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Hosted-applications usage on the rise
News The analyst firm published a report last week, Competing in the Fast-Growing SaaS Market, in which it said adoption of software as a service (SaaS), or hosted applications, in large enterprises now stands at 16 percent, up a third on the previous...
[March 18, 2008, 11:21]
BT launches hosted applications platform
News As revealed on ZDNet UK two months ago, BT Applications Marketplace is a service that allows independent software vendors (ISVs) to market their hosted applications directly to small-business customers using Microsoft's Connected Services Framework.
[April 25, 2007, 16:10]
Rochester Institute of Technology Improves Applications' Availability With Hosted Solution
White Papers Rochester Institute of Technology wanted to improve availability of core Enterprise Resource Management (ERP) applications. The challenge was to streamline systems management and upgrades and ensure security of applications and data.
[December 19, 2007, 0:01]
Letting go of your security worries
News IDC analyst Charles Kolodgy said there are a number of reasons why customers, in particular small and medium-size businesses, will increasingly look to hosted security applications. But there are places where [hosted applications] can work as well...
[May 26, 2005, 13:35]
AJAX leads Netsuite's latest charge
News Hosted-applications provider NetSuite launched the latest version of its online business automation and CRM tools on Thursday. Even with business software behemoths like Siebel and SAP increasingly moving into the hosted-applications space, the...
[August 5, 2005, 11:05]
Microsoft and BT hook up for hosted apps
News Microsoft and BT are to launch an online marketplace for hosted applications, aimed at small-business customers. The BT Applications Marketplace forms part of Microsoft's concerted push into the field of "software as a service" (SaaS), a delivery...
[February 21, 2007, 16:16]
Hosted success a glimmer of hope for Siebel
News Despite reporting that its second-quarter revenue would fall well short of Wall Street estimates, Siebel's growth of its hosted applications business could signal improving prospects for the company. When freshly appointed Siebel chief executive...
[July 11, 2005, 10:05]
IBM looking for hosted package partners
News IBM is in discussions with its partners to create a pre-packaged set of hosted applications, a move that could ultimately create an online analogue to traditional packaged applications and spur market adoption of software services.
[January 28, 2005, 12:20]
Salesforce moves into web content management
News Salesforce.com, best known for its hosted sales applications, is pushing into web content management. This will provide underlying services, such as search and document versioning, to software developers who want to create hosted applications on...
[April 10, 2007, 7:23]
Buyer Beware: Tips for Getting the Best Agreement From Hosted Application Vendors
White Papers More and more businesses are choosing hosted applications in general, and CRM applications in particular, to help them meet their business technology needs. Unfortunately, most hosted CRM buyers spend 95 percent of their time focusing on the...
[July 25, 2006, 3:16]
Developers expect SaaS boom
News More than half of software developers worldwide expect to work on internet-hosted applications during 2009, confirming the success of software-as-a-service, according to a survey from Evans Data. European developers were currently engaged in fewer...
[January 13, 2009, 15:21]
IBM announces hosted application plan
News Increasing its focus on the hosted-applications sector, IBM on Wednesday launched programmes designed to support companies that build, sell and market Web-based software to businesses. The company introduced a set of initiatives aimed at helping...
[May 26, 2005, 16:20]
Entellium puts new spin on CRM
News A Seattle-based software maker is hoping to put a new twist to hosted applications. Entellium sells hosted customer relationship management (CRM) applications to track information such as customer buying trends and sales forecasts, a market which...
[October 20, 2004, 15:30]
IBM branches out with utility computing
News IBM announced on Thursday that it has signed up a customer for a hosted design software service, a sign that utility computing is branching out into specialised applications. IBM also offers SAP's R/3 and other packaged applications in its hosted...
[June 18, 2004, 10:10]
VMware pushes hosted virtualisation
News VMware has launched an offering which it claims will increase the reliability of hosted services and applications for end-user organisations. BT could also use VSPP to allow its customers to run hosted virtualised environments of their own.
[June 8, 2007, 12:30]
RightNow looks to the enterprise for expansion
News The hosted applications company on Wednesday launched RightNow CRM 7.5, which it says boasts significant improvements across three of the major subsets of CRM applications - marketing, sales and service.
[August 11, 2005, 9:25]
Google's search for business customers
News Google's attempt to push its online applications to businesses by deepening its relationship with CRM specialist Salesforce.com attracted a lot of interest recently, but it's still not clear how many companies are prepared to trust their mission...
[April 23, 2008, 16:50]
IBM and Akamai expand on-demand deal
News IBM and Akamai Technologies have expanded an existing deal to let companies run business applications on Akamai's hosted Web network, as part of IBM's vision for utility -- or on-demand -- computing. By tapping into Akamai's hosted services...
[December 11, 2003, 11:35]
SAP preps for hosted CRM launch
News SAP is expected to launch on Thursday a hosted CRM software service, as the business applications software giant steps into an increasingly crowded field. SAP executives have said they wanted the company's hosted CRM service to offer not only ease...
[January 31, 2006, 9:40]
Does TwitterGate point towards bigger Cloud security issues?
Blog And it’s reaised a lot of questions about just how secure The Cloud, hosted business applications and Web 2.0 services are. I write this as the former managing director of an information security company, long time hosted applications user and...
[July 17, 2009, 10:50]
