http://www.softwareceo.com?src=forumtopic_rss SoftwareCEO - CEO Surveys Forum Tue, 17 Apr 2012 10:55:29 GMT admin@softwareceo.com SoftwareCEO 60 http://www.softwareceo.com/brand/sceo/community.gif http://www.softwareceo.com?src=forumtopic_rss http://www.softwareceo.com/forum/thread/45594/MONEYWISE-WHY-CEOs-SHOULD-BE-HAPPY/?src=forumtopic_rss According to NBTA assessment, the top 5 travel management initiatives to cut costs are: 1) Overall travel and entertainment budget cuts 2) Encouraging or requiring less air travel 3) Sending fewer employees to conventions/conferences /trade shows 4) Emphasising advance purchase of air tickets 5) Strenghtening travel policies mandates Packages and solutions such as Travel Grid (Travel and Expense Management) help corporates to meet any of these objectives.It validates needs for travel by enforcing pre-travel authorization,enforcing policies,encouraging advance trave planning and centralizing travel process.It eliminates manual data entry by automating general ledger posting.The MIS and analytics help consolidated volumes to drive better bargains. The system is modular, allowing additions of cutomer's own functionalities as well.Surveys have also indicated that the state of global economy has been a major factor in reduced spend for meetings,conferences,incentives and client events despite the fact that 85% of all the senior executives report offsite strategy meetings and leadership conferences as an important part of theirs' companies business planning and talent-development process. Traveling smart therefore has become the mantra for many of the smarter companies in many countries especially since market volitality is a reality companies will have to live with. An efficient travel management programme is...<div><a href="http://www.softwareceo.com/forum/thread/45594/MONEYWISE-WHY-CEOs-SHOULD-BE-HAPPY/">[Read more]</div> CEO Surveys Tue, 17 Apr 2012 10:18:02 GMT Sashidhar R http://www.softwareceo.com/forum/thread/45594/MONEYWISE-WHY-CEOs-SHOULD-BE-HAPPY/#discussion?src=forumtopic_rss http://www.softwareceo.com/forum/thread/45594/MONEYWISE-WHY-CEOs-SHOULD-BE-HAPPY/?src=forumtopic_rss http://www.softwareceo.com/forum/thread/45398/Techcello-Survey-on-SaaS-Cloud-Multi-tenancy/?src=forumtopic_rss We did a simple survey in 2011 titled &ldquo;On the road to SaaS Where are You?. The results were shared free of cost with all the participants. Many of them benefited from knowing where they are viz-a-viz the rest of the market and it helped them plan their roadmap better. Now we are back again in 2012, with a similar survey. But this time it covers 3 dimensions : Cloud, SaaS and Multi-tenancy. The online survey has 5 questions and it will take less than 2 minutes. Like last year, we will share the results with all the participants. You can then plot your future strategy after taking in to consideration the speed and direction in which the market is moving, combined with your own unique position in the technology &ndash; market space. The identity of the participants and the data provided by each participant, will be kept confidential. Only summary and trend results will be published. Please click on this link below to complete this 2 minute survey. https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/techcellosurvey2012 Please contact rakesh.c@techcello.com for any questions.<div><a href="http://www.softwareceo.com/forum/thread/45398/Techcello-Survey-on-SaaS-Cloud-Multi-tenancy/">[Read more]</div> CEO Surveys Fri, 09 Mar 2012 08:28:53 GMT sathiyaR http://www.softwareceo.com/forum/thread/45398/Techcello-Survey-on-SaaS-Cloud-Multi-tenancy/#discussion?src=forumtopic_rss http://www.softwareceo.com/forum/thread/45398/Techcello-Survey-on-SaaS-Cloud-Multi-tenancy/?src=forumtopic_rss http://www.softwareceo.com/forum/thread/45220/CEO-Survey-What-s-your-company-s-single-biggest-strength/?src=forumtopic_rss <div><a href="http://www.softwareceo.com/forum/thread/45220/CEO-Survey-What-s-your-company-s-single-biggest-strength/">[Read