Amazon, one of the initiator of the “on-demand” trend has recently showed it still wanted to innovate in this through several major announcements :
Mechanical Turk : the crowdsourcing marketplace is now more accesible to nonprogrammers by offering a Web-based editing tool. People are now able to create a task online get their work done.
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According to a recent Techcrunch post, Yahoo, Hp and Intel are about to announce something big today.
Given the actors involved and the recent move of other Internet big players (Google App Engin, Amazon Webservices…), we can guess it will deal with cloud computing : Yahoo supporting the open source distributed computing Hadoop, it [...]
The border between Salesforce’s and Google’s applications getting even less obvious with the announcement of the new Force.com Toolkit for Google Data APIs, which “makes it easy to develop Force.com applications that make the most of the capabilities of Google Data APIs, including read and write access to data and content in Google Apps.”
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Launching MobileMe, Apple has decided that , along with your mobile life through the iPhone, your data have to be stored in a cloud and synchronized, no matter the device you use. It works with native applications, on both Mac and PC, and stores all your email, contacts, and calendars on a secure online server, [...]
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With the launch of its first product Z-Billing, Zuora wants to provide subscription-based business with a fully integrated and hosted solution to benefit from a central location for all of their transaction data. The openness of the platform allows customers to integrate Z-Billing with popular CRM and accounting packages.
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Described by Clayton M. Christensen in his book “The innovator’s dilemma”, disruptive technology or disruptive innovation is a term describing a technological innovation, product, or service that uses a “disruptive” strategy, rather than a “revolutionary” or “sustaining” strategy, to overturn the existing dominant technologies or status quo products in a market. Disruptive innovations can be [...]
