Tag: Progress

One of the questions that I get asked a lot is “What are the mistakes that others have made when moving to Software as a Service (SaaS)?”  I think that software vendors are always looking to learn from others mistakes...

In today’s “new economy” you have to make the best of everything you have.  This is even more critical when it comes to making your environment as strong and stable as you can.  Ensuring your environment is running optimally and not speeding towards the cliff is critical to your business...

While working on a new ABL sample using OpenEdge GUI for .NET, I started thinking about the different presentation models that are available to an ABL programmer in 10.2A. While much of Microsoft...

In my last blog I talked about how Disaster Recovery (DR) crosses all vertical markets and is important no matter what your company does.  In this blog I will “cut the...

The SaaS approach to deploying software solutions is emerging and evolving. As customers continue to expand their acceptance of SaaS, as existing software vendors seek to take advantage of this model and as more new SaaS vendors emerge, it...

Most of the time, when we think of Software as a Service (SaaS), we focus on the first “S”, or the one that addresses the Software side of things.  But I think that the second “S” or the one that is about Service is the one that needs to be thought of a little more, as I believe it...

Let's talk about Disaster Recovery (DR) for a moment. I was talking with a customer about how he's managing his business in these tight times. He said that down-time cost the business about $100,000 US per...

The economic downturn is tough on all of us, and the natural inclination is to slash budgets, and in particular IT budgets in order to adjust to the turmoil. However, much like economic experts and financial planners say that you need to view your individual investment portfolio as a long term...

I recently read Daryl Plummer’s (Gartner Group) blog and I have to agree, but also disagree with what he said.  I agree that it is not an easy thing to transition from being a...