Kaizen Bits

I learned about SuccessFactors in a couple of late meetings I had last week. Together with those who think that SaaS 3.0 and ITSM are matches made in Heaven, I found out that most of the stuff we are doing towards SaaS could really have an impact soon.

In principle, SuccessFactors takes the SaaS model to the HR domain. For me, the app as such is not as interesting as seeing yet again an application of model we have talked a lot abou lately to a different and challengin business domain.

Specially now that we seeded a lot of project proposals in the winder, and lookg forward to the harvest in summer

Next step of the Amazon EC2 cloud solution is the Elastic Block Store. Together with SimpleDb and S3, we have the perfect solution to store with improved persistence the Amazon Web Services data.

Clearly there are many good reasons to use EBS and the akin, but we are still finding all these solutions very much oriented to Data Storage (not necessarily bad) and leaving aside the real gist… what about application-oriented SaaS platforms?