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| The Monthly Journal for Venture Partners and Enterprise Software Executives |
| November 2008 |
In This Issue
 CEO Spotlight: Israel Mazin, OpTier
3 Things You MUST Know to Achieve Effective IT Adoption with SaaS
The New Software Service Value Chain – Agile, SaaS and Community
You Vote: The US economic slowdown will increase outsourcing to Asia.
Software M&A Insights: Deals Going Strong in 4Q08
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CEO Spotlight: Israel Mazin, OpTier
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Knowing that the right teams make a company great, Israel Mazin believes that intelligent and motivated people have limitless potential. The CEO and Chairman of OpTier, a company that provides innovative solutions to link business services to IT, chats with The Sterling Report about what the future holds for OpTier and Business Transaction Management. |
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3 Things You MUST Know in Order to Achieve Effective IT Adoption with SaaS
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| By Chris Dowse, Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Neochange, Inc. |
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A few months ago, Gartner published an SaaS prediction that caught my eye. They stated, “Through 2010, 75 percent of complex CRM SaaS deployments will fail to meet enterprise expectations.” I did not read the detailed report, but such a bold statement got me thinking about our own experience with enterprise buyers and specifically, their Effective IT Adoption expectations of SaaS. |
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The New Software Service Value Chain – Agile, SaaS and Community
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| By Ryan Martens, Founder & CTO, Rally Software |
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The Software Service Value Chain focuses on the changes required of software engineering, operations and support organizations to support the cultural shift associated with the move to a true service model. In traditional software as product models clear feedback on customer uptake, usage and sales blockers often takes 6 – 8 months after release to reach product management and engineering. In the era of software services, delivery teams get immediate feedback from customers and have the ability to take decisions rapidly. |
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Software M&A Insights: Deals Going Strong in 4Q08
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| By Ken Bender, Managing Director and Kris Beible, Analyst – Software Equity Group, LLC |
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Amid significant macroeconomic turmoil, M&A deal activity within the software sector continues to show strength in 4Q08. Deals highlighted this month include eBay’s acquisition of Bill Me Later, a leading provider of digital payments solutions; Hewlett Packard’s purchase of mid-market storage management software vendor LeftHand Networks and Oracle’s acquisition of Primavera, the largest pure-play provider of project portfolio management software. |
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