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ISV Reduces Sales and Deployment Cycle From Months to Five Minutes With Web-Based Service

Octave wanted to deliver its retail accounting and sales solution as an online service. It partnered with YouSAAS - a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner specialising in technical and marketing consultancy for Independent Software Vendors ISVs - to fully automate provisioning and deployment. Following the transition, the delivery cycle decreased from...

Tags: Web, ISV, Microsoft Corp., Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales

Case studies 2009-09-01

Pen and Paper (Mobile)

is a very easy to use drawing application. The UI has nice 3D look and it is very intuitive and natural to use. There are no texts, but big icons and images. Also small children can easily use the application.Application features:- 3 different pen sizes- 3 different brush sizes- Image...

Tags: Mobile, ISV, Image, UI

Software downloads 2009-08-29

Picture Ripper 4.60 build 4.6.0.2 (Windows)

Picture Ripper is a powerful site crawler, grabber and viewer. Enjoy pictures, movies, mp3 and any imaginable media files: PictureRipper can find and download thousands of pictures in a single run. PictureRipper can be used as picture grabber, movie downloader, mp3 archive crawler. Moreover, users can specify custom media file...

Tags: Movie, Media, ISV, Microsoft Windows, Image, MP3, PictureRipper, Advertising & Promotion, Digital Music, Digital Media, Marketing, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics

Software downloads 2009-08-26

SpringSource, VMware, and the death of the independent software vendor

Larry Dignan writes that VMware's purchase of SpringSource (formerly Interface21) has "sparked a fair amount of head scratching among analysts". It's mystifying developers as well. Purchases like this call into question the whole nature of the "independent software vendor", or ISV. Compare this with Google's recent purchase...

Tags: Developer, On2 Technologies, ISV, VMware Inc., Virtualization, Hardware, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2009-08-11

SaaS Support Helps ISV Target New Markets and Launch Service-Based Products in Weeks

Determined to enter the Software-as-a-Service SaaS market with its mobile business solutions, Independent Software Vendor ISV Mobile Tracing Services engaged the help of Microsoft Gold Certified Partner YouSAAS. As part of the Microsoft Software + Services Incubation Center Program, YouSAAS gave Mobile Tracing Services the guidance necessary to redefine its...

Tags: Software-as-a-service, Mobile, ISV, Microsoft Corp., Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Advertising & Promotion, Emerging Technologies, Marketing

Case studies 2009-07-01

Windows Azure and ISVS: A Guide for Decision Makers

Why should an Independent Software Vendor ISV care about cloud computing? The answer is simple: Using the cloud has the potential to increase an ISV's revenues and/or decrease its costs. Running code and storing data on computers in large Internet-accessible data centers owned by somebody else can offer compelling advantages....

Tags: Software Company, ISV, Microsoft Windows, Cloud Computing, Data Centers, Virtualization, Operating Systems, Software, Storage, Hardware, Data Management

White papers 2009-07-01

GenLM: License Management for Grid and Cloud Computing Environments

Software license management allows independent software vendors ISVs to control the access of their products. It is a fundamental part of the ISVs' business strategy. A wide range of products has been developed in order to address license management. There are, however, only few ongoing works with regard to license...

Tags: Software, Cloud Computing, Software Company, ISV, License Management, Fraunhofer IITB, Software License Management

White papers 2009-06-04

Specialist Independent Software Vendor Wins Business With Software-Plus-Services

CargoWise edi, a leading provider of integrated supply chain logistics management systems for freight forwarding, serves 1,300 customers in 45 countries with a total of 33,000 users. The Australia-based independent software vendor - whose leading product is ediEnterprise - is committed to offering its clients simple, powerful tools that are...

Tags: Software Company, ISV, Logistics, Microsoft Corp., Supply Chain, Supply Chain Management (SCM), EDI, Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Software

Case studies 2009-06-01

Software Vendor Boosts Productivity for Contact Centers With Unified Communications

Independent Software Vendor ISV ComputerTalk integrated its contact-center software with Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2. With this solution, the ISV's clients gain presence awareness for their agents, as well as new IM and video capabilities beyond existing voice and e-mail channels. Now ComputerTalk can use this unified communications solution...

Tags: Software, Software Company, ISV, Unified Communications, Contact Center, Microsoft Corp., Collaboration, E-mail, Online Communications

Case studies 2009-05-01

Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing, and the ISV

This white paper provides an entry-point discussion of the Microsoft Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing landscape and product adoption roadmap. The paper includes architecture discussion points around the logical business tiers from storage to higher-level analytics, as well as thirteen real-world scenarios of ISV adoption stories along with value points.

