Jeffrey Kaplan

Today’s economic crisis makes it imperative that organizations of all sizes find new ways to perform their operations in a more cost-effective fashion. This is particularly true for small- and mid-size businesses (SMBs) which often operate with thinner margins than their larger enterprise counterparts. A new generation of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions can help SMBs reduce […]

A growing number of organizations are adopting Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and cloud computing services to augment or replace their legacy software and systems, and many IT organizations are also beginning to recognize that they can learn how to better manage their operations by mimicking the success of these on-demand services. THINKstrategies’ most recent survey of over […]

If there is a silver lining to our current economic crisis it’s that it should force IT and business decision makers to thoroughly reevaluate some of their fundamental operating assumptions, and encourage them to adopt new strategies and solutions which can have a positive long-term impact on their organizations. There are already plenty of reports […]

The more things change, the more they stay the same. Just as independent software vendors (ISVs) of the past sought to gain a stronger position in the market by expanding their software portfolios from single products to integrated suites, today’s Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) vendors are embarking on the same strategy with a new set of SaaS […]

Many industry pundits and incumbent software vendors (ISVs) predicted that Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) was just a passing fad and would fade away like its predecessor of the dot.com era, the application service provider (ASP). Instead, the SaaS market is flourishing because of a combination of macro-trends and the ability of the leading SaaS vendors to overcome […]