SaaS needs to meet the customer requirement.

Businessweek.com has the article about SaaS (Ondemand) software business , titled On-Demand Computing: A Brutal Slog . It details the current state of the SaaS business model. Here are some of the questions SaaS provider should answer in the context of their future viability :

1. Are the SaaS providers targeting the right market or they focusing the same market as the traditional software companies ?
2. Is the value proposition based only on the monetary cost of ownership ?
3. How does SaaS meet the challenges when hosted application requires complex integration with existing legacy and other 3rd party applications ?
4. Do they meet the requirements of compliance and regulatory requirement ?
5. How portable the SaaS application -if the customer wants to move from one service provider to another ?
6. How flexible and agile the SaaS provider is to meet the dynamic business needs of the customer?


Only those SaaS ventures, which meet these customer requirements will be able to sustain itself as future alternative.

Personal Information Management Tool

We are dealing with verities of digital information in our day to day life. It has been pretty difficult to manage this where the information could be very critical as well as useful to us. I have used different tools to manage these information , but I am yet to come across a tool which meets my requirement. Most of the tools are technology centric without keeping the end user in mind. I will be building up a set up requirement over time and validating that with people with similar product in mind. The slide here gives a preliminary idea of tool , I have in my mind.

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Top 10 challenges for IT in rolling out enterprise content management

What are the 10 top issues that Enterprise IT leaders face when they try to take the path of the Enterprise Content Management roll out ? Here is my take:

1. Decision between single technology vs multiple technology for content management ( suite vs best of breed)
2. User experience vs backend technology
3. How much to spend on customization on a vendor supplied content management product
4. Do we need to justify by ROI for each content management application
5. Meeting the demand of web experience by end users
6. Marrying enterprise security approach with the content management products functionality
7. How to on board the users and get a quick adoption of the new system ?
8. Challenge of consolidating the requirement of different business line to provide single user experience.
9. Content migration : cost and risk
10. IT scaling up to managing multiple projects and defining an enterprise governance architecture.

Debate - Enterprise 2.0

If you are interested in Enterprise 2.0 debates . .. here you can follow its two version..

2006: Debate 0.1 ....Carr vs McAfee

2007: Debate 1.0...McAfee vs.Davenport

2008: Debate 2.0 .... McAfee vs.Davenport

Do you have a view...please comment.

DRM-free movies - is it a possibility ?

Here is posting by Paul Artiuch in Wikinomics about DRM-free music.

Do you think DRM-free movie is possibility in new future? How it is different from DRM-free Music ? What are the industry dynamics in play for a DRM-free movie ?

Free shipping from stores

Will you buy more from a brick and mortar shop if they provide free shipping for your gift from the store? Is there a business opportunity for a service provider ? Let me know if somebody provides this.

Did you get your open id ?

I got mine at Myopenid.com