Tue, 01 Jul 2008 11:59:50 +0000
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/SAAS/~3/323994283/
A leading British construction company switched 1,800 users over to Google Apps on May 2nd, becoming the largest live deployment in the UK so far. Its IT director firmly refutes the notion raised here yesterday that Google apps aren't fit for enterprise use.
Google’s culture ‘not fit’ for enterprise apps
Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:36:26 +0000
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/SAAS/~3/323293065/
Ex-Googler Sergey Solyanik says the search engine giant is culturally incapable of delivering enterprise-class reliability to its users, unlike his current (and former) employer Microsoft.
$34m VC round for Spanish SaaS venture
Mon, 30 Jun 2008 12:39:19 +0000
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/SAAS/~3/323217939/
One of the largest rounds of VC funding for a SaaS venture this year was closed earlier this month by Barcelona-based NTRglobal, which although little known outside its own market is one of Europe's biggest SaaS players.
Is Bill Gates a secret cloud convert?
Wed, 25 Jun 2008 09:40:47 +0000
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/SAAS/~3/319583567/
In Bill Gates' final week on Microsoft's full-time payroll, he seems to be dropping hints that he's starting to realize that cloud is a better way of doing many of the things Microsoft always used to try and do on discrete servers and clients.
How to cut your fuel bills 80% or more
Mon, 23 Jun 2008 15:05:20 +0000
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/SAAS/~3/318167195/
Some small businesses have found a way to slash their fuel bills even while prices shoot skywards, by using Web technology to reduce the number of site visits they have to make. The result is a fundamental shift in the economics of how they do business.
Why multi-tenancy matters
Fri, 20 Jun 2008 10:44:44 +0000
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/SAAS/~3/316131646/
Why do so many SaaS providers put so much emphasis on multi-tenancy? Intacct's CTO reveals some of the operational and economic reasons why running customers on identical code matters to his company. TalkBack commenters have their 2c too.
Authoria challenges some SaaS mantras
Wed, 18 Jun 2008 20:41:15 +0000
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/SAAS/~3/314890828/
Leading HR SaaS vendor Authoria challenges the conventional wisdom that SaaS favors best-of-breed specialists over all-in-one integrated applications. Unlike many other SaaS vendors, it also lets its customers choose when to upgrade to new releases.
Many degrees of multi-tenancy
Mon, 16 Jun 2008 11:08:48 +0000
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/SAAS/~3/312953170/
In SaaS circles, suggesting that a vendor's architecture is anything less than fully multi-tenant is tantamount to questioning a man's virility or impugning an American's patriotism.
Want cash? Buy SaaS
Tue, 10 Jun 2008 15:27:39 +0000
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/SAAS/~3/308908930/
US software vendors that want to impress their stockholders with enhanced cash inflows should look to acquire SaaS vendors, even in Europe, despite the exorbitant euro-dollar exchange rate.
Scaling the cloud, deflating the price of software
Fri, 06 Jun 2008 00:07:57 +0000
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/SAAS/~3/305678978/
Two separate but complementary phenomena in combination seem to radically undermine traditional on-demand pricing models, giving rise to a new economic reality for cloud-based application software. I learnt of all this back in January, and I've since been biding my time until last week's launch of the Amazon-hosted product [disclosure: for which, as a paid engagement, I've written a white paper (PDF)]. I've been eager to write about it because the story highlights t