Microsoft India Launches Online Business Services in India [Free Trial]
Microsoft has launched it’s online business suite in India (link), targeted towards Indian SMBs.
MS”s online standard suite is a set of messaging and collaboration solutions hosted by Microsoft, and consists of Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, Office Live Meeting, and Office Communications Online.
If you are a sysadmin and worried about managing user policies etc, the good news is that Microsoft Online Services work seamlessly with Microsoft Active Directory, so you can continue to manage user policies centrally and control which services are available to your existing users.
This is a big boost to SaaS players in India and MS’s entry will surely heat up the space, though it’s a different matter that most of the incumbent players in enterprise space have failed in their online/SaaS venture.
What’s your take?
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Ashish – You are on a roll today.
I feel this drama would be fun to watch and learn.
A few things worth pondering about.
#1. Siebel, Oracle, SAP (and recently photoshop.com ??) … all failed to get SaaS right by just offering their current applications on the web at a variable price. Success mostly came in SaaS to those who designed their apps ground up for the web and multi-tenant infrastructure … and lowered the features to a level that it common denominator and self manageable rather than had the same now online.
#2. For years companies like Mi8 and others have offered these MS Office Productivity products online in a SaaS model … with limited success.
#3. Would it have been more effective to provide synchronisation and collaboration tools (like Outlook does with Exchange … where u use it offline mostly but can access it online when on the move) for MS Office etc. … with sharing, security, collaboration, sync across devices facilitated in a way like Google Gears but one that works for MS products … while assuming most people would still write real world documents offline on their PCs for years to come (which I believe would be the case).
#4. The classic trap described in “Innovator’s Dilema” predicts channel clash, margin confusion etc. in trying to introduce disruptive technology in a successful model … I presume they have plans to defy that some how.
I guess, we are all cursed to live in interesting times.
Siebel/Ariba/SAP – most of these enterprise cos. failed to deliver on SaaS promise..
MS would be an interesting game to watch out for!!
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