Tag: SaaS
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Coté Memo #078: Spiceworld 2015, Spiceworks Momentum, Enterprise Use, and DevOps
Tech & Work World I was at Spiceworld, briefly, last week. This is Spiceworks’ big user, annual conference in Austin; they have one in London as well. I’ve followed Spiceworks for many years (from RedMonk to 451 Research) and have always liked their IT management approach: their business model is to be the Facebook of…
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Okta Raises $75 Million, Boosting Valuation to Nearly $1.2 Billion
Okta Raises $75 Million, Boosting Valuation to Nearly $1.2 Billion
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[Coté Memo #7] Winning in cloud hinges on package software, AMZN 2014Q2 marginalia, DevOps sniffing
Meta-data Hello again, welcome to #7. Today we have 22 subscribers, so we’re +1. I’d love to hear what you like, dislike, your feedback, etc.: memo@cote.io. See past newsletters in the archives, and, as always, see things as they come at Cote.io and [@cote](https://micro.blog/cote). Sponsor 451 Research, is having it’s big cloud conferences this Fall,…
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New Connector Links Heroku and Salesforce.com Data Repositories
New Connector Links Heroku and Salesforce.com Data Repositories
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ERP is moving to SaaS all the sudden
The proportion of enterprises that have replaced or plan to replace existing ERP systems with SaaS has doubled from 12 to 24 percent in the past year, according to research published this week by industry analyst firm Forrester. In addition, the numbers planning to use SaaS alongside on-premise ERP — for example in ‘two-tier’ ERP…
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Infor ERP moving products to AWS – Press Pass
A few weeks ago, I talked with Chris Kanaracus for his story on Infor moving parts of their application portfolio to Amazon Web Services. Chris said this looked like a pretty strong endorsement for using AWS, and asked for my thoughts, which were: Yes, this a nice vote a confidence for AWS. However, I think…
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A nice illustration of the problem shifting your customer base from on-premises to public cloud
Buried in this piece on Cisco doing some public cloud stuff is this little description about how the shift to public cloud creates a strategic threat to incumbent vendors: Cloud computing represented an interesting opportunity to equipment companies like Cisco, as it aggregated the market down to fewer buyers. There are approximately 1,500 to 2,000…
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CopperEgg tackles APM space under Idera (451 Report)
My colleague Dennis Callaghan wrote up an update around CopperEgg, the APM tool purchased by Idera in July of 2013. While you’ll have to be a 451 client to read the full report (or sign up for a free trial), here’s some excerpts: Now under Idera, CopperEgg has added real-user monitoring and repositioned itself as…
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The $158B data-driven advertising market
I guess this why companies like Oracle and IBM keep buying advertising SaaSes and such: The report estimates that in 2012, the data-driven marketing economy added $156 billion in revenue to the U.S. economy and fueled more than 675,000 jobs. To put that statistic in perspective, that’s nearly half of total U.S. expenditures on marketing…
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451 Research: Boundary wants to be your MOM – Boundary
Most of what I write professionally is behind a paywall now, so it’s fun when something gets unleashed. One of our clients, Boundary, re-printed a piece on them I wrote recently, which provides an update and overview of their business, and speaks to their new VPC-driven private cloud offering. Here’s an excerpt of the customers…
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Progress enabling SaaSify
“Our ISV customers have said, we want to be able to compete in the cloud,” explains CEO Philip Pead. So Progress also announced that it would be gradually moving its software components into the cloud, to create an all new "platform-as-a-service" offering. – Progress Software buys a new front end for its PaaS play You…
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