This fall, Vital Analysis is producing a number of new reports as well as materially update a number of prior reports. Here is a partial list of upcoming reports:
– Cornerstone
– Cytiva
– HRMC Acclaim
– Jobs2Web
– SHL
– SilkRoad
– Sonar6
– WinShuttle
– Workscape
We are also preparing a number of blog posts on the Software & Services Safari blog. More details later this week.
We recently caught up with senior Workscape executives at the recent HR Week event in New York City. We created a short update note on the firm and are making it available to interested persons. Simply complete our online request form or email us at contact@vitalanalysis.com .
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 report:
“This new momentum around the SMB space has additional value to Oracle as SMB buyers are one of the most recession proof sectors in the application software marketplace. Given the current economy, Oracle would do well to cultivate and expand its partner program in this space.
We believe Oracle’s focus on fixed-price implementations is not only appropriate but also long overdue in the SMB space. As we have published previously, SMB buyers have complex businesses while lacking the budgets of big firms (i.e., wine tastes/beer budgets). In discussions we have had with midmarket CFOs, the pain these companies face around uncertain implementation and integration costs is palpable. Vendors that seek to address this very real and painful market concern may do quite well.”
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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 lower integration cost strategy that should receive a very warm welcome with mid-market software buyers and the vertical industry application developers who ally with NetSuite.
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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 report is available for free to those persons submitting a report request on our website and using a valid business email address. Alternatively, you can request a copy via email from: contact@vitalanalysis.com
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 that:
“For NetSuite customers, SuiteBundler is a very positive, albeit indirect, step forward. SuiteBundler should trigger a landslide of new vertical functionality within the NetSuite ecosystem. For NetSuite’s target market, the small to midsized business, this additional breadth and depth in industry functionality is a welcome sight. While high-end ERP solution providers possess some of this needed industry expertise in their products, their price points are cost prohibitive for SMB buyers. Traditional SMB solutions often contain stripped down or skeletal vertical capabilities. These traditional SMB solutions may create perplexing or undesirable workarounds for their customers and often require excessively high-cost implementation fees to make workable. SuiteBundler should help usher in a more cost-effective and robust set of vertical solutions for the SMB space.”
This report is available to Vital Analysis clients. Inquiries regarding it can be directed to contact@vitalanalysis.com .
New Research Report Available from Workscape
We recently reviewed Workscape’s Express product line and developed a special report on same. Workscape has made this report available on its website and is available for download there. Please follow this link to access this report.