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Articles tagged SaaS

Thursday, 16th May 2013

An Open Source Safety Net For The Cloud: Learning From Xeround's Failure

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 open source so that customers can continue running the service locally if the vendor dies?

Cloud Matt Asay comments

Wednesday, 8th May 2013

Cloud Computing

Cloud Acronyms Unwound: How To Tell Saas, IaaS and PaaS Apart [Infographic]

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.

Cloud Fredric Paul comments

Wednesday, 27th March 2013

Enterprise Software: 5 Ways SaaS Changes Everything & 3 Ways It Doesn't

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.

Enterprise Jeetu Patel comments

Tuesday, 26th March 2013

Oracle's Big Miss: The End Of An Enterprise Era?

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 sold. It's an open question whether vendors like Oracle will be able to embrace things like cloud and open source in time to maintain their existing businesses while creating new ones for the future.

Enterprise Matt Asay comments

Tuesday, 5th March 2013

Software-as-a-Service: The Dirty Little Secrets SaaS Vendors Don't Like To Talk About

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 that's not all.

Enterprise Brian Proffitt comments

Wednesday, 20th February 2013

6 Ways To Make Freemium Work For B2B Products

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.

Small Biz Anthony Smith comments

Wednesday, 13th February 2013

Why Oracle Fusion Doesn't Excite Customers

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 Fusion Applications.

Enterprise Antone Gonsalves comments

Wednesday, 16th January 2013

Everything-as-a-Service: It's Happening Right Now

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 Anything-and-Everything-as-a-Service over the Web.

Cloud Brian Proffitt comments

Wednesday, 12th December 2012

Cloud Computing

SaaS: Enterprise Software Vendors Are Still Denying Reality

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 the sand. For them, at least, the results aren't going to be pretty.

Enterprise Cormac Foster comments

Friday, 21st September 2012

Cloud Computing

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 expand into new markets and keep its revenue engine running. So it’s no surprise that the company’s Dreamforce user conference in San Francisco this week is a love fest for social networking for business. But…

Cloud Antone Gonsalves comments

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