Posts by DrSalonen
Business users are turning into app developers
Business users are turning into app developers according to a recent study by Intuit. According to the study of 148 customers identified themselves as “citizen developers” with a career in accounting, financial etc. areas. The apps that these citizen developers are building are mainly “get-the-work-done” types of apps (65%) and 42% in more mission-critical areas…
Read MoreMoving towards your career goals based on your passion
I am a true believer in making your selections in your career based on your passion. Let me explain why. Every day should be a learning experience so having to deal with something that you are not passionate about might take you into places where you do not want to be. I wanted to share…
Read MoreAre you ignoring your social networking?
Are you ignoring your social networking? The global business environment is harsh and there are no job securities anymore. If you work for a large company, you might loose your job purely on strategic shift in what the company needs. We have seen this during the past year where good people lose their job not…
Read MoreMoving to a New Managed WordPress Hosting Vendor
Moving to a new managed WordPress hosting vendor is not an undertaking one should take lightly. I wrote today in my company blog some of the reasons that made me to make that move. One was the cost and one was the fact that I believe that the previous hosting provider WPEngine was not really…
Read MoreLearnings of using software tools to run your business – Part 3
In my previous blog entry I gave the overall view how our Dynamics CRM 2013 account/contact entities have been used and what kind of Dynamics CRM 2013 custom fields I have used with those entities. In this blog entry I will describe the process how we integrate to SharePoint 2013 Online (part of Office 365).…
Read MoreLearnings of using software tools to run your business – Part 2
In my previous blog I concluded that we typically make our solutions to hard to use and non-intuitive for our users. I also told that I have over engineered many solutions and I guess I could blaim my accounting degree for that. I just wanted to make sure we collect everything that we might need…
Read MoreLearnings of using software tools to run your business – Part 1
I have quite a few years behind me running companies and also helping out companies to grow the business with some key learnings. One of the key questions that has puzzled me all these years is how to make solutions to support information workers and not the other way around. Solutions are unfortunately still built based on what…
Read MoreChanging business model due to external factors
Sometimes there is a need to change the business model due to some external factors that we can’t control. This morning I read an interesting article David Linthicum who is known to track the cloud market and write about current trends. Today, he wrote about the fight between Netflix vs. Verizon and how these companies…
Read MoreIs your software SaaS solution channel friendly?
Every software vendor needs to think about the question whether its SaaS-solution is channel friendly. And I am not talking about channel friendly from a financial perspective, but also from the perspective how your channel partners can administer its end users customers and deploy the solutions. One of the biggest challenges that many software vendors…
Read MoreSoftware Ecosystems and APIs
I wrote about software ecosystems and their importance in my previous blog entry and what needs to be added to this discussion is the use of effective APIs (Application Programming Interface). This is not the first time I have emphasized the need for software vendors to focus on APIs and build solutions that can be consumed…
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