IT industry analyst firm The METISfiles has released updated versions of the Swedish and Danish Public Cloudscape. Designed to highlight the local XaaS provider ecosystem, Cloudscapes provide a snapshot of who the most important cloud providers are and in which cloud segments and categories they specialize. Versions 1.2 now visualize 250 (up from 200) Swedish […] Read more »
SaaS Segmentation Struggles
During two events we attended last week it became strikingly clear; we have so many great software firms in the Netherlands and we (as an industry) do such a lousy marketing job profiling these great companies. The first event we attended was a Main Capital event that focused on: “Successful international partner and channel strategies […] Read more »
The Future of the App is inside the Store
2012 was the year of the enterprise app stores. All of a sudden partner solution catalogs morphed into enterprise app stores. IBM recently launched its PureSystems Centre, SAP recently demonstrated its latest enhancements of the SAP Store at Sapphire Madrid. So what’s the big deal? For a long time partners have been able to publish […] Read more »
Cloud Partner Segmentation
In one of our previous blogs we defined what a partner ecosystem is, and which entities it consists of. Next we would like to take the partner ecosystem discussion one step further – and see how it fits the cloud computing opportunity. One of the common mistakes that many in the channel make is the assumption […] Read more »