On Demand B2B with John Radko

Action, Visibility, and a tough Economy

GXS has a terrific set of clients in the retail industry, some of whom I have worked with for many years, so stories about the industry tend to draw my eye.  The other day I was reading a widely syndicated piece from AP about retail retrenchment, when something caught my eye:

 

"Experts also say merchants are weathering downturns better because of new systems to control inventory and costs."

RFID — is the premature standardization over?

A very interesting piece from AMR Research's John Fontanella on RFID reaching its tipping point.  This piece is free until March 14th, so click quickly!

Multi-tenancy: absolutely critical to Software as a Service (SaaS)

We had a really good session last week with an analyst who covers our industry exceptionally well -- and we had a really interesting debate about what multi-tenancy is, and whether it was import for SaaS (or any of the growing number of other "aaS's" sprouting up...).  For the record, I have a pretty simple definition of multi-tenancy, and I think true multi-tenancy is ultimately required for successful SaaS platforms.  If you are deploying a new stack/instance/virtual machine/OS for every new client, you are not multi-tenant.