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Phil Wainewright is an influential commentator and strategist on emerging software industry trends. He first spotted the significance of on-demand software services in 1998, when he set up ASPnews.com, which rapidly became a standard-bearer for the nascent industry. He sold ASPnews in January 2000 and went on to found Loosely...- more about Phil Wainewright »
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- Automated PaaS migration now a reality
- The first reports of Coghead customers successfully migrating applications to a new platform are starting to come through. Some automated tools even do instant migrations, a potentially ground-breaking innovation born of the necessity of Coghead's demise. by Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2009-02-27
- Another outage, another dashboard
- Finally, Google has followed a long line of leading SaaS and cloud providers trying to break into the enterprise market in introducing a status dashboard. Why did it take so long? This is now baseline best practice for providers. by Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2009-02-26
- Did privacy laws bring down Gmail yesterday?
- Now we know that yesterday's Gmail outage was due to new code Google is developing to keep data 'geographically close to its owner'. My guess is that the new code is there to help Google and its customers comply with Europe's privacy laws. by Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2009-02-25
- Coghead's demise highlights PaaS lock-out risk
- Coghead's new owner SAP will impose a lock-out from April 30, leaving all its current customers in the impossible position of having around eight weeks to completely rewrite all their applications on an entirely new platform. by Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2009-02-23
- Weaving the real-time web into brick-and-mortar retail
- Few retailers hook up their online presence to their brick-and-mortar outlets, and the minority that do rarely manage to match the quality of the online customer experience with the service levels their staff are equipped to offer in store. by Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2009-02-18
- Sage shows why bigcos can't be trusted with SaaS
- Small business software giant Sage delivers an object lesson in how not to introduce a SaaS offering - but the story has an uplifting David-and-Goliath twist in the tail. by Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2009-02-11
- How free wins...or does it?
- Do you remember when building a website required an intimate knowledge of HTML and hours of pain just to get off the starting blocks? Or how about a CMS starting at $100K? That's less than 10 years ago and yet today, 'free' is the mantra for modern software. Phil Wainewright...
- Blog posts 2009-02-10
- Cloud and the European SaaS provider
- The SaaS scene in Europe deserves more attention, and the intersection with cloud is especially interesting, considering how many cloud pioneers there are in Europe. Will European innovation here rival the US? by Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2009-02-09
- What have we done?
- We are in deep doo-doo if people are only now discovering that Internet entrepreneurs need to get people to pay for things instead of just giving everything away for free. Is such a concept so novel? by Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2009-02-07
- SaaS is surging in the downturn, says IDC
- Market researcher IDC has revised upwards its market size projections for SaaS in 2009, at a time when most industries and economies around the world are slashing growth forecasts to single digits or even negative. by Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2009-01-30
- Google adds offline and 'flaky' modes to Gmail
- Google's new 'flaky connection mode' for Gmail solves a problem that to my mind is much bigger than totally disconnected working, also addressed by the offline mode introduced today. And it's been tested by one Googler at speeds of up to 186 mph. by Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2009-01-28
- Oracle puts a price on single-tenancy
- Oracle today announced a new centrally managed single-tenancy option for its SaaS CRM OnDemand application, effectively putting a price-tag on single-tenancy, while taking a sideswipe at what it called Salesforce.com's 'nickel-and-dime' pricing policies. by Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2009-01-27
- Intacct wins converts with help of its channel
- Real-time global consolidation to tempt midmarket businesses and a new, lower-cost migration path for QuickBooks users is helping Intacct win customers - with a lot of help from its channel partners. by Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2009-01-27
- Xactly buys rival Centive
- Xactly last night announced it has completed the acquisition of Centive, its closest pureplay SaaS rival in the sales performance management sector. The all-stock deal almost doubles San Jose-based Xactly's revenue and customer base. by Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2009-01-23
- Cash is the new black for cloud apps
- Just in the nick of time, a company has introduced a developer-friendly way to build billing and payments into a Web-based application and instantly you wonder, why on earth did it take so long? by Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2009-01-21
- Phil's top 3 SaaS monetization tips
- In this short video clip, recorded last November, I set out three tips to help you make money from SaaS. Today seems a good day to post it. by Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2009-01-21
- Back to the future with Lotus Live
- The news from Lotusphere in Orlando may have your head spinning even more than the plotline of Back to the Future Part II. As if from nowhere, IBM is reportedly challenging Microsoft and Google to become the dominant force in SaaS collaboration. by Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2009-01-19
- Lotus Live: the prequel
- I can exclusively reveal that Lotus Notes, which today discovered a renewed destiny with the launch of Lotus Live, may have a legitimate claim to being the very first SaaS application of all. by Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2009-01-19
- Google endorses the cloud channel
- Google's launch of its Authorized Reseller program implicitly acknowledges the role of partners in championing and managing the implementation of most all its significant enterprise wins for Google Apps by Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2009-01-14
- SuccessFactors in HCM landgrab to bolster sales
- Facing a shuddering halt in its hitherto fast-track growth trajectory, talent management vendor SuccessFactors will today launch an aggressive landgrab for territory currently dominated by mainstream HCM and ERP vendors. by Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2009-01-13
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