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SaaS Week discusses market trends and roundups of Software as a Service (SaaS) industry news, along with social networking, collaboration, and other neat enterprise Web 2.0 technologies. SaaS Week also offers Q&As with interesting Web 2.0 and SaaS vendors.

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June 29, 2007
Is the SaaS Model a Friend or Foe?

Via CIO-TOday:-Software-as-a-service offerings are expanding, and gaining more acceptance. How would you like to just stop deploying enterprise Relevant Products/Services software, stop monitoring application performance, and stop participating in the finger-pointing and second-guessing which occurs when there are performance problems? That's the basic attraction of software-as-a-service (SaaS).

Customers access SaaS applications and data via the Web and essentially rent the application from the SaaS provider on a per-user or per-month basis. The SaaS provider is responsible for delivering, securing and managing the application, data and underlying infrastructure Relevant Products/Services More here

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June 28, 2007
Webinar: Highly-Scalable SaaS Infrastructure

Highly-Scalable SaaS Infrastructure - Deploy and customize services faster with an ESB

Each subscribing customer has his own business process and integration needs. Despite this they all demand guaranteed response times and expect customized performance reports. In short, you need an architecture that delivers extreme agility and scalability.

Join Progress Software CTO Hub Vandervoort for a discussion of Progress SaaS customers and their architectures that use an ESB to meet these demanding client needs. Register to attend the live webinar:

SaaS Architecture for Extreme Agility and Scalability
11:00 am (EST) on Thursday, June 28th
Register here

Key discussion topics:

- Integrating mainframes, databases, legacy C and third party systems.
- Designing service menus for customized subscriptions.
- Guaranteeing service levels and reporting SLA metrics.

Register here

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June 25, 2007
Axentis CEO to Educate Bank of America Investor Groups on SaaS Benefits

Axentis, providers of the industryas most comprehensive and widely deployed governance, risk and compliance (GRC) management solution, announced today that Robert Hoyt, CEO, will share his Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) insight during the Bank of Americaas Private Software Company Panel Day on June 26. Invited to participate on a panel debating related technologies, he will discuss how the SaaS model can drastically improve an organizationas efficiencies by ensuring continuity across the enterprise, as well as with vendors and customers.

Mr. Hoyt draws on more than 15 years of enterprise software experience coupled with his steady contribution to establishing Axentisas SaaS-based business model. Today, the companyas flexible and reliable approach to GRC management is the chosen solution by more than 775,000 users faced with increasing regulatory requirements.A A More here

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June 22, 2007
CMSWire: Wiki Appliance Gets SaaS-y Behind the Firewall

A new Wiki appliance by Socialtext is putting new spark in SaaS, taking the benefits of Software as a Service and combining them with the security of the Appliance model; in effect delivering SaaS behind the firewall. SaaS analyst and blogger Phil Wainewright sees both the Appliance and the SaaS models to be part of the same trend of making software easier to install and use. More here

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June 20, 2007
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June 18, 2007
Web Host 1&1 and SWsoft Closer to SaaS Standard

Via Tophosts: SWsoft and 1&1 Internet today announced the first implementation of the Application Packaging Standard (APS). Developed by SWsoft, the APS standard enables software vendors to easily integrate their applications into hosting environments and deliver software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions. 1&1 helped SWsoft design requirements for hosting providers and is the first service provider to implement support for the APS standard in its Click-n-Build web hosting platform.

SWsoft introduced the APS standard to the software development community in March. The standard will help hosting providers take advantage of SaaS and offer customers a greater variety of services. It will also help open the hosting channel for Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) by allowing them to deliver hosted applications to more end users.A More here

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June 14, 2007
Webinar: Highly-Scalable SaaS Infrastructure

Highly-Scalable SaaS Infrastructure - Deploy and customize services faster with an ESB

Each subscribing customer has his own business process and integration needs. Despite this they all demand guaranteed response times and expect customized performance reports. In short, you need an architecture that delivers extreme agility and scalability.

Join Progress Software CTO Hub Vandervoort for a discussion of Progress SaaS customers and their architectures that use an ESB to meet these demanding client needs. Register to attend the live webinar:

SaaS Architecture for Extreme Agility and Scalability
11:00 am (EST) on Thursday, June 28th
Register here

Key discussion topics:

- Integrating mainframes, databases, legacy C and third party systems.
- Designing service menus for customized subscriptions.
- Guaranteeing service levels and reporting SLA metrics.

Register hereA

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June 12, 2007
Vyew Syncs Live Web Conferencing and Asynchronous Collaboration

Vyew, which recently emerged out of Beta, introduces version 2.5, one of the first online applications to fuse both live meeting and asynchronous collaboration capabilities to improve content collaboration, online meetings, and workflow. It is ideal for a wide range of users, from independent professionals to small businesses and workgroups.With Vyew 2.5, people can create VyewBooks to share, present, and interact with other people around all forms of content such as Microsoft Office files, pictures, audio and video. Tools to create new presentations are also included within the suite. Participants can also share their desktop view for live sharing of files, images, and Web sites. The new version also enables people to print VyewBooks.

VyewBooks are now also portable in 2.5 with the addition of an embeddable Vyewlet generator. Vyewlets are read-only VyewBooks which can be posted outside of Vyew -- directly in blog posts, Web sites, social networks, and any online page -- to create dynamic, multimedia presentations to engage viewers. If and when a Vyewlet needs to be updated, it can be done so inside Vyew with changes pushed live to the Vyewlet via an RSS-like mechanism.

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June 06, 2007
India leads SaaS growth in Asia Pacific-Springboard Research

Software-as-a-Service, or SaaS, revenues in India will exceed US$48 million by 2008, up from US$7 million in 2005, according to a study by Springboard Research. The analysts say this positions India as the fastest growing SaaS market in Asia Pacific. The study also revealed a mismatch: high levels of awareness, low levels of penetration, among Indian SMBs. More here

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June 05, 2007
Salesforce.com and Google Form Global Strategic Alliance

Salesforce.com [NYSE: CRM], the market and technology leader in on-demand business services, and Google [Nasdaq: GOOG] today announced that they have formed a strategic global alliance to help millions of businesses leverage the Internet to achieve success. ebizQ received the following: The newest product resulting from this alliance, Salesforce Group Edition featuring Google AdWords, is a robust offering that combines the power of Salesforce on-demand CRM applications with the Google AdWordsac platform to achieve integrated sales and marketing success. This joint solution provides businesses of all sizes with the same tools used by larger enterprises to successfully attract and retain customers. More here

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June 04, 2007
Column2 :OnDemandIQ launches SaaS BI

Via Column2: Following hard on the heels of LucidEra, which I reviewed in March, OnDemandIQ has launched Insights, a hosted dashboard and reporting service aimed at small and medium businesses. I'm very eager to see how these new SaaS BI offerings are accepted in the marketplace -- has anyone out there used them yet? More here

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