http://www.softwareceo.com?src=category_rss SoftwareCEO - M&amp;A and Financing Wed, 27 Mar 2013 16:26:11 GMT admin@softwareceo.com SoftwareCEO 60 http://www.softwareceo.com/brand/sceo/community.gif http://www.softwareceo.com?src=category_rss http://www.softwareceo.com/blog/entry/48191/Comparing-the-Total-Cost-of-Ownership-TCO-of-SaaS-vs.-On-Premise/?src=category_rss As Cloud technologies continue to evolve, more and more software buyers are seriously reviewing and evaluating software as a service (SaaS) solutions against on-premise offerings. While there are many factors that influence which deployment model is best for any particular business (e.g., ability to manage IT internally and speed of deployment) the cost of the system is often a key factor. But comparing the true cost of a Cloud-based system against an on-premise system can be time-consuming and is often a complex undertaking. For instance, most buyers understand that on-premise licenses are typically purchased with a large, upfront investment and SaaS licenses are purchased for a relatively cheaper subscription price. But many forget to consider the total cost of ownership (TCO) of their investment. That is, they don&rsquo;t look beyond the licensing costs to consider how other factors such as the need to customize the software and integrate it with existing applications can influence the TCO of their software purchase. Even then there are intricacies like maintenance and support and training requirements that can make creating an apples-to-apples comparison of the TCO on-premise and Cloud software difficult. If you&rsquo;re not a seasoned veteran in modeling all these costs, comparing them...<div><a href="http://www.softwareceo.com/blog/entry/48191/Comparing-the-Total-Cost-of-Ownership-TCO-of-SaaS-vs.-On-Premise/">[Read more]</div> Licensing Issues Marketing and PR M&amp;A and Financing Wed, 27 Mar 2013 16:26:09 GMT Software Advice http://www.softwareceo.com/blog/entry/48191/Comparing-the-Total-Cost-of-Ownership-TCO-of-SaaS-vs.-On-Premise/#discussion?src=category_rss http://www.softwareceo.com/blog/entry/48191/Comparing-the-Total-Cost-of-Ownership-TCO-of-SaaS-vs.-On-Premise/?src=category_rss http://www.softwareceo.com/forum/thread/47222/Assignment-Clauses.-How-to-handle/?src=category_rss I wonder if anyone has experience of what I expect is a common issue. Anyway, several of my ongoing contracts with clients include 'Assignment' clauses, which state that the client needs to provide written permission that the contract is still valid should I reassign the contract to a third-party. So the corollary being there is an apparent issue should I wish to exit and sell the business, and contracts, to a buyer as the contracts (and company purchase) might be at risk should the client not be happy with the reassignment. I'm expecting that this is a very common issue with acquisitions as the Assignment clause seems fairly ubiquitous. Has anyone any advice/experience in this matter? What's the best approach to handling the issue and what is the typical way round the issue? I may have chance to renegotiate the contracts at a later date and would be keen to have the clauses removed but again it's somewhat awkward as it's difficult to say you want the clause removed as you want to sell-up. So again any advice on that aspect would be welcome? Thanks in advance.<div><a href="http://www.softwareceo.com/forum/thread/47222/Assignment-Clauses.-How-to-handle/">[Read more]</div> M&amp;A and Financing Wed, 16 Jan 2013 13:55:53 GMT Skewers http://www.softwareceo.com/forum/thread/47222/Assignment-Clauses.-How-to-handle/#discussion?src=category_rss http://www.softwareceo.com/forum/thread/47222/Assignment-Clauses.-How-to-handle/?src=category_rss http://www.softwareceo.com/forum/thread/47202/Choosing-a-payment-system/?src=category_rss Hi, I'm a just-graduated software engineer. Me and my team are about to face the development of a new software system. The goal is the automatization of the process to book courts in a sports club. The design we've thought of consists in: A server to handle the bookings. An Android application to perform bookings from smartphones and tablets. It could be extended to iOS, BlackBerry OS and Windows Phone, but I think that's not really important right now. These applications would communicate through sockets with the server using RSA encryption. An embedded application working on a touchscreen in the club to allow users without modern devices to keep booking courts without any problems. It doesn't look like a pretty hard challenge, or at least by what is mentioned above, but there's one more thing: it's the first software we ever work in required to handle user payments (since obviously users would have to pay for their bookings prior to actually have the courts booked). And we're not sure on how to do it. We've considered the following options: Paypal - Definitively not an option. 