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Severa â€" PSA/PPM discussion with Zaki Usman

The battle for low-cost, SaaS-based PSA/PPM is heating up Severa, a PSA/PPM (professional services automation/project portfolio management) vendor, has recently launched their newest product line: Severa 3. This is a Web 2.0, SaaS software as a service solution targeted for many professional services firms. The...

Tags: Software-as-a-service, Professional Services, QuickArrow, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-06-01

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News to know: Amazon-Zappos; eBay earnings; Windows server; AMD; Plastic Logic Reader; Apple-AT&T

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: A good fit: Amazon gobbles up Zappos Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: Don't Forget to Turn Out the Lights,...

Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Plastic Logic, Microsoft Windows Server, Server, Matthew Miller, Earnings, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., eBay Inc., Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Corporate Communications, Team Management, E-books, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing, Management, Personal Technology, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-07-23

Wedding Bells: NetSuite + OpenAir + QuickArrow

When PSA and SaaS Got BIG! Today, NetSuite announced it is buying QuickArrow, an Austin, Texas based PSA professional services automation vendor. This $20 million deal will put QuickArrow with OpenAir, another PSA solution that NetSuite acquired a little over a year ago. Click here for the...

Tags: Software-as-a-service, NetSuite Inc., OpenAir Inc., ERP, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Emerging Technologies, Enterprise Software, Software, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-07-22

News to know: Oracle-Sun, IBM, Apple ads, Windows 7

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily.  For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Complete coverage of Oracle-Sun news: Larry Dignan: Oracle buys Sun; Now owns Java; Becomes a hardware player ...

Tags: Larry Dignan, Advertisement, Oracle Corp., Microsoft Windows 7, Sun Microsystems Inc., Apple Inc., IBM Corp., Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Microsoft Windows, Open Source, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-04-21

QuickArrow taking PSA to the small business market

A solution tailored for its users I spoke recently with QuickArrow’s CEO Kevin Bury and learned a fair bit about their firm’s newest product line: QuickArrow Small Business Edition. The company actually took the time to study this market segment in detail before...

Tags: Product Line, Small Business, Small Business Edition, Software As A Service (SaaS), Emerging Technologies, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-04-20

Product update - Compuware’s Changepoint 2009

No Functionality Cutbacks for 2009 unlike client spending Lately, I’ve written a lot about several PSA professional services automation and PPM project portfolio management vendors. While I’ve discussed a number of vendors like OpenAir, CA Clarity, QuickArrow and Oracle nee Primavera nee Evolve, I haven’t discussed one...

Tags: Changepoint Corp., Compuware Corp., PSA/PPM, Portals, Financial Accounting, Software As A Service (SaaS), Web Technology, Strategy, Internet, Finance, Emerging Technologies, Management, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2008-12-18

SaaS competition in PPM and GRC heats up

More SaaS movement from a major software vendor CA yesterday announced the availability of two software as a service SaaS solutions. One is targeted for the IT management space while the other is oriented around governance. CA is taking its on-premise enterprise...

Tags: Software, Software-as-a-service, Solution, Information Technology, On-demand, Computer Associates International Inc., PPM, GRC, Virtualization Technology, PPM Solution, Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Tools & Techniques, Emerging Technologies, Management, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2008-11-17

Book review: The Rise of the Project Workforce

More than this book, does your services group have compelling IP? At a recent PSVillage event, a senior executive of Tenrox gave me a copy of Rudolf Melik’s book “The Rise of the Project Workforceâ€� (Wiley ISBN 978-0-470-12430-7). Rudolf is a co-founder of Tenrox â€" a PSA...

Tags: Tenrox, Service, Workforce, Rudolf, PSA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Tools & Techniques, Intellectual Property, Leadership, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Research & Development, Business Operations, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2008-10-27

Renaissance in Portfolio Management & GRC?

Why Oracle Bought Primavera Now ? (Note: I actually prepared this post 24 hours before the Oracle - Primavera announcement. Now, it seems a bit obvious.) A few months ago, businesses had access to vast amounts of inexpensive capital. With lots of exceptionally low cost...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Initiative, Project Portfolio Management, Primavera, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Productivity, It Operations, It service Management, Management, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2008-10-08

Where salesforce.com's sale automation leaves off, OpenAir picks up automation of the resulting project

Where salesforce.com's sale automation leaves off, OpenAir picks up automation of the resulting projectWe use Projity's Project-ON-Demand with SalesforceMy company tried both OpenAir and QuickArrow. They really are not Project Mangement applications. We got screwed when we opened our Microsoft Project files in their system and it totally messed up...

Tags: Sales force management, Real estate, Tools & Techniques, Salesforce.com Inc., OpenAir Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-01-30