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Sage Advice


I've written quite a bit about Software as a Service and channels as it is one of my top areas of interest - from my personal experience at Trigo, Postini and Intacct the prevailing wisdom that SaaS and channels don't mix just doesn't make sense....
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What PaaS Should Learn from the August 2003 Blacko


We’re in an interesting transition within the software space. Specifically, we’re all in agreement that SaaS is changing the industry in a very positive way. More importantly, however, is the recent evolution of platform as a service (PaaS), which...
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Strategy Definition or Strategy Execution…


Which is more important?   It’s a bit of a chicken vs. egg argument, but it’s fair to say that both are critical to driving positive financial results.   Put it this way, if defining strategy explains 15% of a company’s financial performance then...
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More on Cloud Computing from Dion Hinchcliffe


Dion Hinchcliffe recently provide a comprehensive overview of the status of cloud computing for the enterprise in his post, Enterprise cloud computing gathers steam. It is a good article for spinning your knowledge up on what this trend means...
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Who "CAN" provide enterprise apps?


The SaaS blogosphere has been abuzz these last couple of days discussing Sergey Solyanik’s assessment that Google’s culture is “not fit” for enterprise apps. We’ll say up front that Appirio runs our internal communication and collaboration using...
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Salesforce and Google Apps


The announcement of Salesforce for Google Apps has again raised questions about why Google hasn’t been successful in getting major corporations to widely deploy its Web-based productivity applications, particularly the Google Apps Premier...
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