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Bit of a milestone for my mate Mr Drury and his team of star players in Wellington, NZ, last week. Listing on the stock exchange is Xero's first step towards world domination me thinks. Warm fuzzy feeling seeing this. They are a great bunch, it's a killer
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Perhaps not something I thought I would be writing in the same sentence!! With BT in Redmond (Seattle) at the moment. Have to say, it's been a really great two days. The briefing session was really valuable. Though the highlight for me is getting new
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April 25, 2007 BT Business launches unique online software supermarket for UK businesses Creates new channel to market for ISVs and delivers wide ranging software to help small businesses thrive BT Business, in partnership with Microsoft, is bringing
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Overview: Software + Services Architect Forum The winds of change are blowing across the entire IT landscape driven primarily by the ubiquity of connectivity brought about by the Internet, broadband and lowering costs of hardware and storage. 40% of British
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Good to see my mate Rod in the news recently talking about his latest venture: Xero is a SaaS accounting solution for SME's. Read more about their raison d'etre . So why SaaS? Craig in their Development team thinks it's the only way to go . Rod was also
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Interesting article yesterday in Finextra on Tower Group's view of Web 2.0 adoption in the financial services sector. Tower Group warns that "regulatory compliance represents a major challenge to the take-up of the technology, given that Web 2.0 tools
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Kevin drew my attention to the interview in Forbes with Marc Benioff where his advice ranges from "Always pitch the bigger picture" to "Never take anything personally" and "Always be relevant" to the rather bizarre "Everyone loves chocolate" marketing
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Some interesting facts from yesterday’s SaaS workshop for ISV partners in Edinburgh delivered by Kevin McGirl at Sales Corporation : · 8/10 fastest growing technology companies are SaaS ( www.sandhill.com ) · Gartner says 25% of all software sales will
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Microsoft has just posted architectural guidelines on how to build a SaaS aplication on our platform. Liteware is a fictitious HR application built using .NET 3.0 and on SQL 2005 and the sample application implements single-instance multi-tenancy patterns.
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So we've been talking about Live a lot at Microsoft lately. I'm lucky enough to have seen some of the latest thinking coming out of Redmond recently - the paper that is essentially the follow up to Ray Ozzie's famed memo. I might be overestimating the
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This site has some good info for Developers and I think this one is really good - it has input and webcasts from the guru's Frederick Chong and Gianpaolo Carraro. Read more about what BT are doing here . Leaders from BT were at our Partnering for the
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According to David Bradshaw from Ovum (in his paper on the subject published in October) ISV's are "likely to find that SaaS can produce considerable advantages.....not least reducing the buying cycle significantly. SaaS enables users to try the software
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Isn't technology marvellous. Sat in Terminal 3 at Heathrow - resisting the urge to buy something in the Armani sale and choosing to do email instead. That's dedication for you. Last night we had a gathering of 'like minded' people in Henley from over
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In true Web 2.0 style I thought I’d turn to Wikipedia to see what they say on the subject. Quite a lot as it happens. One of our own guru’s at Microsoft, Director of Emerging Technologies – Gurprit Singh – says that Web 2.0 “refers to a second generation
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