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SaaS vs Managed Services; The ARE Different

cloud-question-mark-cloud-computingI've written plenty about getting suppliers into electronic trading with their partners. I've shared that if you have EDI services and so do you partners, you should be collaborating so that you can exchange data electronically. I've also shared that if you have EDI capabilities and your convinced that bigger partners are the only ones that are qualified to have EDI capabilities, you're making a poor assumption. Many smaller to mid sized supppliers do indeed have the ability, but have not shared they can exchange with you. You should put together a strategy to work with these smaller companies. Lastly, if you yourself do not have EDI capabilities, it's not too late to make a difference in your organization.

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Add PaaS to Your Cloud

paasThere’s  SaaS. You know—software as a service. There’ s IaaS, which is infrastructure as a service. And did you know, there’s also PaaS, a.k.a. platform as a service? It was unfamiliar to me up until about a month ago, when I was asked to talk to a university professor about how PaaS is changing the software development landscape. Read more...

BI Continues to be an Intelligent IT Tool for Many Businesses

biBusiness intelligence, or BI, has long been a valuable mechanism for helping companies better understand how they’re performing, how well products are developed, marketed and sold, and even what their competitors are up to. I’ve covered business intelligence for many years, either directly or as an (important) offshoot of other technologies like radio frequency identification (RFID). Read more...

SaaS-based Models Are Not Too Close for Comfort

saastaxIt appears, based on ec-bp.org’s recent survey of SaaS-based solutions for EDI and supply chains, that there’s some trepidation about software-as-a-service. So much so that more than half (56 percent) of the survey respondents said they aren’t comfortable using SaaS for their ERP services, and almost half (45 percent) said they aren’t comfortable with SaaS for their supply chains. Read more...

A Mobile Point of Sale

Wireless-Mobile-POS-S520-SeriesMobile devices are all the rage these days. Which begs the question – Do they play a role in the B2B environment? Let’s tackle the mobile world impact EDI.

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ThinkStrategies Interview (audio) - Jeffrey Kaplan

Earlier this week I talked with Jeffrey Kaplan, the company's founder, about the state of SaaS and Cloud computing strategies. I specifically asked Jeffrey to help me understand what critical factors make an application or service a SaaS environment rather than simply a hosted application rebranded as something else. Listen to Jeffrey's explanation, and see if you agree. Read more...

VICS - (audio) Interview with Joseph Andraski

This week I spoke with Joesph Andraski, President and CEO of VICS about what's new at VICS and what initiatives are being pursued among trading partners. Listen to my interview with Joseph about RFID, education, trading partner collaboration, and this year's U Connect conference. Read more...

5 Questions to Ask Your Prospective SaaS Provider (video)

Scott Koegler, editor of ec-bp.org talks with Liz Herbert, Senior Analyst for Forrester, about asking the right questions of a SaaS provider to make your migration to SaaS, the right one. In my conversation with Liz Herbert, of Forrester Research, Liz talks about the things that can be so right, and the things that can go wrong when making a commitment to implement a SaaS based solution. Whether you're considering a SaaS based solution for your EDI operations, or any other aspects of your business, these principals apply. Read more...

DMA's Bob Sala - Trading Enablement in SaaS

bobsalaAt April's SaaSCon, I had the opportunity to talk with DMA's CEO, Bob Sala about how DMA created their applications as SaaS based systems right from the begining.






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Jeffrey Kaplan Discusses EDI and SaaS (Video)

Jeffrey Kaplan of ThinkStrategies talked with Scott Koegler at SaaSCon about the migration of EDI services to SaaS environments. Kaplan discusses issues that organizations considering implementing a SaaS or Cloud based system should consider. Read more...

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