Diane Ruth — Executive Director, Business Development — joins as guest blogger to discuss RackSpace's new AppMatcher.
We are thrilled to be part of RackSpace's newly announced AppMatcher community. This exciting marketplace enables business of all sizes to easily search and find SaaS applications to run their business. AppMatcher removes the frustration and challenges of navigating the myriad of SaaS applications by helping organizations quickly hone in on applications that fit their specific needs.
Borrowing from the concept of online dating, AppMatcher transforms the process of searching for applications through sophisticated targeting. The AppMatcher experience has two major components:
- AppMatcher uses profile and preference data to help users find ideal apps. Users answer four simple questions: company size, industry, department and title. AppMatcher then filters available applications to identify those that best match user's specifications.
- AppMatcher "Locker" enables users to centrally organize, review and introduce SaaS applications to the entire organization. Individual lockers are interconnected to create a centralized collaboration portal where all reviews and opinions of SaaS applications are shared. As new applications match user profiles, they appear in lockers as suggested applications, removing the need to search for new applications.
AppMatcher is easy to use. As your organization needs new applications—anything from accounting to project management to integration—consider giving it a try. We hope that once users find their perfect SaaS app 'match'- they will leverage Boomi's library of connectors for hundreds of best-of-breed Cloud and on-premise apps because everyone knows that bi-directional communication is key to a successful long term relationship!
To learn more, visit www.appmatcher.com or follow @appmatcher on Twitter.
While the appmatcher is a great advance forward, perhaps there is one component to the equation which is being overlooked....the appmatcher...no matter how sophisticated it is will never match human intelligence. The proliferation of SaaS applications is great...boomi.com's PaaS connectors have revolutionized integration....but human beings with extensive experience understanding business process....[hint think CPA] is the missing ingredient in the mix.
I believe that "finding a CPA that speaks salesforce"....is an appmatcher on steroids. If took the tools that a neurosurgeon uses to perform brain surgery and put them in the hands of a untrained person....even if they watched 500 hours of youtube.com footage on how to perform brain surgery...I would bet there isn't one person reading this post that would let a person operate on them.
The appmatcher is a great step forward in some situations...however, given the proliferation of declarative customization within saleforce, boomi, etc.....keep in mind that there may be another approach such as www.abizinabox.com
Posted by: Jszesq | October 07, 2010 at 08:32 PM
This exciting marketplace enables business of all sizes to easily search and find SaaS applications to run their business.
Posted by: ffxiv gil | October 11, 2010 at 09:39 PM
Rackspace is very excited to have Boomi work with Rackspace on AppMatcher. Congrats to everyone at Boomi on the announcement of the acquisition by Dell.
Posted by: Andy Schroepfer | November 02, 2010 at 12:20 PM
AppMatcher removes the frustration and challenges of navigating the myriad of SaaS applications by helping organizations quickly hone in on applications that fit their specific needs.
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Wow ! i like the work of appmatcher so much as it provides its services on a global level and is very helpful in removing confusions of various organizations.
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