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- All Things On Demand
- Traditional customer relationship management CRM systems fall short when it comes to usability, deployment and payment speed. Software-as-a-Service SaaS 1.0 offers such features, but it is limited in other respects. Adam May, director of product management at Oracle, explains how Oracle On Demand provides all of the business features users...
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, Oracle Corp., Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Operational Accounting, Emerging Technologies, Finance
- Webcasts 2009-12-01
- R&D bursts onto the Bangalore scene
- Not long ago the world pictured Bangalore as an outsourcing hub full of call center agents and paid-by-the-hour software workers. How that has changed. Years ago, when the world pictured Bangalore they imagined an outsourcing hub full of call center agents and paid-by-the-hour software workers. How that has changed....
- Tags: Bangalore, R&D, Research & Development, Managed Hosting, Call Centers, Business Operations, It Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, outsourcing, Saritha Rai silicon.com
- News items 2009-11-30
- Video: Upgrading to Oracle Database 11g Release 2
- Consolidate. Compress. Control. Watch the free, on-demand video to hear how IT leaders are turning to Oracle's second release of Oracle Database 11g to drastically reduce costs and easily manage their environments, database and storage. Learn how to easily upgrade to 11g. Watch Now! Best viewed...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Video, Oracle Database, Managed Hosting, Corporate Communications, Databases, Storage, Cloud Computing, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Hardware
- Webcasts 2009-11-30
- SaaS and cloud computing: A look at the due diligence
- CIO Scott Lowe walks through the buy vs. build analysis for software as a service and cloud computing. by Larry Dignan
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Managed Hosting, Virtualization, Emerging Technologies, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-11-25
- EuroCloud UK and a lesson in SaaS marketing
- Short of time, short of cash, unwilling to make big upfront commitments: how do such customers make their buying decisions? I've seen the process from the inside the past few weeks, signing up for several services in preparation for the launch of EuroCloud UK. by Phil Wainewright
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Marketing Research, Emerging Technologies, Marketing, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2009-11-24
- Roku becomes cloud-enabled with new Roku Channel Store and Developer SDK
- The new Roku Channel Store, which is being rolled out to all Roku devices, will greatly expand the capabilities of the $99 set-top on-demand streaming device. Late Sunday night, Roku announced that its players would now have a "Channel...
- Tags: Developer, SDK, Roku Inc., Roku Channel Store, Managed Hosting, Corporate Communications, Cloud Computing, Podcasts, Marketing, Internet, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2009-11-22
- Conference energy levels
- Coming to Dreamforce has been a revelation. The news was dominated by Chatter but that only tells a fraction of the real story. As I sat in the media room chatting sic to an old buddy it occurred to me this was a conference that annoyed for all...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Software-as-a-service, Event, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Sales Force Management, Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Sales, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-11-20
- How FinancialForce crushes it in SaaS accounting
- Financialforce.com customers are showing early success. They're demonstrating an enthusiasm for accounting I've not seen in years. How is that manifesting itself? by Dennis Howlett
- Tags: Accounting, Software-as-a-service, Software As A Service (SaaS), Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Managed Hosting, Emerging Technologies, Finance, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-11-19
- A Tale of Two Software Worlds: Old ERP vs. SaaS
- Dreamforce's attendance really puts a strong data point on how attractive SaaS is becoming. Other vendors this week have provided additional data points that point to a troubling time ahead for laggard ERP vendors. by Brian Sommer
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, ERP, Dreamforce, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Emerging Technologies, Enterprise Software, Software, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2009-11-18
- Software Builder Guides Tour Operators to Success With Hosted Solution
- Peak 15 Systems sells operational software to help tour operators reduce labor costs and increase profitability. When Peak 15 sought a development platform on which to build a Software-as-a-Service version SaaS of its offering, it evaluated solutions from Microsoft and Salesforce.com based on scalability, flexibility, and customer relationship management capabilities....
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, Microsoft Corp., CRM, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Operational Planning, Enterprise Software, Emerging Technologies, Marketing, Software, Business Operations
- Case studies 2009-11-16
- Best Buy Black Friday ad leaks online. Here are the HDTV and Blu-ray deals.
