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Does the Force.com offer advantage?

December 18, 2008 Cloud Computing/SaaS

Dave Turner riffed on my piece about SageLive. In doing so, he makes a valid point that shows benefits for both customers and suppliers on the on-demand world: [We are] building CODA 2go on top of Salesforce’s Force.com platform rather than our own infrastructure. From our standpoint, using a proven, scalable platform has been a [...]

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AccountsIQ: on-demand for the practitioner

December 8, 2008 Cloud Computing/SaaS

Last week I spoke with Will Parker, country manager for AccountsIQ, an on demand accounting provider I’ve been quietly following for a while. In development in Ireland over the last four years, AccountsIQ is now ready for the UK market. I was interested to see how the company plans on positioning the service given they [...]

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Toughest conditions since 1992. An opportunity.

June 18, 2008 Cloud Computing/SaaS

With oil hitting $140 a barrel in London and New York (before sliding back) and the CBI saying trading conditions are the worst since 1992, hooray I say. Not because it’s a good thing but these are economic conditions where innovations of the kind we’ve seen in the last few years should be reviewed to [...]

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