Entries Tagged as 'Cloud'
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 [...]
Category: Applications Cloud CRM 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 | September 1, 2010 | 1 Comment
My favorite inquiry from a client is, “Does vendor X support SaaS? “. I respond by first going through the Gartner SaaS definition. I then make a determination. After which I say, who cares. I tell the client it is more important how a vendor supports specific components of SaaS . I just published a [...]
Category: Uncategorized Tags: Cloud, SaaS
by Robert Desisto | February 12, 2010 | 2 Comments
I have seen wide variations in SaaS contract pricing (30% to 40%) from customers with similar user subscription numbers, application needs and term lengths. There is always the potential to have SaaS price variances based on geographic location, SaaS vendor account executive selling skills or contract timing in a vendor’s fiscal year. However, there are [...]
Category: Cloud SaaS Software as a Service Tags: Cloud, SaaS
by Robert Desisto | November 5, 2009 | 2 Comments
Will Software as a Service or Cloud Computing erode prices in business application markets? If sales force automation is an indicator the answer is yes. Just this week Microsoft announced both a price cut and special promotion for its Microsoft CRM Dynamics Online offering. (see Gartner Research Note – Microsoft Reduces Prices to Win CRM [...]
Category: Uncategorized Tags: Cloud, SaaS, Sales force automation
by Robert Desisto | October 29, 2009 | Comments Off
This past month 20% of my customer inquiries came from CIOs and their supporting staff asking how to fix poorly negotiated SaaS contracts or respond to new business requirements for SaaS services. In many cases, the IT organization’s first exposure to SaaS is when problems occur. Rather than solve each problem as it occurs, I [...]
Category: Uncategorized Tags: Cloud, SaaS
by Robert Desisto | October 21, 2009 | 3 Comments
At Gartner US Symposium today, I asked an audience of roughly 700 people if they had disaster recovery commitments from their Cloud or SaaS provider. One person raised their hand! Maybe we should focus a little less on exploiting the “phenomenon” and more on inspecting the “nuts and bolts” of a Cloud or Saas provider’s [...]
Category: Uncategorized Tags: Cloud, SaaS
by Robert Desisto | September 29, 2009 | Comments Off
Are you annoyed as much as I am when analysts and pundits stop at no end to espouse the benefits of cloud computing or SaaS without providing the downsides or risks? We all have all seen the behavior. Cloud Huggers are the first to blog when a negative press event comes out about a cloud [...]
Category: Uncategorized Tags: amazon, Cloud, google, SaaS, salesforce.com
