March 2006 Archives

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DMNews: OneSource Information Services Inc., a Donnelley Group company of infoUSA, will offer its Account Intelligence product to Salesforce.com customers worldwide on AppExchange, the company said yesterday.Account Intelligence for Salesforce.com is a tool that lets Salesforce.com users access OneSource's business... Read More..

Most of the vendors and customers I talk to,normally get confused by Multi-Tenancy.Some SaaS providers don't explain how a software application is delivered to the customer. Most of the vendors give this answer we are a SaaS Provider, we deliver... Read More..

We are starting a SaaSwebgroup, a network of weblogs that write content about Software as a service. Combined, these blogs can reach a large readership of influential technology and business professionals.If you would like to join SaaSWebgroup please leave a... Read More..

Aberdeen Report: More than 50% of study participants are using or considering using on-demand or software as a service applications to manage portions of their supply chain -- early adopters report "overwhelming benefits" More than 50% of respondents say they... Read More..

Hosted Dynamics CRM at Convergence. http://demo.hostedmscrm.com Source: Satya's blog... Read More..

A news article from PC Magazine via Yahoo news. The software-as-a-service paradigm is expected to take center stage at Microsoft's Convergence conference, kicking off this weekend in Dallas. Listed here is few highlights of this news coverage . Microsoft is... Read More..

Zoho Virtual Office is a web-based, groupware, collaboration software. Online services that includes Email, Documents, Calendar, Tasks, Contacts, Notes, Links, IM and more. Check out all the services from Zoho and please let us know can Zoho be called software... Read More..

Interesting article on open source crm and shared-source crm. The truth is, nobody knows how many deployments there are of open source CRM -- not even the analysts," said Clint Oram, co-founder and general manager of Sugar Online. "They typically... Read More..

Phil Wainewright in his blog post made his 5 predictions for SaaS which is actually a coverage of blog post posted by Dan Farber. Here is our thoughts on his blog post. ZDNet SaaS:"The blogosphere will turn against Google for... Read More..

The iCentera solution places the ability to create unique website portals in the hands of marketing, sales, and service people who own the relationships and have the requirement to communicate with specific individuals and groups. This ability replaces the need... Read More..

Software as a service: The next big thing SaaS at the barricades Some IT managers see SaaS as a godsend, with time-to-market and low maintenance core to the appeal. aItas a CTO no-brainer,a says Jon Williams, CTO of Kaplan Test... Read More..

Nsite a Software-as-a-Service company, provides the most flexible On-Demand Quote, Proposal and Channel Management solution for small and mid-sized businesses. The on-demand applications that Nsite provides can be customized by business users in a few minutes to adapt to each... Read More..

Anyone who is interested in SaaS should attend this webinar replay "How Enterprises can Enable Service Provider Integration". Highlights of this webinar: How to understand how the SMB marketplace can easily and cost-effectively connect popular mid-market applications and those offered... Read More..

ZDNet Blogger Phil Wainewright's update on SaaS Summit A gathering called the SaaS Summit, which took place a couple of weeks ago in Napa Valley, California, gave attendees a chance to explore the differences and discover what it really means... Read More..

Two interesting blog posts from Richard MacManus Embracing and Extending Microsoft: JotSpot's Joe Kraus on the Web Office and JotSpot to release 30-50 pre-packaged wikis in 2006.... Read More..

Joyent offers simple, powerful, web-based software that provides small teams with email, calendars, contacts. This Web based service is built using Ruby on Rails, the interface is simple and clean you just need a javascript enabled browser.For 15 dollars a... Read More..

NetSuite Inc. has launched a suite of hosted business applications designed specifically for software companies .NetSuite-Software Company Edition, the suite includes customer relationship management (CRM) and enterprise resource planning (ERP) capabilities tailored specifically for the software industry. NetSuite was founded... Read More..

Techcrunch made a blog post about (Actually a Coverage made by BusinessWeek)Amazon adding a new and different kind of service: an unlimited data storage service aimed at software developers who are creating new Web sites and services. Ronald Schmelzer, an... Read More..

How about accessing your complete Microsoft Office suite online, In Web 2.0 when everybody is talking about Writely,ThinkFree launched in 2000 "As your office in cyberspace" etablished itself as a next-generation productivity solutions for platform independent, anytime, anywhere-computing. ThinkFree usability... Read More..

David Linthicum's ebizQ blog post had some interesting facts and checklist before you go with a software as a service providers. 7 things to look for in SaaS Ability to deploy rapidly Ability scale Ability to adjust cost with need... Read More..

The hosted CRM vendor has recently announced that they will focus on enabling customers to run "their entire enterprise on The Business Web" according to CEO Marc Benioff. Already a third-party company called iCentera offers portal and content management functionality... Read More..

Elizabeth Montalbano, IDG , Reports Despite hype and venture capital money, the ASP (application service provider) model of the late 1990s failed in spectacular -- and very public -- fashion. But industry leaders and analysts who gathered this week at... Read More..