I’ve spent a lot of time in Israel over the years, the vast majority of my relatives live there and I have a soft spot for the place, tortured and torturous though it is. I’m always staggered to see the amount of Hi-Tech IP that a tiny, security-challenged, geographically isolated and resource poor country can produce. From world leading irrigation technologies to a wealth of software and hardware products.
I’m also an evangelist for Web 2.0 as an enabler and somewhat incredulous that enterprise would see it as a threat and ban it from their workplaces.
Put Israel and Web 2.0 for enterprise together and what do you have? WorkLight, an application that allows Facebook functinality with a secure enterprise grade overlay. WorkLight have this to say about their offering;
WorkBook allows employees to securely interact with their peers using the hugely-popular Facebook service. WorkBook combines all the capabilities of Facebook with all the controls of a corporate environment, including integration with existing enterprise security services and information sources. With WorkBook, employees can find and stay in touch with corporate colleagues, publish company-related news, create bookmarks to enterprise application data and securely share the bookmarks with authorized colleagues, update on status change and get general company news. Employees can freely use Facebook, with the WorkBook overlay, with no danger of information leaking outside the organization or access being granted to unauthorized personnel.
Netsuite’s IPO seems to be going all guns blazing. The modified Dutch auction (similar to that employed by Google during their IPO) has already seen the estimated listing price raised to between USD19-22. The interesting thing is that the price estimate values Netsuite at 10.9 versus Salesforce’s 9.2 most recent price-to-sales valuation.
That puts the Netsuite market cap at around USD1.2 billion for a company yet to turn a profit. Compare that to Salesforce, which is profitable, and has a market cap of about US$7 billion.
As posted previously, I’m presenting to a conference in March next year. As part of my presentation I was looking for some information from SaaS payers who have successfully implemented SaaS offerings into enterprise settings.
I contact a few different companies but wanted to congratulate Andrew from Salesforce’s office in Sydney and Nina from SuccessFactor’s AsiaPac office, both of whom have responded quickly and helpfully to my requests.
They’re both good examples that SaaS-like agility can (and should) be extended to other parts of the operations other than product development.
LeftClick, a rockingly good company in Christchurch that I’ve had a little bit to do with, is hiring. LeftClick offers post-click conversion services which translates into more revenue for your e-commerce operation. I like left click on a number of levels; they have a great proposition, they’re building a great team, and the principals seem committed to executing their plans.
Anyway - jobs on offer are as follows - visit their site for more details;
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