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- USinternetworking Automates Provisioning Processes
- Founded in 1998, USinternetworking, Inc. USi specializes in managed enterprise and eBusiness solutions and on-demand services for Fortune 1000 companies. USi wanted to enhance value and security of services while driving down the costs of managing technology for clients. The challenge was to centralize user management, single sign-on, and provisioning...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Provisioning, SOA, USinternetworking Inc., USi, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software
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- AT&T joins the cloud computing game
- AT&T said Tuesday that it will offer cloud computing services via a new service dubbed AT&T Synaptic Hosting. The telecom giant described Synaptic as a "next-generation utility computing service with managed networking, security and storage for businesses." That's a fancy way to say AT&T is offering a...
- Tags: Game, AT&T Corp., Cloud Computing Service, Cloud Computing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-05
- Nine places where SOA is making a difference, right now
- What kind of a year was 2007 for SOA? Yes, there was plenty of disgust and eye-rolling at all the hype around this still-emerging concept. But at the same time, we started seeing more and more examples of companies putting the methodologies and associated tools and platforms to innovative uses....
- Tags: Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc., Comcast Corp., SOA, Portal, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2007-12-17
- Financing SaaS ventures
- The pay-as-you-go business model of on-demand software makes it more difficult for up-and-coming vendors to reach break-even point than with conventional licensed software. Instead of signing a handful of customers to get enough money in the bank to start covering its overheads, an on-demand vendor needs to sign up dozens...
- Tags: Business models, Venture capital
- Blog posts 2007-05-24
- Informatica puts integration on demand
- Want to work with your Salesforce.com data in Oracle or SQL Server? No time to build your own custom integration? From today, you can use Informatica On Demand, a hosted service from the enterprise data integration vendor. Im highlighting this new service because it breaks decisively with the tradition that...
- Tags: Integration
- Blog posts 2007-03-08
- SaaS stories you may have missed in 2006
- The most popular posts on this blog are usually the ones that mention Google, Microsoft or Salesforce.com (see below for the years top 10). Its a fact of life that people prefer to read about companies, products and individuals that theyve already heard of. But its equally true that some...
- Tags: Saas, basics, Google, Salesforce.com, Companies, Microsoft
- Blog posts 2006-12-28
- AT&T buys poster child of ASP boom years
- USinternetworking, which lit the fuse on the ASP boom when it stormed to a 173% gain and a $2.9 billion valuation on the first day of its NASDAQ IPO in April 1999, was acquired yesterday by AT&T for $300 million. Back in 1999, Annapolis, MD-based USi was the...
- Tags: USi, Microsoft ASP
- Blog posts 2006-09-13
- Success-based SaaS
- The failure to understand the operational challenges associated with Software as a Service SaaS helps to explain why the first wave of SaaS vendors crashed and burned a few years ago. Back then, such vendors called themselves application service providers ASP. So what's different this time? I'm persuaded that...
- Tags: OpSource, software, software-as-a-service
- Blog posts 2005-09-21
- Ssh! ASPs are back, but don't tell anyone ...
- There was a lot of speculation back in 1999/2000 about how the Internet was going to obsolete shrinkwrapped application software. Software vendors were going to become application service providers — ASPs — delivering their wares over the Internet for a monthly fee, and everyone was going to be a winner....
- Tags: Scripting languages, Web hosting, SSH, Microsoft ASP, Internet, ASP-model, software, Oracle Corp.
- Blog posts 2005-08-21
- On-demand CRM from SAP? Ho hum
- Phil Wainewright is the influential commentator and strategist responsible for Loosely Coupled, a specialist website covering enterprise adoption of web services and business process automation. In the next few days, Phil will start sharing his insights on emerging software industry trends in his new ZDNet blog -- Software as services....
- Tags: SAP AG, on-demand
- Blog posts 2005-08-16
- On-demand CRM from SAP? Ho hum
- So SAP has finally decided to launch an on-demand CRM product, due out in the fall. Ho hum. Darc Dencker-Rasmussen, the company's global vice president of CRM, says "its on-demand applications will address the shortcomings it sees in existing products, namely a general lack of sophistication and the inability to...
- Tags: SAP AG, on-demand
- Blog posts 2005-08-15
- USi Drives Integration and Strengthens Security With Oracle Fusion Middleware
- As a premier provider of hosted and on-demand software solutions for Fortune 1000 companies, USinternetworking, Inc. USi must consistently enhance the value and security of its services while driving down the cost of managing technology internally and for its clients. Using several components of Oracle Fusion Middleware, including Oracle Access...
- Tags: Security, Oracle Corp., Integration, USi, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Middleware, Enterprise Software, Web Services, Software
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- Hershey Direct Experiences Sweet Success on the Internet Using the Microsoft Platform
- Hershey Direct wanted to extend its traditional catalog business to the Internet, and needed a partner and platform that would enable the development of a full-featured e-commerce site. By selecting USinternetworking to develop and host its solution on the Microsoft platform, Hershey Direct was able to deploy its new site...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., E-business, Internet, Web Technology, E-business/E-Commerce, Enterprise Software, Software
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