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Microsoft sets January date for Azure
News Ozzie said that Microsoft now offered "a single coherent development platform" for its "three screens plus cloud" strategy of deploying applications across computers, mobile devices, home-entertainment systems and hosted internet services.
[November 18, 2009, 7:34]
IBM bundles up Workplace
News Ambuj Goyal, general manager of IBM's Workplace, Portal and Collaboration Software group, called the first hosted software services a "stepping stone" to the point when all of the company's Workplace applications will be offered on a hosted basis.
[November 10, 2004, 8:08]
Businesses reject SaaS as core platform
News If you go with a hosted model, there would be no integration of your CRM application, with the ERP (enterprise resource planning) and SCM (supply chain management)," he explained. In fact, he added, Telkom Indonesia provides these tools to its own...
[May 21, 2008, 14:51]
Siebel sues executive who went to rival
News Instead, it offers business applications available over the Internet for a monthly fee, accessible through a Web browser and hosted by the Salesforce.com site. Salesforce leads in the growing market for hosted business applications aimed at sales...
[November 21, 2003, 16:00]
IBM wagers on utility computing
News According to preliminary results of a Summit Strategies survey, about 70 percent of companies surveyed said that hosted applications are a viable option. But now, corporations are showing growing interest in hosted applications.
[March 23, 2004, 10:50]
Google fosters ties with developers
News As web applications become more functional, developer programmes have become important strategies for web properties such as Amazon, eBay, Microsoft and Yahoo, which itself first hosted a Hack Day for developers last autumn.
[June 1, 2007, 15:36]
Microsoft's bad dream boogie
Leader Microsoft rightly sees its future revenues segueing from OS and shrink-wrapped applications to smart client and hosted services, but it has yet to prove that it's making the change for the right reasons.
[September 21, 2005, 14:40]
Google Apps for Your Domain review
Reviews Google Apps for Your Domain is a suite of free hosted services for small businesses, at www.google.com/a. Also, as a hosted business suite, Google is missing a few big elements. The suite gives everybody in the company a branded version of the...
[August 29, 2006, 9:15]
Google JotSpot exposes user data, says researcher
News But, in the context of a series of similar slip-ups, this error raises questions about the efficacy of Google's model of hosted applications," Edelman wrote. The problem also exposes a flaw in Google's hosted-services business, which relies on...
[October 31, 2008, 10:32]
Microsoft: The next generation, Part III
News Instead, Microsoft applications like Exchange and SQL Server merely will become easier to distribute, and thus better suited to running in hosted configurations. Megaservices, according to Microsoft's definition, are hosted Web components from...
[April 28, 2000, 14:55]
Chizen talks on major moves
News The second thing we can do is continue to look at ways we can change our business models, looking at hosted applications, instead of pushing shrink-wrapped software, looking at server-based solutions.
[November 10, 2005, 11:20]
Siebel and IBM want small firms' IT cash
News Siebel Systems and IBM are unveiling a hosted software product in an effort to grab some of the IT dollars being spent by small and medium-sized businesses. Siebel and IBM are entering a hosted CRM market that's getting more crowded.
[October 2, 2003, 8:40]
CRM rivalry heats up
News Although the switching costs for hosted software are lower than traditional business applications, she said, it's too soon to swap. In the meantime, Salesforce executives are heckling Siebel's approach to the hosted software market, saying the...
[October 20, 2003, 15:25]
3CX Phone System for Windows review
Reviews The 3CX PBX can connect to the PSTN via hosted SIP services and SIP trunks. Furthermore, the preferred method of connecting to the public telephone network is via independent or hosted SIP gateways, so 3CX's software can even be run on a virtual...
[February 6, 2008, 9:14]
E-commerce Extensions
Downloads NetStores Shopping Cart E-Commerce Extensions For Golive give Web Designers and Site Builders the tools to quickly implement E-commerce to a website hosted anywhere with no software to install. Designers love our tools because they allow them to...
[November 16, 2005, 7:00]
The Next Big Thing in SaaS and The Cloud: Costs linked to business outcome?
Blog An example he gives is High Street travel agents, who sell flights from a screen linked to an airline reservation system - a “hosted application” a la SaaS. As someone involved in what we used to call “Hosted CRM” it hit me hard.
[November 6, 2009, 11:08]
Buy or rebuild core systems?
News One possibility we considered would move the data from Access databases to a shared, centrally managed SQL Server database; the processing logic for forms would move from the Access code modules to Active Server Pages hosted at the company's data...
[September 1, 2002, 20:42]
CRM right here - RightNow
News We have always offered on-demand and on-premises which I think highlights something interesting -- four years ago, half our customers were using the on-demand model; today, more than 90 percent of our customers are using the hosted model.
[November 12, 2004, 15:20]
Does IBM's success herald a software comeback?
News Earlier this month, customer sales and support applications company Siebel said it would beat analysts' expectations for revenue in the fourth quarter of 2004, citing a rise in licence and hosted application sales.
[January 24, 2005, 11:25]
New York - PC Expo: Intel, Novell team on Java
News Stone said that, according to independent VolanoMark benchmarks, Novell's current JVM for NetWare 5.0 runs approximately five times faster than many Unix-hosted JVMs, including IBM's AIX and Sun's Solaris, and twice as fast as Microsoft's NT...
[June 18, 1998, 12:12]
