{"id":760,"date":"2007-04-12T11:27:17","date_gmt":"2007-04-12T09:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/index.php\/archive\/coopetition-in-as-a-service-enterprise-content-management\/"},"modified":"2007-04-12T11:35:48","modified_gmt":"2007-04-12T09:35:48","slug":"coopetition-in-as-a-service-enterprise-content-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/2007\/04\/coopetition-in-as-a-service-enterprise-content-management\/","title":{"rendered":"Coopetition in &#8220;as a service&#8221;: Enterprise Content Management &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Gotta <a href=\"http:\/\/mikeg.typepad.com\/perceptions\/2007\/04\/salesforcecom_f.html\" >thinks<\/a> that <a href=\"http:\/\/salesforce.com\/\">Salesforce&#8217;s<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.koral.com\/\">Koral<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/cgi-bin\/stories.pl?ACCT=104&#038;STORY=\/www\/story\/04-10-2007\/0004562366&#038;EDATE=\">move<\/a> (Apex Content) puts them in competition with Cisco that recently acquired WebEx:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>At some point, Salesforce needed to respond to the productivity, content and collaboration platform Cisco can exploit given WebEx WebOffice and WebEx Connect.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I would add that Salesforce clearly moves to take a stance against other collaboration and content management players like e.g. Microsofts Sharepoint or Google (as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/archives\/2007\/04\/google_vs_sales.php\">Nick Carr notes<\/a>), while it <strong>validates the increasing importance of &#8220;as a service&#8221;-offerings<\/strong>. Hence, its position in the SaaS-landscape is a hybrid one: While offerings like Google Apps are competitors in some ways, they are <strong>good competitors<\/strong> because they strengthen the SaaS-model as a whole, heck &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/nauges.typepad.com\/my_weblog\/2007\/04\/google_et_sales.html\">they might even collaborate in expanding this market<\/a>, and they will stay friends quite some time. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.frogpond.de\/index.php\/archive\/coopetition-in-as-a-service-enterprise-content-management\/\">Crossposted at frogpond<\/a> because it touches enterprise 2.0 and collaboration issues &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Gotta thinks that Salesforce&#8217;s Koral move (Apex Content) puts them in competition with Cisco that recently acquired WebEx: At some point, Salesforce needed to respond to the productivity, content and collaboration platform Cisco can exploit given WebEx WebOffice and WebEx Connect. I would add that Salesforce clearly moves to take a stance against other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,11,4,8],"tags":[15,358,405,26,205,243],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}