Daily Cloud Feed - Jan 21, 2009
This post is a daily aggregation of all news links from @onsaas. This post is automatically generated everyday at 11:45PM UTC.
- Plex Online - ERP without Software: Hey…You…Get off of my cloud!
- SYS-CON Launches “Cloud Computing 2009″ Website for Cloud …
- What SaaS Should Do To Catch On
- Highlights of Lotusphere 2009
- Q&A: Building Simpler Data Bridges with Open Source and SaaS
- Wipro Records 25% Growth in Total Revenue
- Information Builders and OnApproach Partner to Offer Business …
- IBM’s Lotus Goes Live for SaaS Apps
- BrightTALK Hosts Cloud Computing Summit
- Consulting News: EDL Consulting Announces the Successful Launch of …
- Omniture’s Outage Woes
- IBM Pushes Further Into The …
- Zuora “Business Cloud” Could Spur New Cloud Computing Apps
- SaaSPlex Launch WorkClouds - The World’s First True SaaS Marketplace
- An Internet Company for the 21st Century Church - Christian Newswire
- OnRelay opens Unified MBX beta program
- SaaSNews : Aptilo Networks Named a Red Herring Top 100 Global …
- Paglo Launches Partner Program to Enhance Remote IT Management
- The Importance of Data Integration in the Era of Cloud Computing
- The IBM Desktop
- From SaaS to Obama
- GoGrid’s Cloud Computing API Specification Goes Open Source
- Rackspace blows away cloud computing myths
- SAManage Secures Series A Funding from Xenia Venture Capital …
- Blog Building Software - Franchise blogging
- newsletter archive: Whitepaper Download Alert: January 19, 2009
- Operational Challenges of Multi-Prime Brokerage for Hedge Funds
- As SaaS model matures, complexity grows, but SaaS benefits hang tough
- TechWeb’s Interop(R) Las Vegas 2009 Highlights Cloud Computing …
- IBM enters the cloud with LotusLive; Notes pricing a mystery
- LetMeKnow Launches “Alerts-as-a-Service”
- Cloud computing model suits economic decline: 3PAR
- eWEEK Labs Walk-through: Dabble DB SAAS Database
- BlueTie Collaboration Service Now Available on Mac
- CRM News: Implementation: SaaS Integration Woes and Other Things …
- How to price software/Saas - Business of Software
- Identifying IBM Lotus channel opportunities
By Mark Symonds - Plexus Systems
They don’t see the vague and unnamed dangers in multi-tenancy purported byLarry Ellision and the thundering herd at Oracle. They know that productslike Plex Online can offer depth and breadth for manufacturers unlike …(more)
SYS-CON Media - Montvale,NJ,USASYS-CON Media announced today that the Website showcasing one of its mostdistinguished titles, Cloud Computing Journal, founded in 1994 and now inits …(more)
bMighty.com - Manhasset,NY,USAWhile Software-as-a-Service generates a lot of buzz, some small and midsizecompanies are hesitant to jump on the SaaS bandwagon for fear of it being a…(more)
eWeek - New York, NYLotusphere 2009 attempted to take a more hip, Web 2.0 and SAAS (software asa service) spin this year, with IBM grabbing the Blue Man Group performance…(more)
Enterprise Systems - USAWith reduced resources, companies are increasingly turning tocost-effective solutions such as Software as a Service (SaaS). In thisinterview with Ilan …(more)
FOXBusiness - USAWipro offers to its customers delivery models like Software as a Service(SaaS), alternate revenue models such as transaction-based, …(more)
MSNBC - USA… today announced an arrangement to provide Information Builders WebFOCUSBI platform as a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offering for smallbusinesses. …(more)
Redmond Channel Partner - Irvine,CA,USABut this Software-as-a-Service stuff is wide open, and a huge player kickedup its pace in the SaaS race this week. IBM unveiled LotusLive this week in…(more)
MSNBC - USAAt this online summit, leading technology experts from around the globewill present webcasts sharing best practices, tips, techniques, andstrategies for …(more)
By Editor
The company’s Force.com PaaS enables customers, developers and partners tobuild powerful on-demand applications that deliver the benefits ofmulti-tenancy across the enterprise. Applications built on the Force.com…(more)
Forbes - NY,USAThe ease of the software-as-a-service model is one factor that’s drivenOmniture’s growth, he argues, but it may now be a source of the company’stechnical …(more)
InternetNews.com - USASametime Unyte was offered as a service. Lotus Connections is IBM’s ownsocial networking application. “We’re trying to build virtual communitiesamong the …(more)
bMighty.com - Manhasset,NY,USAZuora.com’s new Enterprise Cloud platform is designed to make it easier fordevelopers to sell subscriptions to the cloud-based applications theycreate. …(more)
24-7PressRelease.com (press release) - USAWorkClouds is the first website where organisations can select multipleSaaS applications and have them available to the entire organisation withinminutes. …(more)
By availing it as Software as a Service (SaaS) and automating nearly every
step, MRMBER.COM dramatically decreases the cost, time and the risksassociated with an MRM initiative. The MRMBER Team MRMBER has organized adiverse team of business … from church leadership, enterprise software,Web-based software development and open-source. Technology partners includeOlive Technology, Inc. and ZTNet Solutions, a catalyst in helping bring theplatform to market rapidly. …(more)
