Author Archives: Kevin Doherty
lifted from Louis Benitez BLOG: Very cool way of directly accessing your Lotus Connections files! Louis describes how to configure Google Chrome to search your Lotus Connections site directly from the search bar. Open Chrome Go to Preferences… Under Basics, you’ll see Default Search set to Google. Click on Manage Click on the + sign to add a new search engine Set the Name to Lotus Connections, the Keyword to lc and the URL to https://<hostname>/search/web/search?query=%s (for example: https://w3.ibm.com/connections/search/web/search?query=%s). It … Continue reading
With the advent of web2.0 and the ability for average consumers to create and share ideas online, the potential for social networking technologies has grown. Corporations around the world are now asking how they can utilize similar technologies to make their business more efficient, encourage collaboration, and more effectively share ideas. Although this is increasingly becoming a crowded field, there is a single vendor/product that stands out head-and-shoulders above the rest. IBM has invested heavily in the development of their … Continue reading
Phase 2 targets the “Enterprise Software” segment of the SaaS industry, defined as all software required to run a small-to-medium size business. We offer products in two sub-categories of this segment: Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and collaboration. Our hosted CRM offering is Microsoft Dynamics 4.0, a well recognized enterprise-grade CRM system. Under the collaboration sub-segment we offer SharePoint, ShareMeeting, Office Communicator and Microsoft Project. The collaboration segment has grown an average of 21% annually over the past three years while … Continue reading
As the Software as a Service (SaaS) phenomenon continues to unveil itself, a few things have become apparent to me. The first of which is that the service aspect of SaaS is much more important to the adoption of the technology than the software. Of course, web 2.0 and all of the connectivity innovations/HTTP have made getting to this point possible. Consumers now understand the possibilities with SaaS and conventional wisdom says financially it makes sense to consider. What seems … Continue reading
Let me take a minute and share my thoughts on why our SaaS partner program works well for any technology resellers, as a former reseller myself. Systems Integrators, and consultants facing a slowing economy where capital IT spending is at a low are racing to find ways to add additional revenue streams to their businesses. Historically, with commodity hardware and software product business, even design/build revenue is difficult to predict and highly susceptible to unforeseen market conditions. What better way … Continue reading
By Kevin Doherty Visit any SaaS conference world-wide and you will find everything from ERP providers, accounting and billing systems, imaging systems, medical systems, to parking lot control systems. It is clear that the SaaS market throws a large net. That said, the general consumer who is not technical in nature feels like the market isn’t even speaking the same language as them, again; and with good reason. It seems that with the cataclysmic evolution in software which has … Continue reading