How are customers supposed to evaluate the claims of cloud vendors if analysts dont' seem to be able to agree.
Here's Forbes naming Intuit as the best in cloud (in the company of competitors such as Oracle, SAP, Info).
http://www.forbes.com/sites/bradpeters/2013/05/21/the-worst-and-best-enterprise-cloud-strategies/
Here's Dennis Howlett proclaims Intuit as having ""Lack of cloud smarts""
http://diginomica.com/2013/05/23/intuits-lack-of-cloud-smarts-is-painful/
And lastly with respect to Sage I ask how they cannot be in the running with the Forbes list? At first I thought that perhaps Forbes only ran down enterprise level apps but they get to Intuit which not only is distinctly NOT enterprise but also really not very big outside of North America.
Sage have a huge public relations department. Do they spend most of their time trying to get analysts NOT to write about Sage? I'm puzzled by the absence of Sage from many of these articles (and yes I understand well that Sage may not be considered to have a SaaS offering but still seems like they should be showing on the radar and they just don't seem to).