January 2008 Archives

No one likes spam, and least of all JangoMail, a SaaS-based email marketing tool that helps its customers get their legitimate messages into their spam-weary customers' inboxes. The idea of an email marketing tool via SaaS sounded interesting, so I... Read More..

It looks like SearchCIO.com has an interesting piece with reader feedback to a comparison of the SaaS model to the application service provider model. In the piece, the SearchCIO.com editors basically posed the question to readers as to whether the... Read More..

Headlines today have swirled around Oceanport, N.J.-based CommVault's announcement that it would offer a Remote Operations Management Service for small and medium businesses (SMBs) as a subscription-based SaaS offering. CommVault thinks the system is the industry's first integration monitoring and... Read More..

In an article on Silicon.com, Quocirca's Bob Tarzey makes some interesting observations about the trumped up war between on-premise and on-demand software. Although some companies like Salesforce.com proclaim that SaaS will eventually bring on the "death of software," most companies... Read More..

Yesterday, I noticed a blog post on Techworld.com in which writer Chris Mellor had noticed a job posting for a senior product manager for an EMC SaaS effort called EMC Fortress, in which the storage company wanted to find someone... Read More..

In an interesting bit of news, Software-as-a-Service office application offering Zoho has picked up a "Crunchy" award as the best enterprise startup company. The Crunchies are a new event -- TechCrunch has a wrapup here. The endorsement shows that SaaS-based... Read More..

The news of the day seems to be Salesforce.com's announcement of a new service that it calls DaaS, or Development-as-a-Service, through its Force.com Cloud Computing Architecture. With the new service and pricing model, customers will be able to access development... Read More..

In a blog post on silicon.com, Dale Vile says yes, the bandwagon is rolling for SaaS, but companies are hesitant to turn everything over to SaaS -- nothing we haven't heard before. He then goes on to outline the usual... Read More..

BPM is one of those technologies that everyone's talking about, given that the latest innovations are able to streamline management of business processes. Appian is a company that hopes to help manage BPM through SaaS, which is obviously another much... Read More..

Last month, I heard from David Rice, the author of Geekonomics: The Real Cost of Insecure Software. Given that many people out there point the finger at SaaS crying over security concerns, I thought it would be interesting to see... Read More..

In reading the always plentiful end-of-year stories in the IT media, I came across an article in SD Times called "Eleven Trends from 2007." The article listed several themes from 2007 in the IT world, including the security risks of... Read More..