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Phil Wainewright

Phil Wainewright

Since 1998, Phil Wainewright has been a thought leader in cloud computing as a blogger, analyst and consultant. He founded pioneering website ASPnews.com, and later Loosely Coupled, which covered enterprise adoption of web services and SOA. As CEO of strategic consulting group Procullux Ventures, he has developed an evaluation framework to help ISVs and enterprises select cloud platforms, and advises US and European vendors on messaging, positioning and go-to-market. His newest role as an industry advocate is vice-president of EuroCloud.

About Software as Services

In the best-informed blog on software-as-a-service and on-demand business applications, Phil Wainewright cuts through the vendor spin, analyzes the trends to watch and adds his thought-provoking insights.

  • Speed of business propels SaaS expansion

    By Phil Wainewright | May 17, 2012, 10:46am PDT

    SaaS adoption is rife among fast-growing companies that want to adapt to change and stay up-to-date. That leaves conventional on-premise vendors competing for the laggards.

  • The idiot guide to multi book accounting

    By Phil Wainewright | May 16, 2012, 7:32pm PDT

    Is SuccessFactors operating multi book accounting across its parallel NetSuite and ByDesign instances? Or is it just pantomime?

  • SuccessFactors swaps NetSuite for ByDesign

    By Phil Wainewright | May 15, 2012, 12:00pm PDT

    NetSuite CEO Zach Nelson claims SuccessFactors is a NetSuite customer. SAP says it runs on ByDesign now. Who’s right?

  • Paving the cowpaths to the denial cloud

    By Phil Wainewright | May 14, 2012, 6:16pm PDT

    Enterprises are being sold over-specified, inefficient private cloud infrastructure that will end up as shelfware, a conference heard last week.

  • Tech-hugging eurocrats imperil innovation puppy

    By Phil Wainewright | May 10, 2012, 1:06pm PDT

    Europe needs growth and cloud computing has a role to play. But are policy makers too eager for rapid results? An event later this month may yield some answers.

  • Crowd scale, friction and the nature of the firm

    By Phil Wainewright | April 24, 2012, 9:29am PDT

    Why a new, digitally enabled, contract-based online business model is disrupting long-established enterprises.

  • The day software ate Cisco

    By Phil Wainewright | April 22, 2012, 4:44am PDT

    Cisco’s track record with software tells us the company will not survive the shift to software-defined networking

  • Marketo buys Crowd Factory? You read it here first ...

    By Phil Wainewright | April 18, 2012, 8:23am PDT

    Read my analysis of today’s news in the blog post I published last November … the trouble with prescience is that people forget too easily these days

  • Cloud apps, big data and the wisdom of swarms

    By Phil Wainewright | April 6, 2012, 8:57am PDT

    Siri’s approach to deciphering voice recognition has lessons for SaaS vendors who are debating how to mine their stores of big data for value.

  • Cloud: disruptive good, disruptive bad

    By Phil Wainewright | March 29, 2012, 10:59am PDT

    Adoption of cloud in the enterprise is disruptive in a bad way for IT and in a good way for business. No wonder IT wants to put the brakes on.

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