September 2006 Archives

WebEx is targeting a significant share of the Indian SaaS pie, by expanding itsA service offerings to different segments. India is slated to be the fastest growing market in Asia Pacific for Software as a Service (SaaS) and is expected... Read More..

"The fact that we situated ourselves between Salesforce and Google was interesting, but ... we didn't use that to go get $20 million in venture capital. We used it to provide a product that delivers real benefit to real customers... Read More..

Like products, it seems concepts are getting version numbers. First there was Web 2.0. Now there is SaaS 2.0.High-tech officials floated the new term here at SaaScon, an event geared to foster discussion on the growing popularity of software-as-a-service (SaaS).... Read More..

On Monday, industry experts at the SaaScon conference in San Francisco estimated that the software as a service (SaaS) market would grow an average of 20 percent per year until at least 2010."This is an industry that is going to... Read More..

With more and more Business Intelligence (BI) vendors going on-demand and offering their applications via either ASP or the SaaS channel, the stakes are getting higher for these vendors to tap into the all important mid-market segment. John Schwarz, CEO,... Read More..

Inspired by the communal wisdom generated on sites like Wikipedia.com, Klir Technologies launched an IT management product Monday intended for system administrators at small and medium businesses. Klir Analytics 3.0 beta allows IT users to publish and share their own... Read More..

One expects a high level of optimism at industry conferences, but the keynote speaker and opening panel discussion at SaaScon in San Francisco went all out. The business-oriented event for software as a service was layered with references to "tectonic... Read More..

Known better for pushing the traditional software sales model out of business, Salesforce.com plans incubation centres in India for software-as-a-service companies, says Harsimran Singh. If you ever happen to bump into any top employee of San Francisco-based CRM software major... Read More..

SaaS requires a fundamentally different approach to provisioning and supporting software. The computing infrastructure must not only be a robust, 24X7 framework, but the software platform needs to provide a high degree of security, data integrity and flexibility to accommodate... Read More..

Qualys(R), Inc., the leading provider of on demand vulnerability management and policy compliance, will be presenting at the upcoming SaaScon(TM), the premier business to business event for the software as a service (SaaS) industry. The event takes place September 25-26,... Read More..

Axentis, the leading provider of on-demand governance, risk and compliance (GRC) management solutions, today announced the success of Engage! 2006, its annual conference designed to give customers, partners and Axentis executives a forum to discuss and share views on critical... Read More..

Packet Island Inc., the leading provider of VoIP lifecycle management solutions for the SME VoIP market today announced that it has received its first round of venture funding from a group of venture capital firms led by Startup Capital... Read More..

New research spells out the costs associated with on-demand implementations versus on-premise for various business sizes. Many arguments about the relative business value of hosted and installed applications come down to the question of which costs more in the long... Read More..

BrightMove releases version 2.3 of its web-based applicant tracking software for the staffing industry. Version 2.3 adds the capability to distribute your job postings to Internet job boards from within your BrightMove dashboard. The BrightMove solution is a 100% web-based... Read More..

Traditional Software Applications May Cost More than Deploying a Software-as-a-Service Model When People Resources Are Taken Into Account The Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) today published a new white paper that takes a comprehensive look at total cost of... Read More..

Inaugural Conference Kicks off Next Week in San FranciscoA IDG World Expo, the leading producer of world-class tradeshows, conferences and events for technology markets, today provided a preview of SaaScon(TM), the premier business to business event for the software as... Read More..

Genius.com Incorporated(TM), the leading on-demand provider of instant customer insight for sales and marketing professionals, today announced the availability of a public beta version of SalesGenius(TM) for the salesforce.com AppExchange. SalesGenius is now fully integrated with Salesforce, making SalesGenius' unique... Read More..

OpSource announced today that it has received $20 million in investment capital, venture leasing, and credit lines, led by Intel Capital, the venture capital arm of Intel Corporation, and others. The company will use the funds to further develop its... Read More..

