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I noticed yesterday that Rod Drury - CEO of http://www.XERO.com has decided to quit blogging. Here’s a link to the post: http://www.drury.net.nz/2008/07/15/don/

Personally I think it’s a shame for any entrepreneur or tech savvy blogger to stop as we can all learn so much from each other. The more we blog, the more we learn. The more we learn, the more we grow. The  more we grow, the greater our footprint on the global stage.

I wish him all the best and know that he’ll still be hard at work, but as a software CEO myself, I can also appreciate that there is little time in the day to blog, tweet, msn, txt or chat online - there’s simply too much to do. So good on Rod for his decision.

I also saw in the comments that people were wanting to know of any other New Zealand technology or entrepreneur blogs. There are heaps, but here’s a list to get people started. (Send me any others and I’ll keep expanding the list)

NZ Blogs I Read & Recommend!

Julian101 - CEO, ProWorkflow - Entrepreneur tips, business advice from a CEO and web2.0 tech talk
Diversity - Business, Stategy, Web2.0, collaboration and more
Aardvark - Daily technology commentary and rants
ReadWriteWeb - General tech news
Make it Happen - Tim Norton, PlanHQ - Building a sustainable business and living the dream

Other Good New Zealand Tech Blogs!

GeekZone Blogs - http://www.geekzone.co.nz/blogindex.asp
Brendan Jarvis
Stuart Maxwell
Simon Young
Michael Koziarski
Miramar Mike
Bgeek
Devour
Bluespark
Rowan Simpson

I’ll keep adding blogs as I have time or as they are sent to me…

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I blogged a week or two ago about an article talking about the size of the SaaS market in New Zealand. My blog was questioning the research as it didn’t sound accurate to my knowledge. By the way, a SWAG is a “Silly Wild Ass Guess”. The research company replied with their comments about their research.

Here’s the original post to read:

SWAGS - Interesting, but can you trust the research?
Click here for the article!

And here’s the comment emailed through from the research company:

Julian,
 
Thanks for the comments and the feedback it is appreciated. Congratulations on the success of your company to date.
 
To clarify the forecast, we are looking at the demand in the market within New Zealand. This only include vendors selling solutions within NZ. If you have international revenue to Australia, the US, or any other market, in this instance we do not count it.
 
I take heart that at least we are in your opinion being conservative, having been around the analyst market for many years, including during the ASP mega hype days, I believe a more conservative view on market potential is appreciated more firmly than an over the top one. Like a few people I am still waiting for the XSP market to hit US$1 Trillion by 2004 or so which was forecast in about 2000.
 
To highlight the methodology, there was a combination of both end user perspectives and discussions with vendors. The SaaS market is very fragmented as you know, so we cannot always get to every vendor.
Finally on the NZ market, it is a very innovative and clever market, and by proportion puts Australia to shame in many ways. As a 50-50 Australian/Kiwi, I guess I can take the best of both markets.
 
Regards and Thanks
Phil Hassey
VP Services/Country Manager ANZ
Springboard Research

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I just found this article about the size of the SaaS market in New Zealand. Have a quick read as it’s interesting Here’s the article (and the first paragraph)…

Software-as-a-Service Ups Its Game in New Zealand

“Market Expected to Experience 65% Growth in 2007 and Grow to NZ$64 Million by 2010″ - http://www.crm2day.com/news/crm/123334.php

Springboard Research, a leading innovator in the IT Market Research industry, today announced the results of its latest research on the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) market in New Zealand. Increased vendor activity and the inherent appeal of SaaS have been responsible for the market growing 65% in 2007 to NZ$14 million. Together with Australia, New Zealand continued to be the most mature market in the region.

NZ$14 million? That seems a bit on the low side. I would have thought it would have been higher - perhaps double. But 14 million? I’ve known of software co’s in NZ that have been successfully renting software in a SaaS model for years. I also can tell you that we (ProActive Software - www.proworkflow.com - Project Management Software) were never interviewed or asked about our earnings in any survey and that would have added a chunk to the numbers. We’re a dedicated SaaS company! One of the few truly global established SaaS players in NZ.  I wonder how many other companies weren’t included in this research? There’s plenty of great SaaS co’s around Wellington as well…

The point of this post? Firstly, that there is an emerging Software as a Service industry in New Zealand, and secondly, whilst interesting numbers and from a seemingly reputable source, never trust a SWAG (Silly Wild Ass Guess)  ;-)

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