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SaaS: Revolutionizing the Way You Do Business
White Papers What can SaaS (Software as a Service) offers organization? Review the countless benefits offered by this revolutionary software deployment model to determine if SaaS merits a test-drive! As one may know, Software as a Service (SaaS) is a method for...
[September 25, 2009, 0:00]
SaaS Vs. Traditional ITAM Tools: How the Hosted Approach Delivers Greater Value
White Papers This white paper discusses the differences between on-demand ITAM applications (also known as Software-as-a-Service, or SaaS) and on-premise solutions. Technology environments are becoming more complex, and are evolving and changing at an...
[April 3, 2009, 1:22]
SaaS may not live up to 'recession-proof' tag
News But a strange thing is happening on the way to SaaS domination: vendors have been hit with the same IT-spending freeze as their larger rivals. Forrester Research has argued that company accountants may give cloud computing and software as a service...
[November 6, 2008, 13:36]
SaaS Data Architecture
White Papers The adoption of Software as a Service (SaaS) or On-Demand presents several technical and business challenges for software providers. Data architecture for SaaS application can have a profound impact on a provider's ability to address these challenges.
[July 31, 2009, 1:21]
SaaS, on the Progressive Side
Blog Yet you can’t but ignore how some companies are constantly criticizing it, telling the “horror stories” of how “friends of their friends” wasted time and resources depending on their SaaS providers, how it’s totally unreliable to let your customer...
[November 12, 2008, 12:20]
Web-Based, SaaS Purchasing Model Lives Up to Its Promises
White Papers ePMX is or ePurchase Management eXtra is an On Demand/SaaS procurement solution for purchasing and material management. The entire ePMX suite has been built from the ground up for SaaS delivery. The company has put in years of experience and...
[March 7, 2009, 0:25]
SaaS software-management tools target SMEs
News Software project management specialist Serena Software has released a set of tools delivered via a lower-cost software-as-a-service (SaaS) model. The company said its Mariner portfolio management software will be available on a subscription pricing...
[March 4, 2008, 14:09]
Gartner: SaaS could cost more in the long term
News One of the main issues identified by analyst house Gartner is that although software-as-a-service (SaaS) is cheaper in the short term due to the lower capital investment, total cost of ownership could turn out to be more expensive in the long run.
[February 23, 2009, 7:47]
Salesforce.com outage hits thousands of SaaS users
News The problem affected all the software-as-a-service (SaaS) vendor's datacentres for almost an hour. Lock added that as long as SaaS vendors continue to deliver good service levels and availability, the occasional service interruption is acceptable...
[January 8, 2009, 7:56]
SAP denies reducing SaaS investment
News But, while company executives acknowledged the software maker has delayed the general launch of Business ByDesign, they dismissed any notion that it is scaling back on plans to become a key software-as-a-service (SaaS) player.
[May 20, 2008, 8:47]
ERP suppliers are slow to adopt SaaS, says Gartner
Blog Just about everybody is agreed that software-as-a-service (SaaS) is being adopted quickly but, according to the analysts Gartner, some are decidedly quicker than others. In a survey conducted recently, Gartner looked at three European countries...
[March 31, 2009, 16:50]
Salesforce attacks SAP over delayed SaaS rollout
News The analyst told ZDNet Asia that SaaS players have been most successful in the CRM market, with companies such as Salesforce.com gaining share in this segment. SaaS market leader Salesforce said it welcomes the competition from traditional software...
[May 21, 2008, 9:46]
Oracle SaaS Platform: Building On-Demand Applications
White Papers The adoption of Software as a Service (SaaS) or On-Demand presents several technical and business challenges for all players involved - Independent Software Vendors (ISVs), hosting services providers and the customers.
[January 9, 2008, 0:01]
Expert Strategies for Reducing the Risks of an SaaS Relationship
White Papers With promises of strong return on investment, low overhead and rapid application deployment, Software as a Service (SaaS) and Application Service Provider (ASP) solutions have begun to skyrocket in popularity.
[July 27, 2007, 12:16]
Fasthosts offers SaaS-ish MS Office
Blog Fasthosts, the ISP and hosting company, are offering Microsoft Office on the software-as-a-service (SaaS) model. Except.is it truly SaaS? Blimey - this one came in quietly. That means that, from £5 plus VAT per month, you can use Office as an...
[February 6, 2008, 15:53]
Governments urged to lay foundation for SaaS
News Peter Coffee, director of platform research at Salesforce.com, said in an interview that in order to reap the economies of scale of software as a service (SaaS) delivered over a large architecture, governments must come in to lay the foundation.
[September 18, 2008, 11:29]
Businesses reject SaaS as core platform
News Despite the cost savings software-as-a-service (SaaS) promises to provide, some businesses believe the on-demand delivery model is not suitable as a platform for core enterprise-class applications. Jan Ziskasen, Kraft Foods's senior director of SAP...
[May 21, 2008, 14:51]
SaaS has a healthy future
Talkback SaaS offerings can change and evolve quickly based on business needs - traditional software deployments cannot. Of course there’s a risk that customers will simply abandon a generic SaaS offering once they no longer require it.
[August 29, 2008, 9:19]
Going Lean and Green with SaaS for Document Process Automation
White Papers Still, the cost and complexity of implementing software and hardware to achieve comprehensive automation can be prohibitive — making the Software as a Service (SaaS) model an attractive option. SaaS has become part of many organizations' process...
[October 27, 2009, 11:07]
Identikey Server 3.1: Strong Authentication Solution for On-Demand Applications and SaaS
White Papers Better known as "SaaS" or "On-Demand", these applications reside on a server accessible over the Internet. Software deployments are shifting from a traditional approach where programs are installed on individual computers towards a web model.
[October 2, 2009, 1:23]
