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The way Saas companies are structured is yet another testament to the strength of the apps they produce ‘ who better to create the software you need than those who have native experience with the industry. This kind of experience is not particularly teachable ‘ and this is exactly what Derek identifies as the thing, beyond the web browser, that makes Saas companies a disruptive force in enterprise software.

‘Most of the people working for Saas companies are children of the web’. Basically, employees in Saas companies are often from the generation that grew up with the Internet ‘ they understand it, they are comfortable using it, and for them, how best to leverage it in order to build a successful app and company is simply common knowledge.

GoodData today announced the immediate availability of its on-demand Business intelligence service, which provides simple-to-use reporting, customizable dashboards and deep ad hoc analysis of any Business data. GoodData delivers the power and flexibility to meet companies’ analytics requirements as an on-demand service, without the complexity or cost inherent in typical Business intelligence solutions. For the low price of $ 500 per month, companies can deliver analytics to as many as 50 employees and can host approximately one year’s worth of Salesforce CRM, Google Analytics, call center and any other customer or operational data.

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3 Saas expertises for a powerfull and affordable solution Collaborative BI is made of three fundamental components : business intelligence, the decision making process and collaborative work. For Laurent Gasser, Revevol Group CEO, ‘Most of the companies express the need to make an accurate analysis of their strategic data. Today, the finding is simple : a BI solution means a high budget.

Collaborative BI : make faster and smarter decisions to grow your business With Collaborative BI, Revevol offers a superlative solution to a common corporate challenge. The only way to add lasting value to a business is to make smart strategic decisions today. With the rise of new technology, companies of all sizes have been forced to deal with a significant increase of scattered data. The direct consequence is often harder analysis and partially informed strategic decisions. Revevol Collaborative BI will aggregate your data on an intuitive and collaborative platform. Our solution provides your decision makers with the information they need to make smart decisions for your company’s future.

Revevol’s Collaborative BI solution (100% Saas), is based on BIME’s BI expertise, RunMyProcess’s workflow efficiency for the decision making process, and the Google Apps collaborative suite. Thanks to these 3 solutions, Revevol has developed a powerful and affordable BI solution that finally offers an answer to the needs of companies today. We are convinced this will be a great success ’.

Graduate Circle Company Description: GoodData offers the world’s most powerful Cloud BI Platform, providing our customers and partners with operational dashboards, advanced reporting and data warehousing at a fraction of the cost and complexity of other approaches. GoodData is trusted by companies like Enterasys Networks, Pandora Media, and Software AG, and embedded into offerings from cloud innovators like Zendesk, Aurix and Brightidea.

Presenter: Roman Stanek Founder and CEO GoodData Roman is GoodData’s visionary leader, who had the crazy idea back in 2007 that cloud computing could finally make good on the broken promises of generations of BI. Roman has been a tech entrepreneur for almost 20 years. He was Founder and CEO of NetBeans (acquired by Sun Microsystems) and Systinet (acquired by Mercury Interactive and later Hewlett Packard).

Sure it seemslike akind-hearted message with success written all over it, anditisundeniably unified in its presentation.But nowcouple that mantra with the technological implementation that isApex and here is where the meat of my questions arise. According to their own Apex landing page, Salesforce.com wants you to create the next Salesforce.com using the’same tools that salesforce.com’s own development team uses to build’. Besides being a lot of Salesforce.com’s in one sentence, this seems likea cleverly veiled way of saying ‘we’ll let you build the next Salesforce.com, but no better.

It’s been a few months now since Salesforce.com introduced Apex to the world, and we’ve all had ample time to digest the concept, analyze it, debate about it, and just generally figure out our own positions on the proposition. One thing’s for sure,the announcement of Apexbroughtthetotallevel of industry ‘Saas platform’ buzz somewhere into the realm of, oh,stratospheric. Salesforce.com, of course,should be commended for this. But now here we are roughly five months later andthe landscape for Saas in the enterprise software market,regardless ofApex,hasgrown and changed drastically.

Platform players have emerged, some having Saas platform offerings in development long before the Apex announcement. Some pure play Saas application vendors are backpedaling to attack the platform need.Some platforms formed through partnershipsbetween partial solution providers.Although we may use the term ‘platform’ for them all, there aredecidedly different approaches to the concept, even this early in the game.

So now that the field has widenedwe can frame Apex against a broadernotion of Saas platforms,their requirements, and the different approaches being taken to provide Saas enablement.It istime to re-examine our initial response to Apex. I wonder, is Apex really what Saas vendors need. In fact, I dare ask: is it really a platform.

And we’ll keep you from doing this by giving you only the tools that we give our own application developers (or gave them months ago)’ who you may ultimately be competing with.’ Remember, a gooddeal of Salesforce.com’s AppExchange apps are indeed oftheir own making. See, this way Salesforce.com’s own developers define a ceiling’ aguarded gate through which theISVs they are ‘enabling’ cannot pass through. You see, you can’t really create the next Salesforce.com; youmay be able tocreate what Salesforce.com is today. Tomorrow Salesforce.com will have progressed, and then you can try to be that. Sound fun.

Sound endless. By bringing in developersthrough Apex, Salesforce.com is swallowing competition in an enterprise applicationmarketthat it iscertainly not abandoning. Is Apex simply a vehicle for making sure that Salesforce.com stays ahead of the game. After all,if you out grow or otherwise find little need forthe tools provided to you by Apex, you pretty much have to dismantle your application and start over on a different technology stack- putting you far far behind. Sounds kind of Borg-ish to me. Come to think of it’ didn’t we talk about the risks of this thing called lock-inbefore. In the case of Apex we might be talking about lock-in through assimilation. Heck, you even have to learn the Apex language. I rest my case.

‘BI is hot. All of the leading management consultancies and systems integrators are putting BI at the top of their priority lists’BI Saas is still a niche in a much larger market of on-premises and hosted (same as on-premises, just hosted by a vendor ‘ very different from Saas), but it’s growing rapidly. Especially in the SMB sector, where internal IT resources don’t have enough bandwidth, capabilities, or budget to deliver BI apps in house.

Or where business users don’t have the experience, expertise, or time to tell their own IT resources how to design and build such analytical applications, and want to leverage the business expertise of the Saas vendors.’

‘Today it’s game on for Domo,’ said James. ‘We are thrilled to introduce our brand to the world and we couldn’t be more pleased to have the experience of this board behind us.Domo’s board members, investors and angel investors have served as leaders and advisors to some of the world’s largest internet and Saas companies. As Domo seeks to redefine BI and build a billion-dollar business, their collective insights will allow us to accelerate on the delivery of our plan’.

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