This site aims to be the Yelp of the SaaS world
Summary
This week the company will launch a beta version of its service, and it invites participants to submit reviews of business software in 12 different categories. In the past, businesses looking for software relied primarily on word-of-mouth reviews, but SaasGenius aims to tap the model thats become so common on the consumer side. "We all now rely heavily on websites like Yelp and TripAdvisor in our personal lives -- these sites feature trusted reviews to help us make quick, easy purchase decisions," said Tom Gorski, cofounder and CEO at the firm. "The issue is that it is really hard to get accurate reviews, between shills, competitors and folks that have never touched the product, and you tend to get too much false information," Enderle said. Such review sites face significant hurdles when it comes to large enterprise solutions such as SAP, Oracles E-Business Suite or Salesforce.com, agreed analyst Frank Scavo, president of Computer Economics.