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		<title><![CDATA[Concur scales up to challenge Amex, SAP and Oracle]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/SAAS/?p=363]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jul 2007 15:55:49 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Choosing how to connect up the dots in 2.0]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/SAAS/?p=360]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jul 2007 08:18:07 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Miss Concur at your expense]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/SAAS/?p=316]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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 &mdash; he would have been better pleased with the opening keynote slot, which Salesforce.com president Jim Steele filled an hour later....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2007 13:49:47 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Microsoft's software + services strategy takes shape]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/SAAS/?p=300]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2007 09:11:15 -0700</pubDate>
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		<category domain="http://updates.zdnet.com/tags/dynamics+erp.html"><![CDATA[Dynamics ERP]]></category>
		<category domain="http://updates.zdnet.com/tags/tellme+networks+inc..html"><![CDATA[Tellme Networks Inc.]]></category>
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		<title><![CDATA[DST spells disaster for shrinkwrap software]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/SAAS/?p=294]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2007 09:17:07 -0800</pubDate>
		<category domain="http://updates.zdnet.com/tags/microsoft.html"><![CDATA[Microsoft]]></category>
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		<title><![CDATA[Come on down, Google Apps, the price is right]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/SAAS/?p=287]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Feb 2007 13:08:40 -0800</pubDate>
		<category domain="http://updates.zdnet.com/tags/business+applications.html"><![CDATA[Business applications]]></category>
		<category domain="http://updates.zdnet.com/tags/microsoft.html"><![CDATA[Microsoft]]></category>
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		<title><![CDATA[Fast debuts on-premises contextual ad software]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/SAAS/?p=276]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Feb 2007 11:22:41 -0800</pubDate>
		<category domain="http://updates.zdnet.com/tags/business+applications.html"><![CDATA[Business applications]]></category>
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		<title><![CDATA[Cognos joins AppExchange but isn't going SaaS]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/SAAS/?p=269]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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, ......]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jan 2007 15:28:39 -0800</pubDate>
		<category domain="http://updates.zdnet.com/tags/business+applications.html"><![CDATA[Business applications]]></category>
		<category domain="http://updates.zdnet.com/tags/celequest.html"><![CDATA[Celequest]]></category>
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		<title><![CDATA[SaaS in 2007: It's about services, doh!]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/SAAS/?p=262]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jan 2007 06:55:05 -0800</pubDate>
		<category domain="http://updates.zdnet.com/tags/basics.html"><![CDATA[basics]]></category>
		<category domain="http://updates.zdnet.com/tags/ecosystems.html"><![CDATA[Ecosystems]]></category>
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		<title><![CDATA[SaaS doesn't matter]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/SAAS/?p=250]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Nov 2006 07:51:55 -0800</pubDate>
		<category domain="http://updates.zdnet.com/tags/saas.html"><![CDATA[Saas]]></category>
		<category domain="http://updates.zdnet.com/tags/automatic+data+processing+inc..html"><![CDATA[Automatic Data Processing Inc.]]></category>
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		<title><![CDATA[What's next for SaaS?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/SAAS/?p=247]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Nov 2006 07:48:40 -0800</pubDate>
		<category domain="http://updates.zdnet.com/tags/saas.html"><![CDATA[Saas]]></category>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Web grows up]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/SAAS/?p=243]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Nov 2006 15:51:57 -0800</pubDate>
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