Oracle Doesn’t Get SaaS
Don’t miss this great post by Phil Wainwright on Oracle’s misconveived SaaS strategy. He takes issue with these 4 assertions from Oracle president Charles Phillips:
- Customers want to replicate data
- Multitenancy doesn’t matter
- Customers want to own software
- SaaS is just a hosting option
I suspect we’ll hear similar messages promoting a hybrid approach to software-as-a-service coming from SAP on September 19th when they launch A1S. (By the way, does anybody think it’s a coincidence they picked the last day of Dreamforce to introduce their new on-demand ERP suite?)
To understand why these and other on-premise software vendors won’t be promoting a pure on-demand model any time soon, check out this article by Rick Whiting on the cash-cow that is enterprise software maintenance fees.
And be sure to start here if you want to find out why LucidEra has been called “a disruptive force” in the business intelligence market.
posted by Darren Cunningham at 10:24 pm
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Darren Cunningham
Posted on 29th August, 2007
Here’s a good overview of SAP A1S: http://beyond438.wordpress.com/2007/08/25/saps-on-demandsaas-erp-solution-codenamed-a1s/
Ken Rudin is the VP of Market Development at LucidEra. He co-founded the on-demand business intelligence company in 2005. Ken is a veteran of the rapidly growing software as a service industry with over 7 years of experience as an executive with leading on-demand software vendors. These include roles at Salesforce.com, at Netsuite (as an advisor), and at Siebel's on-demand division.
Darren Cunningham is the Director of Product Marketing at LucidEra. Prior to joining LucidEra he was the Category Director for salesforce.com AppExchange Analytics and Data Management. Before joining the on-demand world, he spent over 7 years at Business Objects.
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