Emillion

Article in Cloud Computing Journal: Why SaaS vendors must offer automated sign-on to all business customers

admin — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 07:33:27 +0000

Automated sign-on is not only about security, it is just as much about driving customer engagement and usage and fighting churn. This article by Emillion founder and CEO, Kjell Backlund, in Cloud Computing Journal explains why.

Half of paid SaaS customers do not really use the application

admin — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 11:55:07 +0000

According to a recent report by Totango, a full half of paid SaaS customers log in less than once a month or do not use their paid service at all. Low or no usage are one of the biggest reasons for churn. How would your business be affected if half of your customers (read revenue) left?

What can SaaS vendors do to engage their customers? Here is the view of Emillion’s CEO Kjell Backlund, based on experience from behaviour of social media users.

New article: Is SAML all you need to offer business customers SaaS single sign-on?

admin — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 07:41:48 +0000

Everybody has far too many usernames and passwords already, and customer organizations are therefore demanding easier access to SaaS applications. How can SaaS providers respond to that demand? Is there a de facto standard that solves your problem, or what are your options?

Read this article by Emillion’s founder and CEO Kjell Backlund to learn what he thinks, based on a decade of experience in the field.

Emillion web site redesigned

admin — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 07:25:56 +0000

Our web site has been redesigned to help new visitors and old friends find information faster and easier.

We will gradually be adding articles and customer cases, together with cases on how Distal has been integrated with different platforms, services and generic identity and access management solutions.

Stay tuned, and don’t hesitate to get in touch with feedback.

With Distal you can serve more customers

admin — Tue, 29 May 2012 12:23:26 +0000

Requires much less from end user organizations:

investments
expertise
time

Automated sign-on drives usage and fights churn

admin — Tue, 29 May 2012 12:20:22 +0000

no usernames and passwords
no sign-up forms
much less user management

Do you want maximal benefits from your SaaS or Service Desk?

admin — Tue, 29 May 2012 12:18:35 +0000

Then you better make sure people use them

Mediamaisteri uses Distal to make access easier

admin — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:15:58 +0000

Emillion, specialized in automating sign-on and user management in web applications, and Mediamaisteri, a provider of e-learning services, have agreed on using Distal to make access to Mediamaisteri’s SaaS services easier.

“Distal fits very well into our offering as a complementing user management integration solution. The strength with Distal is how easy it is to deploy, especially from the end customer’s point of view. The rollout project does not require traditional planning, specification and programming work from the customer”, says Mikko Toriseva, CEO at Mediamaisteri.

Distal makes it easy for Cloud application providers to extend the benefits of automated sign-on and user management to all customers, and not only to those who have invested in specialized software for that purpose. It uses the existing intranet user profile to automate most of the access related issues in the Cloud application.

“Mediamaisteri opens a new and interesting software category for us. E-learning is a category where easy access for the end user is cruisial to get wide reach into customer organisations. We are very happy that Mediamaisteri trusted us to tackle that challenge”, says Kjell Backlund, CEO at Emillion.

More information:

Mikko Toriseva, CEO, Mediamaisteri Group, +358 400 594 335

Kjell Backlund, CEO, Emillion, +358 400 848 747

Mediamaisteri Group Ltd is a learning and skills development specialist company whose mission is to support personnel’s personal development and organizational development, learning and attitude change.

Mediamaisteri Group takes advantage of open source technologies as a basis for products, services and its action ideology. Awareness based on a strong, cost- effective eLearning tradition. Our organization is the largest open source eLearning and Human Resource technology services provider in the Nordic and Baltic countries. Our vision is to become the world’s nr 1 as an open HR/HRD software and service provider.

We currently have over 400 customers in the areas of educational institutes, governmental organizations and corporations. End user clients operating eLearning with our service is currently around 500 000 users. www.mediamaisteri.com

Kjell Backlund interviewed in SIIA’s A Vision from the Top

admin — Sun, 15 May 2011 14:15:12 +0000

Kjell Backlund, founder and CEO of Emillion, was interviewed by SIIA’s A Vision from the Top, along with 45 other software industry CEO’s from around the world.

The interviews focused on how CEO’s see the future of the software industry. The interview and the publication can be found here

BOS offers smoother access with Distal

admin — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 12:01:52 +0000

Emillion, specialized in automating sign-on and user management in web applications, and BOS, a provider of e-procurement and catalog management services, have agreed on using Distal to make access to BOS services smoother.

“As the usage of cloud based services increases, the demand for centralized user management is growing. Distal is an elegant way to improve security without enslaving the users. Deploying Distal with our customers is very easy, and does not require much expertise in the area from us”, says Esa Saukkonen, CEO at BOS.

“BOS targets one of the most challenging user bases for any application, the sales force. Their focus is on closing deals, and everything that gets in their way is bad. We are very happy that BOS chose Distal to make access to their application smoother.”, says Kjell Backlund, CEO at Emillion.

More information:

Esa Saukkonen, CEO, BOS, +358 50 554 8400

Kjell Backlund, CEO, Emillion, +358 400 848 747

Back Office Services Oy BOS is an innovative provider of e-procurement and catalog management services. BOS brings efficiency to sales by delivering tools for pricing and tendering process. At the moment more than 1000 Finnish suppliers use the BOS service. BOS has offices in Espoo and Amsterdam. www.bosoy.com