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Ten years is two lifetimes for an operating system

in The CIO Weblog, on November 21, 2009

... there. It happens that Google currently has the most incentive to fill that gap and Chrome OS has more to do with that fact than some benighted goal of unseating Microsoft or dominating enterprise c... ...unseating Microsoft or dominating enterprise computing; Google benefits when people use the web. SaaS adoption pushes people online and money into Google's coffers. And SaaS adoption is already ...

SmartTurm partners with cloud computing company to offer advanced inventory management solution

in Supplychainer, on November 20, 2009

...any location within the warehouse SmartTurn and NetSuite are delivered as software as a service (SaaS) and have gained wide adoption by delivering ease-to-use, innovative applications via the Web. ...

StarCraft II Expansions, Diablo III Coming in "Next Few Years"

in Wangtam, on 2009-11-14

...nd Legal Help! - lawbidding • Playdar - Music Content Resolver ...

Get your game on, CIOs

in The CIO Weblog, on November 13, 2009

...McKinsey says it's "Time to raise the CIO's game" and I couldn't agree more. Don't get me wrong, I am as hesitant as ever to jump on the "this changes everything" bandwagon. I didn't buy into the ... ...ivery capacity of traditional in-house services, based on their own experiences with consumer SaaS-driven solutions. If your budget allocation should suddenly skyrocket tomorrow, those pressures aren...

Gartner Says Worldwide SaaS Revenue to Grow 18 Percent in 2009

in Wangtam, on 2009-11-13

...• Gartner Says Worldwide SaaS Revenue to Grow 18 Percent in 2009 • Online Ads Are Booming, if They're Attached to a Video • Natal launch details leak from secret Microsoft tour • Intego Secu...

Google wave : le prochain raz-de-marée de Google ?

in Business Computer Blog (FR), on novembre 13, 2009

...de plateforme SaaS intégrée qui ne dit pas son nom. Pour le savoir, rendez-vous au lancement de Google Wave , enfin un peu après, le temps de voir comment la communauté des internautes s'est adjugée ...

Exchange 2010 now available

in The CIO Weblog, on November 9, 2009

...loud services, the history the longest, and the robustness the greatest. If there is a place where SaaS is tipping into the mainstream, hosted e-mail may be it. And Exchange isn't simply popular bec...

Does Google need a dashboard for businesses?

in The CIO Weblog, on November 6, 2009

...he security budget that Google or other top-tier providers can amass. It seems that the problem is more one of perception than reality, and if this is indeed the case, then a tool of this sort could ... ... comes up as one of the top concerns companies have when considering the implementation of cloud or SaaS computing efforts, anything that promises to put large amounts of company data outside the imme...

Firefox 3.6 Beta 1

in Wangtam, on 2009-11-01

...ities • Recurring Billing, Subscription Billing, Web 2.0 and SaaS Billing - Chargify • Socialwok • Udorse | Your Pictures, Your Power • Just8It • Getting Things Done GTD software, task ...

Cisco 1.83 亿美元收购 ScanSafe

in Wangtam, on 2009-10-29

... Cisco 宣布 它计划用 1.83 亿美元收购为大型企业和中小企业提供SaaS(软件即服务)Web安全服务的私营企业 ScanSafe 。 收购 ScanSafe 与 Cisco 在 2007 年收购的现场 Web 安全设备厂商 IronPort 有密切的关系。通过这两层收购, Cisco 将拥有基于 SaaS 的和基于现场的两类 Web 安全产品。 Cisco 称,它预...

faire le ménage dans son PC

in Business Computer Blog (FR), on octobre 27, 2009

...tesse et réactivité sont souvent les maîtres-mots du succès. Si vous travaillez en SaaS avec une contrat de maintenance à une entreprise, documents et logiciels sont stockés sur un serveur distant don...

Dell et salesforce, une équipe qui gagne !

in Business Computer Blog (FR), on octobre 21, 2009

...nd public, Salesforce est l'un des pionniers du Cloud computing et du Saas (Software as a service), qu'il a délibérément tourné vers les professionnels et en particulier les PME. Dans les deux cas i...

BroadSoft to Acquire Packet Island

in The VoIP Weblog, on October 15, 2009

...le at VoIP Planet looking at BroadSoft 's planned acquisition of Packet Island , a provider of SaaS-based QoS monitoring tools for VoIP and video networks and services. "BroadSoft is comm...

les solutions Dell pour collaborer en entreprise

in Business Computer Blog (FR), on octobre 14, 2009

... professionnels comme salesforce. Le Saas (software as a service) permet de ne payer que l'utilisation de ces logiciels sans devoir les acheter, les installer, les mettre à jour, et autres tâches fast...

