Jon Van in CRMBuyer on trade-offs with SaaS:
“The end-user won’t notice a difference, but behind the scenes a lot of work is required to make everything work smoothly.”
Jon Van in CRMBuyer on trade-offs with SaaS:
“The end-user won’t notice a difference, but behind the scenes a lot of work is required to make everything work smoothly.”
Dana Blankenhorn from ZDNet:
“There are many ways to create an open source business, or just an open source business practice. It’s not like it was in the old proprietary world, everything built around a package, get big or get out. You can be any size you wish.”
The eLearning Forum has an excellent seminar and in-depth case study on a framework for “Learning Enabled Business Transformation”:
“Breakthrough technological solutions and business/process models create new opportunities for optimizing the 4 forms of intangible value/capital “Human, Customer, Partner, and Intellectual Property” to enable high performance.”
Approaches from “The Extended Enterprise” over “Strategy Mapping” and the “Balanced Scorecard” to “Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)” are covered. The first presentation lay the foundation with the relevant business context and present the framework. This is followed up by the FCC Case study. The third presentation is about solutions integration, IT architecture and implementation using the SOA approach:
- Learning-Enabled Business Transformation (mp3/ppt) [Duration: 00:53:52. This audio was added to eLearning Forum World on 2006-03-05.]
- FCC Case Study (mp3/ppt) [Duration: 00:52:59. This audio was added to eLearning Forum World on 2006-03-05.]
- The Technology View (mp3/ppt) [Duration: 01:05:27. This audio was added to eLearning Forum World on 2006-03-05.]
A recent McKinsey article, “Two new tools that CIOs want” (May 2006) (subscription required), noted:
“The software-as-a-service model can cut the total cost of deploying some classes of enterprise applications by 30 to 40 percent as compared with the total cost of purchasing and maintaining them in house. Of the senior IT executives we talked with, 38 percent said that they plan to use the software-as-a-service approach during the next 12 months.”
Lecture from Karim Lakhani at MIT OpenCourseWare:
“The open source software phenomenon opened peoples’ eyes to the potential power of innovation carried out by groups of volunteers with tools and coordination mechanisms. Karim Lakhani explains how OS works. He talks about community transparency and other organizational innovations that are used to achieve impressive results like Apache web server software and the Linux operating system.”
Phil Windley’s write-up from the InfoWorld SOA Executive Forum.
IBM‘s web futurist David Boloker:
“Two things are at the core of situational applications: SOA (service-oriented architecture) and (…) “enterprise mash-up services” reports Ulrika Hedquist from Computerworld.
Recurring billing, complex pricing, renewals, subscriber contracts, usage patterns and revenue management practices: an SIIA webcast on a panel discussion about financial operations and business performance resulting from the SaaS Model (PDF download here).
James Maguire listed free software for e-commerce, auctions, business management and more:
Michael Hickins in ASPnews.com on the next major step in Software-as-a-service (SaaS) evolution.