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Is there room for Cisco in the online office suite space?
in The CIO Weblog, on July 1, 2009
...ot;thinking about" getting into the online office pool with Google, Microsoft, Zoho, and other SaaS providers. It's probably too much to read into what may have been meant as a throwaway comm...
IBM's confusing cloud strategy
in The CIO Weblog, on June 15, 2009
...tasks. " But a "cloud" with a specific task isn't a cloud, it's just another SaaS offering. That's a fine thing in and of itself, but if that's what IBM is choosing to c...
Apps adoption not so terrible
in The CIO Weblog, on June 5, 2009
...oks pretty good to cash-strapped CIOs (it remains to be seen if Microsoft's own hosted Exchange SaaS product will compete successfully with Google Apps... the product remains more expensive, thoug...
Finally
in The CIO Weblog, on May 19, 2009
I see Gartner is finally getting on board the "Skip Vista" bandwagon, a bit too late to be of much use to any audience which might have made productive use of the analysis, but anyway, you know, welcome.
More surprising is the quote later in the same article from Senior VP for Wi...
Squarespace as a Situational App programming model
in The CIO Weblog, on May 4, 2009
... really need to be. Nonetheless, it's an important trend and it may be, as the component of the SaaS market that it is, a technology which comes to dominate the CIO's interaction with business...
Window 7 coming early, as expected
in The CIO Weblog, on April 30, 2009
It's usually a vendor that spills the beans, and in this case it seems to be Acer that is the culprit. Bobby Watkins of Acer UK is cited in this Pocket-lint story as saying, "23rd October is the date the Windows 7 will be available." The date is well ahead of the official early ...
OnLive: the future of everything?
in The CIO Weblog, on April 27, 2009
...ource intensive business applications have also been assumed to be immune from recent trends toward SaaSification. I've accepted that premise as readily as anyone, but listening to TWiT recently...
To panic, or not to panic
in The CIO Weblog, on April 22, 2009
...s that the implications of this particular attack are cause for a major re-evaluation of the use of SaaS, VoIP, and any software which relies on Internet connections. I think that approach is excessiv...
Celestica receives a supply chain award
in Supplychainer, on April 15, 2009
...ch works with approximately 5,000 suppliers worldwide, has leveraged E2open's multi-enterprise, SaaS-based solution to help synchronize supply and procurement processes across its demand and suppl...
Did Vista jump the shark?
in The CIO Weblog, on April 14, 2009
... picked the worst possible time to blow a Windows version release when they did so with Vista, with SaaS alternatives and a newly reinvigorated Apple breathing down their necks. Could we be seeing alr...
Gmail FavIcon Alerts 3
in Wangtam, on April 10, 2009
...ite For Busy Women
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Socialcast 获收 140 万美元投资
in Wangtam, on April 10, 2009
融资方： Socialcast
投资方： True Ventures 和其他一些天使投资人
涉及金额：140 万美元（第一轮）
The importance of corporate DNA
in The CIO Weblog, on March 30, 2009
... to their success? If it was a significant contribution, then does their failure to commit now to a SaaS-centric approach doom their prospects at dominating the market as it shifts in that direction?
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Cloud computing killed your future
in The CIO Weblog, on March 17, 2009
Derrick Harris, posting on GigaOm yesterday, postulates that the introduction of cloud computing to the IT industry will put a lot of information workers out on the streets in the same way that the automation of manufacturing work in the seventies and eighties lead to the permanent destruction of ...
Oracle launches new SaaS Sourcing solution
in Supplychainer, on March 13, 2009
...e president for EBS supply chain management, in an interview with Manufacturing Executive.
The new SaaS offering also includes extensive technical services and packaged integration with Oracle ERP ap...
The complex reality of end-user application development
in The CIO Weblog, on March 6, 2009
...can be used so poorly as to make this a much more difficult endeavor than he implies. Many PaaS and SaaS tools have excellent collaborative interfaces to such information, but the fact remains that it...
Opmanager online
in The CIO Weblog, on March 2, 2009
...One of my favorite SMB/SME IT operations and support management suites has made the leap to SaaS land: ManageEngine by Adventnet (better known in most circles for their Zoho SaaS platform) is now p...
Further failures cast cloud into question
in The CIO Weblog, on February 24, 2009
...ation logic; it's worthless without the platform. The same is true, to a lesser extent, for any SaaS operation... while the data may be the most important thing, without the application framework ...
