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- Introduction to dynamic documents
- Q&A Jake Sorofman, senior VP of marketing and business development for JustSystems, says ynamic documents can transform how organizations create, share and deliver information. Dynamic documents can transform how organizations create, share and deliver information. Jake Sorofman, senior VP of marketing and business development for...
- Tags: Document, Information, Jake, Q, Usage Pattern, XML, Portals, Operational Planning, Enterprise Software, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Internet, Business Operations, Software, Special to ZDNet News, business applications, documents, dynamic documents
- News items 2008-06-25
- Concur scales up to challenge Amex, SAP and Oracle
- On-demand travel and expense management vendor Concur signaled the scale of its ambition today with the announcement that it is acquiring long-time rival Gelco for $160 million. The news comes hard on the heels of a big product announcement last week, when it unveiled an upgraded platform for integrating travel...
- Tags: Business applications
- Blog posts 2007-07-30
- Choosing how to connect up the dots in 2.0
- The pantheon of entities tagged 2.0 grew ever more bloated with the unveiling of 'Travel and Expense 2.0' at the business travel industry's annual convention in Boston this week.Concur was the vendor trying to thrust T&E management into 2.0 territory. But its press release headline misses the point about 2.0...
- Tags: Web 2.0, Ecosystems, Business applications
- Blog posts 2007-07-26
- Xactly closes new round, Bezos buys Expensewatch
- Some interesting funding news just in from a pair of successful SaaS vendors. Fast-growing sales incentive management vendor Xactly closed a $15 million series C round. As C rounds go, thats quite a substantial figure. Even more out-of-the-ordinary is the news that expense and spend management vendor Expensewatch.com has been...
- Tags: Business applications, Venture capital
- Blog posts 2007-04-24
- Miss Concur at your expense
- Steve Singh, CEO of travel and expense management vendor Concur, spoke to a handful of attendees at an early-morning breakfast session at SaaScon today. It wasnt an ideal forum — he would have been better pleased with the opening keynote slot, which Salesforce.com president Jim Steele filled an hour later....
- Tags: Business applications, Companies
- Blog posts 2007-04-17
- Microsoft's software + services strategy takes shape
- The news emerging from this weeks Convergence conference and elsewhere shows that Microsofts servers+services strategy for surviving the shift to on-demand computing is crystallizing. Whether it will work is another matter. But here are the strands that seem to be coming together: Office running on web services (ie XML and...
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Microsoft Windows, Web services, Enterprise software, software, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., Dynamics ERP, Tellme Networks Inc., on-demand, strategy
- Blog posts 2007-03-13
- DST spells disaster for shrinkwrap software
- One of the Bush administrations most unexpected legacies could be an extra nail in the coffin of customer-installed on-premises software, once Daylight Saving Time comes into effect in the US this coming weekend. Its now becoming evident that theres been a huge lack of preparedness on the part of leading...
- Tags: Microsoft, Collaboration, CRM, Business applications
- Blog posts 2007-03-05
- Come on down, Google Apps, the price is right
- I think the BBC hit the right note with its headline today on the launch of Google Apps Premier Edition: Google charges for web programs. Today may go down in history as the day when Google started charging for applications. Suddenly, its once again become acceptable to charge customers for...
- Tags: Business applications, Microsoft, Google
- Blog posts 2007-02-22
- Fast debuts on-premises contextual ad software
- Not many people realize that contextual advertising is a multi-billion dollar software-as-a-service category. Yet if you look closely at Google AdWords, Microsoft AdCenter and Yahoo!s newly launched Panama engine, its plain to see that all of them are Web-native, on-demand applications, accessed either via a browser interface or an API....
- Tags: Business applications, Google, Web 2.0, advertisement
- Blog posts 2007-02-06
- Cognos joins AppExchange but isn't going SaaS
- BI vendor Cognos has followed in the footsteps of its rival BusinessObjects in joining Salesforce.coms AppExchange marketplace this week, but that doesnt mean its embracing SaaS, oh no. UK-based title IT Week reports: "Graham Walter, vice president of Cognos in the UK, Middle East and South Africa, ......
