
Why Completely Trusting Enterprise Software Review Sites Is A Bad Idea
The scope, scale and variety of enterprise software review sites continues to accelerate, each promising a true glimpse into a buyer’s experience. These sites include Credii, G2Crowd, Google Apps Marketplace, Microsoft’s Pinpoint, LinkedIn, Trustradius, Salesforce AppExchange, and many others. Each of these sites claims to have safeguards in place to ensure authenticity of reviews. A few including G2Crowd are positioning themselves as Yelp for Software. […]

Well, Well, SAP is now on Google Apps MarketPlace. Ok, Just StreamWork. But Still:-)
Straight from the Who-woulda-thunk-it department: time to rethink the Enterprise Software is Not Sexy meme. Or at least parts of it. We’ve previously introduced SAP’s StreamWork collaboration platform – it is now available on the Google Apps Marketplace. That’s not exactly the old-fashioned Enterprise Approach to market. And if you look at SAP’s StreamWork Partner […]

Integrating Process in the Cloud
When you think about cloud integration, the names that first spring to mind are all companies that specialize in data integration Boomi, Cast Iron, Pervasive, Informatica and others [disclosure: Boomi recently paid for me to write a product briefing]….

Google’s Control Panel is its Killer App
Google last week brought the spotlight back onto on-demand application marketplaces with its launch of the Google Apps Marketplace. Until the search and online advertising giant waded in, the territory had been a quiet backwater, dominated for the past few years by Salesforce.com’s AppExchange. It’s hard now to credit just how much excitement surrounded the […]

Google Launches Apps Marketplace
I’m at the Google Campfire One event where they’ve just announced the Google Apps Marketplace. The site is live now, feel free to browse. The speculation is now over, this is Google’s answer on whether they will enter the Business Applications market – they just did, with an entire ecosystem of Partners. The new Marketplace […]