Viewing new technologies through old prisms
in The CIO Weblog, on February 19, 2009
...mesharing, you look at desktop PCs, you look at terminal services, you look at laptops, you look at SaaS, you start to see a certain repetition of basic concepts at the delivery level of information t...
SaaS expected to grow through the downturn
in The CIO Weblog, on February 17, 2009
...hing the markets) I refer you to a recent study from IDC forecasting a continued expansion in the SaaS market despite our overall economic woes.
This isn't just good news for SaaS investors and...
A Conversation with Larry Guevel of Unisys
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on January 29, 2009
...rket has noticed this and has moved toward smaller, simpler transactions and software-as-a-service (SaaS) offerings, both of which can lower the overall transactions costs of outsourcing deals.
One ...
SaaS Office suites; last in, first out?
in The CIO Weblog, on January 22, 2009
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IBM has thrown its hat in the SaaS office collaboration suite ring this week with the announcement of the online version of Lotus Notes, Lotus Live (aside: why does that redirect to a secure cha...
慢点走，别着急
in Wangtam, on January 15, 2009
...3rd Party Web Browsers into App Store
• A new Google Sitemap Generator for your website
• 云的传承-SOA+虚拟化+SaaS 云计算容量有多大
• IDC：09年全球SAAS软件服务收入达107亿美元
• Major Ubiquity Update
• Google Lays Off 10...
Future of SaaS in supply chain
in Supplychainer, on January 15, 2009
... Aberdeen just published the result of its recent study on Software as a Service (SaaS) for supply chain management. The report highlights today's quest in the market for cutting supply chain app...
Google's Native Client
in The CIO Weblog, on December 8, 2008
... than simply a page viewer, was a bold stroke toward focusing the industry on better ways to deploy SaaS applications. While the SaaS sector is expanding rapidly of its own volition, fueled by Google ...
Markers fusion plugin for Google Maps
in Wangtam, on December 3, 2008
...许丈夫回家 婚后"分居"
• The Future of SQL in a SaaS world: Announcing Zoho CloudSQL
• 7-Zip Portable 4.62
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Entellium files Chapter 11; Intuit hopes to pick up the pieces
in The CIO Weblog, on December 3, 2008
...anagement of the now indicted CEO and Senior VP might be our first significant example of an active SaaS company going under with a sizeable customer base. What happens with those customers could be o...
Zoho announces SQL API
in The CIO Weblog, on December 2, 2008
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The quiet achiever of the SaaS world, Zoho, has announced a new service called CloudSQL offering direct ODBC/JDBC access to certain cloud-hosted data with common SQL syntax. The service will also ...
Amazon adds content distribution to Web Services options
in The CIO Weblog, on November 18, 2008
...en performance; the Internet is a fickle place and even the most robust solutions for non-web-based SaaS offerings have lagged in responsiveness and usability behind self-hosted alternatives. It's...
Exchange and Sharepoint Online officially released
in The CIO Weblog, on November 17, 2008
...The disparity between the costs and services presented by traditional server based applications and SaaS is verging into mini-computer versus micro-computer (that's PC to you young folks out there...
Dreamforce
in The CIO Weblog, on November 4, 2008
...m your CRM system on your public-facing website), are all second-order efforts in the deployment of SaaS technologies, which aren't being explored in a coherent manner by any other company I am fa...
Microsoft strategy
in The CIO Weblog, on October 30, 2008
...rvices in the Azure announcement has been cleared up by Mary Jo Foley; these represent not simply SaaS hosted applications as I had assumed, but rather service platforms intended as development base...
Keeping Count: The TechCrunch Layoff Tracker
in Wangtam, on October 18, 2008
...ebbr - Yeah, we've got a webb for that
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CAN SaaS pricing drop by half?
in The CIO Weblog, on October 16, 2008
...hat much and remain in business? Margins, we've already heard , are considerably more thin for SaaS companies than traditional boxed software companies. Can they really afford to stay in business...
Amazon S3 forges on
in The CIO Weblog, on October 9, 2008
...idely publicized outages and provoked a significant dither in the blogosphere over the future of SaaS and cloud-based services in general, but none of that has stopped it from undertaking impressiv...
Entellium fallout
in The CIO Weblog, on October 9, 2008
...inevitable reassurances to the contrary) if we were going to see the first significant failure of a SaaS business and the subsequent ghastly fallout among customers who may lose both their software an...
