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For the last few years there has been a lot of excitement and hype about video analytics. People counting, virtual tripwires, object identification and of course the holy grail of video analytics, facial recognition.
I just read some interesting news on a different angle for video analytics. Google has provided software tools to assist the National [...]
Krissi Danielsson provides a nice podcast interview with Paul Giurata of Catalyst Resources where they discuss the The Right and Wrong Way to Do SaaS.
One of the key characteristics they is the frequency of updates. Specifically, Paul suggests that “being able to update the software on probably a no more than 90 to 180 day cycle [...]
As the pizza shop owner contemplated options to shrink his work week while maintining control over his investment and operations, he looked at a number of alternatives. Hire a GM (too expensive), reduce hours of ops (not profitable enough), continue working 80+ hours per week (not sustainable). Then he looked to video as a potential [...]
When you get in a room with a bunch of CIOs and senior IT executives from a single industry you expect to hear a lot about technology, and that was certainly the case with the IT execs that attended the recent Hotel Technology Forum. These folks are the model for what you want from your [...]
Investors are (fortunately!) still enamoured with video related startups. See the recent post on Silicon Alley Insider. A lot of VC money has been invested in video companies looking to take advantage of video over the internet. Some companies, like the obvious YouTube’s of the world, have hit it big in the consumer space. While [...]
Dan Drucker, in his blog, talked about the benefits of SaaS. One of the most powerful ones he describes as aggregation. In short, this is the idea that all SaaS customers benefit from the development that is driven by all customer requests. This is incredibly important. At Enyvsion, one customer requested a new way to [...]
Like video, access control is an area where companies are beginning to approach the market with a SaaS orientation. Peter Boriskin, vice president of R&D at Tyco wrote about “The Art of Providing Security as a Service” to describe why managed access control represents a great opportunity.
You know you are on to something when the [...]
Reflecting on Bessemer’s “Top 10 Laws for Being “SaaS-y”, there is only one rule that doesn’t really apply to MVaaS - #4. The point of this law is that channels generally don’t work well for SaaS companies. Deeter states, “SaaS products, by their nature, don’t require massive amounts of systems integration (SI) work to implement, [...]
Byron Deeter at Bessemer Venture Partners wrote a great piece on some of the “laws” of running a SaaS business. His firm has a lot of experience both running and investing in SaaS companies and the list represents the collective learnings across a large number of experiences.
Reading through it I was struck by how many [...]
In response to a comment asking for a recommendation of specific content on the Saas Showplace that I mentioned the other day, I poked around a bit more on the site. For me, the most interesting thing there is just the general sense of “wow, this delivery model is really gaining traction — fast!” Using [...]
