iPhone Inc and SaaS girl

April 4, 2008 By

Gartner, arguably one of the most respected research firms globally has given the iPhone the big OK for use by big companies for their applications.

The link above is kindly provided by Cebit, we are presenting soon at Cebit 2008 and we won the coveted platinum excellence in innovation award there last year.

We commented recently and accurately in this blog on the earth shattering impact of the iPhone web access demonstrated with hard numbers, so this endorsement by Gartner is no surprise to the team here at saasu but it is a huge green light for businesses all around the world, not just the big end of town.

This is another reason saasu made the right decision getting the current release of saasu working on the apple itouch (ipod that looks like iphone but without the phone). See the saasu netaccounts on iphone demo video a happy saasu customer made even before we announced it.

It is also why the new release of saasu includes integration with google maps and hundreds of millions of people’s profiles on the big Professional and Social Networking (PSN) sites. More on that tomorrow.

The whole world is getting more saas-y, not just the big end of town. Now you can run your multi country business on your iphone with the SaaS Ecosystem including Saasu.

For an industry segment that used to be geek central, most of our new sales are now from non-tech firms and non-tech people in those firms.

On a lighter note we now also have a potential theme movie for the Saas industry – Saas Girl or similar in name at least – is about to be released, watch the saasy girl trailer.

We are also working on a marketing idea for saas girl and saas guy but more on that later, anticipation is half the fun.

Filed Under: Platforms, Security

Big Iron – Why SaaS will prevail over Software

January 21, 2008 By

We reviewed our hosting provider again recently as part of a major upgrade in capacity to handle our growth.

Saasu client data (and our own) sits inside some pretty cool technology infrastructure in an extremely high grade location with world class qualifications including some from financial institutions and government security organisations.

Just some of our technology infrastructure features -

  • Guards on the front door
  • Hundreds of cameras
  • Concrete all round – including the roof
  • Biometric security
  • Multiple levels of steel access doors and cages
  • Multiple levels of redundant power, telecommunications and air conditioning
  • Laser smoke particle detection; not to mention
  • 24×7 monitoring plus
  • Heavy duty protection from ram raids and even plane crashes

That helps us well sleep at night and we think it helps thousands of our users to sleep well at night too.

We also had yet another client with laptop problems recently. This follows a long line of similar client problems with their equipment being lost or stolen from client offices and cars not to mention dropped or broken laptops. All these events mean their business is impacted negatively because of lost data because many people still use software with local data copies on their PC/Mac.

But not if they use SaaS. In every case the saasu.com clients get up and running in minutes with much relief.

No loss of -

  • Data (nor any data disclosure risk) – just find another computer with Internet access
  • Time just when you need that time the most
  • Revenue
  • Client Satisfaction

It is unlikely any laptop with a local copy of your financial records will ever offer the same security and peace of mind as SaaS ‘big iron’ technology infrastructure.

Yet another reason why SaaS (Software as a Service) will prevail over Software for most businesses in the long run and why more and more are realising this benefit every single day.

Filed Under: Blog, SaaS, Security, Service, Tech

Winning The SaaS Security Challenge

November 7, 2007 By

Solid as a rock trust
I spoke at the NSW.net ICT cluster last week to a bunch of potential and current Microsoft Partners (we work on all operating systems for your information). I gave our 5 minute pitch and as usual during Q&A there were lots of questions (SaaS is a hot topic at the moment). We always get a security question and my answer is always the same, it’s a bunch of questions that effectively return the challenge. I only asked a couple of these but I’ve listed some others I often ask as well. [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog, Online Accounting, SaaS, Security

PDA Security Risk In Your Business

March 15, 2007 By

Symantec is quoting in the market that “70% of businesses surveyed access their email via a phone or PDA but 69% didn’t have have password protection, 74% didn’t have Virus Protection and 77% didn’t have a firewall. This indicates a huge security risk for these companies.”. Interestingly this was also a hot topic at a conference I just attended.

Filed Under: Blog, Security