SaaS Blogs

I bumped into a brief but impactful article by Renee Boucher Ferguson titled “ISVs Snub Salesforce’s Force.com Platform“. The post basically summarized a situation that occurred after OpSource’s SaaS Summit. Following a panel discussion on SaaS platforms, ZDNet’s SaaS blogger Phil Wainewright conducted a brief poll of about 250 software vendors asking the following questions (paraphrased):

How many people […]

Are today’s SaaS enablement technologies robust enough to support business to business SaaS?  It’s a question I ask myself everytime I am introduced to a new ‘mashup engine’ or ‘online SaaS IDE’.  Granted, there are some very impressive products out there right now, Bungee Labs’ BungeeConnect and CogHead for example.  But initial impressions aside - are […]

Although most people don’t realize it, plenty of advertising and announcement techniques use “sleight of hand” style approaches to exploit your first glance and focus your attention on the content of the ad and an intended message rather than seeing the truth. This technique is common among propagandists and corporations alike. Let’s look at some […]

We’ve written quite a bit here about Salesforce’s Apex… and, admittedly, we’ve taken a somewhat critical stance on it.  Questions of identity crisis and ambiguity have boiled down to “Is it a SaaS platform, or a CRM platform? Is there a difference, and does it really matter what they call it as long as it is […]

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 […]