BI on Ulitzer
Peter Yared wrote recently a BusinessWeek guest blog post called “Failure
of Commercial Open Source Software.”
Not surprisingly his post caused a lot of angry replies from people who work
for COSS companies. “The emperor is not naked” they argued.
I believe that the COSS emperor is openly naked. And the discussion
shouldn’t be whether COSS is a complete or a partial failure just because
there are few successful exits that Peter neglected to mention. At the end of
the day Peter’s comment that “selling software is miserable” is true.
Every sales rep involved in selling COSS would agree (I’m interviewing many
of them now). Selling COSS is no easier than selling any other form of
software.
Any company using the word “open” should be able to explain the true cost ... (more)
I am not happy to see LucidEra disappearing. It is not a good sign for the
SaaS BI market in general and the startups in our space specifically. And I
still believe Rob Ashe (IBM/Cognos) was wrong when he said that “BI
doesn’t lend itself to SaaS”.
There are some fundamental differences between first generation SaaS BI
providers and true cloud-based platforms like Good Data. Some of them ... (more)
I spoke at the first Cloud Computing Expo Europe and I enjoyed the conference
very much. Here is my presentation:
PS. This presentation was featured today as one of the Top Presentations of
the Day by Slideshare…
Tagged: Cloud Computing Expo keynote, Europe
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No other major SaaS company in the world could get away with this approach to
paying customers. Not only Google offers no user-friendly tools to add shared
contact to the paid version of Google Apps. They offer no tools. Period.
Here is the only information available to email administrators:
Administrative management of non-employee contacts now available
Premier Edition administrators can ... (more)
Elasticity of the cloud computing is a wonderful idea. You can get an
instance of networked computer exactly when you need it and you only pay for
the time when you actually use it. But while the virtual memory and hard disk
is a “clean slate” created specifically for you, the IP address assigned
to your instance may have been previously used by a spammer and it could be
already on a “sp... (more)
Roman Stanek is a technology visionary who has spent the past fifteen years building world-class technology companies. Currently Founder & CEO of Good Data, which provides collaborative analytics on demand, he previously co-founded first NetBeans, now a part of Sun Microsystems and one of the leading Java IDEs, and then and Systinet, now owned by Hewlett-Packard and the leading SOA Governance platform on the market.
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