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

...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

...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

...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

... 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

... 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

...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

名称： Zoho Mobile 简介：Zoho 的手机移动应用

OnLive: the future of everything?

...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

...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

...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?

... 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...

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Socialcast 获收 140 万美元投资

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

... 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

...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

...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

..., 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

...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

...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

...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

...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

...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?

...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

...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

...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

...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

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

...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

...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 also ...

Amazon adds content distribution to Web Services options

...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

...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

...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

...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

...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?

...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

...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

...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

...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

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

... 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

© 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

...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

...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?

... 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

...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

... 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!

...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...

Google manning up for August outages

...e is out, Google promises in the future to provide a 48-hour post-mortem on the incident to provide more transparency on both the root cause and their steps to resolve it, and to make themselves avail... ...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

...'s purchase of competitor Compaq, the EDS deal positions the company as a significant threat to more traditionally focused hardware and services firms, IBM being the most notable. HPs gamble is th... ...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

..., either (and you'll notice that Vembu doesn't include Zoho's numbers in his analysis). More interesting, although a topic for another time, is the relatively, almost shockingly, low margi... ... 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

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?

...te environments. System transitions have always been expensive propositions, and they are becoming moreso as the underlying data and processing environments have become more complex. It was quite a jo... ...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

...ek'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 part...

More musings on cloud reliability

... the accommodating to the practical. I have to admit that my own take, yesterday, was perhaps more overblown than I would have preferred it to be as I survey it in the cold, clear light of morni...

SAP jacks support costs

...nsitioning all customers to the Enterprise Support offering." Of course, Enterprise support is more expensive than Standard or Premium support, which are being phased out, so the effect for many ... ...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

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

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Does poor security lead to innovation?

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

...angan doesn't see Zoho, Google Apps, or Microsoft Live as competition... instead, they are just more disparate standards which eXpresso can translate between. With the coming expansion into other ... ... 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?

... industry as a whole, that 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 i... ...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?

...n with XP until 7 is out, or until they transition to another platform, they will be the exception. More, however, are at a point where they cannot break out of the cycle currently, but are having the... ... 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

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

...at is likely, or possible. I tend to be particularly suspicious of this sort of thing when it comes more or less out of the blue, from some company which doesn't already have a significant track r... ...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

... 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)

...ommercial software. Someone is sure to point out, for example, that critiquing a new OSS project is more or less the same as griping about beta-quality commercial software... open-source just doesn... ...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

...h their work faster and with fewer hurdles than punchcards and paper tape. IT came around to the PC more gradually in many cases; embodying an odd mixture of adventurism and conservatism then as now, ... ...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

...nifested in practical terms only as some vague, statistically questionable reverses in status (say, more CIOs going back down the ladder to report up to the CFO than directly to the CEO), the fact is ... ...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

...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 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

...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...