Author Archive for: AxelS
Entries by AxelS
Pioneering Software as a Service
When I initiated the development for a first “software service” based application in 1997 using ColdFusion 1.5, I had no idea of the development of this industry. It was just ment to interact with our 4,000 resellers in 20 countries and client/server software was obviously not the right way to go. In 2001 I founded […]
Enterprise Software is dead – long live the enterprise
We hear it all over the place – the enterprise software market is dead. With two players left: Oracle and SAP, nobody will want to compete with them. So, bad times for enterprises, if you don’t want to choose between those two. Well – there is a new world how ever: OnDemand Software Service (OSS) […]
Leading by innovation
BlueRoads achievements so far:– Attracted a top executive team who in turn hired an exceptional team under them– Successfully raised 3 rounds of funding, in rather tough times.– Delivered a robust and very highly regarded product suite– Received a lot of respect from customers, analysts including Gartner, partners and other players in the market– Grew […]
Executive Blogging
Currently about 100,000 blogs are created every day in accordance to a recent article in Forbes. Yet it still feels like something for freaky insiders. But that may change soon. Executive Blogging (as I call it) may soon be a preferred way for executives to stay in touch with their community of customers, prospects, investors, […]
Innovation: Software as a Service
Software as a Service is one of those innovations (see my post below). It wasn’t meant to be a better way of delivering software. The SaaS movement is about a whole new information technology experience. Some other interesting insight can be read at Sam’s blog, one of the Microsoft people who are driving SaaS. I […]
Innovation
Innovation has always fascinated me – it is something that keeps me going. There is one particular aspect about “innovation” that keeps thinking: the difference between Innovation and Improvement (making great things better). Innovators don’t think about improving an existing solution. Innovation is about understanding a problem from a high level and then diving deep […]