SaaSPert

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A blog by dubdubdubber

Blog description:

Software as a Service: Insights

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SaaSPert ranks 762 in Africa and 465 in South Africa. According to site visitors it ranks 1816, and 1564 according to page views:

According to blogroll links it ranks 2190 and 1806 according to the amount of links within Afrigator blog posts

Why businesses will adopt SaaS technologies to enable a mobile wo

This article is written specifically from a South African perspective, but it certainly applies to many other countries with a similar infrastructural and/or legislative environment. It is in press release format, so the tone is a little more formal than some of my other posts. I thought it was

My SaaS Presentation from NetProphet

These are my materials released by the RAMP Foundation on the NetProphet site from the NetProphet event at Mutual Business Park in Pinelands, Cape Town in May 2009. My slide presentation: Pete Flynn - Software As A Service - Net Prophet 2009 View more OpenOffice presentations from RAMPGrp.

Starting Out: 2 things to focus on as an investor

When planning a new business venture, I have learned that a great question to ask  is “what would a would-be buyer of this proposed business look at should I choose to sell it at a later stage?” This “thought experiment” will focus you on the business issues that really

Starting Out: Great SaaS businesses do…

Last time I said that I was going to post about great SaaS business examples. Well I’ve been researching this topic and it is “1 million miles wide and 1 mile deep.” I decided to use less real company examples and talk more on a “principles” basis. My

Starting Out: What business ideas suit SaaS?

SaaS is a volumes business “Your SaaS business is a volumes business…” SaaS products are successful when they have lots of clients. Simply said, “it’s a volume’s business.” Ideas that work well on a SaaS model need to meet a fairly generic need (albeit with customizable options) and there

Starting Out: Why Saas?

I would like to say upfront that I am mostly answering this question from the point of view of company/entrepreneur looking to decide whether to build their software on a SaaS architectural design and business model versus a more classic model (as opposed to addressing the question from a

Strengthening the Argument: GE uses SaaS to manage 500,000 suppli

General Electric manages and relies on one of the world’s largest and most complex supplier networks of over 500,000 suppliers across thousands of business units in more than 100 countries – and they have chosen and implemented a SaaS product (Aravo SIM) to provide an on-demand Supplier Information System

Strengthening the Argument: Gartner Report

According to a Gartner Report released on 22 October 2008: “Worldwide software-as-a-service (SaaS) revenue in the enterprise application markets* is on pace to surpass $6.4 billion in 2008, a 27 per cent increase from 2007 revenue of $5.1 billion, according to Gartner, Inc. The

Starting Out: What is Saas?

Software as a Service (SaaS) is also commonly known as “Software on Demand.” In a basic sense these terms refer to software delivered to end users, over the internet, on a pay-per-use basis. According to Wikipedia, “SaaS is generally associated with business software and is typically thought of as

Thinking as a service…

For the last 6 years I have been “heads down” furiously working on building web based software for clients, growing our consulting team and building our own intellectual property at White Wall Web. Even as early as 2003, we were convinced that building web based software had serious benefits

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