General: March 2006 Archives

Swimming with Services Partnering Is Key to Software as a Service... Read More..

Most of the vendors and customers I talk to,normally get confused by Multi-Tenancy.Some SaaS providers don't explain how a software application is delivered to the customer. Most of the vendors give this answer we are a SaaS Provider, we deliver... Read More..

Aberdeen Report: More than 50% of study participants are using or considering using on-demand or software as a service applications to manage portions of their supply chain -- early adopters report "overwhelming benefits" More than 50% of respondents say they... Read More..

Hosted Dynamics CRM at Convergence. http://demo.hostedmscrm.com Source: Satya's blog... Read More..

A news article from PC Magazine via Yahoo news. The software-as-a-service paradigm is expected to take center stage at Microsoft's Convergence conference, kicking off this weekend in Dallas. Listed here is few highlights of this news coverage . Microsoft is... Read More..

Interesting article on open source crm and shared-source crm. The truth is, nobody knows how many deployments there are of open source CRM -- not even the analysts," said Clint Oram, co-founder and general manager of Sugar Online. "They typically... Read More..

Phil Wainewright in his blog post made his 5 predictions for SaaS which is actually a coverage of blog post posted by Dan Farber. Here is our thoughts on his blog post. ZDNet SaaS:"The blogosphere will turn against Google for... Read More..

Software as a service: The next big thing SaaS at the barricades Some IT managers see SaaS as a godsend, with time-to-market and low maintenance core to the appeal. aItas a CTO no-brainer,a says Jon Williams, CTO of Kaplan Test... Read More..

Two interesting blog posts from Richard MacManus Embracing and Extending Microsoft: JotSpot's Joe Kraus on the Web Office and JotSpot to release 30-50 pre-packaged wikis in 2006.... Read More..

Techcrunch made a blog post about (Actually a Coverage made by BusinessWeek)Amazon adding a new and different kind of service: an unlimited data storage service aimed at software developers who are creating new Web sites and services. Ronald Schmelzer, an... Read More..

David Linthicum's ebizQ blog post had some interesting facts and checklist before you go with a software as a service providers. 7 things to look for in SaaS Ability to deploy rapidly Ability scale Ability to adjust cost with need... Read More..

The hosted CRM vendor has recently announced that they will focus on enabling customers to run "their entire enterprise on The Business Web" according to CEO Marc Benioff. Already a third-party company called iCentera offers portal and content management functionality... Read More..

Elizabeth Montalbano, IDG , Reports Despite hype and venture capital money, the ASP (application service provider) model of the late 1990s failed in spectacular -- and very public -- fashion. But industry leaders and analysts who gathered this week at... Read More..