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PPM goes SaaS
by serengeti on Oct 06, 2007 - 04:36 AM read 428 times |
it would seem the high-end enterprise PPM vendors have an open field in front of them : moving down the pyramid to SaaS-delivered collaborative project management tools for users throughout the organisation. i'm talking about the PlanView's, the Niku's, the PrimaVera's, etc. reinventing themselves.
would a strategic transformation of these players do the trick ? or is it better to start with a clean slate ?
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PPM
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by Brittain on Oct 08, 2007 - 01:12 PM read 128 timesThe vendor's you mention have a substantial legacy and investment within their respective products. Transforming from their current architectures into anything SaaS-like would be a lengthy and costly process. A process which I'm sure they've been evolving through for sometime now.
Personally, were I one of these vendors, I'd be looking beyond the SaaS architectural transformation at the widget architectures we see emerging (facebook, app exchange, msn live, etc) and deciding how I'll play in that space.
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please go on !
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by serengeti on Oct 12, 2007 - 05:14 AM read 85 timesI'm really intrigued by your suggestion that such legacy PPM players look at the widget architectures we see emerging. Not sure I fully understand, can you please expound on this ?
Thanks !
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Ulteo
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by serengeti on Oct 12, 2007 - 06:07 AM read 94 timesUlteo's new virtualized desktop service is taking shape, and so is the company by the same name.After initially self-financing, Ulteo has raised €400K from private investors, including Daniel Zumino, who is a long time French business angel. For example, he was an early investor in VistaPrint, an online business-card printing company, which went on to raise capital from Sofinnova and Highland Capital Partners, among others, and is now a $1.8B company traded on Nasdaq.
Another early investor and advisor is Alain Revah who brings experience in startups in the US. He contacted Duval by email when he learned that the "Linux legend" had parted ways with Mandriva and was going to start a new project, they've been working together since.
Revah convinced Duval to bring in a CEO, Thierry Koehrlen, who was most recently at Intalio, a VC-backed open source business process management startup in Silicon Valley.
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by Brittain on Oct 12, 2007 - 12:14 PM read 64 timesI think the idea is two-fold:
First, that most products are "relatively" easily morphed from client-server (or whatever) into SaaS or SOA and so this work has been ongoing. For many companies this represents the natural evolution or path of least resistance.
Second, IMO, the software trend coming emerging is one of widely distributed software access. This trend is propelled by Web 2.0 users and their expectation of access/control from wherever they see fit. One implication is the personal portal in the form of systems like Facebook, Ning, iGoogle, etc. All these systems essentially require widgets to access other data sources and features.
Therefore, my point is: if you want to ride this trend, you need to like about how your software interoperates with widget-based architectures.
Make sense?
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