THINKstrategies' SaaS Showplace Surpasses 1000 Company Listings
Vendor-Independent Online Directory & Best Practices Resource Center Newsletter Also Achieves Major Milestone By Attaining Over 11,000 Subscribers
Wellesley, MA - April 6, 2009 - THINKstrategies, Inc., the leading strategic consulting company focused on the business implications of the on-demand services market, announced today that its Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) Showplace® online directory now has over one thousand companies listed across eighty (80) application, industry and enabling technology categories.
Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) Showplace was established THINKstrategies in 2006 to provide,
IT/business decision-makers a quick directory of the leading SaaS providers and a convenient source of valuable insight regarding SaaS trends.
SaaS providers a targeted tool to increase their visibility among enterprise decision-makers, and gain access to key enabling technology suppliers.
Enabling technology suppliers a specialized platform to increase industry awareness regarding their SaaS solutions.
The SaaS Showplace is now the largest and highest ranked, vendor-independent, online directory and resource center of industry best practices in the SaaS market. For more information, go to www.saas-showplace.com or www.thinksaas.com.
In addition, the SaaS Showplace newsletter is now distributed to over 11,000 IT/business decision-makers, IT solution providers, technology investors and industry/business press, making it the largest newsletter dedicated entirely to analyzing the latest SaaS news, providing industry best practices and promoting important events.
The Best of SaaS Showplace (BoSS) Award program is the latest initiative aimed at bringing attention to the business benefits of SaaS solutions. The ongoing awards program was launched in January 2009 to identify and promote SaaS, and 'cloud computing', companies offering on-demand solutions which are generating measurable business benefits for their customers. Ten (10) SaaS companies have already been given BoSS awards in the first three months of the program. For more information or to nominate a BoSS award winner, go to http://www.saas-showplace.com/registerforbossaward.html.
"THINKstrategies created the SaaS Showplace to help IT/business decision-makers better understand the SaaS alternatives which were emerging in 2006 and give the pioneering providers at that time a place where they could promote their capabilities," stated Jeffrey M. Kaplan, the founder of the SaaS Showplace and Managing Director of THINKstrategies. "We are very pleased that the Showplace has been able to continue to serve as a valuable resource for users, vendors, investors and others who are interested in learning about and capitalizing on the revolutionary capabilities being offered by today's SaaS vendors and cloud computing service providers. I want to thank the Showplace sponsors and our ecosystem of partners who have helped to make the Showplace such a valuable resource."
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About THINKstrategies, Inc.
THINKstrategies, Inc. is the only strategic consulting services company formed specifically to address the unprecedented business challenges facing IT managers, solutions providers and investors today as the technology industry shifts toward a services orientation.
THINKstrategies' mission is to help our clients re-THINK their corporate strategies, and refocus their limited resources to achieve their business objectives. THINKstrategies helps enterprise decision-makers with their sourcing strategies, IT solutions providers with their marketing strategies, and VCs with their investment strategies.