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• THINK IT Services: On-Demand Service Providers Becoming Best …

By Jeff Kaplan - THINKstrategies
This blog examines the business implications of IT service trends rangingfrom software-as-a-service (SaaS) and managed services to utilitycomputing, IT/business process outsourcing & other on-demand services. …(more)

• Seanodes Solves Storage Dilemma for Cloud Services Provider …

Delivering Software as a Service Aenigma provides an alternative toon-premise software development offering all the benefits and advantages ofhigh availability and enterprise-grade business tools such as MicrosoftProject Server, …(more)

• Your Data Is Not Equal. Stop Treating It Like It Is …

These solutions address different needs for file, application, server andsite recovery, and offer customers the choice of attached, virtual, onsiteor remote solutions with the flexibility to choose software, Software as aService …(more)

• Newswire / Press Release: Intrepidus Group Experiences 100 Percent …

PhishMe is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution designed to help preventdamage, theft and loss caused by targeted (spear) phishing attacks. PhishMefacilitates and automates the execution of mock phishing exercises againstemployees …(more)

• The Tuesday Barter Report - December 16, 2008 | EthicalMarkets.com

… our new media services sector in connection with our August 2008acquisition of the media services company assets, and additional staff inour technology department in order to pursue our Software as a Service(SaaS) initiatives. …(more)

• Symplified Symplified for Salesforce: AppExchange - On-Demand …

Symplified provides Access and SSO for Salesforce as well as your otherSaaS and enterprise applications. Seamlessly extend Windows logons acrossthe cloud to your SaaS applications. Unify your Directory with Salesforcefor centralized …(more)

• Zoho Creator Takes On Role as Google App Engine IDE | CRM Help …

Customers use Zoho to run their business processes, manage theirinformation and be more productive while at the office or on the go,without having to worry about expensive or outdated hardware or software.To date, Zoho has launched …(more)

• Sector Overview: SaaS

Seeking Alpha - New York,NY,USABy this author: The SaaS sector has been relatively unaffected by the weak
economy. Since the SaaS business model helps cut costs, business has beengood, …(more)

• Is Your Browser Leaving Your Cloud Assets Vulnerable? | Cloud Security

This issue is compounded with Cloud Computing as the Cloud Managementinterfaces exposed by the Cloud providers cannot - in most cases - berestricted to specific IP ranges (not a total solution but a significantmitigant). …(more)

• Process Perfection

James Urquhart, recently acquired by Cisco to be their cloud computingPoobah, for example, calls the same categories “scale out” and “enterprise”clouds, riffing of of terminology from Frank Gillett, Forrester’s cloudanalyst, …(more)

• Patersons HR and Payroll Solutions Secures $30 Million in Series A …

MarketWatch - USALogon2 fully leverages the Software-as-a-Service platform and featuresrobust functionality, including employee and manager self service; …(more)

• Skyytek Joins Intacct Business Solution Provider Partner Program

MarketWatch - USA… breed solutions from leading Software as a Service (SaaS) vendors likeIntacct and salesforce.com, instead of a suite of software from one vendor….(more)

• SOASTA Teams With Savvis to Deliver Cloud Testing Service

MarketWatch - USASavvis’ new offering, which features SOASTA, provides a comprehensive andhighly differentiated suite of enablement capabilities — frommulti-tenancy and …(more)

• DataMotion’s 2009 New Year’s Resolutions CIOs Should Keep to Gain …

MarketWatch - USA3) Consider Cloud Computing: In the past computing was about data itself -piles of it. Now cloud computing is all about allowing users to access …(more)

• Business Intelligence Leader Oco Predicts 2009 Will Usher in New …

MarketWatch - USASoftware-as-a-Service (SaaS) has provided an attractive proposition tosmall and mid-sized companies, yet large, multinational enterprises arealso …(more)

• AtTask, Boomi Offer Bundled SaaS Integration

TMC Net - Norwalk,CT,USA… and connect to the network of interconnected SaaS (News - Alert), PaaS,on-premise, and cloud computing environments using a self-service model….(more)

• Accenture: A Recession-Resistant IT Stalwart

NewsFactor Network - Woodland Hills,CA,USA… and enterprise resource planning, service-oriented architecture,software as a service, application outsourcing, and business processoutsourcing. …(more)

