s keynote, the CEO reiterated his commitment to 6 clouds: Sales, Service, Data (Jigsaw), Collaboration (Chatter), Cloud Platform (Force.com), and Database (database.com). As Salesforce.com continues to diversify its portfolio into adjacent markets, the platform as a service (PaaS) component remains a key area [...]
Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged acquisition, acquisitions, application development, Cloud, Cloud Computing, Cloud Wars, crm, df10, heroku, Marc Benioff, mergers, Mergers And Acquisitions, News Analysis, PaaS, Platform as a service, R "Ray" Wang;, R “Ray” Wang;, rwang0, SaaS, salesforce.com |
By R "Ray" Wang on July 11, 2010
It’s All About The Cloud At WPC10 Attendees at this year’s Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2010 in Washington, D.C. already expect Windows Azure development to be a key theme throughout this annual pilgrimage. Microsoft has made significant investments into the cloud. Many executives from the Redmond, WA, software giant have publicly stated that 90% [...]
Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Accenture, Activant, Actuate, Agilysis, agresso, Amdocs, AppFabric, apple, Ariba, AspenTech, Bearing Point, BIRST, BSD, Business Models, CA, Capgemini, Cincom, Cisco, Cloud, Cloud Computing, Columbus IT, Dell, Deloiitte, Deltek, development as a service, Diamond Technology Partners, EMC, Epicor, EscrowTech, Flavors Of Cloud Computing, fujitsu, GE Capital, Google Linux, Grant Thorton HCL, Hexaware, Hitachi, hp, ibm, IFS, Infor, Information Builders, Infosys, Infrastructure as a service, InnovaSafe, Intuit, IronMountain, JDA Software, Key Financial, KPIT, KPMG, L&T, Lawson, Manhattan Associates, microsoft, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Partners, Microsoft SQL Azure, Microsoft Windows Azure, MIcroStrategy, Mincom, myDials, NCC Group, NetApp, NorthHighland, NoSQL Options, OpSource, oracle, Patni, pivotlink, Plan9, Platform as a service, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Proferi, QAD, QlikTech, Red Prairie, RedHat, Research Report, SaaS offensive, SaaS strategies, Sage, sap, SAS Institute, SatyamMahindra, siemens, SOA Software, Software AG, software as a service, SoftwareInsider, Sungard, Sybase, Syntel, TCS, Tectura, Tibco, Unix, vendor strategy, wipro, Worldwide Partner Conference, wpc10, Xerox |
By Phil Wainewright on June 2, 2010
SaaS purists like me ought to worry about a product like SaaSGrid Express, launched this week by .NET platform-as-a-service specialist Apprenda. Surely it’s the height of irresponsibility to disseminate a free, downloadable SaaS application platform? This gives the worst imaginable encouragement to hundreds if not thousands of unskilled, poorly resourced developers to set up the [...]
Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged Apprenda, Google AppEngine, Platform as a service, SaaSGrid, salesforce.com, software as a service, VMware |
By Bob Warfield on May 17, 2010
I saw a spate of recent articles that had some pretty amazing statistics and news bits on Amazon Web Services and competitors. In no particular order: - A survey of 600 developers by Mashery reported that 69% of respondents said Amazon, Google, and Twitter were the most popular API’s they were using. - Even the [...]
Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Amazon, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Amazon Web Services, Cloud, Cloud Computing, google, Netflix, Platform as a service, SaaS, software as a service |
By R "Ray" Wang on April 29, 2010
VMWare and Salesforce.com Battle For The Hearts And Minds Of Cloud-Oriented Java Developers On April 27th, 2010, Salesforce.com, [NYSE: CRM] and VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW) formed VMforce, a strategic alliance to create a deployment environment for Java based apps in the cloud. The Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering builds on Java, Spring, VMware vSphere, and Force.com. Key [...]
Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Alliances, application development, Apps Strategy, Azure, BEA WebLogic, bill of rights, Cloud, Cloud Computing, Cloud Wars, crm, customer bill of rights, enterprise applications, enterprise apps, Enterprise apps strategy, Enterprise architecture, Enterprise Business Apps, Enterprise Business Apps Vendors, Gigaspaces, google, Gridgain, ibm, IBM WebSphere, Imaginea, Java, Java PaaS, LongJump, microsoft, Microsoft.NET, oracle, Oracle Fusion Middleware, PaaS, Platform as a service, Rackspace Cloud Tools, SaaS, salesforce.com, SAP NetWeaver, Software Insider, SoftwareInsider, Spring Source, vendor strategy, vmforce, VMW, VMware |
By Phil Wainewright on April 27, 2010
Salesforce.com, creator of the archetypal proprietary cloud platform, today seized the initiative and redrew the entire PaaS landscape around open-source software stacks.
Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Architecture, force.com, Java, microsoft, Platform as a service, salesforce.com, SpringSource, vmforce, VMware |
By R "Ray" Wang on March 23, 2010
Confusion Continues With Cloud Computing And SaaS Definitions Coincidence or just brilliance must be in the air as three esteemed industry colleagues, Phil Wainewright, Michael Cote, and James Governor, have both decided to clarify definitions on SaaS and Cloud within a few days of each other. In fact, this couldn’t be more timely as SaaS [...]
Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Apps Strategy, Architecture, Cloud Computing, Cloud options, code modification, configuration, Consumption, creation, customization, DaaS, development as a service, enterprise applications, enterprise apps, Enterprise apps strategy, Enterprise Business Apps, Enterprise Business Apps Vendors, enterprise software, hosting, iaas, Infrastructure, Infrastructure as a service, James Governor, maintenance, michael cote, next gen cio, next gen IT leaders, NextGen, orchestration, PaaS, phil wainewright, Platform as a service, product lifecycle, SaaS, server virtualized, software appliances, software as a service, software ownership, software version, SoftwareInsider, tenancy, True SaaS, Tuesday's Tip, upgrades, vendor costs |
By James Governor on March 22, 2010
My efforts at cloud definitional work began with 15 Ways to Tell its Not Cloud Computing. In the intervening time the forces of complexity and, yes, pragmatism have triumphed. We’re now making the long transition from simple and public to complex and private – hopefully some simplicity will make it through the process. Talking of [...]
Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged burgers, Cloud, Cloud Computing, iaas, Infrastructure as a service, metaphors, middleware, PaaS, Platform as a service, SaaS, software as a service, Storage |
