In his latest Team Think blog post, ZDNet’s Dave Greenfield highlights "a glaring, underserviced niche" in the enterprise bookmarking and tagging market.

He identifies that the "small enterprise" of 50-500 users has similar security requirements to large enterprises and wants the ease of use of consumer-orientated services, but simply cannot afford the $20+ per user price tags of the heavyweight enterprise bookmarking systems.

We respectfully disagree with his assertion that "services aren’t likely to be the preferred deployment method for enterprise bookmarking and tagging". We’re seeing very few problems with the hosted model right now. Maybe SaaS has finally come of age… And as Dave hints at, we’re thinking about releasing a low-cost on-premise solution soon.

He points out that Cogenz’s on-demand service is priced at just $2 per user, although I think he has some of his comparison pricing wrong by mixing monthly and annual charges, and also assuming that the same per-user price points are applied to a smaller user base than his original 5,000 user scenario.

We’re pretty transparent about our pricing (no "Contact Sales" links on our site), so if you wanted to use Cogenz with 50 users it would cost you $180/month for our Workgroup edition. With 500 users you’d be looking at $1,070/month for the Enterprise version.