• Use New Tactics in Your Software Marketing Planning

MarketWatch - USASoftware As A Service — To maximize distribution, many traditionalsoftware providers are extending their desktop software to the web. …(more)

• The Case For SaaS in a Down Economy

NetworkWorld.com - Southborough,MA,USAIn part 2 of my interview with Savvis CTO Bryan Doerr we jump into theimplications of the economy and how the impact helps or hurts enterpriseIT, SaaS …(more)

• Cabinet NG Goes SaaS With Document Management

CMSWire - San Francisco,CA,USABy Barb Mosher / Dec 17, 2008 CNG has officially joined the ranks of the
SaaS content management providers. CNG-Online is the SaaS-based alternativeto …(more)

• Enomaly Appoints Enterprise Software Veteran Stephen Pollack to …

MarketWatch - USATORONTO, Dec 17, 2008 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — Enomaly, a pioneer incloud computing products and services, today announced that Stephen Pollackhas …(more)

• Is cloud computing just vapourware?

Ovum - London,England,UKCloud computing is starting to take a beating for being over-hypedvapourware - with virtually any online service being branded as ‘cloud’ toget on the …(more)

• Sift Media launches new B2B community for Cloud Computing

Accountingweb.com - Westerville,OH,USASift Media has today launched BusinessCloud9 (www.businesscloud9.com), anew business-to-business (B2B) community dedicated to the Cloud Computing…(more)

• Revel Consulting Bolsters Software-as-a-Service Practice with …

MarketWatch - USABoth senior associates will support the continued expansion of Revel’sSoftware-as-a-Service Practice, evaluating need, developing strategy andimplementing …(more)

• WestOne Mortgage Corporation Selects Loan-Score as Its Automated …

MarketWatch - USAOn the back-end, WestOne’s Operations Staff will leverage Loan-Score’sdecision management platform to improve cycle times, ensure accuracy andoptimize the …(more)

• Four questions on Google app security

Computerworld - Framingham,MA,USAThere’s been some debate over whether it’s truly possible to have securecloud computing. What’s the Google argument in favor of it? …(more)

• AdvancedMD Software Names Tech Veteran, Christopher J. Bijou, as …

MarketWatch - USABijou joins AdvancedMD following an 18-year career in the enterprisesoftware and software-as-a-service industries. Bijou’s most recent positionwas senior …(more)

• SOASTA and Savvis to Deliver Cloud Computing Testing

“Savvis’ new offering, which features SOASTA, provides a comprehensive andhighly differentiated suite of enablement capabilities — frommulti-tenancy and application fire-walling to software lifecycledevelopment services such as …(more)

• Nebulous cloud computing

CNET News - San Francisco,CA,USAWhen discussing cloud computing, I often think of Joni Mitchell’s hauntinglyrics from the song, Both Sides Now. In Mitchell’s world, clouds can be…(more)

• Saleforce.com looks to the Cloud

Siliconrepublic.com - Dublin,IrelandSalesforce.com has created a new set of services to accelerate the buyingand selling of enterprise cloud computing applications. …(more)

• SpringCM 5.0 Platform First To Enable Development Of Content …

FierceCIO - Washington,DC,USASpringCMTM Inc., the leader in on-demand document management and workflow,today announces SpringCM 5.0, the first SaaS platform that allows companiesto …(more)

• Siemens Updates OpenScape Virtual Contact Center

TMCnet - USAThe latest edition not only makes the software platform available as amulti-tenancy license, but also includes pre-packaged modules so thatcustomers can …(more)

• SaaSNews : AtTask, Boomi Offer Bundled SaaS Integration - TMC Net

AtTask, Boomi Offer Bundled SaaS Integration TMC Net, CT - 24 minutes agoUnder the partnership, Boomi AtomSphere will allow AtTask to integrate withSoftware as a Service and legacy applications from the cloud. … ReadMore…(more)

• Software As A Service: it’s about the business model - ITRPortal.com

Entitled “Software as a service: It’s about the business model, stupid”,the whitepaper stresses an alternative view to the prevailing technologyplatform bias in current discussions around the development of the SaaSindustry. …(more)

• Move Existing Apps to SOA or Cloud without Rewriting Codes

SYS-CON Media - Montvale,NJ,USAMicro Focus enables customers to move existing applications to an SOA orcloud computing architecture without the need for rewriting or replacingany code.(more)