Platform as a service

What if your reseller went away?

February 4, 2010 Cloud Computing/SaaS

Reseller issues are an emerging topic for SaaS vendors. That means it should also be a topic for buyers. For years, buyers haven’t needed to give a second thought as to whether their software reseller will be around. Despite some consolidation, it has been a case of business as usual. SaaS disrupts that market in [...]

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KashFlow goes free, becomes a PaaS player

March 5, 2009 Featured

It’s going to be a KashFlow day here so bear with me. Duane Jackson just announced (via Twitter) that KashFlow is free for the firast year to existing MYOB, Quickbooks, or Sage users. The offer runs through to 30th April. According to the Kashflow site: Register for a 60 day free trial of KashFlow here [...]

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PaaS risks

February 24, 2009 Cloud Computing/SaaS

The demise of Coghead last week raises a number of questions. Aside from the inevitable speculation about what SAP will do with the acquired assets, Phil Wainewright raised the ‘elephant on the room’ question: The problem with PaaS, as Coghead’s customers are now discovering to their dismay, isn’t so much lock-in as lock-out. They knew [...]

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