It’s the final day of the SaaS Summit in San Francisco for me and Jerry Fain (VP of Services). The conference has had some highs and lows. The highs are, of course, the fact that what is assumed to be mainstream methods for doing business on the web, Bullhorn was pioneering nearly\u00a08 years ago. The conference is packed with entrepreneurs trying to get a slice of the rapidly expanding SaaS pie. The themes of the conference are several: “Cloud Computing”, “SaaS Platforms”,”Mashups”. There is an aggressive move to\u00a0“zero footprint development,” which means you can start your SaaS business and outsource\u00a0100% of your infrastructure and your platform.\u00a0Even though Bullhorn has invested heavily in its own infrastructure, we will be incrementally adopting these new technologies where they make sense for our business. With Mashups and CloudComp Bullhorn will be able to innovate at an even faster clip since we will be able to adopt technologies from across the web, not just ones that we cook up in house.<\/p>\n
The lows are the degree to which the legacy software\u00a0vendors are trying to spin their existing technologies as part of this SaaS revolution. The Microsoft presenter shilled for every single Microsoft product as having some part to play in the SaaS movement. Everything from Vista to Word to the XBOX is proof of Microsoft’s leadership in SaaS. I could hardly suppress my disappointment in this presentation as it\u00a0exposed how tone-deaf Microsoft has become. Both Oracle and IBM were also in this camp as they tried to\u00a0include hosting Websphere or Oracle\u00a0in the SaaS category.\u00a0These guys are\u00a0increasingly less relevant since they are providing\u00a0specific toolsets but not highly evolved\u00a0business platforms. Bullhorn and SalesForce\u00a0provide SaaS platforms\u00a0that are attracting the most customers and developers.\u00a0For sure these legacy companies will be selling a lot of software over the next few years. But it is obvious to me\u00a0the the best\u00a0business and technical minds are\u00a0migrating to pure SaaS and Bullhorn\u00a0has been here\u00a0since 2000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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