TAG: on demand

Jeffrey M. Kaplan, Managing Director - THINKstrategies

Salesforce.com’s acquisition of Model Metrics has a number of important implications for the cloud computing and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) industries.

Unfortunately, many SaaS vendors still employ a one-price licensing model, even though customers have already demonstrated their acceptance of—and even preference for—pricing that more accurately reflects the actual value that a SaaS solution delivers.

Paul Giurata, Managing Partner - Catalyst Resources

Many enterprises and ISVs with on-premise applications have decided to migrate their offering to SaaS. They do everything right to get the software into the cloud, with one exception. They try to port all the functionality and user experience of their on-premise application into the first version of their SaaS offering. This is a recipe for failure.

Kamesh Pemmaraju - Sand Hill Group

I spoke with Petros Dermetzis, VP of Development at Workday Inc., about the drivers behind the evolution of the SaaS model and about how Workday is addressing the customer pain points with SaaS and the cloud.

Byron Deeter, Partner - Bessemer Venture Partners

Here are Bessemer Venture Partners' top 10 laws which will drive software success in the cloud: