Eric Martineau
You have a nice SaaS
Quickly, can I rant about the term SaaS?? I just don’t like words that have two lowercase letters squeezed between big letters. Yes, it’s very symmetrical, but it’s practically just a sentence with the first letter of every word, like we used in our notes in 8th grade (INVU4URAQT). And SaaScon bugs me more, because [...]
Platform Perspective From the Little Guys
There was lots of talk about platform at SaaScon 2007, starting with SalesForce’s Jim Steele revealing Apex (SalesForce’s new development platform). As part of the presentation, a SalesForce developer presented an application he’d created using SalesForce’s Apex. The application allowed for tracking time-off requests, and included a custom time-off record, workflow rules for [...]
Death By a Thousand Duck Bites
Props to Kelly for the title (I never heard the phrase before).
Towards the end of the conference, one of the moderators mentioned that he noticed a recurring theme that SaaS vendors are moving up-market as more and more enterprises adopt SaaS. As a company that services “true” small businesses, we lend a keen ear.
Let’s [...]
