November 2007 Archives

In daily scanning of SaaS headlines, two interesting articles caught my attention today. One was an article in Australia's iTWire publication that covered an interview with Gianpaola Carraro, Director of Architecture Strategy at Microsoft. In the interview, Carraro makes some... Read More..

Talk of the SaaS web world today is a freshly announced merger between Webroot Software and Email Systems. The perhaps not so memorably named Email Systems offers SaaS services for protecting, storing and filtering email. Webroot specializes in Internet security... Read More..

On November 15, IBM announced a plan it calls "Blue Cloud" for enabling corporate data centers to "operate more like the Internet by enabling computing across a distributed, globally accessible fabric of resources, rather than on local machines or remote... Read More..

Media outlet VNUnet discusses a new Gartner report that predicts that dynamics of the software licensing market will soon begin to hurt the profits of software vendors. SaaS-based applications are getting more and more sophisticated, and with the lower cost... Read More..

The Free Software Foundation has approved the Affero GPL for Software as a Service applications, reports E Commerce News. The new GPL is based on the GNU GPLv3 but includes terms to let users access source code for software accessed... Read More..

Minneapolis, Minn.-based SPS Commerce specializes in offering SaaS based EDI to global companies. Earlier this month, the company announced upgrades to its online EDI platform, and recently it announced that it now leverages Oracle's Software as a Service platform for... Read More..

In the latest of a string of SaaS acquisitions, Dell has signed an agreement to buy Everdream, a SaaS remote service management provider. eWeek reports that Dell looked at the deal in order to complement the capabilities it acquired when... Read More..

Joining in with Gartner Group and IDC, Goldman Sachs is the latest vendor to endorse SaaS, reportedly calling it "one of the most important trends in software." At the same time, Goldman Sachs also reported that SaaS ranked 18th on... Read More..

Tarzana, Calif.-based InfoStreet offers a product that it says can replace aspects of the corporate IT infrastructure, particularly for small to medium sized businesses. With its recent initiatives targeting credit unions, some of InfoStreet’s customers are realizing significant savings –... Read More..

An Ovum research analyst has written a piece about Microsoft's Software + Services vision that appeared in Google Alerts yesterday. In the analysis, research director Warren Wilson applauds Microsofts S+S strategy, calling it a way to "go one better than... Read More..

It stands to reason that SaaS would be primarily an IT decision. After all, when all is said and done the question boils down to spending big bucks up-front for an in-house solution now, or pay a monthly or annual... Read More..

In an interview with eWeek, Google Product Management Director Matt Glotzbach talks about Google's plans to offer enterprise and consumer services. Glotzbach discusses how Google tries not to have a clear line between its enterprise and consumer applications, which primarily... Read More..

Emre Sokullu of Read/WriteWeb posted an interested commentary on Amazon's Hardware as a Service strategy earlier this week. The idea of Hardware as a Service is an "evolved version of dedicated or virtual hosting services," writes Sokullu, removing the need... Read More..