more]</div> CEO Surveys Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:55:10 GMT Peter Redmer http://www.softwareceo.com/forum/thread/45220/CEO-Survey-What-s-your-company-s-single-biggest-strength/#discussion?src=forumtopic_rss http://www.softwareceo.com/forum/thread/45220/CEO-Survey-What-s-your-company-s-single-biggest-strength/?src=forumtopic_rss http://www.softwareceo.com/forum/thread/44581/CEO-Survey-Where-do-the-majority-of-your-initial-customer-inquiries-come-from/?src=forumtopic_rss <div><a href="http://www.softwareceo.com/forum/thread/44581/CEO-Survey-Where-do-the-majority-of-your-initial-customer-inquiries-come-from/">[Read more]</div> CEO Surveys Tue, 17 Jan 2012 18:21:28 GMT Peter Redmer http://www.softwareceo.com/forum/thread/44581/CEO-Survey-Where-do-the-majority-of-your-initial-customer-inquiries-come-from/#discussion?src=forumtopic_rss http://www.softwareceo.com/forum/thread/44581/CEO-Survey-Where-do-the-majority-of-your-initial-customer-inquiries-come-from/?src=forumtopic_rss http://www.softwareceo.com/forum/thread/44575/Typical-Margins-of-Software-Services-Companies/?src=forumtopic_rss Hi there, I was wondering what typical margins for Software Services Companies (web developers, software developers, etc) are. What comes to mind is a structure as follows: revenue: 100% cost of services sold (incl salaries of devs, project managers, testers, etc): 55% cost of sales: 5% cost of marketing: 5% general &amp; administrative: 10% ---------- ebitda: 25% are there any 'industry benchmarks' out there? Infosys - one of India's largest IT Companies does 42% gross profict (revenue - cost of services sold), has expenses of around 13% or revenue and a profit of around 25%, which is quite impressive.<div><a href="http://www.softwareceo.com/forum/thread/44575/Typical-Margins-of-Software-Services-Companies/">[Read more]</div> CEO Surveys Mon, 16 Jan 2012 01:10:15 GMT anthonyhsiao http://www.softwareceo.com/forum/thread/44575/Typical-Margins-of-Software-Services-Companies/#discussion?src=forumtopic_rss http://www.softwareceo.com/forum/thread/44575/Typical-Margins-of-Software-Services-Companies/?src=forumtopic_rss http://www.softwareceo.com/forum/thread/44187/Not-getting-clients-for-a-new-startup-website-company/?src=forumtopic_rss Hi, HubeTech is a newly formed organization based in Bangalore, India. We have total solutions like * Website design/ develpoment / hosting/ maintenance * E-commerce websites, Mobile website * Flash/ Flex: Corporate presentations/ banners/ websites/ applications/ games * Graphic designing: Posters/ Logo/ Emailers/ Brochures/ Advertisement * CMS- Joomla, Drupal, Wordpress, Flash * Internet Marketing: Social Media Marketing, Blog Marketing * Managment Software : Hospital, Billing inventory, Barcode generator, Construction, School&amp;College, Super Market, Hotel/Resort etc. Even though we have a complete package of solutions, we are not getting clients. We have a good team and we are nicely experienced also. We can assure quality services with a very much reasonable costing and on time delivery. We are not experienced in marketing, so do in acquiring clients. Can anybody help us by advice how to go forward or help us in getting projects. We can also offer a decent percentage as commission, if there are any mediators who can get us projects. You can contact us at info@hubetech.com Thanks HubeTech<div><a href="http://www.softwareceo.com/forum/thread/44187/Not-getting-clients-for-a-new-startup-website-company/">[Read more]</div> CEO Surveys Tue, 27 Dec 2011 03:27:48 GMT hubetech http://www.softwareceo.com/forum/thread/44187/Not-getting-clients-for-a-new-startup-website-company/#discussion?src=forumtopic_rss http://www.softwareceo.com/forum/thread/44187/Not-getting-clients-for-a-new-startup-website-company/?src=forumtopic_rss http://www.softwareceo.com/forum/thread/43803/CEO-Survey-What-was-or-is-your-primary-source-of-start-up-capital/?src=forumtopic_rss <div><a