Business intelligence

Software Satisfaction Awards 2010: dead cat bounce or a kludge?

October 8, 2010 General
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Awards ceremonies or rather very-expensive-dinners-and-booze-ups-with-star-turn-plus-some-gongs-thrown-in events are weird affairs. Vendors pony up to a media outfit in the vain hope they’ll walk away with a gong. Why do they do it? One answer might be that software vendor types don’t get out very often. At least that’s what one vendor quipped. Well, if that’s the [...]

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Spreadsheet hell? Give Indicee a spin

February 11, 2010 Cloud Computing/SaaS

Earlier this evening I had a conversation with Indicee. They’re developing an easy way for people to build and consume reports that are not limited to the accounting data. They do this by providing users with an easy way to ask questions of their data. So rather than having to build spreadsheets and then reference [...]

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SaaS prices going up?

June 24, 2009 Cloud Computing/SaaS

FOWA Tour- Roan Lavery View more Microsoft Word documents from Carsonified Team. The last couple of weeks I’ve been hearing a familiar sound: how do saas/on-demand businesses find a good business model? Each place I go I have heard the same question or a close approximation. This is important if you’re thinking about vendor viability. [...]

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Saugatuck's great expectations for saas in finance

February 24, 2009 Cloud Computing/SaaS

Saugatuck is a boutique firm of analysts and consultants whose stated aim is to: accelerate growth through strategic intelligence, filling a gap between high-cost strategy consultants and IT market research firms. I know one of the former partner/directors and the firm has a solid reputation for precision analysis. So when I see an update on [...]

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