Category: SaaS

Aug 15 2006

Windows Live Writer – beta version launched

I have been a bit sceptical about Microsoft’s ability to adapt to the Web 2.0 world, but the blogosphere reaction to its new Live Writer announcement has been very positive (see, for example, Phil Wainewright’s view). In a nutshell (and to re-use Wainewright’s original wish-list), it is: a simple utility that you can use as …

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Aug 11 2006

UK extranet vendor PR update

The past couple of months have seen a flurry of UK deals reported on the websites of the leading construction collaboration technology vendors. For example: BIW Technologies has just announced a three-year corporate deal with contractor Fitzpatrick Business Collaborator signed up Parkman Mouchel in June BuildOnline is to support Thomas and ADAMSON and the City …

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Aug 11 2006

What You Need to Know About Web 2.0

Mystified by talk of Web 2.0, mashups and the like? Read Steve Apiki’s helpful article, found on the ASPnews.com site.

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Aug 08 2006

Extolling the extranet ethos

The latest ITShowcase newsletter reports on the NCCTP market research, Proving Collaboration Pays (see previous post) – basically the text of the NCCTP news release, but at least the key messages are being disseminated.

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Aug 08 2006

ASP, SaaS, On-demand or the “business web”?

At ASPstreet, an article – What do you call your ASP? – by Minda Zetlin usefully sums up some of the debate about terminology, and proposes a term that we may hear more of in the months ahead. Zetlin points out that the term ‘ASP’ became discredited in some people’s eyes by its much-hyped associations …

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Aug 01 2006

Top 10 SaaS myths

Phil Wainewright’s blog is an invaluable resource for commentary on new developments in the Software-as-a-Service sector. His latest post talks about an SaaS business (Crownpeak) confident enough to confront head-on the ten most frequently raised objections to the SaaS model: The complete list of myths: Fewer features Customer loses control Security is a problem Difficult …

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Jul 28 2006

End of the PC era

The latest Microsoft admission that the future lies in internet-based services comes from new Microsoft boss Ray Ozzie. The Financial Times says the "top technology visionary" has declared an end to the PC era, laying out a vision for the company in which internet-based services, rather than PCs, lie at the centre of its worldview. …

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Jul 20 2006

Clients increasingly require ‘Extranet expertise’: NCCTP research highlights benefits of using collaboration systems

The UK ‘project extranet’ vendors’ association, the Network of Construction Collaboration Technology Providers (NCCTP) has today published its market research report, Proving Collaboration Pays. The research was undertaken by an independent market research consultancy, Benchmark Research, and is – to the best of my knowledge – the biggest ‘extranet’ user survey ever undertaken, certainly as …

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Jul 14 2006

Microsoft to go ‘on demand’ (2)

Reactions to news (eg: here and here) that Microsoft is to release its own customer relationship management (CRM) application as a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) application range from positive welcomes to derision. Microsoft’s Dynamics CRM product line will be transformed into a "Live" service when it ships next year. Rival SaaS CRM vendors aren’t worried (Marc Benioff …

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Jun 30 2006

BuildOnline launches programme management ‘heatmap’ solution

BuildOnline has launched what it claims is "the first ‘heatmap-based’ programme management system". Project managers get a real-time ‘pressure gauge’ to monitor progress across their projects. The system was developed in partnership with BNP Paribas, and is described as an "enterprise-class programme management system … targeted at project managers of mission-critical projects, such as the …

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