http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/saasweek/ 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. en Copyright 2009 Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:44:24 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=4.21-en http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss All the SaaS news and breakthroughs in you used to find in SaaS Week  is now being covered by ebizQ's Phil Wainewright, a leading authority  on emerging trends in business automation, which you can find at The Connected Web. SaaSWeek... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/saasweek/2009/01/where_to_find_the_latest_saas/ http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/saasweek/2009/01/where_to_find_the_latest_saas/ General Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:44:24 -0500 ebizq We've covered the outages at Google pretty regularly, so when they released some metrics on email reliability it only seemed fair to tell their side of the story. According to the graph and summary posted on the official Google blog,... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/saasweek/2008/11/google_emphasizes_reliability/ http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/saasweek/2008/11/google_emphasizes_reliability/ Tue, 04 Nov 2008 15:24:31 -0500 ebizq There has been a lot of speculation about falling SaaS prices from bloggers and industry insiders -- even a detailed Forrester report predicting a long term drop. Now we're starting to see some confirmation from vendors. NetSuite recently dropped the... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/saasweek/2008/10/duplicate_crm_offerings_equals/ http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/saasweek/2008/10/duplicate_crm_offerings_equals/ Mon, 27 Oct 2008 11:33:23 -0500 ebizq As of this past Monday, Google's Gmail for its Premier Apps users was still experiencing some accessibility issues. The recent troubles followed shortly after an outage that lasted up to thirty hours for some customers last week. Google apologized for... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/saasweek/2008/10/google_gets_some_heat/ http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/saasweek/2008/10/google_gets_some_heat/ Wed, 22 Oct 2008 10:54:07 -0500 ebizq The latest version of Open Office, the open source alternative to Microsoft Works, was released to a very warm reception -- so warm that the traffic generated by the release crashed the company's servers. And it seems that while Microsoft... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/saasweek/2008/10/open_office_30_an_office_suite/ http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/saasweek/2008/10/open_office_30_an_office_suite/ Thu, 16 Oct 2008 11:02:04 -0500 ebizq Last week Forrester Research Group predicted a long term price drop for Web 2.0 service licenses. The report caused some speculation about why, when demand is expected to at least remain steady if grow slightly, the price of Web 2.0... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/saasweek/2008/10/long_term_web_20_demand_uppric/ http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/saasweek/2008/10/long_term_web_20_demand_uppric/ Wed, 15 Oct 2008 10:33:05 -0500 ebizq With all the discussion about Google Docs, Gmail and Chrome it's easy to forget that in some ways Yahoo is still the bigger player in web based services (its email service has 285 million unique users worldwide). Take calendar applications... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/saasweek/2008/10/does_yahoo_want_a_seat_in_busi/ http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/saasweek/2008/10/does_yahoo_want_a_seat_in_busi/ Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:30:10 -0500 ebizq Symantec, the IT security and backup company, took a big step to increase their future presence in SaaS with a move to acquire MessageLabs, a provider of online messaging and Web security services, for 695 million dollars. A Symantec press... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/saasweek/2008/10/symantec_bets_on_saas_and_a_st/ http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/saasweek/2008/10/symantec_bets_on_saas_and_a_st/ Thu, 09 Oct 2008 11:33:08 -0500 ebizq The big news this week is the release of IBM's new web based application platform, "Bluehouse." Bluehouse brings some of the communication applications offered by its Lotus software, along with virtual collaboration and social networking tools to a web-access only... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/saasweek/2008/10/ibms_new_cloud_formation/ http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/saasweek/2008/10/ibms_new_cloud_formation/ Tue, 07 Oct 2008 11:04:34 -0500 ebizq Oracle has been having its annual OpenWorld Conference in San Francisco this week, and naturally it's been a big week for Oracle announcements. Enterprise 2.0 and cloud computing seem to be big themes in Oracle's announcements this year. And according... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/saasweek/2008/09/oracle_turns_sights_to_enterpr/ http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/saasweek/2008/09/oracle_turns_sights_to_enterpr/ Wed, 24 Sep 2008 04:26:42 -0500 krissidanielsson After the recent TechCrunch 50 Conference, an event produced by TechCrunch.com to showcase new Web 2.0 startups, many people were less than thrilled by the finalists that were the so-called 50 most promising startups, especially Yammer.com as the winner of... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/saasweek/2008/09/another_day_another_twitterlik/ http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/saasweek/2008/09/another_day_another_twitterlik/ Wed, 17 Sep 2008 03:43:21 -0500 krissidanielsson We have published an interesting article today on considerations that companies should look at before deploying a SaaS solution. In it, Joe Ruck of BoardVantage writes about the role of how to evaluate vendors' service level agreements, escrow accounts, business... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/saasweek/2008/09/important_considerations_for_s/ http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/saasweek/2008/09/important_considerations_for_s/ Wed, 10 Sep 2008 08:00:00 -0500 krissidanielsson I have seen a lot of articles in the IT press about surveys finding that certain groups are doubting the importance of Web 2.0 technology. The articles usually give the results of some survey showing that business managers, or employees... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/saasweek/2008/09/is_web_20_universally_importan/ http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/saasweek/2008/09/is_web_20_universally_importan/ Wed, 10 Sep 2008 03:18:20 -0500 krissidanielsson After Google launched its new browser / cloud computing "operating system" earlier this week, plenty of people have had plenty to say about it -- with most of the reactions being positive. Joe McKendrick of ZDNet notes that Chrome could... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/saasweek/2008/09/reactions_to_google_chrome/ http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/saasweek/2008/09/reactions_to_google_chrome/ Fri, 05 Sep 2008 04:00:04 -0500 krissidanielsson Google has certainly be in the forefront of the cloud computing media this week, launching two new offerings that have the potential to be formidable (depending on whom you talk to, of course.) The first is called Google Video, an... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/saasweek/2008/09/google_launches_two_new_cloud/ http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/saasweek/2008/09/google_launches_two_new_cloud/ Wed, 03 Sep 2008 03:11:15 -0500 krissidanielsson