http://www.kashflow.com/blog/software-plus-services/ Tue, 29 May 2012 15:42:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://www.kashflow.com/blog/software-plus-services/#comment-4176 Backlash causes Microsoft to pay out to help stranded MS Accounting customers Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:38:10 +0000 http://blog.kashflow.co.uk/?p=290#comment-4176 [...] of the software. This was quite a neat implementation of their Software + Services strategy that I was dismissive of back in February. So the accounting software is locally installed but the Payroll calculations were done externally [...] [...] of the software. This was quite a neat implementation of their Software + Services strategy that I was dismissive of back in February. So the accounting software is locally installed but the Payroll calculations were done externally [...]

]]> http://www.kashflow.com/blog/software-plus-services/#comment-4175 OtherJamesBrown Sun, 01 Feb 2009 22:36:45 +0000 http://blog.kashflow.co.uk/?p=290#comment-4175 I suppose the correct acronym for S+S should be S+SaaS. It is not trying to replace SaaS, it is just trying to say there is also a place for Software consuming those services and running components locally. Do you want to write emails in a browser or use something like Outlook? – Depends on what I am doing. Do I want the email server in the cloud – again there are pro’s and con’s for both. The title of the post was in response to another post I mentioned called 'Google Gears - A lifeline for SaaS?', I think that getting a browser to run offline is OK for some apps, but others would do better with a dedicated client app. Microsoft now has quite an extensive range of SaaS - http://www.microsoft.com/online and http://crm.dynamics.com and I think it is made a more powerful proposition with the integration with software running locally. Thanks for the comment! I suppose the correct acronym for S+S should be S+SaaS. It is not trying to replace SaaS, it is just trying to say there is also a place for Software consuming those services and running components locally. Do you want to write emails in a browser or use something like Outlook? – Depends on what I am doing. Do I want the email server in the cloud – again there are pro’s and con’s for both. The title of the post was in response to another post I mentioned called ‘Google Gears – A lifeline for SaaS?’, I think that getting a browser to run offline is OK for some apps, but others would do better with a dedicated client app. Microsoft now has quite an extensive range of SaaS – http://www.microsoft.com/online and http://crm.dynamics.com and I think it is made a more powerful proposition with the integration with software running locally. Thanks for the comment!

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