Thomas Otter

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SaaS contracts.

by Thomas Otter  |  September 26, 2011  |  Comments Off

I don’t often publish blog posts that point to my research, but I thought I’d make an exception today. My colleague Alexa Bona and I recently published a note on contracting behaviors and strategies for SaaS HCM.  SaaS and Human Capital Management: Avoid Risky and Expensive Deals (client access). As SaaS HCM deals come up [...]

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Application flexibility and the tree pose

by Thomas Otter  |  June 9, 2010  |  2 Comments

As some of my readers know I’m a keen but slow amateur cyclist. It is a sport that doesn’t really lead to flexibility, the opposite in fact. I need to stretch if I’m going to have any sort of suppleness, so I have made a conscious decision to stretch a lot. (Thanks Graeme)  It works [...]

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Back to the Future.

by Thomas Otter  |  June 16, 2009  |  1 Comment

Jim and I published a first take on the SuccessFactors deal with Siemens. Gartner clients see Siemens to Provide Important SaaS Talent Management Test Case (G00168920), 15-JUN-2009. Last week I suddenly felt like one of those people you meet in IT who keep telling you that computing hasn’t really changed since punchcards or Fortran, and [...]

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