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Deciding Your Next Step in Mobile
Authored by:
Paul Moceri, Deloitte
David Smud, Deloitte
Daniel Vitulich, Deloitte
Nolan Wright, Appcelerator
The next installment in SIIA’s Issue Brief series discusses the wide variety of options to publish a free mobile app. The following quick reference chart covers a number of factors you should consider when choosing your route.
Download the complete paper for an in-depth review of these factors, along with use cases and more!
How does a company transition from strictly desktop software to one that today generates about 60 percent of its revenue in connected services?
Delivering a keynote at All About the Cloud, Intuit CIO Ginny Lee talked about Intuit’s journey from desktop to anytime, anywhere access on any device and how the company is fueling innovation and growth in the cloud.
Whether you’re running a cloud business or transitioning to one, Lee stressed the importance of:
Mindset – IT plays a critical role in enabling growth and a great customer experience. Therefore, put customers at the heart of everything you do. Think business first, tech second. Be explicit about roles and hold everyone accountable.
Innovation – Break down the barriers to innovation by creating tools that foster rapid prototyping and innovation both inside and outside of your company. Tap into the vast ecosystem of external developers at the ready to help create great offerings.
Data - The nature of data is maturing and how you use it can be a competitive advantage. Intuit embraces data driven innovation and looks beyond basic reporting to data driven actions and insights.
To see the slides and watch the video replay, visit The Inuit Network.
Thanks to everyone for another fantastic All About the Cloud conference!
Building a High Value SaaS Business (SIIA Members-only Download)
Authored by Kevin Dobbs, Montclair Advisors, LLC and Lauren Kelley, CEO, OPEXEngine
This white paper will examine how successful Software-as-a-Service companies have built their businesses to map to new buyer dynamics, created customer-centric and data-driven management cultures and done it all in a way that drives very attractive company valuations.
Upcoming member deadline: May 25th is the last day to submit your 2011 Software Benchmarking Survey by OPEXEngine. Free for SIIA members under $10M in revenue, for more information about SIIA membership contact Seth Dean.
Matt and Rhianna discuss next week’s All About the Cloud conference in San Francisco!
Authored by Amit Manghani, SAP and Rachel Lyubovitzky, SaaShr.com
The Software-As-A-Service (SaaS) industry continues to grow rapidly. The success of SaaS is driving broad change across the technology industry. Software vendors, both large and small, are contemplating on how to adapt to the new paradigms of the SaaS market, while a large number of developers across the world are moving to SaaS application development.
One of the most significant implications of this broad based change is the emergence of a new kind of software platform. The increase in SaaS application consumption and development is driving the need for a new set of platform technologies built specifically to support SaaS. In this issue brief, we outline the key attributes/elements that characterize a “best-in-class” Platform-As-A- Service (PaaS) offering – a cloud-enabled application development platform.
SIIA members can download the full paper here.
For information about joining SIIA and the benefits of membership, contact Seth Dean.