Gmail

When GMail seems to have issues friends can save you

May 25, 2010 Cloud Computing/SaaS

As someone who does not have a printer and tries to do as much in the Internet cloud as is possible, I’ve come to rely on certain services. One of those is GMail. It sits at the centre of my world. So when over the last few days I started to notice ‘odd’ behavior I [...]

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Google's massively important 3%

February 26, 2010 Cloud Computing/SaaS

Google’s 3% revenue coming from enterprise applications is massively important. The graphic running down the side of this post (courtesy of Pingdom) tells the main story. A few years ago, Google’s revenue from this ‘licenses’ line item was piffling. 3% doesn’t sound a lot but it represents $760 million. Going back to 2008, Henry Blodget [...]

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Channeling Emily's transition

February 12, 2009 General

One of the fun things to do is watch how people transition from one mode of working to another. It often comes with a dose of reality checking against what they’ve been doing in the past. My current fave is Emily Coltman. The other year, she eschewed the relative comfort of an audit senior’s position [...]

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The future of events

February 5, 2009 General

Yesterday I ran a thought experiment that turned out to be surprisingly successful. SAP was launching BusinessSuite 7 and had invited some of my colleagues to attend its New York offices. Due to budget restrictions, they couldn’t ship some of us over. That didn’t matter too much because they live webcast the event. At the [...]

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SageLive: interesting

December 2, 2008 General

Duane over at Kashflow pulled the old ‘conference spying’ trick and reckons that Sage is preparing to launch SageLive, an on-demand offering possibly as early as January 8rh, 2009. If it does, then as Ben Kepes at CloudAve says: We’ve been waiting for a really compelling on-demand accounting offering from one of the big boys… [...]

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