
Why Cloud Apps Must Co-Exist With On-Premise
Listen to the second part of my conversation with Bruce Richardson, chief strategy officer at enterprise application vendor Infor, and former head of research at analyst firm AMR. In part one, we discussed Why Enterprises Move ERP to the Cloud….

Why Enterprises Move ERP to the Cloud
Listen to my conversation with Bruce Richardson, chief strategy officer at enterprise application vendor Infor, and a highly respected industry analyst in his former role as head of research at AMR. This is part one of a two-part interview. In…

Managing Integration In a Hybrid Cloud Environment
Listen to my conversation with Rick Nucci, co-founder and CTO of cloud integration Boomi, in a podcast interview recorded in the week before the vendor’s acquisition by server manufacturer Dell. Previous conversations with Rick were SaaS Integration, Simpler through Sharing, in April 2009 and Why Your Cloud Applications Should Be Multi-tenant last February. In this […]

GoodData Embeds Self-Serve Analytics
There’s more and more data being produced and made available in the world today from a variety of sources, some new, some old. That drives demand for analytics capabilities so that people can derive some useful, actionable meaning from all…

Taking the Cloud to the Mobile Web
Listen to my conversation with Adam Caplan, CEO of Model Metrics, one of the new breed of professional services firms that specializes in cloud implementations. In this podcast, learn how enterprises are mashing up cloud applications to enhance user productivity,…

Walk Away From Your IT Debt With SaaS
A new report from industry analyst Gartner says that IT departments around the world have deferred a collective half-billion dollars’ worth of projects and upgrades that they really should have done already but didn’t have the time or resources to…

RightNow Helps Brands Whack Facebook Challenge
For anyone looking after customer support and marketing for a popular consumer brand, keeping up with all the channels consumers can use these days to keep in touch must feel like playing a round of Whac-a-Mole. No sooner have you…

Smallbiz Collaboration Goes Mobile
Listen to my conversation with Shahab Kaviani, EVP of marketing and product marketing at HyperOffice, which provides an online suite of collaboration and productivity applications for small businesses. In this podcast, find out how small business use of online collaboration…

Cloud ERP and the Value Added Reseller
Listen to my conversation with Ezequiel Steiner, CEO of Acumatica, which provides cloud-based ERP software. In this podcast, find out how traditional solution providers are adapting to working with ERP delivered as-a-service and learn about the different contract options being…

Could Dormant Pricing Stir SMB Market for SaaS?
One of the dark secrets of the subscription business is the profit margins earned from subscribers who still pay, but who no longer use the service. This is a facet of the business that predates the SaaS industry by many…