SaaS Blogs

This is just a mini-post to aggregate the plethora of commentary surrounding the announcement of Google Apps Premier Edition.  Phrases like “in direct competition with Microsoft Office” abound, but overall it’s apparent that there are still a tremendous amount of questions surrounding the maturity level of the application suite.
Here’s a bit of what’s being said:

Don Dodge - Microsoft Emerging […]

If you haven’t read it, I wrote a post the other day regarding traditional sales channels and SaaS end users, highlighting the potential need to reach these end users with creative partnerships. I used the NetSuite/CompUSA partnership as an example. I bumped into a post over on Phil Wainewrights blog this morning about NetSuite’s recent parternship […]

From the vendor’s perspective, SaaS is more than just a distribution model; it’s a new way of doing business. Many of you have heard it before; no more large license-fee deals, issues with compensating your sales team, planning around incrementally growing yet recurring revenue, etc. The single most important question, however, is “How do I […]

It’s only appropriate to follow a post about complicated tech messages with one about SaaS-related jargon. After reading this top ten post by James Maguire, I couldn’t help myself. Maguire identified some of the more pressing keywords (including platform) that frequently causes SaaS-newbies to scratch their heads in agony, so I applaud his effort to […]

Generally, most of my posts introduce a topic, question, or label (we’ll call it x), and then I provide a y to describe and foundationally support x. Well, for this post I’m going the opposite direction. For this particular x, I find that the sheer mention of it causes people to cringe and howl. Instead, I’ll give you y first, and then x […]

It’s been a few months now since Salesforce.com introduced Apex to the world, and we’ve all had ample time to digest the concept, analyze it, debate about it, and just generally figure out our own positions on the proposition.  One thing’s for sure, the announcement of Apex brought the total level of industry ’saas platform’ buzz somewhere into the realm […]