Ben Kepes penned a nice summary of the Office 2.0 conference and one complaint I liked is that the session on going 100% SaaS still focused a bit too much on justifying “why SaaS”.  This has been nagging at me as well lately - all the chatter about whether or not 100% SaaS makes sense, and whether or not there are 7 myths about SaaS, etc.

The Vision Thing

All the time spent debating positions which are already clear does take time away from the “vision thing”.  In fact I suppose we are in a bit of our own “silly season” in this debate about how to provision IT!  So here is the vision in my view: we are now in a position to run a reasonably sized business in many industries without building a data center and without traditional “outsourcing” of IT for that business. (more…)