SEATTLE — Most small-business owners don’t realize this yet, but a mother lode of technology that can free precious cash and manpower is available to them as in no other time in history. Small firms typically buy basic clerical and accounting software in shrink-wrap boxes and run them on a company computer. The owner, or [...]
As readers of this blog know, hundreds of leading software, SaaS and cloud computing companies are happily and profitably using Intacct’s cloud-based financial management and accounting applications. In the fourth quarter of 2009, we started to notice our Software industry customers provisioning more users in large numbers and subscribing to more modules too – which [...]
Our personal lives are increasingly becoming self-service. When was the last time you called or visited a travel agent to book a flight versus self-booking on Orbitz, Expedia, or an airline’s website? When you get to the airport, do you stand in line to check in at the counter or do you use the self-service [...]
PivotLink, the leading provider of business intelligence (BI) solutions delivered via Software as a Service (SaaS), today announced that the company will be honored among the OnDemand Top 100 Private Companies at the AlwaysOn OnDemand 2010 Conference April 19 – 21, 2010 at HP’s worldwide headquarters in Palo Alto, Calif. AlwaysOn will recognize the OnDemand [...]
Entrepreneurs are building significant Software-as-a-Service businesses without outside capital. I got into numerous arguments with people recently when I insisted that you can build sizable companies by bootstrapping (See “Why B-Schools Set Up Entrepreneurs To Fail“). Well, here are some Software-as-a-Service ventures that are steadily gaining critical mass. Many of them will create enormous fortunes [...]