3Tera, Inc., the innovator of grid and utility computing solutions for online services, today announces the company's vision to enable utility computing for Web applications. Comprised of seasoned industry innovators with a history of developing breakthrough technologies, 3Tera leverages grid... Read More..

Ambient and AppStream Turn to SaaS Experts to Help Them Save Costs and Focus on Core Competencies OpSource, the SaaS experts, announced today that it has added two new customers to its quickly growing roster of Optimal On-Demand users. Ambient... Read More..

A FREE REPORT Utility Computing: Are Buyers from Venus and Vendors from Mars?A The Gap Between Enterprise and Supplier Perceptions and Strategies... By Jeffrey M. Kaplan, THINKstrategies DOWNLOAD FREE REPORT HERE...... Read More..

a Software-as-a-Service Provider and Business Process Consulting Firm Align to Offer Automated Onboarding Solutions a Knowledge Management Systems (KMS) XpressHRTM has been selected by iCIMS for electronic onboarding. iCIMS is a leading Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) provider of Web-based Hiring Management Solutions... Read More..

Most mainstream software vendors are still trying to work out what to do about Software as a Service (SaaS), let alone actively promoting their channel partners to get in on the act, but that is the position now being adopted... Read More..

The On Demand Business Analytics/SaaS model is the wave of the future for small to medium size businesses that do not have large IT budgets and cannot afford to pay the high price of existing in-house analytic reporting tools. A... Read More..

Avotus Corporation, the leading provider of communications expense management (TEM), e-Procurement and Negotiation (eP&N) and Usage Management solutions, today announced the availability of its Software as a Service (SaaS) ICM UM Onlineac Call Accounting solution for Value Added Resellers (VAR).... Read More..

Steve Russell, Asia pacific president and CEO of SaaS based CRM vendor salesforce.com is confident that his company will maintain its leadership position in the hosted CRM software market place, in spite of growing competition from Siebel, now backed by... Read More..

DreamForce 06 Global Gathering: Salesforce.com, User and Developer Conference -San Francisco, California - October 8 - 11, 2006 Register here...... Read More..

By incorporating Software-As-A-Service (SAAS) and web services training into their curriculum, Indian educational institutions can position India to become one of the leading global providers of these services. SAAS will open a whole new business opportunity for Indian companies and... Read More..

Kyliptix Solutions, provider of web-enabled, SaaS-based solutions, announced the release of its KiBS CRM application. KiBS CRM is the first application offered within the Kyliptix Integrated Business Suite (KiBS) designed specifically for small- and mid-sized business. More here...... Read More..

aSign up to cyn.ina, says Cynapse, to build all your information online and get your organization centrally connected. cyn.in (pronounced "sign-in") is a web based service that enables the enterprise to build, collaborate, manage and publish: knowledge, documents, media and... Read More..

David DameA is a Partner at Key Venture Partners, a venture capital firm that leads expansion-stage funding rounds in revenue-generating software, communications, and IT-enabled services companies. He focuses on software infrastructure and applications and can be reached at dgd@keyvp.com. Software... Read More..

Next week at its CRM Summit, Gartner will release statistics suggesting that in certain implementations, the Software as a Service model is not as cost-effective -- or even effective -- as earlier projections and experiences have led some companies to... Read More..

The largest and most successful Software as a Service (SaaS) providers have all chosen free open source operating systems such as Linux or FreeBSD as their primary platforms for serving their high performance Web sites. These companies absolutely cannot afford... Read More..

The GravityZoo Company announced today that CEO Marc Vrijhof will present at the 17th European Technology Roundtable Exhibition (ETRE) 2006. The conference will be held in Barcelona, Spain, on October 8-11. The GravityZoo CompanyA is a pioneering innovator of Software... Read More..

Will a shake-up in the market occur when Sage launches the online accounting version of Line 50? More here...... Read More..