By webmaster@mobileeurope.co.uk
Unified MBX is highly flexible, supporting on-premises deployment, hosting,and distribution as software as a service (SaaS) by OnRelay’s partners. Theonly hardware required is a standard server or VMware instance, …(more)
Aptilo Networks Named a Red Herring Top 100 Global Company MSNBC - 5minutes ago Aptilo’s solutions are available as software licenses orthrough a hosted Software-as-a-Service ( SaaS ) option via the AptiloManaged …(more)
TMCnet - USAThe multi-tenancy feature of the service allows consultants to manage allclients and data through one master account via a Web interface. …(more)
ebizQ - New Rochelle,NY,USABy David Linthicum on January 21, 2009 2:48 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes As cloud
computing begins to gain traction within the enterprise, there seems to bea …(more)
InformationWeek - Manhasset,NY,USAAt the opening of this week’s Lotusphere, a lot of the talk was aboutLotusLive, which is IBM Lotus’s new offering in thecloud/Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) …(more)
Computerworld - Framingham,MA,USAI was speaking with Ahmed, an IT executive in Saudi Arabia about sundryissues surrounding information technology this morning when theconversation turned …(more)
SYS-CON Media - Montvale,NJ,USABy Cloud Computing News Desk GoGrid has released its cloudcenter API
specification under a Creative Commons license, enabling developers, systemintegrators …(more)
VNUNet.com - UKManaged hosting provider Rackspace has launched a new web site designed toanswer enterprise customers’ questions about cloud computing. …(more)
Research from Gartner analyst Michael Maoz predicts that by the year 2012,30 percent of investments in CRM will be via software-as-a-service (SaaS).(via Lauren McKay of DestinationCRM.com); Interest in SaaS has lead to …(more)
On Compendium’s corporate blogging software, all this great content will beorganized with no effort at all. This is a large scale blog strategyfocused at SEO. The end result will be a more cohesive corporate messagefrom franchise to franchise … Compendium helps track this ROI and ourplatform with a system of support makes it easy. Comments. Name: EmailAddress: (Not displayed with comment.) Comments:. Please enter the text yousee in the image below: …(more)
By mailarchive
platform in this whitepaper from IDC. Benefits include saving IT staff timeby automating routine tasks, increased IT productivity, higheravailability, faster response time to incidents, cost savings and improvedROI. … to Software as a Service (SaaS) as an option for outsourcing ITservices like sales or customer relations management. With SaaS comes newprovisioning, integration, and security challenges. This white paperaddresses how Internet Single Sign-on …(more)
Prime Broker (Outsourced) - “Hearsay Reporting” - Hearsay reporting is whenone prime (usually the original prime) agrees to accept and aggregate thetrading files from other primes on to their reporting platform. … Itinvolves a single integrated solution that includes a real-time portfoliomanagement system built around a trading engine, all made available throughthe Software as a Service (SaaS) deployment model. It places the FIXenabled portfolio management system …(more)
SearchCIO.com - USABy Christina Torode, Senior News Writer Now that the Software as a Service
(SaaS) delivery model has proved itself at the departmental level, someCIOs are …(more)
PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USAInterop will feature topics such as cloud computing, virtualization,mobility and Green IT. The event will take place at the Mandalay BayConvention Center …(more)
Computerworld - Framingham,MA,USAThe site also lists LotusLive Notes as a service “available for sale,”although IBM is selling it in a different way. Fill in a form, …(more)
ReadWriteWeb - CA,USAAccording to branchnext, that means the LetMeKnow platform can beimplemented, tested, and released in days without placing the burden ofsoftware …(more)
NetworkWorld.com - Southborough,MA,USABy Ross O. Storey , MIS Asia , 01/21/2009 Cloud computing service delivery
models align ‘extremely well’ with the financial pressures created by theglobal …(more)
eWeek - New York, NYDabble DB, a Web-based database application from Smallthought Systems,provides a structured database environment while enabling users to do thead hoc data …(more)
MSNBC - USAROCHESTER, NY - BlueTie, Inc., the leading Software as a Service (SaaS)provider of collaboration services for businesses, announces today that theBlueTie …(more)
By ECT News Network
CRM Buyer is the essential guide for CRM system purchasers. CRM Buyerfeatures CRM product information, reviews and comparisons. It is anindependent source updated each day.(more)
Does anyone have any valuable insights into how to price software? I’vedone a bit of reading around but at the end of the day it still seems moreguess work than science. Love to hear any insights, personal experiencesetc.(more)
NetworkWorld.com - Southborough,MA,USA… channel chief believes they’re getting the right model in place to helppartners capitalize on the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) businessopportunity.m. …(more)


