One of the more interesting conversations I had at the Microsoft Worldwide Partners Conference this week concerned an initiative they have launched to help IT understand – and get under control – proliferating ungoverned SaaS applications. Brad Anderson, Corporate VP for Cloud and Mobility, told the 16,000 attendees that enterprises need help. “We ask themContinue reading “Microsoft Turns the ‘Scope on SaaS”
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For GoodData, SaaS Changes The Channel Model Too
Last time I mentioned GoodData, it was in passing, as I discussed YouCalc and other SaaS BI players. In the ensuing year, many other toes have been dipped into the water. I sat down with GoodData CEO and founder Roman Stanek and Marketing VP Sam Boonin this week to catch up on how it’s allContinue reading “For GoodData, SaaS Changes The Channel Model Too”
Informatica Re-Factors the Value Chain for the Cloud
Informatica’s cloud ambitions continue and deepen with each new release. In the years since its 2006 launch, Informatica Cloud, the strategic initiative launched to bring Informatica’s data integration assets to the cloud, has won salesforce.com’s Best of AppExchange award for 2008 and 2009, added other cloud-based applications as targets, and most significant, signed up 650Continue reading “Informatica Re-Factors the Value Chain for the Cloud”
Want Broader BI Usage? Crystal Reports Founders Offer Indicee
Mark Cunningham has reunited some of the team that built Crystal Reports (now part of SAP Business Objects) and launched Indicee, a SaaS-based BI reporting play that is pointed squarely at the continuing difficulty of extending BI beyond its seemingly permanent minority usage model. It’s commonly understood that users continue to fend for themselves manually,Continue reading “Want Broader BI Usage? Crystal Reports Founders Offer Indicee”