Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Alex Osipov, CTO of OS33 (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: That’s what I was trying to get at, extracting the essence of your business. I think “cloud services brokerage across multiple legacy systems” sounds like a reasonable description of the essence of what you do. Correct?

Alex Osipov: I wouldn’t just say legacy because we support all the cloud storage options nowadays. We’re good at legacy because we built the platform over a period of 10 years. We’ve put a lot of knowledge into operating legacy. Because we have a big scale, we have so many MSPs across so many different verticals, we’ve actually been able to put further knowledge into it. For the last two and a half years, we’ve been integrating cloud services. So, we’re learning a lot as well. >>>

Concur, NetSuite Look Toward Commerce

According to Gartner, global spending on software-as-a-service (SaaS) is projected to grow 18% this year to $14.5 billion. The market is projected to be worth $22.1 billion by 2015. Growth will come from emerging markets of Asia Pacific and Latin America, both of which will grow nearly 27% to $934.1 million and $419.7 million, respectively. North America is projected to grow 17% from $7.8 billion in 2011 to $9.1 billion, with Western Europe markets projected to grow 19% to $3.2 billion. Japan will see the slowest growth at 16% to $495.2 million in 2012. SaaS player Concur is gearing up to tackle these emerging markets.

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Alex Osipov, CTO of OS33 (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: And how many of these kinds of managed services providers are out there?

Alex Osipov: In the U.S. I think there are 56,000.

SM: Fifty-six thousand. Wow.

AO: Imagine how many small and medium businesses there are all over the world. Most of them aren’t doing their own IT. >>>

Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Alex Osipov, CTO of OS33 (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: In terms of security requirements?

Alex Osipov: In terms of security requirements, certainly.

SM: So, you’re saying the banking and legal sectors, in particular, where they’re running into bottlenecks is in security?

AO: Yes. Mike, you’re the expert on security in the cloud; would you like to chime in here? >>>

Salesforce.com vs. SAP for CRM Market Share

According to Gartner’s report, in 2011, the customer relationship management (CRM) software market was dominated by SAP, which captured a 19.3% market share. Salesforce.com came in second with a 16.7% market share, followed closely by Oracle at 16%. Microsoft was a distant fourth, with 7.5% worldwide CRM market share. But Salesforce is rapidly increasing sales to narrow the gap with SAP.

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Alex Osipov, CTO of OS33 (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: If you take that line of thought, your competitors are the platform-as-a-service category, right, Force.com and so forth?

Alex Osipov: I actually don’t think of them as competitors. I don’t think we’re even in the same space, to tell you the truth.

SM: When you look at the value proposition of the platform-as-a-service players, they’re offering the same thing. They’re offering the same kind of infrastructure stack in their platforms, and then vertical players put the application layers and the services layers on top of that and provision them on somebody’s data center. So, help me to understand. How is your offering different? >>>

Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Alex Osipov, CTO of OS33 (Part 1)

No longer the wave of the future, cloud computing has become an integral part of the way we live and work. Companies like OS33 have capitalized on the growing importance of cloud computing by positioning themselves to help those who help the end users, specifically, managed services providers (MSP). A completely cloud-based IT delivery automation platform, OS33 allows MSPs to more easily deliver and manage the IT solutions they provide for their clients. With the aid of OS33, end users receive a customizable Webtop graphical user interface (GUI) that provides a single unified interface that can access all company applications, data and services via a connected computer regardless of location.

Sramana Mitra: Hi, Alex. Let’s start with some context about OS33 and about you. >>>

Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Adam Miller, CEO of Cornerstone OnDemand (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Everything is said in terms of the vision for talent management. That has been the vision for talent management all along. This is not new. Maybe this vision has not penetrated widely into enterprises and into business right now. That penetration is a factor of channels and technology adoption across the board over the next five or ten years. I understand that; however, I think the vision is not new. What I’m looking for is, Where do you see innovation happening, and where are the nuggets of innovation and new things that really push the envelope? >>>