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Remixing customer stories

February 12, 2010 Featured

Yesterday I showed a couple of examples of how I’ve taken video and then mashed it up with other media elements to produce something new. Today, I show another variation where I’ve taken the file created by Animoto and then created a different ‘experience’ by adding voiceovers where the interviewee appears. There are many directions [...]

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Making the SaaS accounting market scale

February 1, 2010 Cloud Computing/SaaS

The SaaS market is at a point where mega growth is not a matter of when but how. The SaaS vendors have to find ways of managing growth. However, to date, they’ve mostly been poor at understanding what needs to be done in order to grab the prize. It’s well understood that the ‘build it [...]

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Cloud confusion – self inflicted?

December 12, 2009 Cloud Computing/SaaS

I’ve argued that there is way too much confusion in the market around cloud computing. It gets industry people excited but doesn’t help the end user. Hence why I playfully talk about SOC. In this video segment which I shot at the SAP Business Influencer Summit in Boston last week, Dan McWeeney of Adobe expresses [...]

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Community, geeks and accounting

November 1, 2009 Innovation

One of the great pleasures of attending IT events is that I get to meet interesting people, often for the first time. Last week while at SAP TechedEd I met Duane Nickull, senior evangelist for Adobe, punk rock musician, mathematician and all around fun person. He was leading a teaching session at RIA Hacker night [...]

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Apologies

October 29, 2009 General

This week has been crazy. It’s just shy of 11.30pm and I’m trying to catch up on posts. I genuinely thought I’d be able to provide SAP based commentary to this blog while attending SAP TechEd 2009 in Vienna. Instead there was so much to do my feet felt as though they were hardly touching [...]

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Traveling man

October 26, 2009 Innovation

This week sees the start of a marathon traveling session. First stop Vienna where SAP is holding the second leg of its annual TechEd roadshow. If you’d asked me four years ago if I’d like to attend such an event, the answer would have been a polite ‘no thanks.’ As someone who prefers the business [...]

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Sage listens (it does)

October 2, 2009 Cloud Computing/SaaS

Following my review of Billing Boss, I ended up having a long conversation with my main contact at the company’s HQ. During the call, I was told that Sage does listen but it was acknowledged that perhaps the company is less than good at communicating back to those who critique what they believe Sage is [...]

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NetSuite customers and other fun stuff

September 28, 2009 Cloud Computing/SaaS

In the past I’ve been pretty hard on NetSuite, especially around implementations. How things have changed. Last week I met with the company, several of its customers and other analysts when it put on a two hour show for prospects. These events are inevitably scripted but customers seemed genuine in their satisfaction for what the [...]

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Six simple things you can do to assess saas apps performance

September 22, 2009 Cloud Computing/SaaS

Ben Kepes has an intriguing post about the extent to which you might wish to put a presentation onto one of the web sharing sites like SlideRocket or Slideshare. It’s intriguing because he brings up the thorny problem of access on less than stellar network connections: A large proportion of presentations are delivered while mobile [...]

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Sage's latest saas attempts: a further analysis

September 21, 2009 Featured

Jason Stamper at CBR does a great job trying to get under the skin of Sage and its saas efforts. I would say that – he quoted me having asked my opinion prior to meeting the company. But seriously, this is possibly the most complete assessment I’ve seen of Sage’s efforts, juxtaposed against its standing [...]

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