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1Mby1M Incubation Radar 2012: Hooduku, Houston, Texas
In late 2011, 1M/1M premium member Hooduku, a cloud and mobile application services company, saw an unduly large bill from one of its cloud providers but couldn’t see how to track the spending. Citing lack of controls on cloud spending as a cause, Hooduku decided to develop an internal solution to the problem. Earlier this
1Mby1M Deal Radar 2012: CallFire, Santa Monica, California
CallFire is a Santa Monica, California–based text messaging and voice platform for businesses. It was founded by a group of friends with a passion for technology and a desire to build a successful company from the ground up and perhaps alter the course of telecom along the way. CallFire provides a cloud platform for businesses
India vs. Silicon Valley: A SaaS-y War
Software as a service (SaaS) probably grew in popularity as quickly as it did thanks to Salesforce.com. The customer relationship management (CRM) giant made the lives of sales professionals much easier, and the platform soon gained traction as a handy tool for non-sales professionals as well. But Salesforce.com wasn’t—and still isn’t—affordable for everybody. Enter Zoho, a bootstrapped, India-based company that offers
SaaS Spreads to India and Beyond
Software as a service is a thriving and still growing industry with dozens of multimillion-dollar companies making their mark around the world. According to Gartner, global spending on the Software-as-a-Service (SAAS) market is projected to grow 17.9% in 2012 to $14.5 billion and is projected to be worth $22.1 billion by 2015. IPOs and acquisitions abound, making it
Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Frank Dale, CEO of Compendium (Part 1)
When it comes to effectively attracting new business, content marketing is one of the latest successful trends. If you’ve ever worked with WordPress, Type Pad, Movable Type, or even Blogger, you may have noticed they have a few things in common. Rest assured that although the aforementioned blogging platforms may have a few similarities, they’re
Creating Cultural Change with Project Management 2.0
By guest author Mridula Velagapudi With a string of conceptual terms such as Web 2.0, Enterprise 2.0, SaaS 2.0, Project Management has also found its foothold in the term Project Management 2.0. It all started with the term Web 2.0, which denotes the evolutionary phase of the World Wide Web where it allowed users to participate
Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Adam Miller, CEO of Cornerstone OnDemand (Part 1)
Cornerstone OnDemand is a company that provides cloud-based talent management software solutions to nearly eight million people in 179 countries. The company boasts such heavy-hitting clients as Starwood Hotels and Resorts, Turner Broadcasting System, Virgin Media, and Save the Children, among others. Based in Santa Monica, California, Cornerstone has office locations in Latin America, Europe, Asia,
Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: David Guthrie, CTO of PGi (Part 2)
SM: Point taken. But the products in the market also have very large user bases. DG: Sure. So, did other wireless phones that you know about before the iPhone came out, before the Droid came out with their OSes that changed the way you interact with phones. But there were other phones like Samsung and
