January 3, 2011
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Remember when buying software for your company was a real pain? Today you can get our award winning point-of-sale, inventory and relationship management software that’s easy to use and surprisingly affordable.
Erply is web-based which means you can have it up and running in minutes. Furthermore, you can access its elaborate reporting tools wherever you are so you’ll always know what’s going on in your business.
(Full Story: ERPLY – complete retail solution)
December 20, 2010
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“SaaS Business Model Update — Creating and Managing Revenues” event. The slides should be useful for anyone interested in learning about the key drivers for a SaaS business, including the SaaS cash flow trough, cost of customer acquisition, churn, lifetime value of the customer, etc. The slides also looks in detail at what drives growth.
(Link: SaaS Business Models)
December 8, 2010
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Salesforce.com has just announced that it is acquiring Heroku, which provides a Ruby application platform-as-a-service, for approximately $212 million in cash.
“The next era of cloud computing is social, mobile and real-time. I call it Cloud 2,” said Marc Benioff, chairman and CEO, salesforce.com. “Ruby is the language of Cloud 2, and Heroku is the leading Ruby application platform-as-a-service for Cloud 2 that is fueling this growing community. We think this acquisition will uniquely position salesforce.com as the cornerstone for the next generation of app developers.”
(Link: Salesforce.com Buys Heroku For $212 Million In Cash)
September 20, 2010
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Today, we see traditional ISV’s moving fast to offer their software in the cloud/SaaS model. They typically start in a single tenant model ( We need to recognise that despite multi tenant model being the better one in terms of capacity utilization and for lowering operational costs), ISV’s tell me (and I tend to believe them here),developing multi-tenant software could be way expensive to develop. Its equally an investment intense effort to move a product from single tenant model into multi tenant model. (The theme is identical for businesses running software in their own data centers). It has to be recognised that software organizations are made up for creating software and not focused on benefiting out of investments in new delivery models or in offering consulting to customers for implementation( That product companies show significant revenue stream out of their consulting and services need to be discussed separately – perhaps in a different post altogether)
(Link: Cloud And New Roles For Players)
February 20, 2010
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The main conclusion to draw from this article, is that a SaaS business can be optimized in many ways. This article aims to help you understand what the levers are, and how they can affect the key goals of Profitability, Cash, Growth, and market share. To pull those levers requires that you first measure the variables, and watch them as they change over time.
It also requires that you implement a very metrics driven culture, which can only be done from the top. The CEO needs to use these metrics in her staff meetings, and those execs need to use them with their staff, etc. Human nature is such that if you show someone a metric, they will automatically work to try to improve it. That kind of a culture will lead to true operational excellence, and hopefully great success.
(Link: SaaS Metrics – A Guide to Measuring and Improving What Matters)
November 10, 2009
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Insights On SaaS Startups
1. You are financing your customers.
2. You’ve got operating costs.
3. It Pays To Know Your Funnel
4. Install Knobs and Dials In The Business
5. Value the Visibility
(Link: SaaS Startups: Knobs and Dials And Other Insights)
October 28, 2009
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Sakai is an Open Source collaborative learning environment that contains everything necessary to deliver an effective eLeaning program. The JumpBox packages the rSmart distribution of Sakai which is a refined version of the Open source Sakai project with enhancements like additional modules and an improved user interface. Sakai can be used to deliver an entirely online learning experience or used as a supplement to traditional in-person coursework. Some of the more notable features include:
(Link: Quickly Deliver courses online with the JumpBox for rSmart Sakai)
October 22, 2009
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Daptiv is the on-demand leader in collaborative business software that enables companies of all sizes to transform their mid-office business operations. Daptiv’s on-demand solutions streamline employees’ day-to-day interaction and collaboration while dramatically reducing the complexity of managing multiple teams, projects and tasks. Daptiv’s flexible environment has already transformed the mid-office for more than 700 customers and 100,000 individuals.
(Link: Daptiv.com – Project Management SAAS)
August 12, 2009
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DocZone provides a comprehensive SaaS solution for creating, editing, translating, and publishing your content, with an affordable SaaS subscription model. Moving into production with DocZone is as easy as:
(Link: DocZone – XML Content Management. Simplified.)
July 9, 2009
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JIRA Studio is a hosted offering combining JIRA, FishEye, Crucible, Confluence and Subversion.
(Link: JIRA Studio – Agile Software Development Suite $250/mth)
