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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 SaaS components where is... [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. The other big traditional tech vendors are all working on cloud services, with Microsoft starting to really... [01 Aug 2008]
Cloud computing: Silver lining…
Comment Software as a service (SaaS) comprises more or less ready-made applications that just need a bit of configuring to get them going. Or simply signed up for SaaS from a reputable vendor. This isn't the place to offer formal classifications for cloud... [09 May 2008]
The truth about software as a service
Comment So last year when Microsoft started talking about software plus services, there was much cynicism - especially from proponents of the now widely accepted model of software as a service (SaaS), which has made real headway as an alternative way of... [23 Jan 2008]
Getting more out of the net
Comment There are three main reasons why businesses of all sizes are set to become increasingly reliant on the internet: greater automation of cross-organisational business processes; flexible locations for data centres; and the rapid growth of the... [02 Nov 2007]
The greening of IT: Cooling costs
Comment Witness the growth of on-demand entertainment services such as IPTV, and businesses moving to a pay-as-you-grow software as a service (SaaS) model. And SaaS: how many over-powered standalone PCs are processing unnecessary applications in the... [21 Sep 2007]
Speeding up the net - is it possible?
Comment One trend that is contributing to the increase in network traffic is the growth of subscription-based applications that are accessed over the public internet, called software as a service or SaaS). But whilst access to such applications might be... [09 Jul 2007]
Supply chains go on-demand
Comment You'll find many terms being used for the latter: on-demand applications, software as a service (SaaS), hosted computing. What we are talking about is business applications running on hardware located in a facility run by an organisation separate... [04 Apr 2007]
Stories of the month - February 2007
News The Microsoft welcomes 'pardners' onto SaaS bandwagon Click on the links below to read the stories everyone is talking about. The big names of the tech world dominated February's stories - with Apple, Google and Microsoft all featuring heavily in... [28 Feb 2007]
Cheat Sheet: Software as a service
Cheat Sheet Again though the SaaS vendors will tell their users the security they have in place is better than anything the user has - given the economies of scale - protecting thousands of customers, and a reputation, rather than just one business. [31 Oct 2006]
Leader: Of tipping points and SaaS
Leader This past week saw a lot of people talking about on-demand software as a service (SaaS). More notable perhaps was Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer giving SaaS some 'Steve time' and a big thumbs-up this week. [13 Oct 2006]
Cheat Sheet: Web 2.0
Cheat Sheet Many people aren't yet ready to embrace that move but investors and advocates of SaaS are certainly convinced. For example web 2.0 covers 'software as a service' (SaaS) - companies are being told they no longer have to buy software but instead... [21 Aug 2006]
