Category Archives: Amphora

How SaaS changes the Vendor/Client dynamic for the better

By Simon Coles | Published: August 31, 2009
There’s a blog post on SandHill.com about reducing the cost of SaaS implementations. The first few paragraphs really hit home: In the on-premise enterprise software world, I have seen many software implementations go awry despite ballooning implementation expenditures. Customers never see their ROI until many years into the implementation, by which time they are so [...]
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I wonder why we’re seeing lots more inbound sales enquiries

By Simon Coles | Published: July 21, 2009
I was talking with one of our marketing peeps today and it appears we’ve had a massive increase in the number of inbound enquirers in the past few weeks. They can’t seem to discern a pattern – we don’t even know what prompts them to come to us. But there’s been a seriously noticeable jump, [...]
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Use of Open Source in Commercial ELN products

By Simon Coles | Published: July 17, 2009
On the (rather hard to get into) LinkedIn ELN group, there was a question about the use of Open Source components in commercial ELN products. We use a lot of Open Source components in our products, and I know we’re not alone. There are vendors who are very committed to a specific platform – Windows [...]
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Older Presentations now on Slideshare

By Simon Coles | Published: June 19, 2009
I’ve put my older ELN presentations up on SlideShare here for amusement. They are on the Amphora web site but I think it is more useful to have them on SlideShare.
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The PatentSafe Repository Checker

By Simon Coles | Published: May 28, 2009
We’ve updated the PatentSafe Repository Checker script, and importantly released it under an Open Source license (the GPL) which means anyone can check the integrity of a PatentSafe repository. The project is on GitHub – here’s the project’s GitHub page. The checker script is a completely separate implementation of the signature and repository code, and [...]
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