Sorry about the basketball metaphor for those of you who could care less about roundball, but now that the Big Ten season is underway I thought I could slip one in (News: Michigan returns to the NCAA Tournament this year). At any rate, sometimes you have to take a flagrant foul for the home team, and though I won't do it often I will do it today. Last week NetSuite, of which I am a channel partner, announced the integration of 30+ new products with the NetSuite CRM, ERP and E-Commerce apps. All of the new products come in SaaS offerings, even better news. This is great news for NetSuite, obviously, the partner channel, the new product partners, but even more so for the entire Software as a Service universe. On demand computing is really starting to find its stride, and this will be a breakout year. I looked over several of the new offerings over the weekend and it's a great and diverse group of software products. I am especially intrigued by CustomerVision, described as a Business Wiki, for employee collaboration around the customer. I am really excited about this particular product because, as I have written here, here and here, email is finally just a blackhole of corporate knowledge assets and there has to be a better way to collaborate and reuse the assets that collaboration creates. I have a demo planned for later this week and in the space that we sell into this is going to be a very welcomed addition. There is also a Professional Services Automation product called OpenAir and a Point of Sale solution on the way called ZeroedIn Solutions that are both going to meet with a lot of enthusiasm in the channel and among prospects. Taking a slightly different tack, the 30+ new product partners is further evidence that NetSuite is crossing, or already has, crossed the Chasm. As third parties begin the process of adding their products to NetSuite the market senses a greater level of stability. We are starting the quick ascent from the early adopters to the mainstream business buyer market. Hold on to your hats! OK, enough of the flagrant enthusiasm for the home team already. As a NetSuite Implementation partner we are very excited by the prospects for the future and for on-demand SaaS altogether, and now I'll end this and return to my more objective self. | 
