Just earlier today I wrote about the SaaS hype curve hitting its peak.  In a report from InformationWeek, 52% of 1,300 developers said they expect to work on SaaS projects in 2009, with most developers working on SaaS implementations in North America.
Also of interest: cloud computing is expected to be less frequently used, with [...]

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The last few years have offered easy and exciting ways to demonstrate packaged software to customers.  One of the frustrating things, both as a prospective customer and a product manager, is getting a sandbox demonstration environment together (especially for complex not-available-through-SaaS types of software – which usually means most enterprise software available today).
First there [...]

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I’ve been paying more attention to the SaaS data portability space, especially since data portability in general is an important and currently undervalued area of enterprise software.
Here’s a round-up of three that I know of that focus on enterprise data (including Oracle, SAP, and Microsoft applications):

Jitterbit
Talend
SnapLogic

Of the three, Jitterbit is my favorite [...]

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Bill McDermott, SAP’s president and CEO of global field operations, spoke with InformationWeek earlier this month and covered some finer points about SaaS.  Two points in particular that caught my interest: many companies will be disillusioned by SaaS once they realize it’s more expensive and complex than they anticipated, and that SaaS won’t work [...]

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