Comments on: 3 Half-Truths about SaaS

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SaaS Risk Reduction Series | CloudAve — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 22:20:30 +0000

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By: Cloud Computing: The myths, realities and everything else - Part 2 | CloudAve

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 00:54:52 +0000

[...] Cloud Avenue editor Zoli Erdos has blogged about this sometime back in his personal blog. Reports indicate that by 2012, at least 80% of big enterprises will spend their budget on some [...]

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:51:56 +0000

From the perspective of an online retailer SaaS makes much more sense. It is much more cost effective to rent a SaaS such as MTI’s Brick N Click for eBay which provides 3 easily manageable eBay based sales channels that make a retailers life easier and eliminates a lot of the preliminary and maintenance work. You should read this webpage that explains the revolutionary technology (http://www.mtiretail.com/SaaS_Info.cfm) and if you would like more details you can take their webinar. http://www.mtiretail.com/BrickNClick.cfm?PgID=1

By: Comments on Zoli’s “3 Half-Truth’s about SaaS” « Alex’s blog

Thu, 29 May 2008 00:51:13 +0000

[...] industry veteran with a great blog. I recently discovered a post where he talks about 3 common half-truths about SaaS (Software as a Service). Over the past 2.5 years I’ve been working as a Director of Product [...]

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Fri, 16 May 2008 21:12:49 +0000

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By: Alex Pozin

Alex Pozin — Tue, 06 May 2008 00:27:55 +0000

Zoli,

I posted some comments that include my observations over 2.5 years working for a SaaS vendor and following the SaaS trends.

http://alexpozin.vox.com/library/post/comments-on-zolis-3-half-truths-about-saas.html

Best,

Alex

By: A response to Zoli’s SaaS observation… at diversity.net.nz

A response to Zoli’s SaaS observation… at diversity.net.nz — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 21:37:39 +0000

[...] on Zoli’s blog, he posted trying to dispel three myths about SaaS, [...]

By: A responde to Zoli’s SaaS observation… at diversity.net.nz

A responde to Zoli’s SaaS observation… at diversity.net.nz — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 20:39:22 +0000

[...] on Zoli’s blog, he posted trying to dispel three myths about SaaS, [...]

By: Tom Altman

Tom Altman — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 19:36:55 +0000

It seems like an argument for Platform as a Service too.

By: Jason M. Lemkin

Jason M. Lemkin — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 18:07:26 +0000

At EchoSign at least Enterprise is NOT a follow-on to self-serve. They have different ways of looking at software, and don’t care as much that there is a “free trial” or a limited use account except in a very narrow sense of those who want to try the product in isolation. The majority want to be demo’d the product (unlike self-service), whether in an automated fashion (on the site), in a passive fashion (on a webinar), or 1-1 with a sales rep.

Hence the massive # of sales reps at Salesforce, WebEx, etc. …

Re: pull. This may be more true actually in Enterprise than SMB b/c they actually have folks looking for 2.0 solutions. SMBs aren’t searching for new services as much as enterprises today, I think, counter to conventional wisdom and the TechCrunch-centric view of the world. SMBs will buy, but it’s the larger businesses and enterprises that have the people and bandwidth to look …