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1. Who is “fit” to provide enterprise apps?
(Platform as a Service/Official Appirio Blog)

Narinder Singh The SaaS blogosphere has been abuzz these last couple of days discussing Sergey Solyanik’s assessment that Google’s culture is “not fit” for enterprise apps. We’ll say up front that Appirio ...

2. The Google Homepage - The Future Face of SaaS?
(Platform as a Service/Official Appirio Blog)

Software as a Service (SaaS) continues to gain momentum in the enterprise and is on its way to becoming a $20B market by 2011 (industry estimates from CSFB and Tripletree). Google, with its “iGoogle” ...

3. Can Google Bring Enterprises Together?
(Platform as a Service/Official Appirio Blog)

... Sites, but rather than review the new features or the pros and cons of the service, we'd rather highlight what this type of collaboration service means for enterprises and why on-demand collaboration is ...

4. Answers to the salesforce.com - Google Rumors
(Platform as a Service/Official Appirio Blog)

... a salesforce.com consulting and AppExchange partner, and as a partner in the Google Enterprise Professional™ Program. We're surprised at the amount of speculation and activity our new products and discussions ...

5. Dreamforce '07 - Appirio's Observations for Enterprise Executives & CIOs
(Platform as a Service/Official Appirio Blog)

Last week 7,000 Dreamforce 2007 attendees pondered a week chock-full of significant announcements. This week we'd like to share our observations, based on discussions with salesforce.com's enterprise ...

6. Message to NetSuite - SaaS Vision is About More Than Just "the Suite"
(Platform as a Service/Official Appirio Blog)

... the characteristics of the consuming organization such as size, industry, and structure. Yet the questions Nelson raises, when combined with the NetSuite agenda, reveal a poor understanding of enterprise ...

7. Executives talk about the problems in Enterprise SaaS
(Platform as a Service/Thoughts On Salesforce)

... on the future of SaaS and where the industry is heading. The discussions surrounded the questions of “Why is SaaS having trouble entering the enterprise space?” and in particular, “Why hasn’t there been ...

8. Google and salesforce.com : Solutions for business, meet solutions for businesspeople
(Platform as a Service/Official Appirio Blog)

Ryan Nichols Salesforce, meet Google Apps… this is an introduction we’re happy to make and an occasion we are excited to be a part of. As the first partner of both Google Enterprise and salesforce.com, ...

9. Office 2.0 - Enterprise Users Can Have Fun and Be More Productive?
(Platform as a Service/Official Appirio Blog)

Ryan Nichols Why are we so excited about this year's Office 2.0 conference ? First is the theme: Enterprise Adoption. Using online tools to "get things done" is a topic that all of us at Appirio have ...

10. Salesforce.com Receives Intelligent Enterprise 2008 Editors’ Choice Award
(Platform as a Service/Official Salesforce Blog)

We’re thrilled to announce that Intelligent Enterprise Magazine has given salesforce.com a 2008 Editors’ Choice Award and named it to the “Intelligent Enterprise Dozen”. In naming its Award recipients, ...

11. Tackling information overload, 10 million documents at a time
(Platform as a Service/The Official Google Blog)

... content systems and databases. Because we appreciate the universal quality of the first scenario and the high stakes of the second, we've released the latest Google Search Appliance, an enterprise search ...

12. Salesforce and Google Apps
(Platform as a Service/Thoughts On Salesforce)

... Enterprise, said Guy Creese, research director with the Burton Group. In an interview with eWEEK, Creese said the Salesforce.com deal was unlikely to add significant momentum to enterprise adoption of ...

13. Accenture 1.0 - Recycled "Investments," But Still No SaaS Innovation
(Platform as a Service/Official Appirio Blog)

... number of SaaS solutions on the AppExchange. Similarly Google has launched their Enterprise Solutions and Gadget Gallery. You'd expect a market leader like Accenture to be an active community participant, ...

14. Back to school with more than 1 million users worldwide
(Platform as a Service/The Official Google Blog)

... more about how cloud computing is helping education. Please check out our Enterprise blog for more info. Posted by Jeff Keltner, Business Development Manager, Google Apps Google Apps is rapidly ...

15. Microsoft to Partners: We Still Don't Get SaaS
(Platform as a Service/Official Appirio Blog)

... closed solutions." This makes them unable to meet the challenges of tomorrow's enterprises. A sign of this and that a company doesn't get SaaS is when it positions on-demand as a transition path to ...

16. Adobe Embraces the Cloud - Hazy Days Ahead for Microsoft?
(Platform as a Service/Official Appirio Blog)

... is the pricing model.  It's hard to put out an offering that competes with existing products and costs only a fraction of what you're currently charging.  Google Apps are free (for enterprise domain support, ...

17. Living the Dream - Salesforce, Google and SaaS
(Platform as a Service/Official Appirio Blog)

Chris Barbin We at Appirio have lots of experience at big technology companies (SAP, webMethods, Borland) and classic enterprise software startups. We run Appirio differently from what we saw at ...

18. What Do You Get When You Cross Salesforce.com and Amazon S3?
(Platform as a Service/Official Appirio Blog)

... offerings that extend and fill in the platforms themselves. In traditional enterprise application integration (EAI), packaged integrations were difficult to commercialize. The permutation of versions ...

19. What Do Open Source and On-Demand Have in Common?
(Platform as a Service/Official Appirio Blog)

Chris Barbin What Do Open Source and On-Demand Have in Common? They both keep Steve Ballmer awake at night? Nope, too easy. They both changed the game in enterprise software? True. But the most ...

20. Where in the World is Appirio?
(Platform as a Service/Official Appirio Blog)

... true. However, we have been busy. Over the last few months we’ve been working with our customers on many exciting initiatives to accelerate on-demand in the enterprise by capitalizing on the Software-as-a-Service ...