- For electronics fans, the Holy Grail of Black Friday ads is the one from Best Buy, which can list more deals on laptops and home theater stuff than general retailers like Wal-mart and Target can squeeze into their circulars. Unfortunately, those deals are never as good as you hopeis this...
- Tags: Sony Corp., Best Buy Co. Inc., Advertisement, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., HDTV, Blu-ray, Home Entertainment, Tv & Home Theater, Managed Hosting, TVs, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Sean Portnoy
- Blog posts 2009-11-14
- Putting SaaS revenue in perspective
- Software as a service enterprise revenue is expected to hit $7.5 billion, up 17.7 percent from 2008, according to a report this week from Gartner. Now let's put that sum in context relative to enterprise software giants. by Larry Dignan
- Tags: Revenue, Software-as-a-service, Software-as-a-service Enterprise Revenue, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Operational Accounting, Emerging Technologies, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-11-11
- Epicor Perspectives: the analyst view
- A thousand customers and 1,500 total attendees may be 20% down on past years but represents a good effort by Epicor to get the faithful out to hear the latest and greatest when compared with other vendor led events where attendance has been down 30-40%. ...
- Tags: Epicor Software Corp., Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-11-10
- Firms get more strategic about SaaS sourcing in 2010
- SaaS is one of Forrester's Top 15 enterprise technologies to watch. by Liz Herbert
- Tags: Sourcing, Software-as-a-service, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Purchasing & Procurement, Emerging Technologies, Business Operations, Liz Herbert
- Blog posts 2009-11-09
- Doctor's Office 3.3 (Windows)
- Advanced Management Software for private and public practices which can manage appointments, visits, contacts, billing, tasks and callbacks, drugs and recipes. Connects the office through LAN and can operate remotely by internet. We customize the software with visit templates and on-demand features. Three months free trial, at the end of...
- Tags: Microsoft Office, On-demand, Microsoft Windows, Andrea Sabbatini Sviluppo Software, Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing
- Software downloads 2009-11-09
- On-Demand Webcast: The New World of SharePoint Administration
- Get the insight you need to prepare for SharePoint 2010 in this Quest Software on-demand webcast. Joel Oleson, senior architect and SharePoint expert, takes you inside the life of a SharePoint 2010 administrator to learn about its "new world." Discover how the redesigned central admin, health rules and throttles and...
- Tags: Microsoft SharePoint, Administration, On-demand, Quest Software Inc., Managed Hosting, Content Management, Collaboration, Groupware, Cloud Computing, Enterprise Software, Software
- Webcasts 2009-11-05
- Figuring the value of software
- Phil Wainewright's discussion about the cost of running highly scalable SaaS applications like SuccessFactors comes at the right time. He says: Speaking in the opening keynote of SIIA OnDemand in San Jose this morning, SuccessFactors CEO Lars Dalgaard let slip a statistic that set several...
- Tags: Software, Software-as-a-service, SuccessFactors Inc., SAP AG, Phil Wainewright, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-11-02
- Wordpress picks up college newspapers with CoPress
- CoPress, the brainchild of former University of Oregon editor Daniel Bachhuber, aims to build a vertical of college papers within the CMS market, with managed hosting and training. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Wordpress, Web Hosting, Managed Hosting, It Services, Content Management, Enterprise Software, Internet, Software, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-11-02
- Software-Plus-Services Helps Increase Margins and Deliver Greater Value to Customers
- Outsourcing business Steria wanted to standardise processes and provide clients with a transparent view of performance improvements. It selected business process content management software Control from Nimbus, which initially delivered the software as a service for the pilot client account. After successful testing, it was migrated to systems hosted by...
- Tags: Business Process, Steria, Operational Planning, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Business Operations, Emerging Technologies
- Case studies 2009-11-01
- Developer Boosts Agility, Reduces Costs With Web-Based Supply Chain Management Tools
- GXS was eager to find a cost-effective way to add more detailed, on-demand analytics services to its industry-leading business-to-business e-commerce platform, GXS Trading Grid. The company turned to Microsoft Gold Certified Partner MindTree to help develop a solution based on Windows Azure - a "Cloud" services operating system that provides...
- Tags: B2B E-commerce, Developer, Supply Chain, Web, Analytics, On-demand, Microsoft Corp., SCM, Tool, B2B, Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, E-business/E-Commerce, Internet
- Case studies 2009-11-01
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