The Connected Web

Pod-Scale vs Warehouse-Scale Computing

By Phil Wainewright on June 30, 2009 3:27 PM 1 Vote 0 Votes

At its OpenWorld conference two years ago, Oracle president Charles Phillips unexpectedly called me into an impromptu briefing to make sure I fully understood the vendor's stance on SaaS and multi-tenancy. Ever since launching Business Online (now known as Oracle... Read More..

Where SaaS Meets BPO

By Phil Wainewright on June 26, 2009 6:40 AM 1 Vote 0 Votes

Listen to my interview with Michael Custers, VP of marketing at NorthgateArinso, a global human resources (HR) software and services provider. The company was recently named as an early collaborator in SAP's on-demand strategy, for its work in developing an... Read More..

Enterprise 2.0: Automating the Unpurposeful

By Phil Wainewright on June 22, 2009 1:35 PM 1 Vote 0 Votes

Back in the late nineteenth century, when wealthy residents of big cities started to install telephones in their homes, people were not quite sure what purpose they would solve. Perhaps the Mayor would use them to address the populace on... Read More..

Free Is the New SaaS

By Phil Wainewright on June 18, 2009 3:58 PM 0 Vote 0 Votes

Listen to my interview with Jerome Ternynck, CEO of MrTed, an on-demand provider of recruitment applications. In this podcast, hear about the vendor's free-of-charge on-demand recruitment application for SMBs and find out why its business model for making money from... Read More..

There's a Real World Out There, Folks!

By Phil Wainewright on June 15, 2009 3:46 PM 3 Vote 0 Votes

A while back, my birthday happened to coincide with a business trip, and in between meetings I found a quiet corridor to take a call from my family. After hanging up, I decided to post something about it on Twitter.... Read More..

How Your Sales People Can Always Be Closing

By Phil Wainewright on June 11, 2009 11:19 AM 0 Vote 0 Votes

Listen to my interview with Mike Pilcher, VP of sales and general manager, international, at MarketBright, which helps businesses use the web for more effective marketing. In this podcast, learn how marketing automation can help utilize expensive sales resources more... Read More..

Why Bother with Multi-tenancy?

By Phil Wainewright on June 8, 2009 12:49 PM 2 Vote 0 Votes

Many people are starting to question whether the purest form of provider-hosted multi-tenancy is really necessary. Some people have even thought that I was questioning it myself, when I reported Intalio's launch a couple of weeks ago of a multi-tenant... Read More..

Helping Brands Engage with Social Media

By Phil Wainewright on May 29, 2009 9:11 AM 2 Vote 0 Votes

Listen to my interview with David Vap, VP of products at RightNow Technologies, one of the most established SaaS vendors in the CRM field. In this podcast, learn how automated filtering technology helps organizations monitor social media streams to rapidly... Read More..

SaaS and Cloud Forging a New Role for CIOs

By Phil Wainewright on May 26, 2009 8:08 AM 4 Vote 0 Votes

One of the myths surrounding software as a service is the notion that SaaS makes the CIO redundant. While it's true that businesses replacing on-premise applications with SaaS equivalents will have less in-house infrastructure to maintain, their IT staff still... Read More..

Getting the Best Out of Digital Marketing

By Phil Wainewright on May 19, 2009 3:58 PM 1 Vote 0 Votes

Listen to my interview with Scott Dorsey, CEO of ExactTarget, an on-demand email and 1-to-1 marketing provider that's just landed a $70 million venture capital funding round. In this podcast, learn what organizations are doing to make sure their digital... Read More..

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