Entries Categorized as 'Vendor Contracts'
by Michael Maoz | February 22, 2013 | 2 Comments
CRM SaaS business applications began with a wimper back in 1999 reminiscent of a litter of hungry puppies. Over 90 percent of the vendor products, and often the vendor them self, then called Application Service Providers, disappeared. Salesforce.com and RightNow Technologies were two that made the transition. It was the same time that the Distance [...]
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by Michael Maoz | January 17, 2013 | 1 Comment
Whenever I am in a large European Call Center, or Contact Center, peering at the screens that the poor denizens or these neglected warrens face every day, I expect to look down at my wrist and see my grandfather’s 1965 Bulova Accutron Spaceview wristwatch. Now THAT was a cool watch. Quartz crystal!! And, yes, it [...]
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by Michael Maoz | August 8, 2012 | 1 Comment
Logical incrementalism is just about the most common pitfall to stymie innovation around the customer experience. The CIO, in an endeavour to make things better, cheaper and simpler, ties the company more deeply to a single vendor for each major application building block. Each incremental decision makes sense in the grander scheme: better integration, lower [...]
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by Michael Maoz | May 3, 2012 | Comments Off
The common thinking was that Software as a Service, or applications procured as a subscription in a Cloud Model, were going to be faster, better, and less expansive than their primitive on premise analog. The operating word here is ‘analog’ as in ‘apples to apples’ – the same depth of functionality, the same disciplined development [...]
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by Michael Maoz | July 18, 2011 | 2 Comments
I’ve been traveling quite a bit the past few months, visiting clients across western Europe and the United States. As much as I’d rather stay close to home base, there is no substitute for meeting face-to-face with clients. The intimacy of sitting at a table, having a coffee or tea, and talking brass-tacks about what [...]
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by Michael Maoz | October 7, 2010 | 8 Comments
At our 1999 Gartner US Symposium I gave a presentation during which I said that 63 of the 80 software vendors that I was discussing in the CRM space would change ownership within six years. It turned out to be just about right – I under-estimated. Following new software markets is like following Odysseus out of Troy [...]
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by Michael Maoz | September 30, 2010 | 1 Comment
There is a funny and arcane expression whose derivation I have never quite understood, but whose meaning is clear in any language: Don’t buy a cat in a sack! It’s the same in German, ‘Die Katze im Sack kaufen.’ Whererever it comes from, the idea of purchasing software sight unseen is fairly prevalent. Yes: you [...]
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by Michael Maoz | July 25, 2010 | 2 Comments
The first thought an intelligent reader would have encountering the post title is that this is hyperbole meant to grab attention. Were this only the case. But it is not. I have conducted six client conversations in the past three months with businesses that complain about the high cost of software as a service (SaaS) [...]
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