Microsoft's Cloud OS
in The CIO Weblog, on October 6, 2008
...oft and potentially much more palatable to their existing customer base than the brave new world of SaaS. This approach to cloud computing may also find favor with current customers. I have to wonder,...
And you thought you had pilfering problems
in The CIO Weblog, on October 2, 2008
It's a fair bet that whatever issues you may have with employees taking home the odd stick of RAM or spare mouse, it hasn't added up to this saga at the naval Research Laboratory in Washington DC: a single system administrator, over a ten year period, walked off with almost twen...
Waukesha Tool & Stamping signs a contract with Plexus to manage supply chain operations
in Supplychainer, on September 30, 2008
...echnology."
Plexus Online is an on-demand solution that builds on the software as a service (SaaS) model. Plexus Online offers over 350 functional modules, providing companies access to informa...
IT department morale tip #43
in The CIO Weblog, on September 19, 2008
© therapycatguardian
Today is a good day to get out of your office, descend the gilded staircase from your lofty ivory tower where you typically spend your days among the corporate mighty and powerful, and mingle with the unwashed masses of bustling techs in your IT department, talking l...
Windows 7 may be coming early
in The CIO Weblog, on September 16, 2008
... upgrade path for those businesses increases the chances that they will look elsewhere (or that the SaaS market will improve sufficiently in the meantime that they will simply look for the cheapest an...
Vista fallout
in The CIO Weblog, on September 13, 2008
... Microsoft, or for Vista. But consider the impact of this combined with the gradual movement toward SaaS on both the consumer and business fronts. Consider Google's Chrome; might not HP or other v...
What's in it for Zoho?
in The CIO Weblog, on September 8, 2008
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Last month I put up a post regarding the economics of the B2B SaaS market , responding primarily to an interesting post on Zoho's blog regarding the matter.
I have been entirely remiss in p...
Positive changes in Vista licensing scheme
in The CIO Weblog, on September 4, 2008
...th reduce and render more consistent the company's support costs. Web-based applications and SaaS companies are two factors which are making this a reasonable approach; application virtualization ...
More Chrome follow-up
in The CIO Weblog, on September 3, 2008
...r move to adopt it or demand similar features in their standard browser. It's fairly clear that SaaS can be a flexible, cost-effective solution for many businesses, and if the trend toward adoptin...
Oooh, shiny!
in The CIO Weblog, on September 2, 2008
...at move for Google to make right now, and a positive step in the development of true cross-platform SaaS delivery. Browsers today, as many have pointed out, simply weren't designed to be doing the...
Google manning up for August outages
in The CIO Weblog, on August 28, 2008
...e outages were handled on the customer service front.
Following the general pattern for widespread SaaS provider outages, Google has now seen the same light as Salesforce and Amazon before it and pro...
HP seals EDS deal
in The CIO Weblog, on August 27, 2008
...d move but quite possibly a winning one as the enterprise hardware market faces the dual threats of SaaS and cloud based fulfillment (rendering the utilization of server hardware over the breadth of t...
The economics of SaaS
in The CIO Weblog, on August 19, 2008
... to understand the rationale that is driving this market today, shaping the efforts of both upstart SaaS providers like Zoho and established mass-market vendors like Microsoft.
Using available number...
A touch of gray
in The CIO Weblog, on August 12, 2008
Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Quavondo Nguyen
Every silver lining's got a touch of grey
- The Grateful Dead
Yesterday's Gmail outage, affecting both individual and Apps corporate customers, has the blogosphere all abuzz yet again over the unreliability of cloud computing. This co...
Who says SaaS is hard?
in The CIO Weblog, on July 31, 2008
...president of the 9 year old strategic financial planning software vendor, which offers both SaaS and stand-alone versions of its Whitebirch Planning product, says, "Basically what we want ...
Cloud computing: getting what you paid for
in The CIO Weblog, on July 29, 2008
© GreyHobbit
In the wake of last week's outage at Amazon's Simple Storage Service (S3), which left many customers hanging for more than six hours while internal "communications" issues were corrected, it seems of particular importance to clarify what you are paying for when ...
More musings on cloud reliability
in The CIO Weblog, on July 21, 2008
Predictably, yesterday's extended Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) outage has elicited a flurry of Monday morning responses from bloggers and media. The reactions range from the incensed to the accommodating to the practical. I have to admit that my own take, yesterday, was perhaps...
