One of the things that's always intrigued me about business intelligence has been its ability to survive as a standalone application category. This is especially true of BI delivered as SaaS. Like social collaboration, there's a constant tension between the...
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Results of a global survey of HR executives published earlier this month by IBM suggests that adopting collaboration and social networking tools really does enhance revenues and profits. According to a press statement issued by the vendor, companies that perform...
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An article published earlier this month lists six examples of how Salesforce.com is using its own Chatter collaboration tool within its operations. It sheds some useful light on what Chatter is good for, and it put me in mind of...
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When people talk about cloud, I find they often forget the most crucial element of cloud computing, namely the cloud context. The whole point of cloud computing is being connected. Taking the same technology and leaving it isolated behind a...
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Listen to my conversation with Adam Caplan, CEO of Model Metrics, one of the new breed of professional services firms that specializes in cloud implementations. In this podcast, learn how enterprises are mashing up cloud applications to enhance user productivity,...
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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