Comments on: The Weight of SaaS http://www.hallicious.com/2010/02/the-church-of-saas/ more bounce to the ounce Tue, 27 Jul 2010 01:46:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Hallicious http://www.hallicious.com/2010/02/the-church-of-saas/comment-page-1/#comment-825 Hallicious Wed, 03 Feb 2010 09:24:06 +0000 http://www.hallicious.com/?p=1320#comment-825 Totally agree on the small to mid size company track. Most of those kinds of companies can get away with using free on-line tools though as well. And I just dove into Google Apps last night... $200 per user per year for an entire Intranet infrastructure including 25GB of E-mail storage per user and internal video definitely scales... LOL<br><br>But if your goal is to close the social media gap in a large organization, and by close the gap I mean get everybody to understand that it is useful or even important, I would argue vehemently that you should allow your employees to develop tools that serve their and their colleagues needs before looking outward to purchase some SaaS version of something. Best Buy is probably the best example off the top of my head, with their home grown internal social networks and social monitoring display. <br><br>I'm working with some kindred spirits on the internal revolution at Humana, and am excited for some things in the works this month. ;) Totally agree on the small to mid size company track. Most of those kinds of companies can get away with using free on-line tools though as well. And I just dove into Google Apps last night… $200 per user per year for an entire Intranet infrastructure including 25GB of E-mail storage per user and internal video definitely scales… LOL

But if your goal is to close the social media gap in a large organization, and by close the gap I mean get everybody to understand that it is useful or even important, I would argue vehemently that you should allow your employees to develop tools that serve their and their colleagues needs before looking outward to purchase some SaaS version of something. Best Buy is probably the best example off the top of my head, with their home grown internal social networks and social monitoring display.

I'm working with some kindred spirits on the internal revolution at Humana, and am excited for some things in the works this month. ;)

]]> By: Tricia http://www.hallicious.com/2010/02/the-church-of-saas/comment-page-1/#comment-822 Tricia Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:16:40 +0000 http://www.hallicious.com/?p=1320#comment-822 I think it depends entirely on the service offered. Think <a href="http://Salesforce.com" rel="nofollow">Salesforce.com</a>. They've scaled pretty well. I can't even imagine any company developing their own CRM. <br><br>The other beautiful thing is who cares? While SaaS models might not scale as the largest companies have the infrastructure to handle some (many? most?) SaaS applications, there are plenty of midrange and small business to which many SaaS services are lifesavers. Plenty of market opportunity without ever having to go near the largest companies. Though I'm still not convinced some SaaS services won't scale. <br><br>Which is my final answer. You're welcome. :) I think it depends entirely on the service offered. Think Salesforce.com. They've scaled pretty well. I can't even imagine any company developing their own CRM.

The other beautiful thing is who cares? While SaaS models might not scale as the largest companies have the infrastructure to handle some (many? most?) SaaS applications, there are plenty of midrange and small business to which many SaaS services are lifesavers. Plenty of market opportunity without ever having to go near the largest companies. Though I'm still not convinced some SaaS services won't scale.

Which is my final answer. You're welcome. :)

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