New Report: An elegant solution to keep your books INTACCT

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 […]

New report: Plex Systems flexing its muscles

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 […]

SaaS – Large Enterprise Adoption – Definitely an Early Majority play now

We recently completed a report about large enterprises and their adoption of SaaS applications. When this kicked off, we thought we’d find a lot of firms telling us they’re still worried about data security in the cloud. We thought we’d hear a lot of hemming and hawing. Instead, we found big, really big firms, adopting […]

Want to be more relevant? Quit chasing, fixing and passing around paper docs!

Jeff Williams, an old colleague of mine at Accenture, and I will be guests on a webinar on June 3, 2010. The webinar will be run by CFO magazine and sponsored by SpringCM. SpringCM is a cloud-based content management solution headquartered here in Chicago. Jeff and I will get quizzed regarding our views on the […]

Cytiva – Initiating Coverage & New Report

We recently began coverage of Cytiva, the makers of Sonic Recruit and other HR applications. We’ve developed a research report on the company and its products. The report is available for $395 and can be ordered via our request form on this website. Here’s an excerpt from the Solutions section of the report:   The […]

Coda 2go – A Force to Reckon With

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 […]

NetSuite’s NS-BOS – Part of a Bigger Story

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 […]

NetSuite Earnings

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 […]

SuiteBundler to Propel Innovation Within NetSuite

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 […]