There is something really (b2)big happening

– everything is simply moving into the browser and API’s- and there is no end to the change this will bring to the ENTERPRISE SOFTWARE business as we know it. (Know that we are all onFacebook).

Note: In my humble opinion most new SaaS products you see – is just an idea of putting an existing piece of server-side software or a client application – like Salesforce :)

SaaS

Nothing wrong with that – but its ALL ABOUT THE SOFT PROCESSES. Think of FACEBOOK as the global educator in “stream experience”. Facebook (Twitter) will make demand of change in business software: How-come you are much more updated on your remote friends weekendtrips – then you are updated  on your company and colleagues last efforts – well the answer is simple – the is NO INFORMATION STREAM in you company.

Change an Industry that has been locked down by legacy and time

First Everbread

(Im CEO)- is a VERY deep play in the basic simple idea of redoing something that is so old and important – that time has madde it look impossible to change. But with a team of 35 superbrains and a strategic leader who can really direct a vision into reality – then time and technology has really proven ready to CHANGE. Everbread is in sales dialogue and has signed deal – with all to key players in the travel industry. Why: Because its GOOD – well done – disruptive – and the new managers in the travel sector wants to use technology – not just be in a “thats how we have always done this” job. Everbread only lack the appstore play – until now – other then that its the biggest play I have even been close to understanding.

Second Tradeshift

Every government or Fortune 5000 company in the world can save min 50mio$ pr year – in one days work of setting Tradeshift up – because the long tail of suppliers – 60% are on paper (it costs 16$ for a Gov or Large Company to recieve a paper invoice (KMPG report states)) suddenly can deliver instantly digitally – with seemless integration to existing processes. And basicly no one has to spend their day opening paper invoices and/or retype PDF documents into their ERP system.

Tradeshift has 60.000 hours of code under the hood – and rocks a paradigm (EDI) in its purest form – and maybe even the fundamental idea of how to do accounting. Mr Lanng (speaking at NEXT10 about this very subject!) – the co-founder said something I wonder about nearly every day: “When I was in government – we always tried to jumped the idea of selfservice and go directly to AUTOMATING processes without user intervention.” Think about it – accounting and payment can be done automatically if you setup the right parameters and infrastructure. And the whole idea of a lot of these messages like a credit note – is just legacy – why dont we just do a collaborative draft and agree on it – then the rest is just a process that can be automated when agreed on (the hard part is security and soft processes). This is the real revolution for small business, they can start seeing their business as a network and not as a bunch of administrative processes (they run in the background).

But this doesn’t stop here, imagine that all those processes are wrapped into a cloud platform with open API’s (not like the closed EDI and bank networks of today) there is even endless amount of applications to be be build by third parties – and ecosystem that can evolve – a crowd-sourced movement of impact. OK – Im fired up – but Im pretty sure you can see that something big is coming here – off course you have to be hyper optimistic – but there is no lack of that on the team.

Third Hoist (my bizz stream)

Im not involved – but Im a fan – and its not funded – but Im pushing them a bit to take a hard-hitter CEO and then some smart Do$. Here you have a Danish startup with an amassing collaboration system. Oh shit that sounds like the 90’ies – but here is a smart piece of software that can create a STREAM for groups of coworkers. And its done in a amazingly simple and smart way / so that project and companies automatically! creates a stream by putting their – meetings, tasks, events, brainstorms in here… This is so much bigger

Both in Tradeshift and EVERBREAD something is upside down

When 2-5bio§ revenue companies cold call us or contacts us from the webform – despite our very very silent existence – you can feel winds of change – or is it just wind from the CloudService centers airconditioning? :)