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May 5, 2008 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Where incumbents go wrong

By The Unreasonablemen

A guest post from the unreasonablemen.net I saw this from Ovum analysing SAP’s Q1 financials. There are a couple of take outs from this that really struck me with respect to SaaS and incumbent business models. 1) The company is still growing its core business (double digit growth no less)

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March 18, 2008 Posted in Business, Cleantech, Economic Development, Society, Strategy 1 Comment

A grand vision…

By The Unreasonablemen

This isn’t my normal topic, but I can’t resist. I’ve secretly always harbored a dream that NZ might really make something of itself. Do what Germany & Japan did post WWII & Ireland have done recently & recreate their economies. To me, the easiest way to do this was to

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March 13, 2008 Posted in Business 7 Comments

This one’s straight from the “what the..” category

By The Unreasonablemen

From computerworld this morning Telecom chief executive Paul Reynolds has joined the board of XConnect Global Networks, which provides VoIP and IP-based services From the Xconnect website XConnect’s award winning services enable over 400 VoIP service providers and carriers worldwide to peer with millions of VoIP endpoints. Am I alone

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March 10, 2008 Posted in SaaS Leave a comment

Is the collaboration war just Google v Microsoft?

By The Unreasonablemen

This is a mirror post of my own blog unreasonablemen.net Pop quiz. Who is the second largest software company in the world? Who is the second largest provider of on-premise email & collaboration software?   The answer to both is IBM. The interesting thing about IBM is that they have

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March 3, 2008 Posted in SaaS 4 Comments

Scale Benefits in Action

By The Unreasonablemen

I’ve been thinking a bit more about SaaS. & scale. One of the assertions I made in my previous post was that companies that achieve scale get more profit. I wrote a piece previously on SaaS provider profitability in it I put this diagram from Mckinseys The key element to

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February 25, 2008 Posted in SaaS Leave a comment

The impact of Scale and Economics on SaaS and broadband

By The Unreasonablemen

NOTE: this is a mirror post of my unreasonablemen.net blog. There have been a few posts recently about broadband in NZ, some well thought through, others not so. The crux of this issue is about scale & economics. This of course is massively applicable to SaaS too. So in the

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February 14, 2008 Posted in SaaS Leave a comment

Some thoughts on SaaS acquisitions

By The Unreasonablemen

Note: This is a mirror post from my unreasonablemen blog. Over on Smoothspan, Bob asks the question “when do the SaaS acquisition games begin?”. This got me thinking, about the why, who, how and impact of acquisition on SaaS. Firstly, I agree with Bob, the market is young & fragmented.

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February 12, 2008 Posted in IT, SaaS, Society, Web x.0 7 Comments

Anonymity. The web and SaaS.

By The Unreasonablemen

Note: This is a mirror post from my unreasonablemen blog. Ben Kepes and I recently locked horns over this topic. As you can tell I like having anonymity on the web. There are various reasons for this, but my primary concern is security and keeping some clear demarcation between my

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