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by Scott Wilson on January 05, 2008
The Google Docs team has posted an update discussing some recently released features for their Presentations component and a few minor updates to their core document management components. If you are...
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by Scott Wilson on January 03, 2008
A curious fact (or maybe not so curious) that I have noticed in the inevitable spate of new year prognosticating is that everyone seems to believe that the field about which they are prognosticating...
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by Scott Wilson on December 18, 2007
Okay, I promise, I'll get off this topic after today, but I just ran across this article at Baseline which reinforces my basic point from yesterday: Google is going after business customers....
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by Scott Wilson on December 14, 2007
Amazon is rolling out a limited beta of the latest scalable SaaS offering, a database called "SimpleDB." Together with the previously offered Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2) and Simple Storage...
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by Scott Wilson on November 19, 2007
IBM announced last week their entry into the lofty realm of cloud computing with the introduction of a program called "Blue Cloud" for corporate data centers. Blue Cloud, running on (what...
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by Scott Wilson on October 24, 2007
As reported here last week Amazon's Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2) service is now out of beta and available for general use; now, a new service is out which begins the mind-bending journey of...
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by Scott Wilson on October 17, 2007
Amazon's EC2 virtual computing resource service has ended its beta phase and is now available to all developers, according to Dan Farber at ZDnet. The service, particularly in combination with...
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by Scott Wilson on October 17, 2007
Hewlett-Packard has announced plans to expand their Software as a Service offerings this week under their Business Technology Optimization umbrella. The BTO offering covers a variety of IT service...
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by Scott Wilson on October 10, 2007
I wasn't aware of it when I posted yesterday, but apparently Amazon's new SLA for S3 followed on the heels of a similar offer from Nirvanix, and is due to be followed shortly by an even more...
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by Scott Wilson on October 09, 2007
Amazon announced yesterday that, effective October 1st, they are offering a 99.9% uptime service level agreement for their Simple Storage Service (S3). The full text of the SLA can be found here....
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by Scott Wilson on October 05, 2007
Google announced today that they have completed their integration of Postini's e-mail compliance and security features to the Premier edition of their Google Apps service. Postini was acquired...
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by Scott Wilson on October 01, 2007
Microsoft's "online" office offering, Office Live Workspaces is now accepting sign-ups for beta testing. I have "online" in quotes because it's not what most of us have...
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by Scott Wilson on September 25, 2007
Longjump, this time, with a free trial period going through the end of the year. No word on pricing-looks like they are hoping to hook you and then spring the bad news after you're already into...
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by Scott Wilson on September 19, 2007
I'm ashamed to say I don't have any good coverage myself on SAP's new mid-market SaaS solution Business ByDesign, but I am happy to instead point you toward Michael Krigsman's concise...
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by Scott Wilson on September 17, 2007
eXpresso Online Spreadsheet Manager for Excel, that is. eXpresso is delivering a Software as a Service offering which promises to ease collaboration issues with Excel spreadsheets, a problem of...
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by Scott Wilson on September 05, 2007
As an aside... does anyone actually use the term "ASP" anymore? I don't really care, SaaS, ASP, it's all the same to me, but I think the blog categories should probably be...
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by prashanth on November 20, 2005
Computer World has a special report on Outsourcing, Here are some data points specificall on ASPs. Almost 1/3rd of US Companies currently use an ASP, And further 22% indicated that they will in the in...
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by steve on July 21, 2005
Today I while catching up on my blog reading and I came across a slew of interesting posts on SAAS at Amy Wohl blog, here are few key exceprts from the multiple posts, this is going to be a long......
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by steve on July 11, 2005
Do you believe in the old saying there is no smoke, when there is no fire? On a possible offering of hosted CRM solution by SAP there has been a lot of smoke, Recently NEWS.com is carrying a piece...
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by steve on July 02, 2005
There has been a lot of talk about Software as a Service and one of the poster children in this space has been SalesForce.com, But in a recent note published on June 22, analysts from JMP Securities...
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by steve on June 21, 2005
With the announcement of 24H Laundry and the sponsored posts I have been doing on support center stuff with HDI, I was reminded about a company call White Pajama (now Contactual) that provides...
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by steve on June 08, 2005
TripleTree, an investment banking firm, and the Software & Information Industry Association (SIAA), in a prescient report released last year identify among the key factors of success of Software...
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by steve on May 05, 2005
SaaS Spending Exceeds Expectation.As IDC report indicates that the Worldwide spending on software as a service (SaaS) reached $4.2 billion in 2004, an increase of 39% over 2003 according to a recent...
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