{"id":11991,"date":"2014-12-18T20:30:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-18T20:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/3268468"},"modified":"2014-12-18T20:30:00","modified_gmt":"2014-12-18T20:30:00","slug":"consumerization-of-the-enterprise-by-bostonvc-cloudexpo-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/consumerization-of-the-enterprise-by-bostonvc-cloudexpo-cloud\/","title":{"rendered":"Consumerization of the Enterprise By @BostonVC | @CloudExpo [#Cloud]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Consumer VCs like to make light of the Founders Fund mantra \u2018We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters.&#8217; For those of us working in the enterprise, it&#8217;s actually the reverse, &#8220;They promised us 140 characters, instead we got Workday.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Since 2010, SaaS applications were supposed to &#8220;consumerize&#8221;, but as anyone who has used the majority of SaaS applications released prior to 2014 knows, they are still clunky, punishing interfaces that happen to be hosted in someone else&#8217;s datacenter. 2014 is proving to be the year where this changes, with a large wave of new-generation SaaS apps that really deliver on a delightful user experience. Employees and managers are taking notice of these new user-friendly tools, causing adoption to explode from the bottoms up.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/3268468\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Consumer VCs like to make light of the Founders Fund mantra &lsquo;We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters.&#8217; For those of us working in the enterprise, it&#8217;s actually the reverse, &#8220;They promised us 140 characters, instead we got Workday.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Since 2010, SaaS applications were supposed to &#8220;consumerize&#8221;, but as anyone who has used the majority of SaaS applications released prior to 2014 knows, they are still clunky, punishing interfaces that happen to be hosted in someone else&#8217;s datacenter. 2014 is proving to be the year where this changes, with a large wave of new-generation SaaS apps that really deliver on a delightful user experience. Employees and managers are taking notice of these new user-friendly tools, causing adoption to explode from the bottoms up.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/3268468\" target=\"_blank\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}