Less than Half of Finnish SaaS Vendors Hosted in Finland

Of the 74 SaaS vendors we identified in our Finnish cloudscape, 47% operate their own infrastructure. The other 53% partner with a hosting provider. Less than half of those (49%) have their production site hosted inside Finland (see Figure below). The most popular hosting partners for Finnish SaaS vendors are Amazon (27%), Microsoft (5%), Hetzner […] Read more »

Less than Half of Norwegian SaaS Vendors Hosted in Norway

Of the 81 SaaS vendors we identified in our Norwegian cloudscape, 35% operate their own infrastructure. The other 65% partner with a hosting provider. Less than half of those (38%) have their production site hosted inside Norway (see Figure below). The most popular hosting partners for Norwegian SaaS vendors are Amazon (26%), Microsoft (13%), Blix […] Read more »

More than Half of Swedish SaaS Vendors Hosted in Sweden

Of the 124 SaaS and PaaS vendors we identified in our Swedish cloudscape, 38% operate their own infrastructure. The other 62% partner with a hosting provider. More than 50% of those have their production site hosted inside Sweden (see Figure below). The most popular hosting partners for Swedish Saas and PaaS vendors are Amazon (25%), […] Read more »

More than Half of Danish SaaS Vendors Hosted in Denmark

Of the 92 SaaS vendors we identified in our Danish cloudscape, 30% operate their own infrastructure. The other 70% partner with a hosting provider. More than 50% of those have their production site hosted inside Denmark (see Figure below). The most popular hosting partners for Danish SaaS vendors are Amazon (15%), Hetzner (12%), Microsoft (6%), […] Read more »

Wooing the Startups – Worth your While?

Last week Visma announced the launch of a national road show to reach startups. The theme is ‘yes you can’ and startups are invited in Visma’s Volkswagen Transporter to pitch their business. The pitches are collected and distributed via social media and the winner gets a free trip to Silicon Valley. With this initiative Visma […] Read more »

Blocking Ad Block Blockers

Last year The METISfiles reported on the business model for social media – advertising – and the increasing annoyance it causes with users. As advertising budgets follow the eyeballs, online advertising is growing at the expense of offline advertising. eMarketer estimates that $ 574 million is spend on advertising in 2015 of which 28% is […] Read more »