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Federated Apps on the Intuit Partner Platform

So what have I been working on since joining Intuit? A bunch of stuff, but something I wanted to shout about is the release of “Federated Applications” on the Intuit Partner Platform . Working closely with five new developers to Intuit's Platform as a Service (PaaS), VerticalResponse , DimDim , Rypple...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 06-03-2009
Joining Intuit

Firstly - thanks to everyone who has reached out to me in the last three weeks via email, phone calls and comments since I shared the news of my pursuit for the next adventure - I have really appreciated everyone's support and interest in my next steps. The great news is I'll be joining Intuit as a Group...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 09-21-2008
Sync Google Calendar with Outlook and more with WideLens

Google has just released a very cool utility (.exe download for Windows) providing users with the ability to synchronize their Google Calendar with Outlook. Some nice features in their 0.9.3.0 release: schedule the sync frequency: every x minutes define directional flow: 2-way, and 1-way (either way...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 03-05-2008
Time to Define "Platform as a Service" (or PaaS)

Before joining Bungee Labs last year, I knew they were on to something big. I mean, really big. A big idea, an ambitious vision: to provide developers with end-to-end development, testing, deployment and hosting of sophisticated web applications as a service delivered purely in the cloud. Since we announced...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 02-19-2008
Among the dynamos, My Data and advice for startups.

SaaS / DaaS / WaaS (Whatever As a Service) and Mashups Nick Carr quotes Henry Adams in Among the dynamos “One lingered long among the dynamos,” he wrote, “for they were new, and they gave to history a new phase. Pointing to SaaS Platforms trends , Clive Keyte write about " SaaS Management Platforms ...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 01-24-2008
8 Trends in Software as a Service Platforms

To kick off the new year, I presented to around 40 or 50 members of Utah Technology Council ( UTC ) last week. The title of the topic they asked me to speak about was "Trends in Software as a Service Platforms". I searched around for some ideas and came across two recent posts predicting trends in SaaS...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 01-13-2008
Enterpise mashups with Salesforce.com

In San Francisco this morning for Salesforce.com conference, Dreamforce 07 . Am here (along with Ted , Brad and Lyle from Bungee Labs)...we're frankly wowwing a few Saleforce.com customers and developers with a couple of cool videos, demos and real-world apps created on Bungee Connect . Here's a demo...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 09-17-2007
PaaS, more than SaaS

In May 2007 I attended Salesforce.com developer conference where Salesforce SOA was announced as an add-on to the Apex platform. Industry analysts focusing on the area of SaaS considered the move as significant, but not surprising (see Phil Wainewright's take on the new in May 2007 as an example ). The...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 07-18-2007
And of Dynamics Live CRM SaaS APIs?

Todd Bishop reported today of Microsoft's intended entrance next year into the B2B SaaS market with its announcement at the annual Worldwide Partner Conference in Denver, providing details on pricing and partner revenue-share plans for a hosted service version of Microsoft Dynamics Live CRM: "Businesses...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 07-10-2007
More Google / Salesforce.com partnership rumours

It looks like the Google / Salesforce.com partnership rumours are stirring up again this week, with a conf call scheduled for this Tuesday AM causing the renewed suspicions. Normally, I wouldn't be so interested in "gossip" until I hear actual announcements made, however this potiential partnership intruiges...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 06-02-2007

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