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Building an Ambitious SaaS Company: Taleo CEO Michael Gregoire (Part 8)
SM: In the way the product is marketed, are you also competing against job boards such as Monster? MG: No, they are more partners of ours. We have direct linked feeds to most of the job boards. If a company decides to approve a requisition, they can hit a button in our system and it
More on ADP and SaaS
Here’s Phil Wainewright’s piece on ADP and SaaS: ADP Sees incentive for SaaS. My related articles: * ADP Can Become a Powerhouse through Acquisitions * Can PayChex become a SaaS Aggregator? * Intuit Bets on SaaS, Not Yet on International * Concur’s SME Opportunity
“BI Appliances” are Entering the Fray
By David Hatch, Guest Author In May of 2007, Cognos announced the availability of “Cognos Now!”, a “BI Appliance”/SaaS BI offering that comes via the acquisition of Celequest this past January. In June, Ingres (an open source database provider) announced the completion of work on a “BI Appliance” with JasperSoft (a provider of open source
Serving the Underserved: Is On-Demand BI the Answer?
By David Hatch, Guest Author In my last post, I discussed how On-Demand BI may not be just for SMBs, based on some recent research findings, and that corporate plans for On-Demand delivery of BI applications (SaaS, Hosting, BI-Appliances) may be gaining ground within organizations of all sizes more rapidly than has been generally reported.
On-Demand BI – Not Just for SMB
By David Hatch, Guest Author As a brief introduction, Sramana Mitra and I, after a short on-line discourse, determined that my research into user organizations’ perspectives about BI technology, processes, and investment intentions would be of value to readers of this blog forum. As a primary researcher in the BI space, I am very interested
Taking on Business Intelligence: Lucidera CEO Ken Rudin (Part 6)
SM: What are your top target segments? KR: We are finding a lot of success with Sales Operations managers, VP of Sales and also the CFO or Director of Finance at small and medium size companies. Those with a slightly distributed workforce and who don’t want the hassle of managing the cost associated with traditional
Taking on Business Intelligence: Lucidera CEO Ken Rudin (Part 3)
SM. Where did you get the idea for LucidEra? What is your domain experience in the Enterprise 3.0 business? KR: The idea developed in two stages. First, when I ran my Business Intelligence consulting company many years, it became obvious that while Business Intelligence solutions were common in large enterprises, they were rare in small
Taking on Business Intelligence: Lucidera CEO Ken Rudin (Part 2)
SM: So your professional career began at Oracle. KR: Yes. I left Oracle to get a business degree at Stanford University. When I graduated in 1994, I started a consulting company called Emergent that focused on designing and building Business Intelligence solutions for large companies. We were acquired by Keane (a public systems integration company)
