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Two ISVs and SAAS - Sage and SAP

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Two announcements from ISVs caught my eye in the last week.

Firstly UK based Sage announced Sage 50 Online. Excitedly I wondered "wow - is this a full-on SAAS application rearchitected explicitly for multi tenancy and the efficiencies of scale?". Alas - it does not appear to be. The clue is over at https://www.sage.co.uk/welcome/sage50online.aspx which describes how to install the ICA Client from Citrix to be able to use Sage 50 Online. Same old application? Probably - and with that comes good and bad news IMHO (more on that in a later blog). Also spotted the Business Two Zero blog had some comment on the announcement.

Secondly SAP discussed A1S - "an 'entirely new product'".I have no idea if it is entirely a new product developed for "on demand" delivery - but they are making the right noises. I will see what I can find out and report back.

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  • Anonymous
    March 01, 2007
    Hi Eric, Thanks for the mention and the link to my thoughts on Sage.   I actually listened very carefully (twice) to Kagerman's January "pre-announcement" and blogged about it here http://biztwozero.com/btz/2007/01/31/will-sap-a1s-change-the-game-in-the-mid-market It is a new development, designed for both web deployment and eventually on-premise installation.  It's notable that they avoided using the SaaS term throughout the whole of the session.  See my initial thoughts at the end.  If the product is a good as they say it is, I can't help feeling it's going to do them much more harm than good as the two business models try to coexist - very difficult in their culture I believe.