Cloud Computing & SaaS Report: New Model For Business & Social Apps
By Daya Baran at July 10, 2008 0 Comments
Software as a Service (SaaS) market is predicted to exceed $37B over the next 5 years according to a report published by McKinsey & Company. It will disrupt the economics of development for all web applications and social software. The big software vendors are not sitting still. Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, SalesForce, IBM, Oracle, SAP and many other moving rapidly to incorporate Cloud Computing & SaaS as part of their offering. Anyone involved in any aspect of the web business should attend this event to learn about opportunities and implications to your business brought about by Cloud Computing.
Mani Gill, VP On Demand, Business Objects, SAP
Mani Gill is the Vice President of OnDemand at Business Objects, an SAP company. He manages the software as a service strategy, direction, and sales for crystalreports.com, Business Intelligence OnDemand, and Information OnDemand products. Prior to joining Business Objects 11 years ago, he was integrating business intelligence technologies into Microsoft Visual Basic, Visual Studio, BackOffice, Dynamics and CRM.
Treb Ryan, CEO, OpSource
Since 1996, Mr. Ryan has been instrumental in defining and creating services organizations that improve the quality and reliability of the technology infrastructures businesses depend on for communications and commerce. Prior to co-founding OpSource in 2002, Mr. Ryan was President of the Americas for Metromedia Fiber Network (MFN). He was responsible for integrating the sales and delivery organizations of the company’s Internet businesses-hosting, IP networking, and managed services - providing customers with an integrated network and IT infrastructure solution. Under his leadership, MFN customers included BP Amoco, JP Morgan Chase, Sony, Microsoft, and Mercedes-Benz.
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