by Robert Desisto | February 13, 2012 | Submit a Comment
Jim Holincheck and I wrote a research note on the impact Oracle’s, SAP’s and salesforce.com’s recent SaaS acquisitions will have on client organizations. The ink is not even dry on the research note, and Oracle buys Taleo. As Jim and I say in the research, SaaS acquisitions will accelerate and client organizations need to protect [...]
Category: Applications CRM Cloud ERP Tags: SaaS;Cloud Computing
by Robert Desisto | February 10, 2012 | 1 Comment
Just published research on the Ten Ways to Avoid SaaS Delivery Problems and Protect Your Organization from making mistakes that can diminish the business value of SaaS investments. Key findings revealed in the research are: 1) 90% of SaaS business application managers do not model five-year total cost of ownership (TCO), putting them at risk [...]
Category: Cloud SaaS Tags: SaaS;Cloud Computing
by Robert Desisto | November 16, 2011 | Comments Off
Cloud computing is having a major impact on business operations. We just published a Gartner Special report, The Future of Cloud Business Applications, that assesses the current cloud computing “state of play” in business domains such as marketing, sales, customer service, finance, and human resources to name a few. The special report provides an overview [...]
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Category: Applications Cloud Finanical Service SaaS Software as a Service Tags:
by Robert Desisto | September 23, 2011 | 3 Comments
A client asked me how much of their application portfolio should be running in the Cloud using SaaS. The client wanted a benchmark of what other companies were doing of similar size and scope. I informed client that looking at a percentage is not a particularly useful formula. A more appropriate process is to analyze [...]
Category: Cloud SaaS Software as a Service Tags: SaaS;Cloud Computing
by Robert Desisto | September 16, 2011 | Comments Off
It was assumed that the CRM SaaS market would be a zero sum game. Success of Microsoft would come at the expense of market share leader salesforce.com. However, there is evidence to the contrary. Two specific market events directly go against the prevailing wisdom that Microsoft’s gain would be Salesforce.com’s loss, or vice versa. Salesforce.com [...]
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Category: CRM Cloud SaaS Software as a Service salesforce automation Tags: microsoft, oracle, SaaS; Cloud Computing;, salesforce.com
by Robert Desisto | September 8, 2011 | Comments Off
Spurned on by recent press hype, I have been inundated with calls from clients about a supposedly new concept called SaaS Enterprise License Agreements. Despite claims made by some vendors this is not a new concept, even for vendors who are making claims that it is new have been offering it for years. Sometimes vendors [...]
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Category: CRM Cloud SaaS Software as a Service Vendor Contracts Tags: Enterprise License Agreements, microsoft, Netsuite, oracle, SaaS; Cloud Computing;, salesforce.com, Successfactors, Workday
by Robert Desisto | August 18, 2011 | Comments Off
I just published research on how to measure a vendor’s SaaS delivery capability. It covers topics ranging from a vendor’s operational management capabilities to measuring the the strength of a vendor’s service level agreement. No matter what SaaS application your considering (e.g., email, CRM, ERP, etc) this research note How to Evaluate A Vendor’s SaaS [...]
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Category: CRM Cloud ERP SaaS Software as a Service salesforce automation Tags: CRM, SaaS; Cloud Computing;, software as a service
by Robert Desisto | July 18, 2011 | Comments Off
Check out the 2011 Sales Force Automation Magic Quadrant (released on July 15th, 2011). Mobility continues to grow in importance for users; therefore, it has also become a more critical component of our evaluation criteria for the sales force automation (SFA) Magic Quadrant. Smartphones and iPads (see “iPads: Customer-Facing Selling Will Drive iPad Use for [...]
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Category: Applications CRM Cloud Software as a Service Tags: Cloud, CRM, microsoft, Netsuite, oracle, Pivotal, SaaS, Sage software, Sales force automation, sales people, salesforce.com, SAP, sugarcrm, Zoho
by Robert Desisto | April 21, 2011 | 4 Comments
While some may write that companies should have gotten better Service Level Agreements with Amazon, I ask does it really matter with such a long outage? Can a SLA really repair damage to your business? Just imagine having your customer contact center in the cloud being down for 20 hours. I am sure your customers [...]
Category: Cloud Software as a Service Uncategorized Tags: SaaS, SaaS; Cloud Computing;
by Robert Desisto | March 25, 2011 | Comments Off
We just published the SaaS Research Agenda key issues for 2011. Our focus is to not only help companies avoid pitfalls associated with cloud computing but provide best practices to gain optimal value. Check it out on Gartner.com.
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Category: Cloud SaaS Software as a Service Tags: SaaS; Cloud Computing;