IBM versus who?

in The CIO Weblog, on October 6, 2009

...seem to be tremendously threatening to anyone as the pace of these Internet based offerings becomes more and more rapid. At any rate, it's not about the service itself, which IBM claims already ho... ...r both! Who can say? I think the real news is that if you like Notes and you are a fan of scalable SaaS solutions, there is finally a well-supported hosted Notes solution at a reasonable price ($3 pe...

Seen that? - Simplicity in consulting

in Tech Intelligence, on October 2, 2009

...tegrate seamlessly with the current environment. So I went into detail. By that time, I [...] Read More Tech Intelligence - Introduction at Tech Intelligence ... ...ta center design and operations support. Coming on the heels of last month's expansion of their SaaS offerings, one imagines that before long you will simply be able to turn your keys over to HP a...

Microsoft Windows Mobile 7 coming in 2010

in Wangtam, on 2009-09-20

... Catalog Sept. 24 ...

Web OS shaping the future

in The CIO Weblog, on September 9, 2009

...sing and connectivity and draws them together as pieces of a larger whole. There is no cloud versus SaaS versus PaaS; there is a spectrum of information processing and distribution functions which rel...

Externaliser l'informatique d'une PME? Le point sur le Saas.

in Business Computer Blog (FR), on août 12, 2009

... à se voir externalisée et déléguée à une entreprise spécialisée. Le Saas (Software as a service) vient pousser encore d'un cran l'externalisation informatique. En effet, si vous recourrez à ...

VoIP entdeckt SaaS

in Das VOIP Weblog, on 08.08.09

... © rudolf_schuba Beginnen wir mit einer Begriffserklärung. Hinter der Abkürzung SaaS verbirgt sich Software as a Service und dies ist laut Wikipedia ein Software-Distributions-Modell, respekt...

Firefox Billion Downloads campaign

in Wangtam, on 2009-08-03

...ntentious • 最新研究发现人类可能起源于湖泊 • MySpace Launches MySpace Graveyard • eMarketer:用户为何使用 Twitter ...

Amazon shows us the future

in The CIO Weblog, on July 22, 2009

...mazon's disastrous decision to remove legitimately purchased (although illegitimately provided; more on that in a bit) e-books from Kindle devices of users. Adding fuel to what was already an expl...

F-Secure Buys Steek

in On Storage, on July 17, 2009

...ts ability to sell Software as a Service (SaaS) technology packages through operators..." More here from SC Magazine ... and the press release is here . ... ...SingTel ), a factor which F-Secure hopes will increase its ability to sell Software as a Service (SaaS) technology packages through operators..." More here from SC Magazine ... and the press...

Is there room for Cisco in the online office suite space?

in The CIO Weblog, on July 1, 2009

...ng its hat in the ring or just keeping the options open for future moves in that direction. But the more I think about it, the more I think Cisco may be ideally suited (at least in some respects) to l... ...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

...e for the buzz value. As with most things related to IBM, though, I've come to believe it's more complicated than that. I think the big clue to the confusion the company exhibits when it come... ...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

...cent assertions that "the Cloud isn't enterprise-ready" or "cloud adoption is more theoretical than real right now" it turns out that the people who actually have the data ... ...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

... 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 Windows Bill Veghte: If ...

Squarespace as a Situational App programming model

in The CIO Weblog, on May 4, 2009

... be going down a path already well-explored by Jonathan Sapir, who wrote on this same topic (with a more informed perspective) back in February. ... ... 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

...nded support thus far, the logic might go, and are almost certain to be relying on it for a year or more even after 7 is released (as that is the span of time typically exercised between release and m...

Zoho Mobile

in Wangtam, on 2009-04-29

名称: Zoho Mobile 简介:Zoho 的手机移动应用

OnLive: the future of everything?

in The CIO Weblog, on April 26, 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

...Hills, many with much worse effects than the actual Morgan Hill. Major power outages have disrupted more services, for a longer period, over far larger areas. The September 11th attacks had similar ef... ...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 16, 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

... predicted? Time will tell. But it's going to be a doubly hard sell to deploy 7 the longer and more successfully businesses continue to operate on XP and experiment with web-based alternatives wh... ... 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 2009-04-11

...ite For Busy Women • Sonhoz - SAAS platform • GoView.com - Screen Recordings Made Easy • FileFollow.com - Make Money By Sharing Links • 江民易乐携手,杀毒U盘重现江湖 • YouTube in Music Video Deal With Uni...

