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Identikey Server 3.1: Strong Authentication Solution for On-Demand Applications and SaaS

Software deployments are shifting from a traditional approach where programs are installed on individual computers towards a web model. With the increased performance, availability, and stability of the current Internet infrastructure, other software deployments have become possible, such as Hosted Applications. Better known as "SaaS" or "On-Demand", these applications reside...

Tags: Software, Software-as-a-service, On-demand Application, VASCO, On-demand, Authentication, Data Security, Software Deployment, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Tools & Techniques, Security, Emerging Technologies, Management

White papers 2009-04-29

Application Delivery Networks: The New Imperative for IT Visibility, Acceleration and Security

Your business depends on one thing: getting the right information to the right people at the right time. To gain a competitive advantage, improve customer service and access more business intelligence, you have to ensure fast and responsive application delivery to users wherever they are. At the same time, you...

Tags: Security, On-demand Application, Network, Information Technology, Business, Blue Coat Systems Inc., Strategy, Server Consolidation, Globalization, Management, Servers, Hardware

White papers 2008-09-19

Solution Provider Uses Virtualization to Cut Costs, Add Flexibility, Boost New Business

Florida-based AcXess is a Microsoft partner whose resilient on-demand application solutions provide a virtual platform to help customers increase business and avoid loss of revenue during emergency situations. For the past several years, many of the organization's customers have begun asking for more scalable, flexible, on-demand solutions. To meet those...

Tags: On-demand Application, On-demand, Microsoft Corp., Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Disaster Recovery, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Data Management, Storage

Case studies 2007-11-01

TechNet Webcast: Why Customers Are Virtualizing Their Applications and How You Can Make a Success of It (Level 300)

Virtualization has a profound impact across the IT environment. Enabling on-demand application delivery through application virtualization increases agility and makes the IT infrastructure more dynamic. This webcast shares recent best practices for large customers. It costs organizations a lot of money and effort to get their applications, upgrades, and patches...

Tags: Application, On-demand Application, Webcast, Microsoft TechNet, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage

Webcasts 2007-10-23

Oracle SaaS Platform: Building On-Demand Applications

The adoption of Software as a Service SaaS or On-Demand presents several technical and business challenges for all players involved - Independent Software Vendors ISVs, hosting services providers and the customers. The technical challenges for SaaS providers include support for multi-tenancy, security, usability and service-level management. Oracle SaaS Platform consisting...

Tags: Software, Software-as-a-service, On-demand Application, Oracle Corp., On-demand, Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies

White papers 2007-06-01

Introduction to the Apex Platform

The Apex platform from salesforce.com is a service that lets companies create, customize, integrate, and share on-demand applications over the Internet - all without needing to purchase or install software. The service is composed of two main parts: the AppExchange directory, an online marketplace for sharing on-demand applications, and the...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., On-demand Application, Sales Force Management, Internet, Sales

White papers 2006-12-06

What makes on demand better

What is it that makes on-demand applications not just different, but better than conventional software? Last week, I wrote that it revolves around a focus on helping customers' businesses run better. But what does that mean in practice? Here are six distinct characteristics of on-demand applications that...

Tags: on-demand

Blog posts 2006-02-13

How to fund on-demand applications

There are three three main ways of funding on-demand applications. Advertising is by far the least effective of the three. It's probably a better option than selling perpetual licences for two bucks a time, but it will rarely produce enough income to fund operation and development of a service that...

Tags: on-demand

Blog posts 2005-11-16

How to get return BEFORE investment

One staple of my slide presentation when I used to address conferences about the application service provider concept back in 2000-2001 was the notion of rBi — return BEFORE investment — as opposed to simply return ON investment rOi at some unspecified point in the future. To me, this was...

Tags: on-demand application, rBi

Blog posts 2005-10-17

Delivering on the Service Proposition: What to Look for When Considering On-Demand Applications

If the ease and economics of Software-as-a-Service SaaS appeal to you, check out this informative white paper from SpringCM. It highlights best practices in SaaS operations and offers guidelines for evaluating providers based on these key criteria: Performance Reliability Availability Information Stewardship Scalability...

