SAP Business ByDesign

Why Sage will continue to lose momentum

September 6, 2010 Cloud Computing/SaaS
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Over the weekend I’ve been reading extracts from Different: Escaping the Competitive Herd. It is one of the very few business books I am definitely buying.  Youngme Moon makes a stack of observations that resonate with me. If you’ve seen my Tweetstream from Sunday afternoon then you’ll know what I mean. Here’s a sampling of [...]

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Best of breed or best of suites? The transformational argument

August 5, 2010 Cloud Computing/SaaS

Rod Drury dropped a bomb into the Xero blog on that perennial of topics: best of breed or best of suites? I am surprised that it has reared its head so relatively early in the SaaS development lifecycle. As Rod says: The incumbent desktop products that have been around for many years have added many [...]

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SAP slow to adopt SaaS?

August 4, 2010 Cloud Computing/SaaS

I’ve been noodling over some statistics that came from a survey of 100 UK and Ireland SAP User Group people. It covers attitudes towards SaaS. Given this is the week when SAP put Business ByDesign into general release, it is appropriate to think through some of the survey’s implications. The stats have been out for [...]

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SAP Business ByDesign 2.5: time to invest?

August 3, 2010 Cloud Computing/SaaS

Yesterday SAP announced the general availability of SAP Business ByDesign 2.5. In real world language that means it is there for anyone to check out and buy rather than what has been happening: a controlled release to achieve a baseline of 100 customers. Along with the release came confirmation that SAP is offering starter packs [...]

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Sexy SAP? Surely not!!

July 28, 2010 Cloud Computing/SaaS

I get a regular stream of people telling me they are looking for a SaaS/cloud upgrade to Sage Line 50. They’re ready to move on and don’t see the remainder of the Sage line of products as particularly appealing. They’ve usually found out something about this ‘cloud stuff’ and are curious to know more. This [...]

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So you want to be a saas consultant?

July 12, 2010 Cloud Computing/SaaS

Read on… This is really a follow up post to the one I did last week re: NetSuite and upon which Wayne Schultz commented: Where do typical consulting firms make money consulting on Netsuite or any SaaS. The main answer that I seem to hear from the early firms that are in this space providing [...]

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SaaS UK: state of the nation

May 27, 2010 Cloud Computing/SaaS

The last couple of weeks’ traveling combined with interesting discussions the last few days around SaaS and cloud have me thinking about where we’re at. In one conversation, the other party estimates that maybe 20,000 businesses in the UK are using SaaS accounting. I put the figure considerably higher but in the context of the [...]

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SaaS accounting market 2010

January 31, 2010 Cloud Computing/SaaS

Last week, Alan Wright of Liberty Accounts was kind enough to drop a list of saas applications/providers onto AccountingWeb. It’s something I’ve been meaning to get around to doing for some time. I took the opportunity to review Alan’s list and update it for services I’ve found that he’d not listed, clear out dead links [...]

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Business case for SaaS

November 1, 2009 Cloud Computing/SaaS

Intellect SaaS Paper Launch View more presentations from David Terrar. David Terrar is pimping the Intellect SaaS Group paper: The Business Case for Software As A Service. (PDF download) He does so in a transparent manner saying that: Our aim is to promote the use of SaaS in business and to government, and to act [...]

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