Ray Wang

Building the star firm

July 25, 2010 Innovation

Following on from my change the world post, colleague and occasional collaborator Ray Wang asked me to look at Personal Log: The 7 Tenets of Building a ‘Star Analyst’ Firm. Anyone who is thinking about restructuring their practice or going for the creative destruction model needs to read this. I remember meeting Ray in Pasadena [...]

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Market growth shows stunning results

June 4, 2010 Cloud Computing/SaaS

I don’t follow every company that’s producing software in the market but most of the names shown above will be familiar. Quoting from Paul Turner who wrote some commentary around this: In a tough economic climate, the contrast couldn’t be more stark between cloud computing and the old way of running software – every other [...]

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How SaaS makes free a good option

March 17, 2010 Cloud Computing/SaaS

The notion of free doesn’t always sit well with many colleagues. If there is no monetary sale price then the theory runs that there is less value to be had than from levying a monetary charge. But is that true? One argument in favour of SaaS is that the buyer doesn’t have it make an [...]

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Following the implementation: Nimbus and FinancialForce.com

January 25, 2010 Asides

There are so many myths and legends around SaaS and cloud computing it is refreshing to see one company prepared to publicly document its implementation. Nimbus is doing that, talking to the issues that matter to them. Right now, they’re concentrating on using their FinancialForce.com implementation as a way of re-visiting business processes to see [...]

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