Archive for March, 2008

SaaS on the Rise Among Small-to-Medium Businesses

Posted March 12th @ 7:00 pm by Boyan

A good day for SaaS!
A report done by Access Market International Partners (AMI-Partners), and covered here by Redmond Mag states that Small to Medium Businesses are increasingly using SaaS solutions. The full report is here.
I won’t go into details, Redmond does a good job with that, but here are some figures that excited me:

21% of [...]


Will SaaS Eliminate IT?

Posted March 11th @ 2:06 pm by Darren

Adam Killam from SalesforceTimes.com posted an interesting discussion. “Cloud computing making IT redundant? Experts weigh in”. He kindly asked us for our comments and this is our response.
There is no doubt that on demand computing is going to continue to chip away at the IT department. The traditional job of operational IT was to [...]


Whole Lotta Snow

Posted March 10th @ 2:21 pm by Boyan

I’m going to go out on a limb here and post something entirely UNRELATED to SaaS or anything even remotely close to it.
This past weekend there was a major snow storm that passed through Southwestern Ontario (and from what I hear quite a big patch of north-eastern North America too) .
Here in Canada we love [...]


SaaS CMS adoption slower in Europe

Posted March 8th @ 4:28 pm by Boyan

An interesting article from Direct Response Limited:
Based on research by CMS Watch, the adoption of SaaS for content management is gathering speed at a much slower pace in Europe than it is in the United States.
The news isn’t all that bad, demand is on the rise for both software-as-a-service and installed software in both [...]


Player Profile: Salesforce.com

Posted March 7th @ 9:27 pm by Darren

This is another entry to our ongoing series of SaaS company profiles. To view more profiles click on The Players.
When you hear SaaS most people will think of Salesforce.com. Salesforce.com is widely recognized as the pioneer of the hosted software model. In fact, in the early days they adopted to slogan, ‘No Software’. The company [...]


Player Profile: Aviary

Posted March 7th @ 8:07 pm by Boyan

This is another entry to our ongoing series of SaaS company profiles. To view more profiles click on The Players.

Aviary - Creation on the fly, is a SaaS company that offers internet applications geared for “artists of all genres”. Essentially, Aviary offers a variety of tools ranging from image editors to audio and video editors, [...]


Gmail Integration for Salesforce.com?

Posted March 6th @ 4:53 pm by Darren

Wow, what a great find from gokubi! This is like finding a spy shot of a new BMW in the wild!

Apparently there’s an option to add a ‘Compose Gmail’ button to the Activity History related list. Even though you add it, nothing appears. So does this mean we can expect to see Gmail [...]


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