February 2008 Archives

Following OpSource's announcement earlier this morning of its SaaS integration solution OpSource Connect, Cast Iron Systems has also announced integration appliances for OpSource Connect. Cast Iron's senior vice president of marketing and strategy, Simon Peel, had this to say about... Read More..

OpSource has announced a new product at its annual OpSource SaaS Summit today called OpSource Connect. Below is a 9:38 minute podcast about the product. If you're interested in this news, be sure to sign up for ebizQ's SOA and... Read More..

Today Google has announced that it is relaunching JotSpot as Google Sites, a new Web 2.0 tool for creating fast collaborative websites internally or externally in an organization. Google posted a press release as well as a blog post where... Read More..

Last night was the official start of the OpSource SaaS Summit 2008. The main events and keynotes begin today, and a company called Rollbase got the action started with the launch of another beta PaaS product (PaaS seems to be... Read More..

Ed Sullivan, CEO of Aria Systems, says SaaS companies could learn a thing or two from an unlikely source -- the video gaming industry. Only now, he says, are some SaaS providers realizing they may not want to build their... Read More..

San Mateo, Calif.-based LucidEra is a company that offers business analytics solutions via an on-demand platform. Last week, LucidEra issued a press release about a new tool for Oracle Order Management users. Ken Rudin, CEO of LucidEra, shared some thoughts... Read More..

Jason Burby at ClickZ has posted an interesting commentary on the prediction that 93% of websites plan to add Web 2.0 functionality this year. Burby points out that although Web 2.0 is all the rage, companies using it do seem... Read More..

In case you don't already know, OpSource is presenting its annual SaaS Summit this week in San Francisco. The event is scheduled for Wednesday through Friday of this week and has some interesting content on its agenda. The main events... Read More..

According to a recent report by Forrester, marketers trying to sell SaaS to SMBs could be looking at road bumps throughout 2008. Analyst Michael Speyer writes in the report that some forecasts of 2008 SaaS growth in that market might... Read More..

Mark Symonds, CEO of Plexus Systems, has written a good viewpoint piece for IndustryWeek in which he examine the nature of what is and isn't SaaS, and he calls "BS-aaS" on some so-called SaaS offerings. Pointing out a key difference... Read More..

In The Daily Aztec, writer David Seaton explores the topic of whether Web 2.0 will help to stop an "inevitable crash." In the article, Seaton draws numerous parallels between the growth of Web 2.0 and the original Internet bubble that... Read More..

I was forwarded the following note from a Zoho contact; this is a comment from Raju Vegesna, an evangelist for Zoho, about Microsoft's plans for the upcoming release of Office 14. The comment was originally posted at Vegesna's blog but... Read More..

Last week, IBM announced that it was teaming up with UCLA and NC State to deliver a Web 2.0 curriculum to a new generation of workers (read: college students). So I thought it would be interesting to find out about... Read More..

Web 2.0 is certainly raising some new concerns for businesses (and by the way, if you're interested in Web 2.0, you should be sure to sign up for ebizQ's Web 2.0 and the Enterprise Virtual Conference. Mark Anderson at TheStandard.com... Read More..

Earlier this month, Santa Clara, Calif.-based JamCracker announced a new SaaS-based solution to enable channel providers to quickly add on-demand applications tot heir portfolios, complete with a front and back-end service delivery infrastructure. Steve Crawford, VP of marketing with JamCracker,... Read More..

Joe McKendrick has made the case on his FASTForward Blog that Web 2.0 may be "recession-proof". Similar claims have been made by multiple industry watchers about SaaS, as well. So what's so special about Web 2.0? McKendrick cites some good... Read More..

Rumors are floating around the Web that Salesforce.com may have approached Oracle about a possible deal. News of the possibility certainly sent Salesforce.com's stock spiking. Not everyone believes in the truth of the rumor, and of course, only time will... Read More..

After rejecting Microsoft's takeover bid earlier this week, Yahoo seems to be in a whirlwind of activity as it attempts to move forward. The Silicon Valley-based search/portal/web apps company rejected the bid from MS saying it was too low. Microsoft... Read More..

Lots of people are speculating right now that with possible economic hard times coming, SaaS could end up getting a boost because companies don't want to invest in large-scale software installations. Graham Barnes, CEO of BidShift, is one believer in... Read More..

OpSource, a SaaS company that specializes in SaaS application delivery, today announced that it will acquire LeCayla Technologies, an Irish SaaS billing provider. I was able to get some answers from Richard Dym, the CMO of OpSource, about the reasons... Read More..

The news media is still abuzz with speculation on Microsoft's surprise multi-billion dollar bid to buy Yahoo and what the acquisition might mean for the industry, if it indeed even takes place. Tim Low, VP of Marketing for Daptiv (a... Read More..

Workday, Inc. yesterday announced that it had reached a definitive agreement to acquire Cape Clear. Workday is a provider of on-demand, SaaS-based ERP software and Cape Clear produces an Enterprise Service Bus platform. As a part of the acquisition, Workday... Read More..

After reading this blog post by ZD Net UK's David Meyer a few minutes ago and doing further research, it does seem indeed that UK web hosting company Fasthosts is offering MS Office via subscription. It isn't really true SaaS;... Read More..

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer offered a little bit more explanation of Microsoft's "Software Plus Services" initiative during a presentation to Wall Street analysts earlier this week, reports InternetNews.com. In the speech, Ballmer desribed the software-plus-services and reiterated that Microsoft would... Read More..

It's a well known principle that large vendors usually enter new markets by making acquisitions, and over the weekend, Microsoft made a bid to buy Yahoo. Obviously, the acquisition would give Microsoft an entry into all sorts of markets, but... Read More..