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- ISV
- Independent Software Vendor A person or company that develops software. It implies an organization that specializes in software only and is not part of a computer systems or...
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- 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
- 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
- Many degrees of multi-tenancy
- Many degrees of multi-tenancyGood points, what many people miss is ...The cost of the more expensive hardware required to run fewer "clusters" far offsets the added licensing costs, management software costs, and people costs of running many varied smaller configurations. Think TCO, not hardware cost.RE: Many degrees of multi-tenancyI...
- Tags: Scripting languages, cloud computing, SaaS Model, DB Level, Oracle Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-06-16
- Adobe merging desktop and web with Acrobat 9 and Acrobat.com
- Adobe merging desktop and web with Acrobat 9 and Acrobat.comAdobe puts the smackdown to the Microsoft CloudThis certainly looks very good. The interface is immediately refreshing from anything that is Brand M. I went to the site and the 'feel' is very nice. The uncluttered look is one I find...
- Tags: Channel management, Microsoft Windows, Terminal services, Desktops, Web browsers, Adobe Acrobat, doc, Adobe Systems Inc., ISV, Web, desktop, Microsoft Windows Terminal Server
- Discussion threads 2008-06-02
- ISVs: XenDesktop, VDI, SolidICE offer no panacea for IT managers
- ISVs: XenDesktop, VDI, SolidICE offer no panacea for IT managersDesktop Virtualizaton is SalvationIf you have lobied users for thin clint then you know that once a PC user has learned to creat a shortcut he/she will not be happy with it. Hence, I disagree with the author. Desktop Virtualization is...
- Tags: Desktops, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, UNIX, SolidICE, XenDesktop, VDI, desktop
- Discussion threads 2008-05-20
- Office 2008 for Mac: The straw that broke the backs of Microsoft's Windows developers?
- Could it be that a Macintosh program will be the tipping point for the confidence that ISVs have in Microsoft as a technology partner? One c-level technologist for a Windows enterprise app says "no more" to Redmond's vision. I wrote the other day about Microsoft's Mac Business...
- Tags: Developer, Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Office, Window, ISV, Microsoft VBA, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Engineer, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development, David Morgenstern
- Blog posts 2008-05-16
- LSB SDK, aka 4.0, could be panacea for Linux app developers .. and Ubuntu
- Increasing use of Ubuntu and other Linux distributions globally puts additional pressure -- and costs -- on independent software developers. The Linux Foundation hopes that its fourth stab at a solution, the Linux Standards Base 4.0, will make it much easier and less expensive for ISVs...
- Tags: Developer, Ubuntu, Java, ISV, SDK, Linux, UNIX, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-04-23
- Hot new open source ISVs, projects make the grade at OSBC
- Hot new open source ISVs, projects make the grade at OSBCEnglish pleaseWhen something/someone gets notice it is told to quit what this writer means is "got noticed".Please can we have these items in English not some 3rd grader's perception of the languageRE: Hot new open source ISVs, projects make the...
- Tags: ISV, open source, open source ISV
- Discussion threads 2008-03-28
- Microsoft partners with open source JasperSoft, Sourcesense
- Microsoft and JasperSoft are working together to ensure that Jasper's business intelligence software suite runs well on the latest editions of Windows and SQL Server. At the Open Source Business Conference at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco, Microsoft told ZDNet that the open source BI software...
- Tags: JasperSoft, Partnership, ISV, Apache Software Foundation, Microsoft Corp., Open Source, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-03-25
- Taking SaaS to market: a European perspective
- What's the channel to market for SaaS applications? No one on either side of the Atlantic has a clue what the answer is. That means there's still a huge opportunity waiting for someone to step into the gap. by Phil Wainewright
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, ISV, Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-02-07
- EasyLicenser License Manager 2.5.01 (Windows)
- EasyLicenser is a flexible, low-cost and powerful software license manager focused on ease-of-use for both the ISV and the end-user. EasyLicenser also includes eCommerce and Customer Relationship Management functionality. � EasyLicenser allows ISVs to cut their costs and increase revenue by providing full protection for their software products for as...
- Tags: ISV, Agilis Software, EasyLicenser, Microsoft Windows, Web Technology, Tools & Techniques, Operating Systems, Databases, Software, Management, Enterprise Software, Data Management
- Software downloads 2008-02-06
- Enterprise SaaS and the cloud
- ISVs today have three choices when setting out to build a SaaS application: A. Build the application on your own infrastructure, which you'll have to assemble from scratch using open source and commodity components. B. Build it on a packaged platform from an established application infrastructure...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Marc Andreessen, Software-as-a-service, Platform, ISV, Computing, Force.com, Riskonnect, Software As A Service (SaaS), Sales Force Management, Service Management, Emerging Technologies, Sales, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-01-17
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