99% of the system prospective users don't have an account, and most of them don't...<div><a href="http://www.softwareceo.com/forum/thread/47202/Choosing-a-payment-system/">[Read more]</div> M&amp;A and Financing Mon, 14 Jan 2013 19:46:32 GMT Stoyicker http://www.softwareceo.com/forum/thread/47202/Choosing-a-payment-system/#discussion?src=category_rss http://www.softwareceo.com/forum/thread/47202/Choosing-a-payment-system/?src=category_rss http://www.softwareceo.com/forum/thread/46504/Starting-with-Legal-Vertical-with-cloud-technology/?src=category_rss I have a cloud platform technology and suite of tools that makes web and mobile application along with a set of integration tools. We have recently sold the medical vertical rights to the application already. I personally own the non-medical application and I am looking to find a legal software company / partner to purchase and carry this to the legal market. Does anyone know someone who could help me with this?<div><a href="http://www.softwareceo.com/forum/thread/46504/Starting-with-Legal-Vertical-with-cloud-technology/">[Read more]</div> M&amp;A and Financing Thu, 15 Nov 2012 00:10:03 GMT BobT151 http://www.softwareceo.com/forum/thread/46504/Starting-with-Legal-Vertical-with-cloud-technology/#discussion?src=category_rss http://www.softwareceo.com/forum/thread/46504/Starting-with-Legal-Vertical-with-cloud-technology/?src=category_rss http://www.softwareceo.com/forum/thread/45947/Business-Loan-available-with-or-without-security/?src=category_rss Business or Corporate loans available for various industries. Even startup Information Technology and Biotechnology companies who have innovative concepts, ideas and products are entertained. Loans are available for Projects with Security/Collateral or without Security/Collateral depending on case to case basis. Funding is done through Private institutions which is majorly from foreign sources. Mediators and Brokers are not entertained. Only Direct borrowers and promoters are invited. Please respond with the project synopsis or project details with your loan amount requirement along with the contact details. Minimum requirement should be 5mn USD. We even fund projects which are high valued and requires 200mn USD plus.<div><a href="http://www.softwareceo.com/forum/thread/45947/Business-Loan-available-with-or-without-security/">[Read more]</div> M&amp;A and Financing Thu, 12 Jul 2012 13:44:53 GMT PriorCore http://www.softwareceo.com/forum/thread/45947/Business-Loan-available-with-or-without-security/#discussion?src=category_rss http://www.softwareceo.com/forum/thread/45947/Business-Loan-available-with-or-without-security/?src=category_rss http://www.softwareceo.com/article/45671/How-to-Penetrate-a-Mature-Software-Market-BonitaSoft-CEO-Says-Open-Source-is-Key/?src=category_rss <img align="right" hspace="10" src="http://www.softwareceo.com/imagelib/contentitem/45671/39e706a46ad531be-567c2a36-13727ba9ac1-70ce1996375581.jpg">Business process management (BPM) isn't exactly new; as a management and improvement approach, it's been around since the early 1990s. As a market for software developers, BPM doesn't, at first glance, appear to be rife with potential. And if you did decide to take your software company into this market, you're going head-to-head with some sizable players, including IBM , Microsoft , Oracle , and hundreds of others. So, what makes BonitaSoft -- a relatively tiny French company, with 85 employees -- think it's got a prayer? An equally interesting question: Why would several respected investment firms pour more than $17 million into this upstart? Miguel Vald&eacute;s-Faura, CEO and co-founder of BonitaSoft, has a multi-point answer, but it all starts with open source. Tip #1: The key to penetration is open source. "In our case, from day one, we knew this was a global market," says Vald&eacute;s-Faura. "OK, we want to play in a mature market -- we are not inventing a market -- and the way to penetrate is to use open source. "There is plenty of interest in BPM, across many industries, but the software market has been dominated by heavyweight, proprietary vendors. What makes us different is...