Listen to my conversation with Eric Berridge, CEO of Bluewolf, one of the pioneers of a new generation of professional services companies that specialize in software-as-a-service and cloud computing. In this podcast, learn what attracts large enterprises to SaaS, and...
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Listen to my conversation with Rick Nucci, chief technology officer of Boomi, a SaaS integration vendor, who we last interviewed here in April 2009 on the topic of SaaS Integration, Simpler through Sharing. In this podcast, learn why multi-tenancy is...
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Listen to my conversation with Mark Symonds, CEO of Plex Systems, which delivers ERP software-as-a-service to mid-market manufacturing companies. In this podcast, learn why middle America's manufacturing companies are turning to SaaS to operate their business systems, and find out...
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A phrase that instantly intrigued me when I had a pre-brief of Box.net's new announcement this week (all Techmeme coverage) was the vendor's newly coined notion of 'cloud content management.' VP of marketing Jen Grant (who I've interviewed previously here...
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Listen to my conversation with Jeff Kaplan, managing director of strategic consulting firm THINKstrategies, and one of the foremost analysts tracking software-as-a-service, on-demand and cloud computing. In this podcast, learn why it's not enough to simply port an existing software...
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The new year has kicked off with some contrasting cross-currents for enterprise cloud aficianados and neophytes alike. On the positive side of the balance sheet, there's a new and surprising Gartner prediction that a fifth of enterprises will have migrated...
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Driven by the spread of the Web and advances in Web capabilities over the past ten years, a new way of working in distributed teams has become commonplace for a broad range of project-based activities. In media and advertising, software...
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Listen to my conversation with Michael Knighten, director of hosted services at software development and collaboration vendor Atlassian. In this podcast, discover why developers are choosing to move their projects to cloud-based collaboration platforms, and learn how the availability of...
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In the coming year, I believe we're going to see a fundamental change in the architecture of collaboration software. We'll see it move out from individual silos of collaboration functionality into much more of a distributed capability that permeates right...
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With hindsight, I believe we can look back over the decade just finished and see ten years in which a fundamental transformation took place in the culture of computing, one that finally acknowledged the central role that people the...
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Phil Wainewright blogs about how businesses are using the Web to get better plugged into today's fast-moving, digital economy.
Phil Wainewright
Phil Wainewright specializes in on-demand services (SaaS, PaaS and cloud), Web 2.0/Enterprise 2.0 and services architectures (SOA). He has closely observed the evolution of SaaS for more than a decade since founding the ASPnews [provide link] website in 1998. He now writes the influential ZDNet Software as Services blog and, as CEO of strategic consulting firm Procullux Ventures, advises ISVs and other industry participants on SaaS success strategies. He also founded the Loosely Coupled blog to track enterprise adoption of web services and is a member of the Enterprise Irregulars network. View more