Author Archive for: AxelS
Entries by AxelS
OpenSource 2.0 — Monetizing success
Many people think about OpenSource and where it goes and so do I. One comment stroke me in particular at one of the recent conferences where somebody stated that OpenSource is good for lot of things but there is no TRUE innovation. “OpenSource projects today are pretty much improving what others did before – but […]
Next Level of Technology
Lot’s of discussions around the technology model (single tenant, multi tenant, hybrid model). Some say only a multi tenant architecture is a real SaaS play. I’d like to challenge all of us (at least the technologists) with some thoughts: Let’s look at today’s multi tenant architecture. The easiest way to do that is to check […]
The Enterprise Software Chasm
The SaaS Summit in Napa Valley this past week was a very interesting and well organized event by OpSource. I’m sure Amy Wohl and others will cover it and you may also want to read http://boassobusiness.blogspot.com/. Rather than providing redundant viewpoints, I’d like to comment on 1 particular topic: I call it “The Enterprise Software […]
Technology Free IT
Information Technology without Technology?I wrote quite a bid about the disruption, the growth and the strategic values of Software as a Service. I shared with many of you my vision about this industry and where it can go. In an earlier post I stated that we may run a business with nothing but SaaS. Today […]
The beginning of a new software economy
From 1 Million to 100 Million SaaS users in 5 years I guess we all pretty much agree: The SaaS Industry will grow fast. How fast – we will see in 5 years from now. But a few interesting indicators show where this all goes: 1) InvestorsOn conferences publicly and in individual conversations privately we […]
2006 Enterprise Software Summit
Enterprise Software will experience dramatic changes ahead. SaaS is the primary driver for those change. It is not the new delivery model, but three key elements: Benchmarking, User Experience and Reach and Cost & Efficiency advantages. The 2006 Enterprise Software Summit http://www.enterprisesoftwaresummit.com/agenda.htm circles around those themes. I look forward to it.
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 […]