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Lawson’s CEO: Head in the SaaS Sand


Jim Berkowitz’s blog today makes mention of a rather amazing interview with Harry Debes, CEO of Lawson Software, in which Debes predicts that the SaaS “industry will collapse,” starting with Salesforce.com, in two years. I presume that to save...
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Going Green with SaaS


I attended an event Saturday night for Acterra, an organization promoting environmental sustainability in the Bay Area that my wife is involved with. The Prius count in the parking lot was exceptionally high, and the vegan menu was a bit of a...
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SaaS in the Desert


I've just returned from Software 2008, held at the Mandalay Bay hotel in Las Vegas. This year, Software 2008 moved away from the bay area and was co-located with Interop, a giant networking hardware convention monstrosity. One of the reporters at...
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Search experiments, large and small


In my previous post, I described the components of your web search experience and the principles behind creating a great search experience. There are complex algorithms underlying simple features such as spelling correction and the two line snippets...
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Fully Managed CRM


I've been reading CRM RFP responses for much of the week and I've seen a number of references to fully managed systems™. This caught my attention at first because it seemed to support the suggestion in my last post that outsourced of...
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Are Enterprise Mashups a Viable Option for Wall St


In a pragmatic new article for Wall Street and Technology entitled Mashups Slowly Gain Traction on Wall Street, Melanie Rodier provides an overview of how a growing number of financial firms have started turning to mashups to save money and improve...
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