Software as Services

Phil Wainewright
  • SuccessFactors swaps NetSuite for ByDesign

    By Phil Wainewright | May 15, 2012, 12:00pm PDT

    NetSuite CEO Zach Nelson claims SuccessFactors is a NetSuite customer. SAP says it runs on ByDesign now. Who’s right?

  • Paving the cowpaths to the denial cloud

    By Phil Wainewright | May 14, 2012, 6:16pm PDT

    Enterprises are being sold over-specified, inefficient private cloud infrastructure that will end up as shelfware, a conference heard last week.

  • Tech-hugging eurocrats imperil innovation puppy

    By Phil Wainewright | May 10, 2012, 1:06pm PDT

    Europe needs growth and cloud computing has a role to play. But are policy makers too eager for rapid results? An event later this month may yield some answers.

  • Crowd scale, friction and the nature of the firm

    By Phil Wainewright | April 24, 2012, 9:29am PDT

    Why a new, digitally enabled, contract-based online business model is disrupting long-established enterprises.

  • The day software ate Cisco

    By Phil Wainewright | April 22, 2012, 4:44am PDT

    Cisco’s track record with software tells us the company will not survive the shift to software-defined networking

  • Marketo buys Crowd Factory? You read it here first ...

    By Phil Wainewright | April 18, 2012, 8:23am PDT

    Read my analysis of today’s news in the blog post I published last November … the trouble with prescience is that people forget too easily these days

  • Cloud apps, big data and the wisdom of swarms

    By Phil Wainewright | April 6, 2012, 8:57am PDT

    Siri’s approach to deciphering voice recognition has lessons for SaaS vendors who are debating how to mine their stores of big data for value.

  • Cloud: disruptive good, disruptive bad

    By Phil Wainewright | March 29, 2012, 10:59am PDT

    Adoption of cloud in the enterprise is disruptive in a bad way for IT and in a good way for business. No wonder IT wants to put the brakes on.

  • Internet castaways of BBC's Apprentice

    By Phil Wainewright | March 22, 2012, 10:22am PDT

    Lord Sugar’s apprentices are learning how to be entrepreneurs in a parallel, non-digital reality where no one ever dreams of using their smartphone to look something up on Google

  • Appirio masters the automation of professional services

    By Phil Wainewright | March 19, 2012, 7:14am PDT

    Appirio’s latest funding is a new bell tolling for today’s top integrators, a warning signal that, rather than acquiring these cloud upstarts, they may indeed be challenged and replaced by them.