Gliffy: bootstrapped in San Francisco
Fresh from porting to HTML5, browser-based diagramming toolmaker Gliffy is a bootstrapped, money-making exception to the VC-funded norm among San Francisco start-ups
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.
Phil Wainewright
Since 1998, Phil Wainewright has been a thought leader in cloud computing as a blogger, analyst and consultant.
Latest Posts
More than software, as a service
Cloud services are much more than software alone. Cloud providers should focus on delivering business outcomes.
Social business needs more sophistication
DataSift's linkup with Bitly is helping enterprises move beyond social strategies that target raw reach into better analysis of engagement
A snapshot of enterprise cloud adopters at Workday Rising
You could learn a lot about customers of enterprise cloud applications at Workday's annual convention this week
Will EU policy smother the cloud?
Get the back story of how EU policy makers discovered the value of cloud, and the decisions they'll take over the coming year about regulating the industry.
Is Salesforce the new Oracle? Does it matter?
In its quest for size and scale, Salesforce.com has begun invading its partners' turf. Is it becoming just another old-guard platform vendor?
Cloud in five years' time
Here are my thoughts on the outlook for cloud in the next few years. Growth, disruption and regulation all loom large.
Chatterbox takes new angle on file sharing
Rather than centering collaboration around documents, Salesforce.com's new file syncing add-on to Chatter centers file sharing around signals
Appirio tallies the technical debt in your Salesforce instance
Frequent customization of Salesforce can threaten the business agility of the platform. Appirio's new tool helps you assess the damage.
Box turns the Web outside-in
Instead of speeding content to users, Box Accelerator is a 'reverse-CDN', speeding user content back to Box.