- Tags: Business applications, Celequest, Cognos Inc., Saas
- Blog posts 2007-01-18
- SaaS in 2007: It's about services, doh!
- In my trio of predictions for SaaS in 2007, Ive saved the biggest trend till last. The coming year will see a growing acknowledgement that SaaS is just part of a wider move towards Internet-based automated services. This is such an all-embracing trend that it will drive several other sub-trends,...
- Tags: basics, Ecosystems, Business applications, Saas
- Blog posts 2007-01-02
- SaaS doesn't matter
- Thomas Otter, an Enterprise Irregulars blogger who works for SAP, complains that SaaS has been arbitrarily defined by a purist cult who refuse to admit that, as he puts it, "SaaS is simply the latest evolution of the bureau." Nick Carr, author of the contention that IT doesnt matter,...
- Tags: Saas, Automatic Data Processing Inc., Web 2.0, Architecture, Business applications, software
- Blog posts 2006-11-30
- What's next for SaaS?
- Aggregation, integration, mashup platforms and ecosystems are going to be hot topics in software-as-a-service circles next year, according to a group of vendor CEOs who sat on a panel at the SIIAs OnDemand Summit in San Jose earlier this month. I was intrigued to hear how much unanimity there was...
- Tags: Saas, Business applications, Ecosystems, Marketplaces
- Blog posts 2006-11-22
- The Web grows up
- Part of the reason people get dissatisfied with terms like Web 2.0 and Web 3.0 is that we all know the Web is an unfinished project and were somewhat impatient to see some more progress made on getting it built. So its good when an announcement comes along that suggests...
- Tags: Business applications, Companies, Marketplaces, Web 3.0
- Blog posts 2006-11-15
Additional Resources
- Do open source applications take security seriously?
- This should be the chief open source challenge for the next year, because if application security is not addressed, it's hard to see much more progress coming in the enterprise market. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Security Best Practice, Open Source, Security, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-07-20
- Mom, EFF fight back over take-down notices
- This is what I imagine: some technoslaves or computer software constantly peruses YouTube looking for infringements. It finds them and the music companies send YT an almost daily list of take-down notices per the DMCA. YouTube takes down. Problem being everything gets taken down...
- Tags: Electronic Frontier Foundation, Takedown, Video, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-07-20
- My top 10 free iPhone applications
- It's been a week since the iPhone 3G launched and I wanted to run down my top 10 free iPhone applications – so far. So here goes... Image Gallery: Top 10 free iPhone applications. by Jason D. O'Grady
- Tags: Apple iPhone, 3G, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-07-19
- Android losing its mojo fast
- Android started off being a great idea, from a great company, with lots of support from carriers and manufacturers, and an awesome $10million contest to get developers drooling. With some stiff competition from Apple, and loss of developer morale, I'm afraid of what the future might hold for this...
- Tags: Google Inc., ADC Telecommunications Inc., SDK, Garett Rogers
- Blog posts 2008-07-19
- MobileTechRoundup show #140, iPhone apps, Opera Mobile 9.5 beta, and netbooks
- We really tried to get away from talking just about the iPhone in MobileTechRoundup show #140, but when it is the hottest news in the mobile space it is tough. We did talk about some applications, iPhone 3G battery life, and a utility we would like to see on the...
- Tags: MobileTechRoundup, Apple iPhone, Opera Software, Beta, Podcasts, Keyboards, Internet, Hardware, Peripherals, Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2008-07-18
- Apple is not the real enemy of open source
- Apple is not the real enemy of open sourceGodwin's Law is now in effectGodwin's law: whoever mentioned the Nazis has automatically "lost" whatever debate was in progress.Loser.Apple is the official NAZI PARTY of Open Source.Where is http://opendarwin.com? It's GONE.Apple SUPPORTED the whole OSx86 project, then THEY reneged- There...
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Linux, Digital media, Godwin, Apple Inc., open source, digital-rights management
- Discussion threads 2008-07-18
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