If your enterprise software operates as a software platform on an annual subscription model (PaaS), you should think about offering managed services to your customers. There are three big reasons for this: PaaS is very sticky and, therefore, a good… Read more ›
Build a business case for software as a platform on few users using features. One of our clients offers contextual microlearning software. One market for this software is Microsoft Office 365. Our work for this customer has given us an… Read more ›
You should plan on a limited set of users for your low code tools. Your customer success team needs to be responsible for training these users. Don’t build a bunch of no code tools and simply offer them without backing… Read more ›
Software companies looking to expand should be aware of the pluses and minuses of platforms. Reading a short interview with the CEO of an ERP vendor can help – “Tech industry might have weathered the storm so far, but challenges… Read more ›
In a story written by Angus Loten, titled “Microsoft’s Focus on Big Customers Propels Cloud Sales”, published on July 23, 2019 by the Wall Street Journal, the writer concludes Microsoft’s pace of signing up tenants for its productivity cloud —… Read more ›
On July 11, 2019 Mike Flasko, Director of Program Management, Information Management & Governance for Microsoft published “Announcing Preview of Azure Data Share”“. As Eldert Grootenboer writes for Infoq Azure Data Share “…provides [organizations] capabilities to share data [internally], as… Read more ›
A lot has been made over the last few weeks about a skew between Microsoft’s announcements about sales of cloud SaaS and PaaS subscriptions to enterprise business and the extent to which these subscriptions are actually used. For any readers… Read more ›
Enterprise technology consumers have made their reluctance clear. In most cases they will not agree to incur the expense and effort required to migrate on-premises computing platforms, like Microsoft SharePoint, to public cloud tenancy. So the ISVs owning the IP… Read more ›
Rackspace, a leading provider of managed services to enterprise businesses, reported earnings on February 17, 2015. Some remarks from its CEO, Taylor Rhodes, point to what maybe a promising indicator of enterprise business moving towards increased use of cloud IaaS,… Read more ›
During Oracle’s Q2 2015 earnings conference call, Larry Ellison, Executive Chairman and CTO informed his audience of analysts about the importance of platform as a service, PaaS to Oracle’s strategy to grow its cloud business. Per Ellison, PaaS is the… Read more ›