May 2007 Archives

OpSourceac, the SaaS delivery experts, today announced the opening of its European headquarters, located at Albany House, Market Street, Maidenhead, Berks SL6 8BE, U.K. OpSource is expanding operations into Europe to meet rising demand from local software-as-a-service (SaaS) and Web... Read More..

To be able to give an answer to this question requires a better understanding of what the FOSS reality is about. A must read is the study on the aEconomic impact of F(L)OSS: http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/ict/policy/doc/2006-11-20-flossimpact.pdf This study provides a.o. the following... Read More..

ThinkFreeas Portable Edition is a clone of MS Office 2003 and has the same features of their online component (www.thinkfree.com), but you guessed itait works offline making it great for using it on a long flight or from your... Read More..

Via Techworld: Business Objects is to offer its entire range of products via on-demand subscriptions, according to a company executive. In the coming months, the maker of business intelligence software plans to put its complete product line online, including its... Read More..

Progress Software Corporation (NASDAQ: PRGS), a global supplier of application infrastructure software used to develop, deploy, integrate and manage business applications, today announced that it has Software as a Service (SaaS)-enabled its ProgressA(R) ApamaA(R) Algorithmic Trading Platform. Apama maximises the... Read More..

SuccessFactors, the global leader in on-demand performance and talent management solutions, today announced that Glynn Capital Management has rolled out SuccessFactors Performance and Talent Management Suite to all 10 of its company employees. While most SaaS vendors are solely focused... Read More..

A discussion with Chris Smith, Vice President of Marketing with Alert Logic. Chris and Peter Schooff, Security Editor,ebizQ.net discuss the current state of security, Alert Logicas Security as a Service -- how it works, who it works best for, and... Read More..

Brenda Michelson:- Having left my corporate budget responsibilities behind, I hadn't really thought of this.A Today's WSJ has an article on SaaS adoption.A One of the driving factors in large organizations is accounting.A Not, providing accounting services, but how software... Read More..

Most of the start-up application vendors are selecting SaaS [Software as a Service] as their primary model, and increasingly as their sole model for delivering applicaA-tions.a At least thatas what Dave Mitchell, director of software-as-a-service strategy for IBM, told me... Read More..

BT Business, in partnership with Microsoft, is bringing together specialist software developers and small business customers with the launch of the BT Applications Marketplace. The Marketplace is designed for companies that have developed business-focused hosted applications that are stable, supported... Read More..

Read MAHDI ABDULRAZAK interview on porting Open Office to GravityZoo: FOSSaaS (Free Open Source Software as a Service) OpenOffice.org will not only show that using Software as a Service can be desktop alike experience, it will also provide an entire... Read More..

The demand for software as a service continues to increase as small and large businesses alike are becoming increasingly dissatisfied with the lengthy times and costs associated with deploying traditional software. However, the only way for SaaS providers to succeed... Read More..

Modelled in part on successful SaaS (software as a service) ventures like Salesforce.com, A1S will mark a major change to SAP's business model of selling software that customers run in-house, paying an initial licence fee and ongoing maintenance. Also like... Read More..

New data out of Saugatuck Research finds Software as a Service (SaaS) is gaining traction in today's enterprises. As reported in Network World, more than a quarter of companies are using at least one SaaS application, up from 11% at... Read More..

Pervasive Software(R) Inc. , a global value leader in embeddable data management and integration software, today announced Metamorphosis 7.0, its seventh Independent Software Vendor (ISV), Systems Integrator (SI), Software-as-a- Service (SaaS) vendor and Business Service Provider (BSP) executive summit, will... Read More..