SAP jacks support costs
in The CIO Weblog, on July 18, 2008
...lt of my predilection for the simplicity of such things, I imagine it will help drive businesses to SaaS alternatives. This almost certainly means away from SAP, considering the botched Business ByDes...
非主流 Office 应用横向比较
in Wangtam, on July 18, 2008
InfoWorld 近日公布了一份非主流 Office 应用横向比较的研究报告，其中选取了四种目前免费的 Office 应用套件作为评测、比较的样本，包括 Zoho 、 Google Docs 、IBM 的免费项目 Symphony 以及 OpenOffice.org 。比较结果如上图所示（点击小图可见大图），InfoWorld 对 Google Docs 的评价并不高，反而是 Zoho 与 Symphony 获得了更多的褒奖：
Top Ten Worst Uses for Windows
in Wangtam, on July 14, 2008
...s in Zoho Invoice
• Send SMS for Free via AIM on iPhone ...
Does poor security lead to innovation?
in The CIO Weblog, on July 3, 2008
That's an over-simplification of the argument, of course, as all title lines are, but when you get right down to it, that's the implication of Jonathan Zittrain's concept of "generative systems," the open and unobstructed tools on which he lays the credit for the creation cool ...
The future of eXpresso
in The CIO Weblog, on July 1, 2008
... Excel file sharing, Langan sees eXpresso as the glue which can tie together disparate in-house and SaaS document stores seamlessly, and he doesn't want to poison the well for future corporate cus...
Mainframes FTW on TCO?
in The CIO Weblog, on June 20, 2008
...I don't think I have ever seen a real study done to compare TCO with more common client/server, SaaS, or virtualization solutions. This prompted me to do a search, and it turns out that there are ...
Vista to sink or swim?
in The CIO Weblog, on June 17, 2008
... forced to consider the costs and benefits of such a system just when the attractive alternative of SaaS and cloud computing are coming into their own. In fact, there could not be a worse moment for M...
分析称 Google 将以 105 亿美元收购 Salesforce.com
in Wangtam, on June 3, 2008
有分析师近日指出，为了与微软抗争，Google 必须要把自己做大。因此，以 105 亿美元并购 Salesforce.com 可能只是时间早晚的问题。
为抗衡微软在软件市场的霸主地位、推广 Google Apps， Google 和 Salesforce.com 上个月 14 日宣布，双方将在 Google Apps 应用领域展开合作，Salesforce 将为 Google 提供 Apps 应用和技术支持。
Datacenter in the desert
in The CIO Weblog, on May 27, 2008
...e diligence when picking outsourcing providers of any stripe, be it datacenter, cloud, or plain old SaaS? I think most people would agree with me that the selection shouldn't stop with the sales b...
Enporion completes SAS 70 supply chain audit
in Supplychainer, on May 17, 2008
... related processes. Application services providers (ASPs), as well as software-as-a-service (SaaS) providers, such as Enporion, must demonstrate that they have adequate controls and safeguards ...
The death of open-source (again)
in The CIO Weblog, on May 6, 2008
...be open source software ... he just won't know it. I'm referring here to the cloud or SaaS vendor of your choice, of course, a market in which almost all the major players heavily levera...
The Dawn of the Apple office
in The CIO Weblog, on May 5, 2008
...e so clear-cut, but there's not much question that the combination of Microsoft's problems, SaaS and web-based applications exploding, and the increasing personalization of technology are all ...
More CIO unrest
in The CIO Weblog, on April 30, 2008
...f us realize that the traditional IT department is not quite as much under attack from outsourcing, SaaS, and social networking pressures as various pundits (this pundit included) make it seem, it is ...
Microsoft strategy leaks
in The CIO Weblog, on April 28, 2008
...dominant as Microsoft is on the desktop, it's hard to argue that they hold the same position in SaaS markets. You might read this memo as their effort to leverage their strength from the one marke...
A SaaS of a different color
in The CIO Weblog, on April 24, 2008
...In the mad rush to offer things called "SaaS" to the market, IBM is now offering "Security as a Service" to mid-sized businesses via it's X-Force division. This comes as part...
Mesh with Microsoft
in The CIO Weblog, on April 24, 2008
...his is what is basically cool about the Internet, explains much of the allure of various web-based SaaS enterprises, and maybe even describes the basis of the concept of cloud computing: bits independ...
