Business Cloud Computing: Privacy Is Just As Important As Security
Similar to their IT security due diligence, companies need to ask questions about the privacy of their data before they enter into…
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Articles tagged "SaaS"
Tue, 28 May 2013
Thu, 16 May 2013
An Open Source Safety Net For The Cloud: Learning From Xeround's Failure
Given the risk of SaaS failure, is open source a viable back-up plan? Should cloud providers be offering a version of their product as…
Wed, 8 May 2013
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Cloud Acronyms Unwound: How To Tell SaaS, IaaS and PaaS Apart [Infographic]
Finally, a clear, visual, explanation of three of the most common — and most confusing — cloud-computing acronyms.
Wed, 27 March 2013
Enterprise Software: 5 Ways SaaS Changes Everything & 3 Ways It Doesn't
Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) dramatically affects how enterprises choose and buy their software - but some things never change.
Tue, 26 March 2013
Oracle's Big Miss: The End Of An Enterprise Era?
Oracle missing one quarter isn't a big deal, but Oracle's big miss signals significant changes in how enterprise technology is bought and…
Tue, 5 March 2013
Software-as-a-Service: The Dirty Little Secrets SaaS Vendors Don't Like To Talk About
The dirty little secret of SaaS: up to 20% of attempted SaaS deployments are failing due to serious problems with data integration. And…
Wed, 20 February 2013
6 Ways To Make Freemium Work For B2B Products
Depending on the product, the freemium model can work especially well for B2VSB (business-to-very-small-business) companies.
Wed, 13 February 2013
Why Oracle Fusion Doesn't Excite Customers
A new study by Forrester Research shows Oracle is struggling to get customers to migrate from its older on-premise software to its modern…
Wed, 16 January 2013
Everything-as-a-Service: It's Happening Right Now
New Marketing-as-a-Service and Healthcare-as-a-Service operations illustrate the trend toward delivering…
Wed, 12 December 2012
SaaS: Enterprise Software Vendors Are Still Denying Reality
While some are buying up the competition while they still can or building their own SaaS-like operations, others are hiding their heads in…
Fri, 21 September 2012
What Salesforce Doesn’t Tell You At Dreamforce
Salesforce, a pioneer in delivering business software over the Internet, is turning to social business and collaboration services to…
Tue, 18 September 2012
How Cloud Computing’s Growth Disrupts Hardware & Software Vendors
Businesses are subscribing to software, storage and computing power delivered over the Internet at a jaw-dropping pace, Over the next five…
Tue, 17 July 2012
The New Office 365: Baby Steps in the Right Direction
Let's be clear about what was unveiled Monday afternoon by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer in San Francisco: It wasn't Office 2013 - not really…
Mon, 2 July 2012
A Love Letter to the Cable Guy, or How Really Fast Broadband Changes Everything
You might think your existing broadband Internet connection is fast enough. It’s not. When it comes to Internet speeds, more is always…
Tue, 12 June 2012
Why Google’s Chromebox Is Better for Small Businesses Than Big Corporations
The business value of the recently unveiled Chromebox cloud-based desktop device from Samsung and Google is hard to calculate. Aimed at…
Wed, 6 June 2012
Bandwidth Bottlenecks Stifle Pervasive Networks
If pervasive networks, cloud computing and big data are going to deliver on their promise - to make increasingly vast quantities of…
Wed, 16 May 2012
Loomio: Making Better Decisions Remotely Possible
Email, instant messaging, forums, code forges and other collaboration tools make it possible for distributed teams to get work done - but…
Tue, 15 May 2012
The Hottest IPO You've Never Heard Of
With an expected valuation of close to $100 billion, it’s understandable that no one can stop talking about Facebook’s initial public…
Mon, 14 May 2012
Stop Flying Blind: Use Big Data to Benchmark Your Startup
Most startups fail. Nine out of 10 never amount to anything more than fond memories and a forgotten Facebook page. One reason is that they…
Thu, 29 March 2012
Can the Cloud "Fix" PLM?
PLM is far from the sexiest acronym floating around the Internet these days. Short for Product Lifecycle Management, PLM is often thought of…
Tue, 27 March 2012
Autodesk CEO Pushes "Democratization" of Technology
Most people think of Autodesk as the maker of AutoCAD, the design software of choice for architects, engineers and other design…
Tue, 13 March 2012
Hadoop Users Could Get Their First Taste of Real Encryption
Here's the problem: Data has already gotten too big for its britches. There are increasing corporate mergers and takeovers, greater…
Wed, 1 February 2012
Alfresco Makes its CMS More Social
Today, Alfresco today launches its Enterprise v4, perhaps the biggest update since they began operations. The new software comes with mobile…
Mon, 30 January 2012
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[Infographic] Google Apps Has Some Big Paying Clients
SaaS backup provider Backupify has recently examined its own customer sample to do some demographic profiling of Google Apps users. The…
