2007 has been a year of massive consolidation, with traditional enterprise software vendors attempting to assemble suites of software applications by acquisition. These vendors are desperate to reduce the high cost of integration and risk of failure that are often associated with the enterprise software industry.
But it's also been a year of fantastic success for the ever-growing number of companies reporting the benefits they've gained by adopting on-demand business applications that are pre-integrated through the software as a service (SaaS) model. For these companies, the debate over the pros and cons of choosing best-of-breed solutions versus all-in-one software suites is over. Ecosystems of SaaS applications have emerged where best-of-breed on-demand applications and platforms can be easily mixed and matched allowing businesses to get the combined benefits through seamless integration with minimal time and effort and with a high probability of success.
On-demand applications are particularly well suited for the technology industry. Software as a Service aligns with the needs of technology companies for agility, flexibility and distributed business models coupled with capital preservation and rapid growth.
Attend this interactive online panel discussion with M.R. Rangaswami, founder of the Sand Hill Group and publisher of SandHill.com, and executives from Intacct, LucidEra, and WebEx to find out about:
- The latest in on-demand business application innovation
- The success technology businesses are achieving by deploying best-of-breed on-demand applications and platforms
- The availability of new ecosystems of pre-integrated on-demand applications that help companies focus on their business, not a software vendors' technology.
Will 2008 see the death of the software suite? Attend this free webinar to get expert opinion and insight into how companies like yours have become more successful by joining the on-demand revolution.