http://www.zoliblog.com/2006/08/18/enterprise-software-is-still-not-dead/ Connecting the dots ... Sat, 21 Nov 2009 06:03:39 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://www.zoliblog.com/2006/08/18/enterprise-software-is-still-not-dead/#comment-10982 3 Half-Truths about SaaS| Zoli’s Blog Fri, 11 Apr 2008 13:23:27 +0000 http://www.zoliblog.com/2006/08/18/enterprise-software-is-still-not-dead/#comment-10982 [...] Yes, traditionally all SaaS started with Small Businesses, but that does not mean it may not move upstream. Salesforce.com and several HCM applications have proven technical scalability, but they offer partial / departmental functionality.  I am a strong believer that in 4-5 years most software developed will be SaaS, and that in 10 years it will be the predominant method of “consuming” software by large enterprises - but I can’t prove it.  There’s no empirical evidence, since there has not been any Integrated Enterprise SaaS available so far.  The closest to it is NetSuite today (but it’s still SMB focused), and SAP’s Business ByDesign tomorrow.  In fact despite SAP’s official positioning, driven by market focus and current limitations (functional and infrastructure), I believe that SAP will use BBD  to learn the SaaS game - i.e. BBD will be a test bed for a future Enterprise SaaS offering. But we’re not there yet. (longer discussion here) [...] [...] Yes, traditionally all SaaS started with Small Businesses, but that does not mean it may not move upstream. Salesforce.com and several HCM applications have proven technical scalability, but they offer partial / departmental functionality.  I am a strong believer that in 4-5 years most software developed will be SaaS, and that in 10 years it will be the predominant method of “consuming” software by large enterprises – but I can’t prove it.  There’s no empirical evidence, since there has not been any Integrated Enterprise SaaS available so far.  The closest to it is NetSuite today (but it’s still SMB focused), and SAP’s Business ByDesign tomorrow.  In fact despite SAP’s official positioning, driven by market focus and current limitations (functional and infrastructure), I believe that SAP will use BBD  to learn the SaaS game – i.e. BBD will be a test bed for a future Enterprise SaaS offering. But we’re not there yet. (longer discussion here) [...]

]]> http://www.zoliblog.com/2006/08/18/enterprise-software-is-still-not-dead/#comment-826 Anonymous Fri, 25 Aug 2006 07:05:43 +0000 http://www.zoliblog.com/2006/08/18/enterprise-software-is-still-not-dead/#comment-826 I agree with your assessment that the single most important distinguishing characteristic of SaaS is the changed economic model and that it is largely driven by the fact these are hosted applications. In fact, open source is mostly orthogonal to SaaS- most start-ups starved for cash look to free software to prove out their concept and then go with enterprise class software. I agree with your assessment that the single most important distinguishing characteristic of SaaS is the changed economic model and that it is largely driven by the fact these are hosted applications. In fact, open source is mostly orthogonal to SaaS- most start-ups starved for cash look to free software to prove out their concept and then go with enterprise class software.

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