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Tuesday, May 29, 2007 11:53 PM

For Those Who Believe that the Browser is Good Enough

If you have been reading this blog for a while, you know how much work we have put into efficient software delivery guidance, multi tenancy best practices etc. One thing we have not done as much (at least not yet) is to show how to hook this efficient
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Monday, May 21, 2007 11:24 AM

Build - Run - Consume - Monetize

Build - Run - Consume - Monetize a.k.a BRCM (pronounced "breekam"?!) is a simple model that I am experimenting with to explain the primary concerns of each of the "actors" involved in software delivered as a service as well as understanding the multiple
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Friday, May 18, 2007 11:08 AM

My Wife is an Ecosexual...

I was browsing through Wired Magazine earlier this morning and I discovered that my wife is an ecosexual ... Cool! P.S. for some reason, I think this blog post will have more views than average :) I also had a joke relating ecosexual and SaaS but I'll
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Thursday, May 17, 2007 12:10 AM

Pendulum

I was catching up on Phil 's always excellent blog tonight and I smiled when I read about OpenSAM. What I found funny was not the idea per se, but the "deja vu" of the best of breed vs. integrated suite debate :) I remember a conversation I had at TechEd
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Wednesday, May 16, 2007 10:30 PM

Microsoft RPFBALOBNAIALLTACTIYJFUVSASFS

Eric Nelson one of Microsoft's SaaS experts in the UK, who apparently gave up being a developer :) shares, in this post , a well kept secret: i.e. the new release of Microsoft CRM is much more than CRM but a full fledge application platform. He even goes
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Tuesday, May 15, 2007 9:15 AM

SaaS Undertakers do exist...

About one month ago, I blogged here about the need of "SaaS Undertakers" looking after the SaaS data graveyard that might exponentially grow with out of business SaaS companies (I'm bullish on SaaS, but common... not all of them will succeed). Well, today
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Monday, May 07, 2007 11:57 PM

From High Margin-Low Volume to High Volume-Low Margin

If I was to summarize (simplify?!) the trend that is happening in the SaaS space, I would say that the business model is moving from a high margin - low volume model to a high volume - low margin model, as described in the picture below. This is of course
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Tuesday, May 01, 2007 1:25 AM

SaaSCon Debrief

On April 17-18 I was in Santa Clara mingling with the international SaaS crowd at SaaSCon . There, Eugenio and myself presented a session titled: Anatomy of a SaaS Application. The slides are available here . The goal of the session was to cut through
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