Wednesday 29 June 2011

SaaS Or is it?

Oracle have said that Fusion Apps will be available for deployment in a number of ways. One of these is SaaS. However, there is some dispute over what SaaS actually is. Oracle boss Larry Ellison appeared to suggest recently that multi-tenant SaaS as favoured by Workday, amongst others, was over hyped.

Some observers think that he doesn't care anyway since so much of the World's IT industry uses Oracle technology in one way or another - but wait. As far as I can tell so far, Workday doesn't. If that's true for any significant proportion of SaaS providers, if it catches on, it might give Oracle a thing or two to worry about.

I don't pretend to know all the ins and outs, but we are in interesting times in the software industry (well they are interesting to me, but maybe I'm just a sad geek).
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  1. Anonymous30 June 2011 at 06:53

    Some major SaaS providers use Oracle (Salesforce.com for example) so I don't think Larry will be out of yachts anytime soon.

    As for whether multi-tenant is useful, I think it depends on the market. Small to mid market maybe. At the top end - where you work - I can't see Morrisons being happy to share any part of their stack with Tesco. Ditto for Nationwide and RBS. And as for the MoD ...

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  2. jre4 July 2011 at 14:35

    It may all turn out to be academic if SAP HANA is a marvellous as their hype suggests. As for Tesco, I can't imagine them not doing something if if gave them a big cost advantage over Morrisons - so they might "jump first". Some of the underlying database technology of both SAP HANA and Workday looks very radical compared to the stuff we've all been used to.

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