<div><a href="http://www.softwareceo.com/article/45671/How-to-Penetrate-a-Mature-Software-Market-BonitaSoft-CEO-Says-Open-Source-is-Key/">[Read more]</div> Strategy and Leadership M&amp;A and Financing Mon, 07 May 2012 21:20:54 GMT Bruce Hadley, Founder http://www.softwareceo.com/article/45671/How-to-Penetrate-a-Mature-Software-Market-BonitaSoft-CEO-Says-Open-Source-is-Key/?textpage=3#discussion?src=category_rss http://www.softwareceo.com/article/45671/How-to-Penetrate-a-Mature-Software-Market-BonitaSoft-CEO-Says-Open-Source-is-Key/?src=category_rss http://www.softwareceo.com/forum/thread/45643/Are-listing-sites-for-entrepreneurs-to-get-funding-worth-it/?src=category_rss I'm trying to scale up my small software business. I have a proven product (an app for a niche market, client/server based, clients in the US, Canada, UK- but small sales numbers) that is ready to scale up in terms of sales and markets. I've been doing this on my own (no employees) for several years and am very limited as such. I don't need massive capital to build the company, probably about $250,000 (this includes funding to develop a web based version of the app). I don't have any personal contacts or related industry clients to work with on funding so I need to try to find it elsewhere. There are a lot of sites where you can list your business and business plan like equitynet.com or fundingpost.com. They charge to do this, of course. My question is, does anyone have any experience with this kind of listing, in terms of actually getting funding? They always make it sound rosy but I don't want to throw money away if it's not worth it. Any advice would be great- thanks.<div><a href="http://www.softwareceo.com/forum/thread/45643/Are-listing-sites-for-entrepreneurs-to-get-funding-worth-it/">[Read more]</div> M&amp;A and Financing Wed, 25 Apr 2012 18:08:55 GMT kelaw http://www.softwareceo.com/forum/thread/45643/Are-listing-sites-for-entrepreneurs-to-get-funding-worth-it/#discussion?src=category_rss http://www.softwareceo.com/forum/thread/45643/Are-listing-sites-for-entrepreneurs-to-get-funding-worth-it/?src=category_rss http://www.softwareceo.com/blog/entry/45637/Microsoft-Dynamics-in-the-Cloud-Are-You-Ready/?src=category_rss This year&rsquo;s Microsoft Convergence Show had a record-breaking 10,000 attendees. During the show, Microsoft showed off its hybrid cloud strategy for their Dynamics products . Dynamics CRM can now deploy identical software both onsite and in the cloud. Dynamics NAV and GP will follow suit in 2013, with AX coming soon thereafter. How can you get your Dynamics product ready for functionality in the cloud? Simply put, if Dynamics is in the cloud, you should have all of your add-ons in the cloud, as well. I&rsquo;ll use the example of adding timesheet software to Dynamics. This is a common add-on seeing as how Microsoft Business Portal lacks an essential time-tracking functionality. Microsoft Dynamics Business Portal lacks data validations and thus is prone to human error. This is a huge time sink. If your managers are busy manually checking timesheets, it negatively affects company operations. Another downfall of Business Portal is the lack of multiple approval levels . In Business Portal, you&rsquo;re only allowed one approver and one supervisor to review a timesheet. With a lack of multiple approvers, an incorrect timesheet can easily make its way to payroll before it&rsquo;s properly checked. Also, Business Portal allows employees to edit their...<div><a href="http://www.softwareceo.com/blog/entry/45637/Microsoft-Dynamics-in-the-Cloud-Are-You-Ready/">[Read more]</div> M&amp;A and Financing Tue, 24 Apr 2012 22:28:27 GMT Curt Finch http://www.softwareceo.com/blog/entry/45637/Microsoft-Dynamics-in-the-Cloud-Are-You-Ready/#discussion?src=category_rss http://www.softwareceo.com/blog/entry/45637/Microsoft-Dynamics-in-the-Cloud-Are-You-Ready/?src=category_rss