http://www.kashflow.com/blog/saas-the-touring-test/ Tue, 29 May 2012 15:42:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://www.kashflow.com/blog/saas-the-touring-test/#comment-4361 Four things your new SaaS app must have Tue, 11 May 2010 10:40:42 +0000 http://www.kashflow.com/?p=627#comment-4361 [...] Some sites make you fill in a form and they then get back to you when the trial is ready for you. That’s just plain silly. Either they’re wasting time trying to filter out competitors  (if they want to see it, they’ll see it) or they need some manual intervention to get you up and running (not scalable and probably not real SaaS) [...] [...] Some sites make you fill in a form and they then get back to you when the trial is ready for you. That’s just plain silly. Either they’re wasting time trying to filter out competitors  (if they want to see it, they’ll see it) or they need some manual intervention to get you up and running (not scalable and probably not real SaaS) [...]

]]> http://www.kashflow.com/blog/saas-the-touring-test/#comment-4360 Sage Bosses Divided over Future of SaaS Mon, 06 Jul 2009 11:01:11 +0000 http://www.kashflow.com/?p=627#comment-4360 [...] Sage also seems to be some confused about what their soon-to-be-ex customers actually want. Walker talks about delivering more ”cloud computing” apps - which is a catch-all term that includes just delivering the same old software over the internet (not the same as “the web”) using remote access software. The ex Sage customers we and other SaaS accounting companies are picking up aren’t looking for cloud computing solutions. They specifically want true SaaS applications that will pass The Touring Test. [...] [...] Sage also seems to be some confused about what their soon-to-be-ex customers actually want. Walker talks about delivering more ”cloud computing” apps - which is a catch-all term that includes just delivering the same old software over the internet (not the same as “the web”) using remote access software. The ex Sage customers we and other SaaS accounting companies are picking up aren’t looking for cloud computing solutions. They specifically want true SaaS applications that will pass The Touring Test. [...]

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