June 2006 Archives

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 29, 2006--Technology acquirers (including telecommunications and Internet-sector companies) spent nearly a quarter-trillion dollars on acquisitions in the first half of 2006, setting what is a four-year spending high. These findings were reported by The 451 Group, an... Read More..

As Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) rapidly gains mainstream interest and adoption, various SaaS providers are repositioning themselves to expand their sphere of influence in the market by morphing their core products into integration and development platforms. Just as the SaaS movement has... Read More..

When salesforce.com roared onto the application scene in 1999, the model for delivering/licensing CRM applications changed dramatically.A Although subscription pricing and hosted applications existed in other application segments, most notably HCM, salesforce.com became the poster child for the new software... Read More..

With software-as-a-service (SaaS) and on-demand delivery models gaining a lot of attention, we wanted to assess any preferences customers might have in procuring software for business intelligence (BI) and performance management (PM) products. As part of our annual performance management... Read More..

CRM and call-centre firm Kana Software is building up its software-as-a-service capabilities to challenge the likes of RightNow Technologies. Kana, a one-time darling of the dot-coms, began piloting a service with some customers earlier this year and plans a full... Read More..

Software-as-a-service applications from Google, Yahoo, and Salesforce.com are driving change in architecture, appearance and business model of enterprise applications, turning the sector from a niche into a multi-billion dollar market. But the business model isn't without its challenges. Calling the... Read More..

Software-as-a-service (SaaS) is gaining ground among small businesses (SB:1-99 employees) and medium businesses (MB:100-999 employees) in Japan. Total spending on the hosted applications among Japan SMBs will increase from $112 million in 2005 to $138 million in 2006, up by... Read More..

Via PRNewsWire: B&L Associates, Inc., a leader in data center operation support software, today announced the release of VaultLedger(TM) OnDemand, a remote hosting option for VaultLedger tape management software. VaultLedger helps manage all the removable media in an enterprise including... Read More..

BRIDGEWERX, a specialist in application integration, announced the availability of the next generation SaaS-delivered (Software as a Service) SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) and integration solution, providing a complete integration stack delivered as a subscription service over the Internet. BRIDGEWERX is... Read More..

JBoss, which is now the middleware division of Red Hat, has announced it is extending its certification program to software as a service (SaaS) providers. The Certified SaaS Program is designed to support companies that develop and deliver their products... Read More..

Via Techtarget:Microsoft managers described the company's' plans for delivering software as services, at the kickoff keynote to its yearly TechEd technical forum in Boston. Chief Technical Officer Ray Ozzie said a major era of technology change was ahead, one that... Read More..

EmployeaseA(R), a specialist in employee information management, today announced the availability of a flexible Web services offering called Employease Extend. ADVERTISEMENT Built using open standards and a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Employease Extend enables customers and partners to connect and integrate... Read More..

Click Commerce, Inc. (Nasdaq:CKCM), a leading provider of on-demand supply chain management solutions, announced that Covad, a leading national provider of integrated voice and data communications, has upgraded its demand chain management solution and will move to a Software as... Read More..

Software as a service" is a term for Web-based, hosted software--which can reduce ownership costs, implementation risks and IT resource needs.Kinaxis of Ottawa, Canada, delivers its RapidResponse management solution using this hosted-software model, and it is working with IBM's Global... Read More..

Google's new, web-based Spreadsheet is being viewed as a major challenge to Microsoft's Excel and the dominance of its Office suite. From my perspective, it is also a significant endorsement and will be another catalyst in the movement toward Software-as-a-Service... Read More..

Hosted by Dale Kutnick, Gartner Sr. Vice President and Former CEO of META Guest: Michael Maoz, VP & Gartner Fellow Listen here... Read More..

Column2 Blog: Lots of interesting things swirling around about SaaS lately, including the relationship to shared services within an organization. James Governer posted about the convergence of shared services and business process outsourcing, but I have a bit of a... Read More..

Jeff Kaplan: Since my last blog entry correctly predicted the pace of merger and acquisition activity in the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) was primed to accelerate just three days before RightNow acquired SalesNet, I figure I'd test my prognostication skills again by... Read More..