href="http://www.softwareceo.com/forum/thread/43803/CEO-Survey-What-was-or-is-your-primary-source-of-start-up-capital/">[Read more]</div> CEO Surveys Tue, 06 Dec 2011 18:54:15 GMT Peter Redmer http://www.softwareceo.com/forum/thread/43803/CEO-Survey-What-was-or-is-your-primary-source-of-start-up-capital/#discussion?src=forumtopic_rss http://www.softwareceo.com/forum/thread/43803/CEO-Survey-What-was-or-is-your-primary-source-of-start-up-capital/?src=forumtopic_rss http://www.softwareceo.com/forum/thread/43667/Yagnaum-s-Staffing-Solutions/?src=forumtopic_rss Yagnaum staffing solutions helps executives focus on their core business while filling the gaps in their business, technology and testing teams. Our full-service, cross functional staffing services give you the freedom to handpick technical talent from a very qualified and competitive pool of resources. Yagnaum also maintains resource-rich training centers to keep abreast with new Expertise and trends. Our Domains: &bull; Java Technologies (Java, J2EE, Websphere, Weblogic, ATG, EJB, Java Script etc). &bull; Microsoft .Net Technologies. &bull; ERP (SAP ABAP, Netweaver, BW, SEM, CRM, SCM, APO, EP) &bull; Oracle &bull; Web Design, HTML, Front Page, Flash Methodologies &bull; Rational Unified Process (RUP) &bull; Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) &bull; Capability Maturity Model (CMM) &bull; Pharmaceutical Validation &bull; Business Analysis &bull; Quality Assurance &bull; Performance Engineering \ Testing &bull; ETL Tools, Mainframes Our staff augmentation service offering provides the below options: Contract Staffing Option-to-Hire Staffing Full-time Staffing<div><a href="http://www.softwareceo.com/forum/thread/43667/Yagnaum-s-Staffing-Solutions/">[Read more]</div> CEO Surveys Wed, 12 Oct 2011 09:47:36 GMT Yagnaum http://www.softwareceo.com/forum/thread/43667/Yagnaum-s-Staffing-Solutions/#discussion?src=forumtopic_rss http://www.softwareceo.com/forum/thread/43667/Yagnaum-s-Staffing-Solutions/?src=forumtopic_rss http://www.softwareceo.com/forum/thread/43615/Need-Some-Advice/?src=forumtopic_rss I am negotiating to purchase a 16 yr. old homebased online educational software company from an individual. I have no experience in this type of business, but have both retail and wholesale sales experience and have owned my own company for many years before selling it. Being homebased and a company with no employees or inventory is attractive to me. My questions: 1. What's does the near future hold for ed. software in the K-12 and higher ed. ?? 2. Are sales of licenses the most profitable part of the business? 3. How do I maintain institutional contracts and bid on new ones? 4. Over the 5-6 years this individual has owned the business the sales have been up and down. He says this is typical of major manufacturer's launches of new product not being predictable. Is this a valid reason for up and down sales? 5. Generally what should I be looking out for in my negototiations? rcal<div><a href="http://www.softwareceo.com/forum/thread/43615/Need-Some-Advice/">[Read more]</div> CEO Surveys Fri, 23 Sep 2011 21:08:53 GMT rcal http://www.softwareceo.com/forum/thread/43615/Need-Some-Advice/#discussion?src=forumtopic_rss http://www.softwareceo.com/forum/thread/43615/Need-Some-Advice/?src=forumtopic_rss http://www.softwareceo.com/forum/thread/43604/Help-Me-Understanding-It-companies-more-Broadly/?src=forumtopic_rss According to my last whole month studies I found many of us opens up It companies to deliver many kind of services but only few of them remains into market for 2-3 years rest of them are closed or transformed to hardware or delivering some other kind of services in computers !!! But why is it so??? What are the problem faced by any It companies CEO&rsquo;s??? Please discuss here itself no contact me please This Thread is gone help many of us.... My question to put up a light on is: 1&gt; what are the basic funda's have to be checked out or sorted to have a firm company into market? 