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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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....
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, ......
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,...
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,...
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...
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...
(NOTE BEFORE I START: This is one really long post. So rather than post it in all its glory in a single file or post it here over two days, I'm trying something new. I'm posting the first half here. And the second half on PGreenblog. Â Let's see how that...
Not even hybrid apps?Right, got it. You hate everybody who doesn't buy your religion, which doesn't even allow for hybrid applications."I ask why I?d entrust sensitive data to a user with a laptop."You're right, companies can't even trust their own employees. Heck, let's send everybody home and dissolve the whole...
Ubuntu 9.10 has more immediate potentialMight I suggest trying Ubuntu 9.10? A phenominal OS with much more to offer then even Windows 7.Open source, free and ready to try today...http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/10things/?p=1122http://www.tuxradar.com/content/vista-windows-7-ubuntu-904-and-910-boot-speed-comparisonhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYgWE6Svpaghttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16-nad9N3pgNot that I have readI'd stick with 904immediate potential to sink in obscurityGoogle was Linux's last fleeting chance to turn...
Costs"What is holding back network capacity is politics."What's holding back network capacity is huge costs.Yep, very important to push the ISPs to free up the bits. They would love to continue selling bandwidth through an eyedropper at very high prices. They need a push.Oh, and Microsoft will not like this...
To make a good soup, you've got to stir the pot...Ok, sure - it turns cloudy, short-term. Just be sure to filter it or let it settle, before serving.Whereas the classic 'design-by-committee' model so often fails, its always useful to have multiple, talented teams working on similar projects, independently. With...
WaveMaker Visual Ajax Studio is an easy-to-use WYSIWYG builder that enables the drag & drop assembly of scalable, web and cloud applications using Ajax widgets, web services and databases. WaveMaker Studio will look and feel especially familiar to client/server developers who are used to working with visual tools. WaveMaker's Studio...
Silverlight 4 delivers a full suite of powerful capabilities to business application developers, bringing the best-of-breed .NET platform to browser-based experiences. Silverlight provides an ideal platform for developing and deploying modern business applications for both customer facing and staff-facing applications.
In 1994 America Online trailed Compuserve and Prodigy, a third subscription option in how you hooked your modem up to the internet to go cyber surfing. What propelled AOL to global dominance by the end of that decade was their proprietary 'rainman' platform, which enabled partners...
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