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ICANN’s Planned Expansion of gTLDs: Opportunities and Challenges

March 25, 2011 By

While some entrepreneurs and technology companies welcome the opportunity that new gTLDs will bring, and plan to submit applications to run new gTLDs, other trademark and copyright owners are rightfully concerned about the potential for increased piracy and abusive domain name registrations.

This webcast will discuss the process, likely implications, and strategies for dealing with new gTLDs.

Featuring:
Steve Metalitz, Partner, Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP, counsel for the Coalition for Online Accountability (COA)
Scott Bain, Chief Litigation Counsel & Director, Internet Anti-piracy, Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA)

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Finally, Software Licensing & Entitlement Management Services Delivered from the Cloud for the Cloud!

March 2, 2011 By

The SaaS catalog definition, provisioning, management, and usage tracking service software publishers have been waiting for!

For Enterprise organizations, utilization of Software as a Service (SaaS) applications means easier budgeting, faster deployment, and reduced risk. For cloud service providers and established on-premise software publishers alike, SaaS presents a new opportunity to give customers what they want – while ensuring recurring revenue streams and exploring new markets. It is no wonder that industry-leading analyst firm Saugatuck Technology predicts that 45% or more of new enterprise IT spend will be devoted to cloud-based applications by 2014 and that IDC predicts that by 2010 nearly 65% of new product from established ISVs will be delivered as SaaS services and nearly 85% of net-new software firms coming to market will be built around SaaS service composition and delivery. Software vendors who don’t adapt will be left behind/replaced by vendors who do offer cloud based options.

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SIIA & OPEXEngine: Let the Data Set You Free!

February 23, 2011 By

Hear how Kelly Battles, CFO of Host Analytics, works with her finance team to track key financial and operating metrics data to drive performance and keep the company on track to deliver growth in 2011. In addition, Lauren Kelley, CEO of OPEXEngine will present key software industry benchmarks from OPEXEngine’s comprehensive financial and operating benchmarking report, developed in partnership with the SIIA. Join us for this informative webinar to learn more about how the benefits of metrics-driven, fact based decision making can help you drive better performance and efficiency within your own organization.

Presenters:
Lauren Kelley, CEO & Founder, OPEXEngine
Kelly Battles, CFO, Host Analytics

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SIIA CEO Interview with Mark Symonds, Plex Systems

February 14, 2011 By

About the Author

Mark Symonds is President and CEO of Plex Systems, Inc., developers of Plex Online, Cloud ERP for the manufacturing enterprise. Symonds’ IT experience includes a highly successful entrepreneurial venture, and IT business consulting at Arthur Andersen & Co. (now Accenture). Symonds holds an MBA in finance and accounting from Cornell University’s Johnson Graduate School of Management and a bachelor’s degree in economics and French from the University of Rochester. He is a Certified Public Accountant; certified in production and inventory management (CPIM) by the American Production and Inventory Control Society; and holds a variety of industry association memberships, including the Precision Metalforming Association (PMA), Industrial Fastener Institute (IFI), the Forging Industry Association (FIA), the Automotive Industry Action Group (AIAG) and the Original Equipment Suppliers Association (OESA).

Symonds and his family live in the Greater Detroit area.

What will the software industry look like in 3, 5, even 10 years from now?

There is no question that SaaS, or the Cloud delivery model, will continue to grow as the preferred way to deliver business software applications. Point solution vendors such as Salesforce.com, SuccessFactors and NetSuite have led the way. It is inevitable that deep, vertical full-suite SaaS solutions will gain widespread adoption.

ERP Forecast

We see a changing of the guard in ERP. The major companies when I began my career were Cullinet, Walker, Dun&Bradstreet and McCormick & Dodge. Those mainframe players were replaced by a large number of client-server vendors. Many of the famous companies of the 80′s and 90′s have already disappeared into the abyss at Infor.

Many of today’s ERP brands will not survive. The chasm is too deep and wide for them to get to a true and sustainable SaaS business model and technology.

As I see it, technology will be the least of their problems. Subscription pricing, SAS-70, Service Level Agreements and agile development will do them in.

More vendors of scale will likely offer deep and wide solutions to specific vertical markets. Generic ERP that must be heavily modified for each industry will give way to comprehensive, purpose-built offerings meeting the needs of users in a given market. [Read more...]

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Cloud/GOV CIO Panel Announcement

February 3, 2011 By

In this session you will hear leading government CIOs share their perspectives of cloud in government and what it means for their respective agencies. We will discuss the state of procurements (current and future) for which the agencies are seeking cloud/saas capabilities, their primary goals and objectives for each agency’s cloud initiative, and the metrics for evaluating the ROI.

Moderator:
Michael Binko, President and CEO, kloudtrack

Panelists:
Thomas Bayer, Chief Information Officer, Securities and Exchange Commission
Henry Sienkiewicz, Chief Information Officer, DISA
Kevin Smith, Deputy Chief Information Officer, United States Patent & Trademark
Keith Trippie, Executive Director of Enterprise System Development , Department of Homeland Security
Stephen Warren, Deputy CIO, Department of Veterans Affairs

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SIIA & INPUT Webinar: Federal Cloud Computing Initiative Update

February 2, 2011 By

Opening Presentation by INPUT: “Five Indicators That Cloud Computing is Here to Stay”
Presenter:
Deniece Peterson, Manager, Industry Analysis, INPUT

Vendor Panel
Moderator:
Michael Binko, President & CEO, kloudtrack
Panelists:
Kevin Jackson, Cloud Evangelist and Engineering Fellow, NJVC
Nick Hoover, Senior Editor, InformationWeek
Robert O. Ames, Director and Deputy CTO, IBM Federal

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‘It’s Time to Sell the Yugo,’ or ‘Why Software Compliance and Piracy Enforcement Needs a 25 Year Upgrade’

February 1, 2011 By

Written by Jim Nauen, VP, Global Sales

A few weeks ago as I was getting ready to speak at a local HTCIA chapter in California, I started thinking about how little progress has been made in Software Compliance over the last 25 years. Having recovered over $130 million in compliance revenue over the last 20+ years for a number of large and small software vendors, it seems in 2011 that Software Compliance and Piracy Enforcement is still largely a matter of blind luck for many software vendors.

Hit or miss manual audits, whistle blower leads, channel partner tip offs, even mystery dialing are still the main source of overuse and piracy enforcement leads 25 years later, which is like driving in the dark with your headlights off and hoping to find the road. In keeping with the 80s, let’s call it the Yugo strategy of compliance revenue recovery. Why would you wait and hope that these leads come to you, instead of using modern methods of aggressively tracking and pursuing companies illegally using your software?

To continue reading this post, please visit the V.i. Labs blog.

Jim Nauen

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