Tags: Data Warehouse, ISV, Microsoft Corp., Business Intelligence, Pricing, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Storage, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Marketing, Management, Hardware

White papers 2009-05-01

Oracle VM Benefits for ISVs

Oracle's virtualization technologies are an excellent delivery vehicle for Independent Software Vendors (ISV's) looking for a simple, easy-to-install and easy-to-support application delivery solution. A typical ISV application can range from a simple single-server configuration to a large, distributed network of applications using shared storage and parallel processing to achieve eXtreme...

Tags: Oracle Corp., ISV, Benefit, Oracle VM, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Virtualization, Utility Computing, Storage, Hardware

White papers 2009-04-01

Salesforce.com: Pondering the next 10 years

Salesforce.com: Pondering the next 10 yearsCoda and Glovia on ForceI am a bit surprised that the article does not mention two very significant wins for the Force platform in expanding the company outside of On Demand CRM. Glovia is already offering Order Management on Force, and Coda is one of...

Tags: Sales force management, Customer relationship management (CRM), Advertising & Promotion, cloud computing, Salesforce.com Inc., CRM, ISV, Google Inc., Glovia

Discussion threads 2009-03-16

Clouds, virtualization and lifecycle management what's not to love?

It's not often that I'm sent a password protected PDF file when a supplier is presenting a briefing on their product, technology or services. The CEO of the super secret startup, Doyenz, Ashutosh Tiwary, did exactly that.  It appears that he's gathered quite and impressive list of industry executives from...

Tags: Virtualization, Lifecycle Management, ISV, Value-added Reseller, Retail, Channel Management, Marketing, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-02-13

Accounting Software Firm Expands Market Share After Switch to Microsoft Solutions

Founded in 1977, Mitchell Humphrey Software is an Independent Software Vendor ISV that specializes in the development of accounting applications for businesses and non-profit organizations. To maintain an advantage over its competition, Mitchell Humphrey began looking for ways to expand into the governmental marketplace, specifically the areas of municipal licensing...

Tags: Accounting, Software-as-a-service, Software Company, ISV, Microsoft Corp., Software As A Service (SaaS), Operational Accounting, Managed Hosting, Financial Services, Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Finance

Case studies 2009-01-22

When to spend cash in a SaaS business

When to spend cash in a SaaS businessSelling SaaS via DistributionIn a "Grow or Die" world that's becoming increasingly crowded with multiple SaaS offerings per category, it's difficult to find the right balance between investing in a direct sales force vs. taking a go-slow approach. One way for SaaS...

Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), cloud computing, Selling SaaS, software-as-a-service, ISV, reseller

Discussion threads 2008-12-01

On_Premise to On-Demand: Product Migration or Business Transformation - The Dos and Don'ts of Making the Transition to Cloud Computing

Software as a Service SaaS has clearly signaled the end of business as usual in the software world. Dubbed a "Disruptive technology", it provides unprecedented opportunities and benefits to both customers and software vendors. Traditional Independent Software Vendors ISVs, that have been successfully selling On-Premise products, are already beginning to...

Tags: Software, Software-as-a-service, DOS, Software Company, ISV, On-demand, Migration, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Tools & Techniques, Emerging Technologies, Management

White papers 2008-10-29

Microsoft's Azure cloud platform: A guide for the perplexed

Microsoft's Azure cloud platform: A guide for the perplexedHead in the clouds...So, Microsoft "cloud computing" is another huge boon to IT Departments who want to hire more staff? I wonder if anyone will eventually wake up and realize that IT departments can usually be replaced by a dozen temp...

Tags: Data centers, Storage, Databases, Windows Azure, Azure, PDC, Microsoft Corp., data center, server, ISV

Discussion threads 2008-10-27

Amazon: EC2 is production ready; Will enterprises bite?

Amazon: EC2 is production ready; Will enterprises bite?Windows 2003 and SQL Server 2005 on Amazon EC2For more but concise details about EC3, Windows and SQL Server versions, and pricing, see: http://oakleafblog.blogspot.com/2008/10/amazon-web-services-announces-sla-plus.html--rjISVs, ISVs, ISVsThis is good stuff, but 90% of the audience short-term will be ISVs software companies - specifically companies...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, cloud computing, ISV, Amazon.com Inc., EC2

Discussion threads 2008-10-23

Microsoft quietly halts sales of third-party activation offering

Microsoft quietly halts sales of third-party activation offeringWhat now if you use MS SLPS?This is a very disconcerting time for software vendors. With a major recession on the way, they need all the help they can get to fight piracy and offer flexible revenue-generation options for their customers to stand...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, digital-rights management, piracy, ISV, Microsoft Corp., sales

Discussion threads 2008-10-07

SaaS star leaves SAP for Salesforce.com

Enterprise software giant SAP has lost Business Objects' Steve Lucas, one of its brightest software-as-a-service stars, to Salesforce.com, where he takes up a new role driving the vendor's platform strategy by Phil Wainewright

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Software-as-a-service, ISV, SAP AG, Steve Lucas, Force.com, TenWolde, Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Sales Force Management, Emerging Technologies, Sales, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2008-07-07