Blog: Nick Hortovanyi | Category: SOA | By: Nick Hortovanyi
Mike Kavis (aka Mad Greek) has done it again and written an excellent blog entry - The "Keeping the Lights on" Mentality . I see this all too often, in a number of accounts that I visit. IT as a cost center, with the focus on "Keeping the...
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Blog: Nick Hortovanyi | Category: SaaS | By: Nick Hortovanyi
I've been thinking a lot recently about what the potential impact may be to new IT projects with the recent credit crunch. Some believe that there will be increased belt tightening in business in general, with few new capital projects being approved. Is this...
Blog: Nick Hortovanyi | Category: Portal | By: Nick Hortovanyi
Is the purpose of a portal to just aggregate details about services or to provide a unified experience? Doing some research today, I came across WebCentral's Application Marketplace . It intrigued me, as it's purpose, seemed to be to only aggregate...
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Blog: Nick Hortovanyi | Category: SaaS | By: Nick Hortovanyi
The SaaS purist are always suggesting that a key characteristic of a true SaaS service provider, is to have the ability for it's clients to easily take their data and move to another service. Whilst in principle I agree with this, I think clarification is...
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Blog: Nick Hortovanyi | Category: SaaS | By: Nick Hortovanyi
Some are expressing concerns about the security risks and perils related to compliance, availability and data integrity of using cloud based SaaS services. James Governor , summed it up nicely here , when promoting CloudCamp London by referring also in the...
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Blog: Nick Hortovanyi | Category: SaaS | By: Nick Hortovanyi
Two camps are evolving in the software world. Those that see SaaS (Software as a Service) as the future of software delivery to end users and those that don't. Entrepreneurs and innovators see that providing access to their software over the internet through...
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Blog: Nick Hortovanyi | Category: SaaS | By: Nick Hortovanyi
Over the last week, I've been evolving a presentation regarding our multitenancy commercialisation efforts through Business Portal Server . For the most part it has been received positively. In one session that I gave though, a VC (Venture Capitalist) who...
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Blog: Nick Hortovanyi | Category: SaaS | By: Nick Hortovanyi
As some reading this might know I'm a bit tired of Microsoft everywhere, so I apologize in advance if you perceive some negative sentiment towards Microsoft. I have been like that since 2001/2002, when .NET was announced/released and everyone came knocking on...
Blog: Nick Hortovanyi | Category: SaaS | By: Nick Hortovanyi
I was pointed to a Phil Wainewright blog entry on Customization: curse or blessing? by Denis Howlett from a twitter conversation a few days ago . In the twitter conversation, I'd been questioning the scalability of Microsoft Sharepoint, and it...
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Blog: Nick Hortovanyi | Category: SaaS | By: Nick Hortovanyi
Phil Wainewright has written an excellent blog entry Eight reasons SaaS will surge in 2008 . The entry is positive but still the key needs will be to overcome objections of on premise IT thought leaders in conjunction with the reliability and quality of SaaS...
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Blog: Nick Hortovanyi | Category: General | By: Nick Hortovanyi
Its that time of year, when writing about your predictions for 2008 is all the rage. I've been tagging some by others on del.icio.us with prediction2008 . I've included my current del.licio.us tags in descending order of importance. It highlights the areas...
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