Paul Miller - The Cloud of Data » Marc Benioff http://cloudofdata.com Linked Data, Cloud Computing, Semantic Web, SaaS, PaaS, more Thu, 17 May 2012 15:04:40 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, version 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ paul.miller@cloudofdata.com (Paul Miller) paul.miller@cloudofdata.com (Paul Miller) 1440 http://cloudofdata.com/logo144x144.jpg Paul Miller - The Cloud of Data http://cloudofdata.com 144 144 conversations with the executives shaping Cloud Computing and the Semantic Web. Linked Data, Cloud Computing, Semantic Web, SaaS, PaaS, more Cloud Computing, Semantic Web, Linked Data, Open Data, SaaS, PaaS Paul Miller Paul Miller paul.miller@cloudofdata.com no no Keep your Executive Assistant happy if moving to the Cloud http://cloudofdata.com/2009/11/keep-your-executive-assistant-happy-if-moving-to-the-cloud/ http://cloudofdata.com/2009/11/keep-your-executive-assistant-happy-if-moving-to-the-cloud/#comments Wed, 04 Nov 2009 09:17:08 +0000 Paul Miller http://cloudofdata.com/?p=855 Google AtmosphereGoogle held a small event in London late last month, at which senior executives from a wide range of organisations gathered to discuss the impact of the Cloud. Presenters included luminaries such as Marc Benioff, Werner Vogels, Geoffrey Moore and Nick Carr, as well as CIOs at the coalface in adopting various Cloud (mainly SaaS) solutions.

Carr blogged on Friday, noting that video from the event has been made available on YouTube, and I’ve been steadily working through the material ever since.

Krish followed up on CloudAve with his take, flagging Carr’s presentation as of particular interest. I liked Carr’s presentation too (although prefer our podcast, as I think he went deeper there), and found much to value in most of the other talks as well.

My particular highlights, I think, were three sessions later in the day;

Paul Cheesbrough (CIO at Telegraph Media Group), Francois Blanc (CIO at Valeo), Todd Pierce (SVP & CIO at Genentech) and Andy Beale (CIO at Guardian Media Group) participated in a panel session (embedded below) to discuss their real-world experiences of rolling Google Apps out across large organisations. The key take-aways? Benefit won’t be recognised across the board until six months in, and Executive Assistants need to be kept on-side as their day-to-day work inside people’s calendars is disrupted… and they’re both ‘loud’ and ‘influential.’

Google’s Dave Girouard covered similar issues from the company’s perspective, and is clearly someone to add to my list of podcast targets.

My final highlight was Geoffrey Moore (he of Core, Context, and Chasms), applying some of his broader business ideas to the Cloud. I’d certainly like to explore some of his arguments a little further another day…

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]]> http://cloudofdata.com/2009/11/keep-your-executive-assistant-happy-if-moving-to-the-cloud/feed/ 1 Understanding SaaS business models in conversation with Adam Gross of Salesforce.com http://cloudofdata.com/2009/03/understanding-saas-business-models-in-conversation-with-adam-gross-of-salesforcecom/ http://cloudofdata.com/2009/03/understanding-saas-business-models-in-conversation-with-adam-gross-of-salesforcecom/#comments Thu, 26 Mar 2009 11:08:28 +0000 Paul Miller http://cloudofdata.com/?p=453 Adam GrossSalesforce.com [CRM] is often held up as proof that the Software as a Service (SaaS) model works. Ten years old, and with over $1Bn in revenue last year, Marc Benioff‘s company certainly shows that SaaS isn’t just a passing fad.

More recently the company has begun to diversify from its heritage as the provider of an on-demand CRM application, seeking to nurture an ecosystem of add-ons and enhancements through the AppExchange and offering third party developers access to the underlying Force.com Platform.

In an effort to understand the company’s views on the evolving SaaS and PaaS markets I recently spoke with VP for Developer Marketing, Adam Gross, and the result has just been released as a podcast.

Show notes available on Talis‘ Nodalities blog

Delivery of both application and platform could create significant tensions, as business decisions made to advance the application potentially cannibalise revenue from the platform ecosystem, and vice versa. We discuss some of these issues during the conversation, with Adam going so far as to suggest that ‘nothing would stop’ a third party using Force.com to build an application that competed directly with Salesforce itself.

Have a listen, and see what you think.

Image of Adam Gross © Salesforce.com

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]]> http://cloudofdata.com/2009/03/understanding-saas-business-models-in-conversation-with-adam-gross-of-salesforcecom/feed/ 2 0:45:50 Salesforce.com [CRM] is often held up as proof that the Software as a Service (SaaS) model works. Ten years old, and with over $1Bn in revenue last year, Marc Benioff‘s company certainly shows that SaaS isn’t just a passing fad. More rec[...] Salesforce.com [CRM] is often held up as proof that the Software as a Service (SaaS) model works. Ten years old, and with over $1Bn in revenue last year, Marc Benioff‘s company certainly shows that SaaS isn’t just a passing fad. More recently the company has begun to diversify from its heritage as the provider of an on-demand CRM application, seeking to nurture an ecosystem of add-ons and enhancements through the AppExchange and offering third party developers access to the underlying Force.com Platform. In an effort to understand the company’s views on the evolving SaaS and PaaS markets I recently spoke with VP for Developer Marketing, Adam Gross, and the result has just been released as a podcast. Show notes available on Talis‘ Nodalities blog Delivery of both application and platform could create significant tensions, as business decisions made to advance the application potentially cannibalise revenue from the platform ecosystem, and vice versa. We discuss some of these issues during the conversation, with Adam going so far as to suggest that ‘nothing would stop’ a third party using Force.com to build an application that competed directly with Salesforce itself. Have a listen, and see what you think. Image of Adam Gross © Salesforce.com Related articles by Zemanta How to evaluate software-as-a-service for your business (news.cnet.com) Salesforce.com outage hits thousands of businesses (news.cnet.com) Salesforce hits its stride (money.cnn.com) Enterprise Software is Not Dead Yet (ventureblog.com) Developers are bullish on PaaS (infoworld.com) Planning necessary for corporate SaaS (macworld.com) Mashups Quickly Emerging through PaaS (programmableweb.com) PaaS risks (accmanpro.com) Salesforce.com builds another bridge to Google’s cloud (venturebeat.com) Salesforce links Force.com to Google App Engine (infoworld.com) Salesforce.com squeezes $1B from the cloud (news.cnet.com) Q&A;: 10 questions with Salesforce’s Marc Benioff (news.cnet.com) Salesforce.com Preaches Computing Power for Rent (nytimes.com) Salesforce Adds Twitter, Teases Rivals (blogs.wsj.com) Apprenda CEO Sinclair Schuller talks about their SaaSGrid Platform (blogs.talis.com) PaaS, Podcast, SaaS Paul Miller no no