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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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