SaaS apps
How a tech 'watch list' can save CIOs from being caught out
News SaaS becomes ubiquitous for packaged apps Other technologies judged by Forrester to be increasingly important over the next few years include policy-based SOA, mobile apps and business... [12 Oct 2009]
Pre-Integrated SSO for Software-as-a-Service & Enterprise Applications
White Paper By easing user access and strengthening security, KeyChain improves manageability of both your SaaS apps - Salesforce, Workday, Concur, ADP and others - along with enterprise apps like... [23 Mar 2009]
Scale Globaly: Integrate Locally
White Paper Providing single sign-on to web, SaaS and portal apps is more critical than ever today. IT must manage identity and access to Web applications and demonstrate compliance. This once required expensive... [23 Mar 2009]
Symplified Identity Cloud
White Paper Providing single sign-on to web, SaaS and portal apps is more critical than ever today. IT must manage identity and access to Web applications and demonstrate compliance. This once required expensive... [23 Mar 2009]
Is software as a service really cheaper?
News The real time that goes into deploying enterprise apps is not so much in the technical aspect but in the other elements of developing the data model, workflows, business process and integration - and with that kind of... [20 Feb 2009]
The Guardian goes Google Apps
Case Study Although the implementation went "extremely well", Beale said: "There were relatively minor challenges persuading people that the SaaS model is suitable for this kind of data. The Guardian News and Media group has moved... [12 Feb 2009]
Is Salesforce.com sitting pretty for cloud wars?
Comment At Dreamforce Marc Benioff was quick to point out the shortcomings of his competitors, criticising Microsoft for only making its Azure cloud OS compatible with its own technology and SAP for delays to its Business ByDesign... [12 Nov 2008]
IBM follows Microsoft into the cloud
News The concept of cloud computing incorporates other recent developments in internet-based computing, such as software as a service (SaaS) and the rich browser-based interfaces associated with web 2.0. Google promotes the... [06 Oct 2008]
Web 2.0, cloud computing 'to transform business'
News Web 2.0 technologies may make you roll your eyes dismissively right now but the likes of software-as-a-service (SaaS), mash-ups and online services will have a change-inducing impact on business within the next two... [11 Aug 2008]
The rise and rise of Infor
Comment The company has attracted attention, partly through good marketing and a touch of hubris but also by becoming the poster child for a new way business model - software as a service (SaaS). It has started to deliver some... [06 Aug 2008]
Cheat Sheet: Cloud computing
Cheat Sheet Big SaaS players offering these kinds of software include Google with its Google Apps and SaaS specialists salesforce.com and Netsuite. There's definitely a market out there for this... [01 Aug 2008]
Losing control in the SaaS lane
Comment Evangelists for software as a service (SaaS) say it is the way of the future. Indeed, some analysts claim that SaaS will become the dominant mechanism for delivering applications over the next few years. [16 Jan 2008]
Top 10 software stories of the year
News But with another big vendor in the shape of SAP unveiling its range of business management apps in September it seems SaaS is will continue to be on the agenda in 2008. Software as a service... [14 Dec 2007]
On-demand software can help banks avoid fines
Comment Falling costs for bandwidth and improved software delivery models have provided the general spur for growth of SaaS but there had been little evidence this type of service was adopted for compliance solutions. [01 Nov 2007]
Marc Benioff
AS Profile And in the past month or so, salesforce.com launched a new SaaS CRM platform called Force.com, which makes it easier for businesses to develop their own apps, including the ability to create customer... [12 Oct 2007]