Zoho Rounds Out Small Business Suite with Accounting App–Zoho Books
This morning Zoho, known for SMB focused SaaS offerings in the areas of productivity, collaboration, business processes launched an Accounting app: Zoho Books. I typically don’t do detailed product reviews, when I see the first good ones, will link to them – just a few points here and then let’s discuss how it rounds out […]
Research Report: Microsoft Partners – Before Adopting Azure, Understand the 12 Benefits And Risks
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% […]
I’m Lucky To Have Bet on Mint vs. Wesabe…
I’m sure as hell lucky to have bet on Mint when Microsoft Money died… but to be honest it was a flip of a coin decision, Wesabe, the other web-based personal finance management program looked just as attractive. Good product, perfect pe…
News Analysis: Infor Bets On Microsoft
Infor Takes A Bold Stance By Standardizing The Technology Stack
On June 23rd, 2010, Infor announced that the Alpharetta, GA, based software solutions provider would align its future tools and technology platform with Microsoft. Infor intends to use and integrate Microsoft server-based products to improve time to market for future product development. In addition, Infor […]
Thursday’s Tech Showcase: SnapLogic Tackles Cloud/SaaS Integration Challenges
SnapLogic Solves Complex Cloud/SaaS Based Integration
Organizations face a deluge of data from more and more new sources, especially in the Cloud. Existing integration solutions often require expensive custom coding that’s purpose built; but rigid and disposable. A change in business objects or swap out of new solutions often require brand new investments in integration. SnapLogic […]
Software Insider Index™ (SII): 2009 SII Top 35 Enterprise Business Apps Vendors™
2009 Results In Major Revenue Declines For On Premise And Officially The Year Of SaaS
A review of last year’s financial performance should erase any doubts about the viability of SaaS as a deployment option and a business model. Traditional on-premise business apps vendors took the brunt of the beating earlier in the year but […]
Using the Intuit Partner Platform, Alterity’s story – RIA Weekly #69
One company’s story of using Intuit’s Partner Platform to deliver new, cloud-based RIAs.
CRM Watchlist 2010 – The SMBs – IVA – Brent Leary Rocks
(Brent Leary, who is both a Social CRM guru and a great friend has graciously done a post on the companies to watch for 2010 when it comes to the small and medium business space. He was clearly trying to outdo me because his post is so big that it has to be split into […]
Why Microsoft and Intuit need each other’s clouds
Today’s announcement that Microsoft and Intuit are to marry up their cloud platforms with a software development kit makes perfect sense to me. Some of my ZDNet colleagues have been less impressed — Dennis Howlett calls it more PaaS to put in your aaS environment while Mary Jo Foley says it’s to shore up Redmond’s […]
The Intuit Partner Platform (IPP) – RIA Weekly #68
Intuit offers a ready-to-use PaaS for building on-top of QuickBase, including with Flex.
