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  • SaaS offering provides detailed analysis of your software portfolio

    By John Dix | 04 May, 2012 05:46

    Are you faced with the need to do a software portfolio analysis but find the prospect daunting given the scattered nature of your operation? A new SaaS-based offering from Cast might fit the bill.

  • Oracle quietly plotting ambitious cloud computing plan

    By Brandon Butler | 19 April, 2012 07:39

    During a series of analyst briefings this week, Oracle has provided additional details of how it plans to play in the cloud moving forward.

  • Finally! An Office cloud service for iPad worth using

    By Galen Gruman | 12 April, 2012 20:12

    For some reason, 2012 is shaping up to be the year of Cloud-based Windows 7 and Microsoft Office offerings, including scarily bad services such as OnLive Desktop, which was a media darling in January based on nothing more than demos. The real product is all but unusable - you lose your connection when you switch to other apps, for example, and you can't use the iPad's native keyboard. Plus, the company violated Microsoft's Windows 7 licensing terms, offering an essentially illegal desktop-as-a-service product. (That issue has since been resolved.)

  • IT pro rethinks infrastructure from the ground up, ends up in clouds

    By John Dix | 05 April, 2012 05:39

    Mark Adams, vice president of IT at HireRight, is living the dream -- the chance to completely rethink the infrastructure for a $300 million software-as-a-service employment screening service company. While the nucleus of the 1,600 employee company has been around for 30+ years, a three year acquisition spree resulted in data center sprawl, leaving the company with 10 facilities, including company owned and collocation and disaster-recovery sites, some of them overseas. Now HireRight is three quarters of the way through a consolidation effort with a heavy emphasis on cloud. Adams gave an update on the company's modernization progress to Network World Editor in Chief John Dix.

  • Cloud services face taxing dilemma

    By Brandon Butler | 29 March, 2012 06:39

    States are having a hard time keeping up with the cloud, especially when it comes to taxing it.

  • Movideo migrates to Windows Azure for APAC growth

    By Nermin Bajric | 28 March, 2012 11:45

    As past of a four-year agreement with Microsoft, software-as-a-service (SaaS) online video platform business, Movideo, is migrating its integrated online video platform to Windows Azure to attract business growth across APAC.

  • IBM user group: 75% of companies aren't collecting social media information

    By Jon Gold | 13 March, 2012 04:46

    A recent survey of the IBM SHARE user group found just 25% of respondents were collecting data from social media networks for business purposes, though many more are apparently planning to do so in the near future.

  • 5 signs that you've lost control over your Cloud apps

    By Carolyn Duffy Marsan | 12 March, 2012 21:28

    CIOs are waking up to the reality that they've lost control over access to data stored in software-as-a-service applications purchased by other departments.

Interviews about SaaS
  • Mark Hurd: Oracle’s only objective is to help customers

    By Anh Nguyen | 02 May, 2012 17:17

    Oracle president Mark Hurd has pledged to "make it easier" for customers to do business with the company.

  • NewLease's Doug Tutus: A new lease on life in the SaaS game

    By Jennifer O'Brien | 08 September, 2010 11:37

    Calling itself the 21st century distributor, NewLease is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) specialist with a sole focus on the service provider community. It facilitates and implements SaaS or subscription licensing models in Australia, New Zealand and India. Company chief Doug Tutus said the company - which was initially established as a service provider - is well placed to attack the SaaS market, having positioned itself early in the game and fine-tuned its expertise. JENNIFER O'BRIEN reports.

  • SaaS, not shopping, is focus of Symantec's new CEO

    By Robert McMillan | 26 June, 2009 09:32

    CIOs think of Symantec as a company that buys its way into new markets. Over the past decade the Cupertino, California, vendor has snatched up about 30 companies as it's evolved from an antivirus and tools seller to an aspiring enterprise infrastructure vendor.

Features about SaaS
  • Are you ready for networking in the cloud?

    By Jim Metzler | 31 October, 2011 21:48

    The two primary forms of public cloud computing, Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), are both growing dramatically in popularity. Over the last few years, the primary focus of the IaaS providers has been on offering the basic compute and storage resources required to run applications.

  • Behind Enemy Lines: Salesforce.com, Rimini Street

    By Thomas Wailgum | 14 October, 2009 08:01

    Both tech vendors are aiming to change the rules of game for enterprise software. And while they're going about it with two different business models, the companies share some things in common.

  • What Microsoft Azure means to SMBs: not much, yet

    By David Coursey | 15 July, 2009 23:16

    Small and medium-sized businesses have more important things to worry about than Microsoft's new Azure, a cloud-resident platform for building applications served to users online.

  • SaaS An Easy Sell For This CIO

    By Howard Dahdah | 09 March, 2009 15:02

    The tasks in Laef Olson’s working hours can be rather varied. Olson, who is the CIO at Software-as-a-Service vendor RightNow Technologies is on the one hand responsible for IT security and the organisation’s information systems, while on the other he spruiks the strategy and vision for the company's on-demand hosting platform. On many occasions Olson gets a direct audience with company CIOs. What makes it easier for Olson to get traction to the upper levels of management is his past. He has been group vice president of global technology operations of Travelport and Orbitz Worldwide. And before that CTO of cars.com. In these roles he was also a consumer of SaaS products. It is that experience that he uses to relate to customers when on the road. Olson briefly stopped over in Australia last month where CIO Magazine asked him about the maturity of SaaS.

  • Corporate SaaS considerations myriad, complex

    By John Fontana | 09 March, 2009 10:11

    Amid the growing popularity of software-as-a-service, IT managers are faced with a sometimes monumental task of developing big-picture strategies and policies to govern service-based applications as well as defining performance metrics and support.

  • Will the downturn accelerate cloud computing?

    By Tom Sullivan | 02 October, 2008 07:50

    Facing uncertain economic times, enterprises may be more likely to turn to cloud computing services -- such as SaaS (software as a service), Amazon-style utility computing, and managed service providers -- for the lower up-front costs, the faster time to market, and the ability to add capabilities quickly without investing in new hardware.

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