The SaaSnet Business Model
SaaSnet is an emerging business model that combines a marketplace to create value driven by network-effects, and Enterprise SaaS to deliver deep enterprise value. In this post I’ll share the defining attributes, give three company examples, and growth strategies for this new disruptive business model. But first, here’s how models have evolved: Quick History of […]
AppMatcher.com – Rackspace SaaS Summit
Rackspace got into the app store/marketplace space today with the launch of it’s AppMatcher service.
Is SaaS the same as cloud?
From the customer’s perspective, it’s all the same. If it’s provided over the Internet on a pay-for-usage basis, it’s a cloud service. Within the industry, we argue about definitions more than is good for us. Customers look in from the outside and see a much simpler array of choices. Why is this important? It matters […]
2010 Prediction: Companies Focus on Supplier Social and Performance Transparency
In the first column in this prediction series on building supplier transparency, I focused on the area of financial and business transparency. But this is only one type of supply chain transparency on which companies will focus on building in 2010, h…
The scary side of freelancing: the inadvertent freelancer
Not every freelancer is one by choice. The economy has thrust millions into the freelance economy. Technology can help some of them but what about the inadvertent freelancer? Who’s helping them?
Trends in the Personal Enterprise: App Stores
I wrote about The Personal Enterprise earlier. It is a term that has been around for a while, but which is coming in to its own with Social Business Design as a foundation that helps answer a lot of the questions that the original concept left open.
