By Isabel Wang
"I read about the latest McKinsey CIO survey on Nicholas Carr's blog. 61% of US and Canadian companies with over $1 billion in sales plan to adopt one or more SaaS apps in 2007. When McKinsey conducted the same survey in 2005, only 38% of the respondents had SaaS plans.
McKinsey says that CIOs are giving up on the notion that they must control 100% of their IT infrastructure. Instead, they are becoming more open to a "hybrid architecture" that combines internally and externally hosted components."
So I think Rackspace will see good ROI from its recent Salesforce.com certification. And I'm guessing other hosting providers will get involved with the Salesforce ecosystem next year. (ZDNet reports that in the last quarter, API transactions accounted for more than 50 percent of the 3.7 billion transactions on Salesforce.com's platform. They've got quite the ecosystem, and are expanding it with connectors and an outbound messaging API.)
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