One of the more interesting problems facing startups today is the double bind that cloud computing offers innovative new software companies.
On the one hand, deploying new...
The rise of the social Web has been greeted by the same kind of hallelujah chorus that proclaims the advent of all new technology-meets-business trends:...
In the future, every vendor will be famous for 15 minutes. Unfortunately for everyone.
If your company is a typical consumer of enterprise software, there’s a new...
Last year at this time I wrote a column predicting that, despite the pending recession, enterprise software would show real growth in 2008. The reasons I gave...
There’s no time like the present for specific, dramatic, and concrete statements on what enterprise software customers should expect from their vendors in the coming...
The New York Times had a pathetically funny article in its business section last week that highlighted a common misperception about what constitutes a customer – and...
In the eternal quest to find the next orchard, the one replete with all that proverbial low-hanging fruit, the entire enterprise software market has focused...
As the software-as-a-service (SaaS) market matures, I’m starting to see an important demarcation line between future success and future failure.
The demarcation is stark enough...