In today’s world where the ‘community’ aspect of the internet is over-emphasized to a fault, it is only logical for productivity apps to incorporate that aspect. Business, after all, is about interactions with your network and productivity, largely depends on how best one can source and manage these interactions whether these interactions are with consumers, buyers, suppliers or with internal employees for a firm.
We are in the process of finalizing pricing for my startup Visual Website Optimizer, which is an A/B and Multivariate testing tool. As you can imagine, fixing price is one of the toughest decisions that a startup has to (inevitably) take. Once fixed, it could be extremely difficult to change it without annoying a lot of customers. We want to be extra sure that we don’t end up under- or over-pricing Visual Website Optimizer. So, how do we decide what to charge?
Software As A Service has become widely accepted and is a popular choice among businesses. Businesses consuming SaaS applications favour the low upfront cost and zero infrastructure headaches. Also, SaaS applications being deployed online have the advantage of being available anywhere, anytime and even on any platform. Businesses developing software have embraced the SaaS model with open hands.
Zoho –Salesforce story is pretty well known (SF wanted to acquire Zoho, but Zoho refused) and today, Zoho launched the ‘Zwitch to Zoho’ program to lure Salesforce customers by playing
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
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Appnomy – The Economy Of Apps
