Jeffrey L. Williams (Jeff), good friend and colleague, and I took a fairly good look at Intacct recently. If you don’t know Intacct, they’ve got a solid SaaS (software-as-a-service) Accounting solution that integrates with many best of breed solutions to round out an entire suite. We’ve interviewed top management, participated in product demonstrations, and more […]
Over the last couple of weeks, my colleague, Jeffrey L. Williams, and I have been pondering a number of heady topics affecting Finance organizations and the executives who run them. We’ve talked about the future of shared services, F&A Outsourcing and even the basic processes like Procure-to-Pay. Out of these conversations, we decided to do […]
Tom Ryan, good friend and colleague, and I took a fairly good look at Plex Systems recently. If you don’t know Plex, they’ve got a solid SaaS (software-as-a-service) ERP solution. We’ve interviewed customers, top management and more to develop this report. Here’s an excerpt from our Market Prognosis section of the report: “Currently, Plex Systems […]
New Research Report – Coda’s New Force.com Based Product Line We recently prepared a research report on the Coda 2go product line. Coda 2go is an all-new product line built off the software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform, Force.com. Force.com is the salesforce.com development platform being featured to much fanfare by salesforce.com in events worldwide. We liked the […]
Big, Report, Big Investment, Big Product Suite Enterprise Irregular Dennis Howlett and Vital Analysis founder Brian Sommer have teamed up to write a single, definitive report on SAP’s Business ByDesign product suite. While both of them have blogged and/or developed short research reports on this product suite, both parties believed that something this big and expansive […]
Oracle’s Accelerate Strategy There’s been a flurry of press releases and announcements re: Oracle and their re-doubled partner program in the SMB (small-medium business) space. We recently spoke with Jeff Abbott, Vice President Global Accelerate Strategy of Oracle, about the program and its new momentum. Here’s a quote from the Prognosis section of the […]
Last week, NetSuite announced its NS-BOS business operating system. Along with this announcement, NetSuite also announced the availability of a new debugging tool. There is a bigger picture angle to this and its one that escapes other SaaS application vendors. NetSuite’s approach to the mid-market maybe superior to that of over SaaS vendors. It’s a […]
New Report on NetSuite’s 2007 Earnings Today, 2/14/2008, NetSuite management briefed analysts on the company’s financial performance for the year 2007. Executives also discussed NetSuite’s competition, capital deployment, hiring plans and a recent 1000 user CRM win. All of these items are discussed in the a special Vital Analysis report. For a limited time, this […]
Progress Apama – An Event Technology That’s Work a Long, Hard Look We recently had a chance to watch a demonstration of Progress’ Apama product. Apama is an event-driven technology that has seen market successes in the financial services industry. The demonstration we witnessed was in another industry – Manufacturing – and was provided by a […]
NetSuite Adds Powerful Tools to its Product Line Late 2007, NetSuite announced powerful new product line capabilities to its Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) application product line. We were particularly impressed with the intense new vertical extensions that have been developed by NetSuite resellers using the new SuiteBundler tools. In the Prognosis section of our report, we wrote […]