Comments on: Can traditional software companies embrace SaaS without Disruption?

By: Sage preparing SaaS offering for 2009… just in the UK? | Paul Miller

Sage preparing SaaS offering for 2009… just in the UK? | Paul Miller — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 13:10:41 +0000

[...] a titan of the UK software scene but has struggled recently, both with expansion beyond Europe and (like others) with shifting their business toward a hosted [...]

By: Paul Miller

Paul Miller — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:32:02 +0000

James

thanks for the comment. And yes, there are clear similarities to the Microsoft story. I’ll be looking at those – and the differences – in a later post… and would welcome your thoughts…

By: Paul Miller

Paul Miller — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:32:00 +0000

James

thanks for the comment. And yes, there are clear similarities to the Microsoft story. I’ll be looking at those – and the differences – in a later post… and would welcome your thoughts…

By: James Lappin

James Lappin — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:54:13 +0000

This is a fabulous blog post Paul, very thought provoking.

For SAP can we read Microsoft? They are in exactly the same boat.

Microsoft have introduced facilities like the business data catalogue and the enterprise search facility into SharePoint in the hope that organisations integrate SharePoint so tightly in with their line of business databases that they won’t want to migrate to the cloud.

Will it buy them enough time to find a viable model to provide their products from the cloud?

By: James Lappin

James Lappin — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:54:00 +0000

This is a fabulous blog post Paul, very thought provoking.

For SAP can we read Microsoft? They are in exactly the same boat.

Will it buy them enough time to find a viable model to provide their products from the cloud?

By: Struggling in their mid-range move to the Cloud, SAP ask Wookey to succeed at the top | Paul Miller

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 09:02:37 +0000

[...] published last night’s post on the difficulty of moving any traditional software business toward offering a SaaS solution and [...]

By: Dennis Howlett

Dennis Howlett — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 04:54:43 +0000

“Unfortunately, and as SAP are discovering to their cost, moving an existing deployed software solution toward on-demand hosting is not simply a matter of moving the application from one data centre to another.”

That’s not really the problem. It’s one born out of the way they’ve engineered the solution which was built from the ground up.

By: Dennis Howlett

Dennis Howlett — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 04:54:00 +0000

That’s not really the problem. It’s one born out of the way they’ve engineered the solution which was built from the ground up.