Software Business and living a Life of International Business
It is amazing to see how the velocity of business models is changing the entire cloud landscape. I read an InformationWeek article this morning about Gartner's Magic Quadrant 2014 for cloud, its winners and losers and how for example Rackspace … [Continue reading]
If you work in the software industry, I am sure that you have heard people using the word "ecosystem". A good example of an ecosystem is that of Microsoft that spans globally and has more than 500k partners of different types and with different … [Continue reading]
It is amazing to look back how the world has changed in respect to how we connect with people and how we can become influencers in our network. I stated already back in 2007 in my first business book ("Become successful in the big World") that … [Continue reading]
SaaS Channel compensation is one of the hardest things that software vendors are facing today. If you have a nice traditional software business model with good software maintenance revenue and mature channel, you are reluctant to change or touch it. … [Continue reading]
In my previous blog entry, I discussed about the complexity of channel development and channel alignment. I recommended for SaaS software vendors to use Business Model Canvas to compare the business model with the assumed business model of its … [Continue reading]
Everybody talks about business models and business modeling, but not many have been exposed to different types of scenarios and organizations when applying it. I learned today after having talked to a person that had used Business Model Canvas in the … [Continue reading]
Cloud adoption is accelerating and it is also in the process killing many businesses. I read today an interesting blog entry "Are Cloud Vendors Cutting Out the Channel" and this article explains in great detail what is happening on the marketplace in … [Continue reading]
Channel development can be complex if you have a SaaS solution and you want to ensure that your growth comes through the channel. I have spent my past 20 years involved in software channel development on many continents and I have seen many different … [Continue reading]
Many organizations are feeling the pain of spinning-out-of-control with their business model. I have spent the last few weeks contemplating on everything that I have learned the past two years in software technology and I have to say that it has even … [Continue reading]
SharePoint and its market penetration in enterprises can't be denied. It is used by a massive amount of organizations and there are hundreds of thousands of developers building solutions using SharePoint as foundation for developing solutions. … [Continue reading]