Last night’s Sift Software Satisfaction Awards saw the saas/on-demand/cloud (SOC) vendors blow the on premise vendors away. Per John Stokdyk’s account:
The 2009 Software Satisfaction Awards confirmed that software as a service has taken hold of the small business market with victories for Cloud developers in all of the key SME categories.
Our good friends Kashflow won in two categories: Small Business Accounting Software and Web Hosted Accounting Software. Well done Kashflow. Taking the SMAC award is a very big deal given the opposition. Salesforce.com won 3/4 of the CRM prizes and was named Software Vendor of the Year. That was pretty much a no brainer but good to see validated.
Regardless of how you might think these results were skewed, a discussion I had with John S long before the results were announced, they speak volumes for the passion that on-demand users are prepared to express. That’s the difference that on-premise vendors don’t really understand. SOC vendors drive passion within their communities, they have to be on top of their game all day, every day in ways the on-prem vendors fail to understand.
Well done all, and especially well done to Kashflow…well deserved I’m sure. Yes – I’m hard on them but then I’m hard on all vendors. And I’m sure they’ll be partying hard into the night.
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