by Guy Creese | June 23, 2010 | Comments Off
Network World has an interesting interview with Rajen Sheth (“Meet the father of Google Apps [who used to work at Microsoft]”) which describes how Google Apps Premier Edition (GAPE) came to be. Confirming my suspicions, the product did not come out of a desire to meet enterprise e-mail requirements; instead, it was pitched as a [...]
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Category: Google SaaS Tags: GAPE, Google, Google Docs
by Guy Creese | June 21, 2010 | Comments Off
Yesterday I flew into Prague, took a nap, found out I needed to reboot my cellphone to get it to work (thank you Mike Gotta), had dinner at the bar in the Prague Hilton, and then went to bed. (So for those who think I lead an exciting, international jet setter life, no, I haven’t [...]
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by Guy Creese | June 16, 2010 | Comments Off
Last weekend I attended my college reunion. My 400+ classmates have done a lot of different things, so attending reunion means I get to hear about a lot of different lifestyles and issues. Within their ranks is the current Massachusetts Attorney General, lawyers, two former members of the U.S. House of Representatives (Indiana and Hawaii), [...]
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Category: Uncategorized Tags: Class reunion
by Guy Creese | June 15, 2010 | Comments Off
IBM announced today that it was buying Coremetrics, one of the last major independent web analytics providers. This is not a surprising development, for several reasons: It follows in the footsteps of Omniture: The largest company in this sector was acquired by Adobe last year, and it was only a matter of time before Omniture’s [...]
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Category: IBM SaaS Web Analytics Tags: Adobe Systems, Coremetrics, IBM, IBM WebSphere, Omniture
by Guy Creese | June 15, 2010 | Comments Off
For those who have been following my series of posts on SaaS vs. Software, following is a consolidated list of them: SaaS vs. Software: The Release Cycle for SaaS is Usually (Not Always) Faster, May 18, 2010 SaaS vs. Software: Their Licensing Needs to Be Integrated, May 20, 2010 SaaS vs. Software: SaaS Has a [...]
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Category: SaaS Uncategorized Tags: Software as a service
by Guy Creese | June 14, 2010 | Comments Off
While SaaS hasn’t radically changed support mechanisms for enterprise software, it’s fair to say it has accelerated earlier trends. Way back when, customer support was a very high touch experience (and expensive for the vendor): e.g., printed manuals and 24×7 telephone support. Over time, vendors looked to expand the support network and make it less [...]
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by Guy Creese | June 10, 2010 | Comments Off
As an admin for Google Apps Premier Edition, I received an e-mail last night from The Google Apps Team about forthcoming changes to Google Apps. There are three: New Sharing Settings (starting June 16): “Now your users will be able to assign a sharing setting to a file in just one step and see at-a-glance [...]
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Category: Analyst Life Google Tags: Google, Google Apps, Google Docs, Google Gears
by Guy Creese | June 9, 2010 | 1 Comment
I spent some time yesterday trying out the new Word Web App on Windows SkyDrive, and comparing it with Word 2010. (This is not a task for the faint-hearted. Documenting the differences between the Office Web Apps versions and the software versions of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint in just the Ribbon UI has so far [...]
Category: Microsoft SaaS Tags: Microsoft, Office Web Apps, Windows Live SkyDrive
by Guy Creese | June 8, 2010 | Comments Off
There’s a fascinating article in The New York Times this morning entitled, “Military Taps Social Networking Skills.” It describes how intelligence analysts stationed in Beale Air Force Base in California use chat rooms to warn American troops on the ground in Afghanistan of bombs, insurgents, and other dangers. Continually monitoring drone video feeds, still images, [...]
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Category: Social Software Tags:
by Guy Creese | June 7, 2010 | 3 Comments
I have yet to meet anyone who grew up wanting to be an IT analyst. Doctor, yes; professor, yes; writer, yes; IT analyst, no. If you are an IT analyst, it’s a position that you migrated to via a combination of skill, luck, and timing. In fact, I’ve always considered the answer to the question, [...]
Category: Analyst Life Tags: Burton Group, Industry analyst
