A question was recently posted in a number of Product Management discussion groups. It read (in part): …I am working on adding a subscription based pricing model for our product. [ … ]
Category: SaaS/Cloud
How much revenue for each PM in your company?
Someone asked me a question recently and I couldn’t find an answer on the Web, so I decided to ask all of you for help. After reading my article, “You [ … ]
The End of Infrastructure
Yesterday Amazon announced Amazon SimpleDB, an on-demand database service similar to their EC2 and S3 services. With this final piece of the puzzle, Amazon has put an end to the [ … ]
Thank you Plaxo: You synchronize my life
For years I have wanted this service. Some promised, but no one delivered. And now along comes Plaxo. I remember Plaxo a bit in the same way that I remember [ … ]
Transparency in Product Priorities
Product managers are always looking for better ways to get feedback from customers on which new features are most important. A few companies have embraced the “Web 2.0” model and [ … ]
Fantasic Followups
Recently I got a fantastic followup email from a service I had signed up for online: This is amazing. It’s short, it’s to the point and it’s dead easy for [ … ]
What do you want to read about?
Hello. We’ve been at this for a couple of months now, writing about various PM related (and sometimes unrelated) topics. And while we will continue posting as we see fit, [ … ]
SaaS: A revolt against Enterprise Software
SaaS represents a revolt against the sins of enterprise software past. The challenge today selling enterprise software is that buyers are jaded; they have heard it all before, and they no longer believe. They want to see proof that you can deliver what they need, and they are extremely wary of projects with large up-front capital expenses.
Software as a Service: Just a delivery model?
I was speaking yesterday with someone in charge of the SaaS initiative at a very large technology company. In the conversation he described Software as a Service (SaaS) as a “delivery model”. Now of course SaaS is a delivery model, but it is not just a delivery model, nor is it primarily a delivery model.
In fact the word delivery starts from the wrong place. Isn’t SaaS mostly about the consumption model?
I gotta get me some of that!
A long time ago, at a trade show far far away :-), just as I finished giving a demo of our new software product to a pair of attendees, one [ … ]