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SaaS Growth, Dogfood, and Images :-)

SaaS Growth, Dogfood, and Images :-)

By Zoli Erdos on November 8, 2010

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. […]

Posted in Business | Tagged benchmarking, collaboration, Humor, iaas, Insight as a Service, Just for fun, SaaS | 1 Response

PaaS Strategy:  Data not Code

PaaS Strategy: Data not Code

By Bob Warfield on October 12, 2010

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 […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged benchmarking, business intelligence, Cloud, Cloud Computing, Data Warehousing, PaaS, SaaS, strategy | 5 Responses

Insight as a Service

Insight as a Service

By Evangelos Simoudis on October 4, 2010

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…

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged analytics, benchmarking, BI, Business Intelligence & Data Warehousing, Business Model, Cloud Computing, iaas, Insight as a Service, internet, linkedin, netsuite, SaaS, salesforce.com | 17 Responses

Coupa Heads for the Clouds -- eProcurement, T&E and Beyond (Part 2)

Coupa Heads for the Clouds — eProcurement, T&E and Beyond (Part 2)

By Jason Busch on March 18, 2010

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…

Posted in Business | Tagged benchmarking, Contract Management, Coupa, expense management, Jason Busch, Learning / Research

Coupa and Ariba -- Analyzing Comparative Claims (Part 1)

Coupa and Ariba — Analyzing Comparative Claims (Part 1)

By Jason Busch on February 24, 2010

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…

Posted in Business | Tagged Ariba, benchmarking, Coupa, pr campaign, software as a service, Spend Management

Monday’s Musing: The Hidden Value In SaaS Deployments

Monday’s Musing: The Hidden Value In SaaS Deployments

By R "Ray" Wang on January 25, 2010

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 […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Adobe Air, Apps Strategy, benchmark performance, benchmarking, bill of rights, business impact, contract negotiations, contract strategy, cost reduction, CRM, customer bill of rights, enterprise applications, enterprise apps, Enterprise apps strategy, Enterprise Business Apps, Enterprise Business Apps Vendors, enterprise software, HTML 5, implementation, information broker, Information On Demand, Information Week, innovation, Microsoft Silverlight, prediction, rapid implementation, SaaS, SaaS Bill of Rights, SaaS offensive, SaaS strategies, scalability, software as a service, software bill of rights, software contract reviews, software escrow, software licensing, software licesing and pricing, Software Vendors, strategy, subscription pricing, trending, upgrade, usability, User Experience, ux, vendor strategy

Fieldglass: Doubling Down on Analytics to Drive Contingent Spend Savings (Part 1)

Fieldglass: Doubling Down on Analytics to Drive Contingent Spend Savings (Part 1)

By Jason Busch on November 18, 2009

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…

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged analytics, benchmarking, contingent workforce, fieldglass, hiring, innovation, Services Procurement, Visibility, visualization

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