The cloud and SAAS offers amazing advantages to small businesses in terms of time and money saved as well as the benefits gained in business process by working on world's largest network, the World Wide Web. How can we bring this message to small business owners? What has worked and what has not? Can small business lead the way to the cloud for larger, harder to change businesses? This is all grist for the mill in this group. Welcome; we're glad to have ya'!

OQUMA (http://www.oquma.com) is an on line document management service, a business specific service to support Quality Management (ISO 9001). OQUMA is a commercial software service offered on-line, SaaS, oriented to support the full life cycle of a standard compliance system. The service is a document management system (DMS) for standard compliance management. We are strong SaaS supporters. We think Document Management will guide SaaS adoption, as a simple way to adopt current state of the art technology. Our vision is to provide a complete line of products with high quality of service. http://www.oquma.com/en/blog.html

We Are Cloud are a French Business Intelligence company producing the SaaS BI application Bime. We started because business intelligence was mostly just too hard: too hard to use, too hard to manage, too hard to buy and too hard to get right. Bime delivers simple-to-use yet powerful BI, data visualization and dashboarding in a software-as-a-service application, making data analysis faster, easier and cheaper. With Bime you can * Get started in minutes with nothing to install * Connect to and mix online and on-premises data * Create intuitive and beautiful data visualizations * Make dashboards of key discoveries * Work collaboratively and share your findings

More than 250 sales & marketing leaders will attend this event. Job titles represented will include CEOs, VPs of Sales, VPs of Marketing, VPs of Sales Operations, Division/Regional Sales Managers, Sales Managers, and Marketing Managers. Attendees will gain valuable insights about how to win more business by aligning sales and marketing, enhancing analytics, creating more accurate forecasts, and more. The DreamSimplicity Team will be covering the event with video and pictures, we'll post links to relating articles and content here. Join to follow the action!

An Idea Management System puts in place systems and processes to implement a 'stage-gate'or idea funnel process where ideas are systematically filtered and assessed against criteria and only the most valuable ones are implemented and put into practice.

Scio provides outsourced product development and IT services for ISVs and businesses with internet-based services and applications. Our technical focuses are Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Web 2.0 and highly interactive user experiences. Our experience spans many industries with a range of clients from entrepreneurs beginning new ventures to Fortune 500 companies augmenting their teams by outsourcing part of their development.

Softletter is the Software Industry’s most trusted source for primary research and information that provides the benchmarks, metrics and business insights that executives need to maximize growth and profitability.

SKMurphy, Inc offers business development services for software entrepreneurs. I lead a small team that provides sound strategy and a workable plan to grow your business. Our focus is on early customers and early revenue for software startups.

Sixteen Ventures helps companies of all sizes that are in the early stages of development of their Business Strategy, Revenue Model, and Pricing & Distribution strategies for SaaS, Cloud, or other next generation businesses and products. Sixteen Ventures principals, consultants, and Ecosystem Partners have extensive experience in all stages of SaaS Ventures. In addition to internal SaaS company experience, our founding team has experience on the procurement side of SaaS in companies at the top of the Fortune 100 list. This means we know what it is like to sell SaaS to Fortune 100 companies, and we also know what they are thinking when they go through the SaaS procurement process.

ECGridOS is a 90 function Web Services API for EDI communications. Software developers and SAAS platform operators may use ECGridOS to gain the EDI global routing and trading partner management authority typically associated with Value Added Networks. ECGrid® is host to 14,000 native trading partner ID’s, and maintains discrete routes to over 600,000 global EDI addresses.

Call Center Management software includes speech recognition software to allow computers to handle first level of customer support, text mining and natural language processing to allow better customer handling, agent training by automatic mining of best practices from past interactions, support automation and many other technologies to improve agent productivity and customer satisfaction. This group is for anyone interested in Call Center Software.

Business Intelligence (BI) is software used for spotting, digging-out, and analyzing business data, such as sales revenue by products or departments or associated costs and incomes. BI technologies provide historical, current, and predictive views of business operations. Common functions of Business Intelligence technologies are reporting, online analytical processing, analytics, data mining, business performance management, benchmarking, text mining, and predictive analytics. This group is for anyone associated with or interested in BI.

Accounting software is application software that records and processes accounting transactions within functional modules such as accounts payable, accounts receivable, payroll, and trial balance. This is group is for vendors and anyone that is interested in financial apps.

eCommerce is the buying and selling of products or services over the Internet. This group is for experts, developers, and those that are looking to get more involved.

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) manages internal and external resources including tangible assets, financial resources, materials, and human resources. This group is for anyone interested in the subject.

All About the Cloud is co-produced by the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) and OpSource and it will be the software industry’s most all-encompassing Cloud Computing event to take place on one stage -- with an anticipated audience of up to 750 executives from ISVs, SaaS, Web and Enterprise companies, along with industry-leading analysts, venture capitalists, and the media.

A place where you can find all the videos produced by the DS Video Team. We'll share with you some insights on how we came up with the ideas, stories, and final products that you see across the web.

Through notifications and alerts, Contracked™ helps organizations minimize risk associated from missing crucial contract dates. Desirable contracts are renewed on time and unwanted contracts are terminated immediately upon expiry. Many other date-related provisions exist in contracts, including late fees, payment terms, volume discounts, option dates, and maintenance requirements, which are also managed by Contracked™.

eVapt Inc. enables the pay-as-you-use model for Cloud infrastructure and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) vendors. By using eVapt's solution, Cloud and SaaS vendors can operate more efficiently. The solution handles price modeling, usage analytics, invoicing, billing etc. thereby allowing vendors to focus on their core competencies. The company is based out of Austin, TX and was formed by software industry veterans to enable enterprises, small business and individuals to buy business services on-demand.

On Demand Contract Management