Posts by DrSalonen
Disappearing business models – are you going to exist in the future?
Your worst enemy when running a business is to become disillusioned of your greatness and maybe even having reality distortion when you think that there is nothing that will change my business model as “my product is the best that was every created”. I am sure there are many examples of that including RIM with its…
Read MoreSelecting your cloud vendor carefully to avoid disasters
Selecting a cloud vendor and committing to its services is typically very easy. There is lots of vendors in each category as cloud is becoming defacto standard in many areas such as cloud storage. Today I read an article in Channelnomics about Nirvanix failure in the enterprise cloud space and its impact on customers. What…
Read MoreIs your support organization killing your cloud software business?
Many software companies have the aspiration to become successful, but some fail to map out the most important things that have to be in place for successful execution. In this case, I will be giving an example of failed support process by a software vendor. My intention is not to be negative, but to educate our readers of how…
Read MoreAre you feeling the competition from smaller and nimbler SaaS companies?
I read an interesting blog with the headline “Every Company Is Up for Disruption, So Keep Your Products Simple” and I could not think about the discussions that I have had with many established software vendors (ISVs) that have a robust ongoing software business based on traditional perpetual software licensing model to subscription-based software licensing…
Read MoreAre you feeling the competition from smaller and nimbler SaaS companies?
I read an interesting blog with the headline “Every Company Is Up for Disruption, So Keep Your Products Simple” and I could not think about the discussions that I have had with many established software vendors (ISVs) that have a robust ongoing software business based on traditional perpetual software licensing model to subscription-based software licensing…
Read MoreTELLUS new web-site is now live and Powerered by Windows Azure
In my inaugural blog entry I explained what our readers can expect to find in this blog. In this blog, I will explain the reasons for TELLUS renewing the web-site. It is hard to believe how quickly time has passed since I founded TELLUS (2005) and all of the small and exciting things that I…
Read MoreWhat can you expect from TELLUS new blog and content?
We have come a long way in web technology and what people expect from company web-sites. I feel that static and purely commercial “sanitized” web-sites will not be of interest going forward. Web sites should be not only informative, but they should include content that provide either learning’s or new insight to readers. Web-sites should…
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