Archive for May 30th, 2010

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

Sunday, May 30th, 2010

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 SaaS applications. These firms told us about their plans to implement more and more SaaS applications. More amazing were the numbers they shared with us regarding how much less these applications cost than on-premise products. 2010 Vital Analysis report

This is a big report with a lot of surprises. And, more than anything, it showed us that SaaS is no longer the domain of early adopters and innovators. It’s now well within the realm of Geoffrey Moore’s Early Majority.

NEW REPORTS COMING!

Sunday, May 30th, 2010

Our expanded team of analysts (including veterans from Gartner Group, Aberdeen Group and another Software Intelligence star) have just completed a number of analysts reports on:

– SuccessFactors

– Workday

– Financial Force

– Plex Systems

– Taleo

– NetSuite

– and many more firms

We’ve been furiously interviewing companies with great cloud/SaaS stories and we’ve even been canvassing the marketplace talking to SMB and large enterprise users of cloud applications.

We’ll be posting lots of new information re: these very shortly.

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

Sunday, May 30th, 2010

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 content management space.  This area remains of great interest to Jeff and I as we both drove a lot of work in back office processes in our careers. We’re still seeing a lot of bad processes in businesses. Some of this is due to rushed mergers, over-reliance on spreadsheets, etc. to solve problems. But, sadly, we’re still seeing a lot of talented individuals in all manner of companies struggling with error correction activities, fighting fraud and other fire-fighting activities when they should be doing something far more strategic for their employers and their careers.

Last week, in preparation for this, Jeff and I did a conference call. We’ll likely discuss:

– how prevalent document and process problems still are in many businesses

– how expensive these problems can be

– what the range of solutions are in the marketplace

– the upside some companies reap with better content solutions

– how the cloud (i.e., software as a service) brings better economics to this space

– and whatever else the folks at CFO want us to discuss

If you’d like to listen, there’s no fee but you’ll need to register on CFO magazine’s site:
http://www.cfo.com/webcast.cfm?webcast=14499018&pcode=SPR060310_Vital_Analysis

I hope a few of you can make it

Brian