Socialcast 获收 140 万美元投资

in Wangtam, on 2009-04-11

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

... computer on every desk and in every home, running Microsoft software") while their larger and more powerful competitors tried their own versions of "Software+Services" to keep their ex... ... 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? ...

Cloud computing killed your future

in The CIO Weblog, on March 17, 2009

...effect of simplifying the application of technology, and often to a level where it can be discussed more at the level of business process than raw technology. In these cases, more so than ever in the ...

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

... common outside IT departments): A fundamental reality of business is that data evolves and grows more valuable over time and subjecting 'early' data/ideas to most IT processes stifles the i... ...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

...expected to survive, but the customers are going to be out on the street as of April 30. This is a more troublesome development, because it represents one of the first PaaS implosions to encompass th... ...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

...rs and the financial data that they provide. Mr. Guevel suggested that potential clients need to do more due diligence on their prospective providers. Also, he suggested that companies consider multis... ...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

...offering late in the game enough to make a substantial dent in the market? Or does IBM really care? More after the jump. ... ... 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 2009-01-16

...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

...g supply chain application cost as much as possible. One of the areas the companies are looking for more than ever is the area of application maintenance and upgrade. Aberdeen has found out (as... ... 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

...could itself improve this state of affairs, and it doesn't even have to be Chrome; Chrome seems more a concept vehicle, designed at least in part to push other browser makers to incorporate better... ... 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 2008-12-04

...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 • Nokia World 2008: Keynote Summary • freckle: time tracking rethought • MySpace he...

Entellium files Chapter 11; Intuit hopes to pick up the pieces

in The CIO Weblog, on December 3, 2008

...t down and dismantle the technology for its own purposes. Come to think of it, Pownce probably had more subscribers than the 700 remaining with Entellium. Pownce users have been provided with relativ... ...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

...om custom or third-party software, but Zoho in particular seems to be staking out a "we're more open than you are" place in the market. Their emphasis on providing technologies such as C... ... 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 a...

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

...ears now using third-party hosted Exchange services, but there are no doubt many CIOs who will feel more comfortable with Microsoft hosting its own product than a smaller third-party doing so. The Sh... ...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

...oach. The broad range of services integration from other providers, including Google's Apps and more recently Facebook and Amazon Web Services, the Force.com third-party development tools, and new... ...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

...ment bases); Hyper-V is another, and the various virtualized and Live Office applications are still more. These all fit into the four prong approach outlined by COO Kevin Turner at the recent Get Li... ...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 2008-10-19

...ebbr - Yeah, we've got a webb for that • What Happens to Our Social Profiles After We Die? • FirstEntrant.com • F1决定统一引擎动力传送系统供应商应对财政危机 • Hotel Booking Made Simple • Mahalo Follow Toolba...

CAN SaaS pricing drop by half?

in The CIO Weblog, on October 16, 2008

...rop in price that 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 st... ...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

...hing over 500TB. If the storage rate was a good deal for you before, you've got to love it even more now. Amazon's Web Services blog has details on both the growth and the new pricing struc... ...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

...is was the first of many economically driven SaaS business failures. It turns out it was something more sinister. Johnston and Jones are looking at federal wire fraud charges from the wrong side of ... ...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

...is month's PDC (Professional Developer's Conference) in LA, I've been poking around for more hints on exactly what that is and how it will fit into the existing broad range of services off... ...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 October 1, 2008

... all aspects of its operations, integrate its business data from multiple locations, and facilitate more sophisticated and complex financial reporting. Plexus Systems will maintain Waukesha Tool &... ...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

...end of the tunnel to cling to, and the whole prospect of avoiding Vista entirely would be that much more realistic. But Microsoft has to understand at this point that many companies are considering t... ... 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

...build a special-purpose, streamlined browser as well as a media player or photo application? And if more and more of what people need can be found on the Web, and the tools they are provided with to a... ... 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

... 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

...wn equipment, centered around a base stipend from the business, which can both reduce and render more consistent the company's support costs. Web-based applications and SaaS companies are two fact... ...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

... will start being tailored to supporting those. For years we have been buying faster computers with more RAM to accommodate the burgeoning requirements of Microsoft Office and other heavy-duty client-... ...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

...s veer from what, another browser? to this is the coolest thing in the history of the world. More measured analysis comes from Larry Dignan at ZDNet, who basically tells CxOs not to get their ... ...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...