Tags: SpringCM, Software-as-a-service, On-demand Application, Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies

White papers

Additional Resources

Note-It 4.6.0.4 (Windows)

Enhanced desktop notes that persist Windows sessions, give you control of the look and feel, allow you to save and open notes, drag text to and from any application, and even e-mail the notes or just a selection of the note. Control the transparency of a note. Also has a...

Tags: Note, Veign, Microsoft Windows, Desktops, E-mail, E-mail Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Online Communications, Enterprise Software

Software downloads 2009-11-07

MacNote3 2.4.0 (Mac)

Features of MacNote3 1. SimplicityThe most important feature of MacNote3 is its simplicity. It can be used in a fairly intuitive way, and there is no need to pay any attention to its file structure, or worry about saving data. New data is saved automatically and in a manner compatible...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Apple iPod, Page, AppleScript, SYW Mac Software, LinkThe User, AppleScriptMacNote3, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development

Software downloads 2009-11-06

Activtrak 2.1.9.1 (Windows)

Activtrak is a powerful employee monitoring software that allows managers to monitor computer use within their company or department. What makes Activtrak unique is its strategy of building statistics based on the caption of the active window, i.e. the title bar. Depending on the application, the caption will contain the...

Tags: Monitoring, Microsoft Windows, Birch Grove Software, Activtrak 2.1.9.1, Activtrak

Software downloads 2009-11-05

DoneEx XCell Compiler 1.9.9 (Windows)

DoneEx XCell Compiler offers very easy and hassle free Microsoft Excel workbook copy protection. You can compile Excel spreadsheet into EXE application with securely hidden formulas in binary format and protected VBA code. With registration/license management feature you can protect your compiled Excel workbook from illegal copying from one computer...

Tags: DoneEx, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office, Productivity, Office Suites, Software

Software downloads 2009-11-05

Photostand 2.1.2 (Windows)

Photostand changes the wallpaper of your PC automatically. It can use pictures on your HDD and web pictures on the Internet. Photostand collects many different kinds of Web wallpapers on the Internet Web Wallpaper servers and enables you to set those images at your PC's desktop. Photostand recommends more than...

Tags: Database, Wallpaper, Microsoft Windows, Nikep Software Lab, Photostand, Pictures, Internet, Storage, Servers, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-11-05

LaTeXiT 2.0.0 (Mac)

LaTeXiT is a small utility that allows you to quickly typeset LaTeX equations, without bothering with file creation, preambles, and so on. The PDF image obtained can then be exported by drag'n drop to any application supporting it. This is very useful to insert equations in presentations made with Keynote...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Adobe PDF, Equation, Pierre Chatelier, LaTeXiT

Software downloads 2009-11-04

Video Capture Master 7.1.0.198 (Windows)

Do you want to grab real-time video or image? Video Capture Master is a useful application that enables you to record video and image from video devices in real time. Video Capture Master is a hot piece of application designed to suit your needs. With it you can effortlessly record...

Tags: Video Capture, Microsoft Windows, Video, Video Capture Master, Corporate Communications, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-11-04

Katakana Writing Challenge for iPhone 1.0 (Mobile)

Katakana Writing Challenge for iPhone application aims to help students of Japanese with their knowledge of Katakana. The beautiful stroke order animations will help students appreciate the artistry of Japanese writing. The application allows for on screen touch writing followed by re-inforcement of learning through individual stroke order animation.

Tags: Apple iPhone, Mobile, Animation, Lemon Sanver, Smart Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-11-04

Aster Data architects application logic with data for speeded-up analytics processing en masse

So it's BitBlt for large scale apps ;)?Remember BitBlt? Kinda did the same thing, except for sprites on a PC.Ah, how all of old stuff becomes new again.

Tags: Financial Planning, analytics

Discussion threads 2009-11-03

JumpBox for Tomcat Java Web Application Deployment 1.1.1 (Mac)

Apache Tomcat is an open source servlet container that implements the Java Servlet and the JavaServer Pages specifications. Like other deployment JumpBoxes, the JumpBox for Tomcat makes it easy to deploy a web application (specifically a java-based web application). Notable features of this JumpBox include: Flexible deployment options: Applications...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Web Application, Backup, Apache Tomcat, JumpBox, Application Servers, Open Source, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software

Software downloads 2009-11-03