Bhavin Raichura

On-demand software distribution and retail e-commerce are key growth strategies for software manufacturers to enhance their online revenues and increase market share. The online store presents unlimited opportunity for expansion - across the globe - to reach out to end consumers directly, which fuels revenue and customer growth. Cloud computing technology offers fundamental capabilities in terms of quality-of-service: scalability, availability, reliability, storage, and performance - these qualities are essential to mitigating the risks of running an online software distribution and e-commerce business. Cloud computing technology also brings flexible pricing, services, and business models that significantly reduce the overall cost and, more importantly, reduce the liabilities of such online software distribution and e-commerce operations. In this article, we'll dis... (more)

ISV Cloud Computing Onboarding: A New Business Environment

ISV Pavillion at Cloud Expo In the recent past, ISVs and SaaS vendors were increasingly evaluating the impact of cloud computing trends on their business. Cloud strategy has an all-round impact on ISVs, their customers and system integrators. From an ISV's perspective, cloud strategy acts as a revenue and customer-growth engine, facilitating penetration to wider customer segments and geographies. From a consumer's perspective - retail or enterprise - cloud promises cost-effective solutions. From the system integrator's perspective, cloud generates multiple opportunities aro... (more)

Collaborative Business Workspaces

In the recent past, there were multiple collaboration and social networking platform offerings from large and successful ISVs such as Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS), Google Wave, and the SalesForce Chatter collaboration cloud. The common value-messaging across these offerings was on enabling firewall collaboration, improving employee productivity, increasing business efficiency, promoting innovation through collaboration, and enabling people-to-people connect as well. Enterprises are increasingly adopting collaboration for new products and services innovatio... (more)