Monday, January 30, 2006

2006 Enterprise Software Summit

Enterprise Software will experience dramatic changes ahead. SaaS is the primary driver for those change. It is not the new delivery model, but three key elements: Benchmarking, User Experience and Reach and Cost & Efficiency advantages.

The 2006 Enterprise Software Summit http://www.enterprisesoftwaresummit.com/agenda.htm circles around those themes. I look forward to it.

Sunday, January 08, 2006

The Service Economy

2006 may become the most important year for the Software as a Service industry. I recently heard people talk about "Hardware as a Service". Wouldn't it be cool to get a washing mashine in a HaaS (Hardware as a Service) model? We enter an annual contract and pay $25 per month. If it breaks, it will be replaced, if a new model comes out we'll get it. And how about our $20,000 home theater for $690 per month? If we wan't a bigger and better one - no problem! And may be our....

Seriously - our economy will change. Leasing and full service leasing will morph to Hardware as a Service as Software as a Service makes further progress. It will be an exciting yet very challanging development for most of us.