App Ecosystem
Can a software app vendor survive without hyper growth?
Can a software app vendor survive without hyper growth is the question that many entrepreneurs and investors need to evaluate? Our software business model has changed especially in consumer space towards an app model and the same trend is happening in the enterprise space. We can see more enterprise apps coming out in different…
Read MoreKey learnings from Microsoft WPC 2015
I wanted to share my thoughts of the key learning’s from Microsoft WPC 2015. It is now more than two weeks since we had the magnificent Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference in Orlando, Florida. Since the conference, I have been busy working with follow-up and some projects. During the past two weeks I have also actively…
Read MoreCloud business changes roles and responsibilities
Cloud business changes roles and responsibilities, no question about that. An interesting incident happened to me today. My production Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2015 Online environment (Update 1, May 2015) was updated last night. This was an event that I had been waiting for and I really love some of the new features this new release…
Read MoreKey learnings from Microsoft Ignite 2015
I wanted to share my key learnings from Microsoft Ignite 2015 event in Chicago. This was the first attempt to combine multiple different Microsoft product lines as I wrote in my previous blog entry. Now the question is: how did Microsoft do? I did participate in the first main keynote that was pretty long and…
Read MoreThe gradual move from SharePoint on-premise to Office 365
It has been fascinating to witness the pretty dramatic change in cloud transformation especially here in the US especially moving from SharePoint to Office 365. I have worked intimately in the collaboration space (SharePoint and Office 365) for quite a while, participating in numerous SharePoint conferences, talking to hundreds of people about their plans in moving to…
Read MoreMicrosoft Office 365 channel is not only about margins anymore
If you are a traditional independent software vendor (ISV), you might be surprised when talking to channel partners that are looking for Office 365 solutions. The reality is that margins that most ISVs offer to its channel partners do not carry the cost that channel partners take on to build its cloud practice. Channel partners are…
Read MoreWhy channels might not care about channel margins
Not all channel partners care about the channel margins that software vendors are willing to give out. There could be many reasons for this, but what I have seen for the most cases is that the potential channel partner have realized that they have to sell and invest heavily to the sales operations for that…
Read MoreLearnings of using Dynamics CRM 2013 and SharePoint 2013
I maintain my personal blog “Dr. Petri I. Salonen views on software, apps and software business models”. One might ask why I would not post my blog entries into TELLUS blog space? I was struggling with that for years as not all my personal blogs have anything to do with my business, so I felt…
Read MoreApp business models are also changing and you need to gage your app business model accurately
I read an interesting article today from eWeek with the heading: “Mobile App Developers Should Keep Their Apps Free: 10 Reasons Why.” The app market is evolving and there is also quite a bit of confusion of the definition of the app market. In my books, it is a change in architectural models and a…
Read MoreDisappearing Microsoft partner categories – do you know whom you represent?
During TELLUS Business Workshops which have been delivered over the past two years, it has been interesting to see how different Microsoft partner categories have started to blur and I believe it is harder to differentiate partner types going forward. Today, I read Redmond Channel Partner Scott Becker interview the new Microsoft Channel Chief Phil…
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