Category: Future

Mar 03 2006

SaaS “not Sassy”

By Paul Wilkinson in Future, Internet, SaaS
3 March 2006

"The Internet-hosted software model has arrived, but hasn’t matured" is the message from a US conference on Software as a Service (SaaS), according to SaaS is OK, but Not Yet Sassy, an article on Red Herring. Adoption issues included integration with older packaged software systems and many SaaS vendors’ lack of a track record. However, …

Permanent link to this article: https://extranetevolution.com/2006/03/saas_not_sassy/

Mar 03 2006

Search: it’s all about beating Google

By Paul Wilkinson in Functionality, Future, Internet
3 March 2006

Despite Google’s wobble in the stock markets earlier this week, it remains the company other software developers want to beat when it comes to search. Today’s Silicon.com newsletter has two stories: Microsoft talks up ‘Google-beating’ search engine (promised in six months) and Oracle unveils ‘Google trouncing’ business search (targeting a loop-hole in Google’s array of …

Permanent link to this article: https://extranetevolution.com/2006/03/search_its_all_/

Feb 08 2006

Collaboration consolidation in US: Autodesk to acquire Constructware

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Future, Internet, Marketing, SaaS, Vendors
8 February 2006

At this morning’s NCCTP marketing meeting, Nathan Doughty (Asite/Free Collaboration) and I talked about today’s news regarding Autodesk’s $46m acquisition of US on-demand extranet provider Constructware (see news release; something also picked up by AEC bloggers Ralph Grabowski and Randall Newton). Since the merger-mania of the post-dot.com bust era, this is perhaps the first major …

12 comments

Permanent link to this article: https://extranetevolution.com/2006/02/collaboration_c-2/

Feb 07 2006

Fon

By Paul Wilkinson in Future, Internet, People issues, Telecoms
7 February 2006

The BBC reports Global wi-fi plan gets $22m boost, describing investment in a three-month-old Spanish – Fon – start-up aiming to build a network of broadband users to share connections wirelessly when away from home. The article talks of ‘Foneros’, ‘Linuses’, ‘Bills’ and ‘Aliens’ in explaining the founder’s vision: "a truly broadband wireless internet everywhere". …

1 comment

Permanent link to this article: https://extranetevolution.com/2006/02/fon/

Feb 06 2006

SAP: “a load of old SoSaaS”

By Paul Wilkinson in Blogs, Future, Internet, Marketing, SaaS
6 February 2006

"A load of old SoSaaS" is how Phil Wainewright describes SAP’s latest offering in the CRM sphere. The fundamental flaw is that SAP does not fully embrace the on-demand model at all; instead it sees the on-demand model as a way to get people to try out SAP’s application at a small-scale and then migrate …

1 comment

Permanent link to this article: https://extranetevolution.com/2006/02/sap_a_load_of_o/

Jan 25 2006

Kids today

By Paul Wilkinson in Future, Internet, People issues, SaaS
25 January 2006

Peter Cochrane’s blog at Silicon.com often delivers some interesting insights. I liked his latest piece – Kids today – in which he describes how new generations of IT users have little or no understanding of older technologies (he gives an example of a wi-fi-savvy eight-year-old with no experience of connecting to a network). I reckon …

Permanent link to this article: https://extranetevolution.com/2006/01/peter_cochranes/

Jan 23 2006

Interest in home working schemes rockets

By Paul Wilkinson in Future, Internet, People issues
23 January 2006

While some managers may be reluctant to let their staff work from home, the number of companies offering Home Computing Initiatives (HCI) schemes to employees has more than tripled in the past year (says a Silicon.com article). More than 1,250 organisations have implemented schemes, up from 380 at the same time last year, with increasing …

Permanent link to this article: https://extranetevolution.com/2006/01/interest_in_hom/

Jan 17 2006

Craigslist

By Paul Wilkinson in Future, Internet
17 January 2006

As a former freelance, I was interested in yesterday’s Media Guardian article, ‘I’m seriously trying to be more cynical’, about Craig Newmark, the founder of the classified advertising site, www.Craigslist.org (and its many regional offshoots, such as http://london.craigslist.org/). Newmark is rumoured to be considering an online newspaper, which may roll out this spring, and "collaborative …

Permanent link to this article: https://extranetevolution.com/2006/01/craigslist/

Jan 16 2006

Now traditional software is dead!

By Paul Wilkinson in Future, Internet, SaaS
16 January 2006

During the Christmas period, Software as a Service (SaaS) outages at TypePad and Salesforce.com (among others) prompted some to suggest the SaaS model was fatally flawed (see my 29 December post). Now, courtesy of Phil Wainewright, I read that "traditional software is already dead". He quotes, Jason Maynard, an analyst at Credit Suisse First Boston, …

1 comment

Permanent link to this article: https://extranetevolution.com/2006/01/now_traditional/

Dec 20 2005

Needed: a new NCCTP standard: how to account for extranet ‘traffic’

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Future, Marketing, People issues, ROI/benefits, Vendors
20 December 2005

In addition to vendors’ reluctance to release accurate and realistic statistics relating to their user bases (see recent posts here and here), I also find it difficult to get a clear handle on how much user activity each construction collaboration technology vendor is managing. Let’s take a couple of topical examples. First, a recent Aconex …