A new study plays a familiar tune about delays and cost overruns
More than half of companies that implement ERP (enterprise resource planning) systems end up garnering no more than 30 percent of the business benefits they expected, according to a new study released by systems integrator Panorama Consulting Group.
US customers can get up to an $850 credit for each user who switches to Dynamics
Microsoft is offering financial enticements to customers of on-demand ERP (enterprise resource planning) vendor NetSuite to switch over to Microsoft's Dynamics family of business applications.
The company is transforming from a system integrator to 'a service assembler,' Capgemini said
The technical services group of Capgemini has traditionally helped companies with system integration, but cloud computing is changing that. The company is increasingly assembling lots of different software-as-a-service applications, a phenomenon that has led Capgemini to create a new business unit.
The acquisition means Google and Microsoft will both be offering similar Office-based services
With its acquisition of DocVerse, announced Friday, Google is offering an online component to Microsoft Word before Microsoft does so itself.
The CRM vendor's 'Cloud Challenge' manifesto calls for better transparency and terms
CRM vendor RightNow announced a new SaaS (software as a service) pricing and licensing model on Thursday that it says provides customers with fairer, clearer deals. The company also issued a "Cloud Challenge" to competitors, urging them to adopt similar principles.
Google offers this "best in class" protection at no additional charge
Google recently extended what it describes as highly advanced and sophisticated data backup and recovery to all components of its Apps communication and collaboration suite.
Businesses are taking the plunge into budget-friendly software-as-a-service offerings for recruitment to central ERP.
Customer relationship management applications are still the largest segment of the ballooning software-as-a-service market.
Recent survey reveals security and complexity of managing the cloud as main issues
Eighty-three per cent of organizations gearing up for cloud computing are planning to start with private clouds, according to a recent survey from Platform Computing Corp. Forty-five per cent are already committed to the idea and in the process of deploying private cloud initiatives.
The service, Cyclone, is aimed at technical computing users
SGI is rolling out what it believes is the first hosted supercomputing service on the market.
Space agency gets into software-as-a-service
NASA is aiming to improve its climate research capabilities by creating a software-as-a-service interface for scientists and students who need to build complex climate models.
Analysts predict on-demand business intelligence will outpace on-premise applications this year
Mounting evidence suggests that in 2010, the hottest segment in BI (business intelligence) software will revolve around offerings delivered from the cloud, thanks to increased product sophistication, strained IT budgets and other factors.
The AJAX-powered overhaul was two years in the making
Google Apps, Zoho and other online collaboration players got a fresh dose of competition Tuesday, as HyperOffice announced that a major overhaul of its online collaboration suite is now in private beta.
Executive: But developers won't be forced into a single programming method
SAP is hoping to build a platform of third-party SaaS (software-as-a-service) applications to complement its own emerging wave of offerings.
This new application will be available to users of Apps' Education and Premier editions
The Google Apps hosted communication and collaboration suite, which packs e-mail, calendar, office productivity applications and a wiki-based Web site builder, among other applications, is gaining a new component: discussion forums with mailing lists.
The Web is redefining how processing functionality is delivered, what an application and an operating system is.
One of the most profound changes in how computing services are being delivered is the use of the Web as a frontend for just about everything. We have seen this transformation in the thousands of software as a service (SaaS) offerings that have appeared in the last few years that now cover the entire spectrum of applications from corporate accounting through to video editing (something that just a few years ago was hard to imagine becoming a reality).