2&gt; what is the problems faced by Company CEO Regarding Licensing? 3&gt; at what stage of company I should start checking his Pocket Income form it??? 4&gt; Many of us want to startup But Where they Fails and what are the thing which should be kept into Mind??? 5&gt; Where and what kind of Market Shoaled Be targeted Of Delivering Profitable Services?? 6&gt; World Economy Is saying Software Companies Earn 400-700% Of profit But Where it is small companies are not getting Enough to pay their staff and...<div><a href="http://www.softwareceo.com/forum/thread/43604/Help-Me-Understanding-It-companies-more-Broadly/">[Read more]</div> CEO Surveys Mon, 19 Sep 2011 09:23:10 GMT Anurag Khadelwal http://www.softwareceo.com/forum/thread/43604/Help-Me-Understanding-It-companies-more-Broadly/#discussion?src=forumtopic_rss http://www.softwareceo.com/forum/thread/43604/Help-Me-Understanding-It-companies-more-Broadly/?src=forumtopic_rss http://www.softwareceo.com/forum/thread/43491/A-new-Software-company-platform-.net/?src=forumtopic_rss hi i want to start a new software company based on the platform .net will please give me the suggestions to how to establish and what are the main requiremnts i have to need , how should i plan myself<div><a href="http://www.softwareceo.com/forum/thread/43491/A-new-Software-company-platform-.net/">[Read more]</div> CEO Surveys Mon, 15 Aug 2011 15:16:29 GMT patnana mahesh http://www.softwareceo.com/forum/thread/43491/A-new-Software-company-platform-.net/#discussion?src=forumtopic_rss http://www.softwareceo.com/forum/thread/43491/A-new-Software-company-platform-.net/?src=forumtopic_rss http://www.softwareceo.com/forum/thread/41789/Community-Survey-What-percent-of-revenue-do-you-spend-on-marketing/?src=forumtopic_rss <div><a href="http://www.softwareceo.com/forum/thread/41789/Community-Survey-What-percent-of-revenue-do-you-spend-on-marketing/">[Read more]</div> CEO Surveys Tue, 19 Apr 2011 18:19:34 GMT Peter Redmer http://www.softwareceo.com/forum/thread/41789/Community-Survey-What-percent-of-revenue-do-you-spend-on-marketing/#discussion?src=forumtopic_rss http://www.softwareceo.com/forum/thread/41789/Community-Survey-What-percent-of-revenue-do-you-spend-on-marketing/?src=forumtopic_rss http://www.softwareceo.com/forum/thread/40292/Community-Survey-How-long-has-your-company-been-in-operation/?src=forumtopic_rss <div><a href="http://www.softwareceo.com/forum/thread/40292/Community-Survey-How-long-has-your-company-been-in-operation/">[Read more]</div> CEO Surveys Tue, 01 Feb 2011 15:42:36 GMT Peter Redmer http://www.softwareceo.com/forum/thread/40292/Community-Survey-How-long-has-your-company-been-in-operation/#discussion?src=forumtopic_rss http://www.softwareceo.com/forum/thread/40292/Community-Survey-How-long-has-your-company-been-in-operation/?src=forumtopic_rss http://www.softwareceo.com/forum/thread/40212/CEO-Survey-As-a-CEO-or-business-owner-what-s-your-top-concern-in-2011/?src=forumtopic_rss <div><a href="http://www.softwareceo.com/forum/thread/40212/CEO-Survey-As-a-CEO-or-business-owner-what-s-your-top-concern-in-2011/">[Read more]</div> CEO Surveys Wed, 05 Jan 2011 21:56:39 GMT Peter Redmer http://www.softwareceo.com/forum/thread/40212/CEO-Survey-As-a-CEO-or-business-owner-what-s-your-top-concern-in-2011/#discussion?src=forumtopic_rss http://www.softwareceo.com/forum/thread/40212/CEO-Survey-As-a-CEO-or-business-owner-what-s-your-top-concern-in-2011/?src=forumtopic_rss http://www.softwareceo.com/forum/thread/30626/Software-CEO-s-New-Look-and-Feel/?src=forumtopic_rss I like the new look and feel. What platform(s) are you using for your site and content management? My Best, Frank<div><a href="http://www.softwareceo.com/forum/thread/30626/Software-CEO-s-New-Look-and-Feel/">[Read more]</div> CEO Surveys guerino1 http://www.softwareceo.com/forum/thread/30626/Software-CEO-s-New-Look-and-Feel/#discussion?src=forumtopic_rss http://www.softwareceo.com/forum/thread/30626/Software-CEO-s-New-Look-and-Feel/?src=forumtopic_rss