SaaS Revenue to Top $9 Billion in 2010

Worldwide software as a service (SaaS) revenue within the enterprise application software market is forecast to reach $9.2 billion in 2010, up 15.7 percent from 2009 revenue of $7.9 billion, according to Gartner, Inc. The market is projected for stronger growth in 2011 with worldwide SaaS revenue totaling $10.7 billion, a 16.2 percent increase from [...]

Dreamforce 2010 message: Wake Up, the Cloud Suite is Here

What a difference a year makes. Or a decade, for that matter. Marc Benioff has quoted, “In business, we say that people overestimate what you can do in a year and underestimate what you can do in a decade.” This past decade started with the dot com bubble burst followed by one of the worst [...]

Dreamforce 2010: We are not Alone in the Cloud

After 2 days of the Salesforce.com’s annual Dreamforce conference, one message is clear:  The Cloud is not going away, and there’s plenty of room for everyone. I attended the special pre-conference Cloudstock (sponsored by Salesforce) on Monday and one thing was certain:  everyone needs everyone to succeed in the cloud.  Using multiple cloud services is [...]

SugarCRM vs. Salesforce: Surprises for DreamForce 2010?

It’s no secret SugarCRM and Salesforce.com don’t like each other. Last year, while attending Dreamforce 2009, dubbed “The Cloud Computing Event of the Year", I was handed a book shortly after parking my car at the Moscone garage. SugarCRM created 1000 copies of a book titled “Behind the Smoke Screen: The Untold Story of How [...]

Storage as a Service: Hot Trends Fighting for Your 5 bucks

I’m starting to wonder why own a file server anymore? With mainstream applications going to the cloud, such as hosted email, CRM, and collaboration software services, the next big ticket item is storage solutions. As always, you have to define what you want first.  Do you need the following: one shot backup continuous file sync [...]

Leading SAP Partner Chooses Perst Database and Silverlight for Cloud-Based Mobile Access to SAP Business One Applications

McObject®, innovator in embedded database technology, announced that coresystems AG, an SAP Gold Partner and a leading provider of value-added software for the SAP environment, has deployed McObject’s Perst™ for .NET embedded database, running in Microsoft’s Silverlight Web application framework, as a key component in its cloud-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) for mobile workers. The application, called [...]

Is Chatter 2 only an Internal Collaboration Tool?

One of the caveats about Chatter 2 is that it’s reportedly an internal collaboration tool.  In some regard, Microsoft SharePoint is the same.  I’ll elaborate more in a minute. The success of Social Media relies on everyone being on line. And I mean everyone.  That includes your closest friends, business associates, family relatives (who sometimes [...]

IT Managers’ Migration Fears are Slowing Adoption of Exchange 2010

New research finds the majority of organizations are planning to migrate to Microsoft Exchange 2010 but uncertainty remains over the need to upgrade existing hardware and software London — Mimecast®, a leading supplier of cloud-based email security, continuity, policy control and archiving, today announced the results of The Exchange Report, an exclusive study examining the [...]

Chatter 2, Facebook, Social Networking and Content Collaboration

One of the reasons why I like Chatter 2 is that no training is required.  No training means no costs and no downtime from employees. Unlike complex CRM and ERP implementations (and I know, I’ve been there), everyone knows how to use Facebook.  Okay, well not everyone. But it’s the same look and feel.  Consider [...]

OracleWorld Open conference with Larry Ellison and Salesforce.com Marc Benioff

This is too funny. If you are following the OracleWorld Open conference, you may get caught up in the little feud between CEO Larry Ellison and Salesforce.com’s Marc Benioff. It all started earlier this week with the new Oracle’s Exadata machine.  Yes, Sun hardware.  A "cloud in a box" analogy. Salesforce.com users knows Benioff’s agenda [...]

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