 
Welcome to the Carolina SaaS User Group.
With the recent
explosion of Software as a Service / On-Demand Applications, a common
interest has been expressed to create a forum where best practices,
resources, and experiences can be shared.
|
.gif) .gif) .gif) .gif) |
- Past Events -
Tuesday,
October 2nd, 2007
- 2007 Q3 / Q4 Meeting -
October 2nd, 2007 11:30 - 1:30
Bank of America Stadium (Club Level)
 Headlined by one of the nation's foremost
authorities in the SaaS space, Jeff Kaplan, Managing Director of
THINKstrategies and
founder of the SaaS Showplace , the largest vendor-independent
directory of SaaS offerings and insights online. Jeff works with
software vendors, corporate decision-makers and technology
investors to help them better understand the business
implications of on-demand services and capitalize on these
rapidly evolving opportunities.
In addition to moderating a panel of local SaaS practitioners,
Kaplan provided his perspective regarding SaaS market
trends, and give his candid feedback and advice regarding
individuals SaaS strategies and solutions; go-to-market plans;
target markets and buyers, packaging and pricing of offerings,
sales tactics, competitive strengths, weaknesses, and threats;
and future business opportunities.
|
| |
Thursday, May 17th, 2007
- 2007 Q2 Meeting -
May 17th, 2007
Special Guest Speaker Kevin Egan
Regional Vice President
We are pleased to announce that Kevin Egan from
Salesforce.com will be speaking at our 2007 Q2
meeting. Kevin will be delivering the same presentation
given by Marc Benioff, Chairman & CEO, to over 100 CIOs last
year. Following Kevin’s presentation, we will be
conducting discipline focused, break-out roundtable sessions.
Bio: Kevin Egan
Kevin has seen first hand the SaaS model evolve from a good idea
into a viable platform that is quickly becoming the standard for
delivering applications to customers. Egan joined
Salesforce.com in 2002 as one of the first
sales reps for the upstart company. Kevin has become a
SaaS evangelist during his 5 years in this space, and has
overseen the addition of over 2,000 new customers to the
Salesforce.com platform. He has an expert level
of understanding in how to drive customer success with the SaaS
model.
|
|
National
Gypsum: 2001 Rexford Road, Charlotte
5:30 – 6:15 Salesforce.com presentation
(Dinner served)
6:15 –
7:30 Break-out roundtable sessions
|
| |
Thursday,
March 15th, 2007
Carolina’s SaaS User Group - Inaugural Meeting
Southend Brewery - 2100 South
Boulevard - Charlotte, NC
5:30 - 7:30PM
Thanks to everyone who was able to attend the Inaugural SaaS
User Group Meeting. I am excited to say that we had 75 attendees
representing 60 companies congregate at Southend Brewery on the
launch of our group! The core of the Carolinas’ SaaS base was in
attendance.
Based on the 60+ surveys filled out; below
is a summary of what we learned
Nearly 65% of attendees were IT/Operations professionals,
followed by nearly 25% Executives
The primary reasons people attended the Inaugural event were
pretty much an even distribution between: Networking, personal
education, and sharing best practices around SaaS delivery
Overwhelmingly, members would prefer an organized format for
future meetings. 65% preferring an organized roundtable
structure and 35% looking for defined topic with guest speaker
Almost everyone selected to meet every other month, with several
write-ins for quarterly meetings
The topics of most interest are “SaaS Industry Trends” (43%) and
“The impact of SaaS on Business/IT” (47%)
Most everyone is fine with a small membership fee
|
|
|
|