Rise of the web-based application provider

[yesthattom]

I’m starting to get into application providers. I used to be in the “grow it your own” camp, but lately I’ve had a lot of good results with:

• www.salesforce.com
  • “sales force management”
  • better than GoldMine or ACT
• 123signup.com
  • membership management
  • moving my non-profits to it; suddenly we get on-line registration and membership management; and backups and stuff
• (various web hosting services)
  • web hosting
  • $10-$20/month and I can’t believe what a relief it is to not be doing it myself
• capwiz.com
  • letters to congress and other features
  • they maintain the database and my tiny non-profit looks like a huge lobbying firm
• yahoogroups.com
  • mailing list, file repository

Now I just need someone else to do the following:

• Capacity monitoring (like Cricket)
• Trouble ticketing (like RT)
• Up/down monitoring (like Nagios/Bigbrother/something better)
• Shared document (like Twiki)
• Spam fighting

and I can put myself out of business.

Comments

[airshipjones.livejournal.com]

For your anti-spam solution, you might check and see what Brightmail can offer. They work primarily with ISPs and ASPs, but they may have a solution that will work for you. I used to work there, and they are decent folks.

[yesthattom.livejournal.com]

For your anti-spam solution, you might check and see what Brightmail can offer. They work primarily with ISPs and ASPs, but they may have a solution that will work for you. I used to work there, and they are decent folks.

After man phone calls it seems that Symantec has ruined this product. I couldn't find anyone that would talk to me about anything other than software I would put on a windows server.

I think Brightmail is now an ISP-only product that their normal salesforce doesn't know about.

Tom