Comments on: Enterprise 2.0: Freemium first, enterprise second (Part 1 of 3)

By: Ranjit Khanna

Ranjit Khanna — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 04:17:48 +0000

Great post, keep up the good work!
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By: John Abbott

John Abbott — Fri, 25 May 2012 12:03:22 +0000

Thanks for a great article, are the parts 2.0 and 3.0 somewhere? I can’t seem to find them.

By: G.I. Sanders

G.I. Sanders — Fri, 04 May 2012 22:12:47 +0000

Excellent read Scott. Could not agree more that a ton of opportunity still exists in Enterprise 2.0

By: Jon Ferrara

Jon Ferrara — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 21:52:01 +0000

Nice Article Scott! As the founder of Nimble, a SaaS Enterprise 2.0 Social Relationship Manager looking to carve a huge niche from the established legacy CRM vendors your post was music to my ears. We are using a freemium go-to-market strategy combined with a new simple social approach to Business Relationships and Social Engagement. The market response to Nimble so far proves your article very spot on!

Best,

Jon

Jon Ferrara
CEO | Nimble – Social Relationships, Made Easy.
@Jon_Ferrara | http://www.nimble.com

By: Judson De La Wickham

Judson De La Wickham — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 05:12:05 +0000

SAP has beeen in the SaaS game since 2007 and has a PaaS as well.

By: Freemium

Freemium — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 22:46:30 +0000

Excellent summary of the Freemium business model in the enterprise SaaS space.

Please join other Freemiumers to learn more and exchange knowledge at our May 10th Freemium Meetup in San Francisco.

This month’s speakers have deep experience with Freemium business model in the SaaS/Enterprise Software space.

LOCATION IS SPLUNK IN SAN FRANCISCO.

Topics are:

Splunk, which went public earlier this April, uses the Freemium business model. “Splunk has more than 3,700 customers around the world, including more than half the Fortune 100, but not all of them pay to use the product. Like other next-gen enterprise software companies such as Box and Yammer, Splunk uses a “freemium” model to hook individual users within a company.” – Peter Delevett, Mercury News.

Best Practices for Freemium Vendors in the Enterprise Space – A consultant who did a recent extensive survey of Freemium vendors (Huddle, Box.net, YouSendIt, Evernote, Survey Monkey, Symform) and their users will report on his findings.

Third Topic when the speaker is finalized.

Because this is the Freemium Meetup we use the Freemium business model for our event. Please come with 5 unmarked dollar bills in case you feel compelled to upgrade to the premium version.

http://www.meetup.com/Freemium/events/58421232/

By: Michael Hummel

Michael Hummel — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 20:03:34 +0000

I very much like your views on the enterprise 2.0 App and SaaS market. There it is possible to monitor was users are doing and its possible to continuously learn, improve and deploy again.

I wonder how these mechanisms can be used for enterprise backend software too. We are a startup who is selling an analytical database which is at the heart of an enterprise.

Clearly Splunk has shown that a Freemium modell works, but their product is more focused on monitoring i.e. observing and not so much in the core of an operation as ours.

Any thoughts on enterprise backend software market?

By: Dan Cornish

Dan Cornish — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 19:06:11 +0000

Great Article. The established Enterprise players are very vulnerable. We keep seeing a lot of opportunity. We have played with a few small freemium products. The results are very encourging.