October 2006 Archives

Early-Stage SaaS Companies Selected The Software & Information Industry Association, the principal trade association for the software and content industries, today announced the selection of twelve young Software as a Service companies as presenters during its OnDemand Conference, November 8-9... Read More..

Get it the way you want it The (generally speaking uncustomisable) user interface of online business services is the last significant stumbling block they have had to face. This has meant that users of services such as those from Software... Read More..

Etelos, a provider of open source SaaS business solutions, has teamed with 3Tera Inc. to enable Etelos' customers to utilize the latest in scalability technologies to easily increase computing power and manage Web applications on demand. Companies running an Etelos... Read More..

As SaaS picks up steam, more resources are coming online to help with the transition to on-demand delivery. Lots of businesses are starting to examine whether the emerging Software as a Service (SaaS) model will work for them. If you're... Read More..

In step with the brisk market for messaging gateway products, e-mail security and antispam vendor Declude on Monday launched a hosted version of its offerings. Called Mailprotector, the software-as-a-service (SaaS) offering enables solution providers to resell Declude's antispam, antivirus and... Read More..

NetSuite, Inc., the leader in on-demand business software suites,A announced last Thursday, the 19th, the keynote speakers for NetSuite Revolution 2006, NetSuite's partner conference to be held October 25-27 at the Argent Hotel in San Francisco. NetSuite CEO Zach Nelson... Read More..

Australian outsourced provider of learning and development services BizEd Services has signed a three-year Software as a Service (SaaS) agreement for Hostworks to deliver Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft Office applications to its staff throughout Australia and New Zealand. The Hostworks... Read More..

QuickArrow, Inc., the Software as a Service (SaaS) leader in Professional Services Automation (PSA), announced today that third quarter revenue for 2006 was 42% greater than the same period in 2005, marking 12 consecutive quarters of revenue growth. QuickArrow, Inc.,... Read More..

Solution Lets Customers Manage the Entire Content Lifecycle as Part of the New WebEx Business Application 'Mashup' Platform. A SpringCM and WebEx, the leading provider of software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications for collaborative business on the web, today announced that the SpringCM... Read More..

Autotask, makers of a business management platform for IT service providers, keeps users engaged with its product and on the edge of their seats by pushing out monthly updates of its software, according to users.A In April the company introduced... Read More..

OKERE, a management and technology consulting firm for on-demand business applications, today announced it has joined Informaticaas (NASDAQ: INFA) Service Provider Partner Program. With the alliance, OKERE is investing in the expansion of its software-as-a-service (SaaS) consulting practice to offer... Read More..

A complete online lending solution is now available at a very competitive price. Vuecentric Inc., developer of MortgageDashboard, the industryas leading mortgage loan origination system provided under the Software as a Service (SaaS) model, has launched a new campaign targeted... Read More..

'LAVA On Demand' First On-Demand BI Offering Available as Both Hosted and Managed Service, Reducing Cost and Complexity of BI... Celequest, the leading provider of operational business intelligence (BI), today announced LAVA(TM) On Demand, the first "Software-as-a-Service" (SaaS) offering for... Read More..

Salesforce.com is taking another step in its quest to become a dominant platform for enterprise applications with the announcement of Apex, which opens up its multi-tenant, on demand infrastructure and an enhanced programming language to any developer. The announcement took... Read More..

The software as a service application delivery model has seen significant interest within the Web hosting industry lately, as service providers hustle to build their solutions around the SaaS model. Web hosting provider NaviSite (navisite.com) says its new ISV Sandbox... Read More..

Open source and on-demand CRM are experiencing a convergence of sorts, brought together by online application exchanges. Mirroring Salesforce.com's AppExchange platform, Cupertino, Calif.-based SugarCRM today launched its own marketplace for business applications based on its open source CRM tool. Entitled... Read More..

The market for software as a service is set to boom over the next five years a which is great news for companies such as Salesforce.com and others but could spell worse times ahead for traditional software vendors. According to... Read More..

IBMA launchedA alphaWorks Services, a new on-demand addition to IBM's research and development website, launched to coincide with alphaWork's tenth birthday (picture courtesy of the alphaWorks website). Two of the three services available at launch are targeted at enabling end... Read More..

Following is a contribution from SaasWebgroup member, A Mahdi Abdulrazak, The GravityZoo: One of the most exciting features of true SaaS is that it delivers software freed from all the complexities attached to desktop applications. Open Source is all about... Read More..