A new survey of IT decision-makers in India suggests that ease of use and convenience are the top reasons for adopting Software-as-aService (SaaS). The study, by Springboard Research, also revealed the biggest barriers to SaaS adoption in India are a high level of comfort with on-premise applications and lack of adequate awareness about the availability …
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Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2009/01/india-saas-growth-forecast/
Jan 08 2009
Geographic information in a web-based world
I am spending the afternoon at a CASA conference (sponsored by the AGI) at University College London talking about use of geographic information, which promises lots of talk about mash-ups, re-use of data. 1.45pm: First up, Richard Milton demonstrating GMapCreator and MapTube – applications for publishing data to Google Maps, showing, for example, maps relating …
Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2009/01/geographic-information-in-a-web-based-world/
Jan 02 2009
AtomicBIM and UUID
Last February I wrote (here, here and here) about the possibility of CAD applications being delivered as Software-as-a-Service – a concept I called CADaaS. Then, realising that CAD is likely to be superseded eventually by building information modelling (BIM), I updated the concept in June to BIMaaS. Noting along the way posts on the topic …
Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2009/01/atomicbim-and-uuid/
Dec 31 2008
Reviewing 2008
Just as I did last year (see Reviewing 2007), I have been looking back at my five predictions for 2008 (see one, two, three, four and five for more detail). 1. Further polarisation of the UK construction collaboration marketplace. I do think the UK market has polarised a little further, though the trend may have …
Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2008/12/reviewing-2008/
Dec 18 2008
Recession effects
The different headlines about the same National Computing Centre study (see press release) all suggest the current economic downturn is having some impacts on IT investment decisions, affecting the balance between Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and conventional internally-hosted applications: Recession to strengthen SaaS appeal (Computer Business Review Online) Downturn spells stay of execution for legacy IT (ZDnet) …
Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2008/12/recession-effects/
Dec 12 2008
Lower cost of ownership driving SaaS adoption
Thanks to an email from Rishi Seth at Springboard Research, I have learned that decision-makers from small, medium and large enterprises across Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) have described lower cost of ownership as the most significant reason for adopting Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), ahead of other factors such as ease of use and management (see news …
Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2008/12/lower-cost-of-ownership-driving-saas-adoption/
Dec 11 2008
BIW grows 27% to September 2008
UK-based construction collaboration software-as-a-service (SaaS) technology vendor BIW Technologies [my employer] grew its turnover 27% to £7.3 million in the year to 30 September 2008, it announced yesterday, with profits more than doubling to £1.1 million; the value of unrecognised revenues in the order book was up to £12.77 million (see news release). On both …
Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2008/12/biw-grows-27-to-september-2008/
Dec 09 2008
Building Web 2.0 awareness
Fellow Be2camp organiser Martin Brown (here) and I (here and here, for example) have both written several recent blog postings about the AEC sector’s adoption of Web 2.0 tools. Martin’s post was also picked up by the US-based Construction Software Review blog (Construction needs to embrace technology, not avoid it, part 6: Web awareness) who …
Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2008/12/building-web-20-awareness/
Dec 05 2008
Economic Climate Will Accelerate SaaS
The title of an online article, Economic Climate Will Accelerate Cloud Computing, is actually misleading (the content is all about Software-as-a-Service, ie: more “in-the-cloud” than “cloud computing” per se), but it makes some persuasive points about the attractions of SaaS in a recession: “In an economic downturn, ‘do more with less’ and quick ROI behavior …
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