Archive for April, 2007
ThinkFree Integrated with Clearspace
ThinkFree is now integrated with Clearspace.
Idea Exchange Rocks
A couple of weeks ago, I explained how Intalio is outsourcing its product management function to customers using a process we call Demand Driven Development. Following the release of this article, I have been exposed to the Idea Exchange, and must say that I am very impressed by the quality of the implementation that Salesforce.com developed for an idea quite similar to ours. [Continue…]
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Office 2.0 Japan
Many readers of this blog are from Japan, and several of them have recently expressed interest for an Office 2.0 meeting to be organized there. After some preliminary investigations, we have decided to organize such an event, albeit at a small scale, to take place in Tokyo on June 26th. [Continue…]
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First Koral, then ThinkFree and EchoSign
Three months ago, I wrote about Koral, one of the best online document management systems currently available. Today, Salesforce.com will announce that they acquired the company, and are using its technology to build Apex Content and ContentExchange. This acquisition marks Salesforce.com’s entry into the ECM market, but I hope Marc and his team won’t stop there. [Continue…]
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Salesforce.com acquired Koral
Salesforce.com acquired Koral.
Get Your BPMN Schema Today
In a recent article published by Intelligent Enterprise, my friend Bruce Silver laments that BPDM is essentially useless, and that the BPM industry badly needs an XML schema for BPMN. I could not agree more with him, and I am happy to report that Intalio recently donated such a schema to the Eclipse Foundation, complemented by a ridiculously-good-looking object model for it. Not only did we give the schema away for free, but we also donated a complete implementation for it. [Continue…]
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SAP Should Get Serious about SaaS
The market for enterprise applications is not growing much anymore. Faced with this challenge, large enterprise software vendors have only two options: grow through acquisitions, or go after the SMB market, which has been traditionally underserved. This transition is particularly obvious for a couple of vendors — Oracle and SAP. On the M&A front, nobody could execute better than Larry Ellison and his team today, therefore I contend that SAP’s future lies in the SMB market. But SMBs do not like to buy software, mainly because they do not have access to the IT resources that are necessary to deploy and maintain it. Instead, they would rather buy it as a service, as Salesforce.com’s demonstrated so well. This is why SAP should really get serious about the Software as a Service model. [Continue…]
