Posted on January 15th, 2009 by Steve
A disclaimer first: I spent 8 years working for ILOG, previously a leading vendor of BRMS (business rules management software), but I spent those years primarily architecting, building and managing IT systems. So although I’m pretty familiar with BRMS and related topics, I’m by no means a BRMS expert. Secondly: if you’re a fellow [...]
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Posted on January 13th, 2009 by Steve
Microsoft is still in the process of testing Office 14, which will likely coincide with the next release of Exchange Server. Microsoft already offers a hosted version of Exchange 2007 for some customers, but the next release of Exchange Server, currently known as E14, will include improvements to make Exchange Server more suited for [...]
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Posted on January 12th, 2009 by Steve
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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Posted on January 12th, 2009 by Steve
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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Posted on January 12th, 2009 by Steve
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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Posted on January 12th, 2009 by Steve
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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Posted on January 8th, 2009 by Steve
Missing no opportunity to take a swipe at the competition, Oracle’s Senior VP of CRM On Demand Anthony Lye talked about Salesforce.com’s recent 40 minute service outage with InformationWeek’s Mary Hayes Weier.
In an interview with Weier, Lye discussed Oracle’s approach to CRM On Demand as opposed to Salesforce.com. In particular, Lye brought up CRM On [...]
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