AppExchange = Future Growth
Salesforce.com recently announced the acquisition of its 10,000th European customer as well as a 70% increase in new customers over the first quarter of 2008. Chief Strategy Officer Bruce Francis credited the speed of cloud-based implementation as a prime factor in its growth. Speaking from the European Cloudforce Conference, Francis further also cited global recession as a reason for Salesforce’s success, adding "The economic crisis has caused many CIOs to look at alternative computing models.”
Practical Limits for Configurability
The last few months, my team has been working on a sample SaaS application to demonstrate the multi-tenancy concepts I’ve been describing in my papers and blog. One of the areas we spent some cycles thinking about are the aspects of configurability that a SaaS provider should allow the tenants to have. I want to share some design lessons from my team’s discussions:
Web Help Desk, Sitel's New Standard
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Yes, the cloud is falling. And on-premise software executives are lining up to explain to us why the cloud computing era is distant and the promise of SaaS and PaaS is false. I will let you decide after reading this post by Vinnie and the original...
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More SMBs (small and medium businesses, or companies with up to 999 employees) in the United States are seriously considering using BI (business intelligence) software tools to help them better understand market drivers for sales and...
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This week's announcement that SAP has delayed the rollout of its hosted midmarket “Business ByDesign” offering, and reduced expectations for the product, shed further light on the difficulties that on-premise software companies will have in...
Read more about On-premise and on-demand are like oil and water for SAP...Microsoft and On-premise
Last week Google launched embedded video chat from within Gmail and chat. First of all, wow. It has been an instant hit at Appirio and other customers of Google Apps. Immediately you can get crystal clear video and voice without almost any effort...
Read more about Microsoft and On-premise ...Moving Your Website from Google Pages to Sites
Google will automatically import your web pages from Google Page Creator into your Google Sites but you'll have manually export images and other files from Google Pages. Here's the trick on how to do...
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