The real appeal of Saas
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What is inherent to all or most Saas applications that makes the model so appealing to midsize and larger companies?
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InfoWorld - If you curse your &quot;tier-one&quot; IT management solution as too cumbersome, too complex, and too expensive, you&#39;re not alone. In arecent Gartner study that declares the &quot;Big Four&quot; -- BMC, CA, HP, and IBM -- increasingly vulnerable to SaaS (software as a service) and open source alternatives, surveyed users gave their vendors mostly C&#39;s and D&#39;s, and a good number of incompletes.
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Web applications are hot--and either destined to be the next big thing on the Web or the next bubble.
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TechWeb - Driven by in-house development and acquisitions, it has a new plan to become a top-tier software vendor. It's worth a look.
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Without question, open source is one of the most important forces in enterprise IT. Apache is still the reigning champion of Web server software.
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It's got the right stuff to be king of the software jungle.
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Ziff Davis - Enterprise application vendors should be lauded for offering evaluation versions.
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I appreciate when a vendor succeeds at developing a very good application. But what I find more admirable is when a vendor recognizes the deficits in its solutions, makes no excuses, and quickly goes back to the drawing board to make that app excellent.ADVERTISEMENTNEW IT SERVICES FROM IBM: EASIER TO BUY AND IMPLEMENTDiscover a simpler, more cost-effective way to get the solutions your company needs to grow more flexible and efficient.
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Blog: Open source applications will drive a hefty load of infrastructure purchases in the future.  Proprietary vendors who hide their heads in the sand and try to avoid this trend or make it difficult for would-be open source partners to work with them will fin
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Whereas most of todayâs software tools follow the âbigger is betterâ philosophy, Savvysoftâs (Profile, Products, Articles) TurboExcel proves the adage that great things really do come in small packages.
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TechWeb - The software as a service offerings make it possible for services companies to manage entire project lifecycles, and for wholesalers and distributors to mange core business functions.
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Many organizations allocate large resources to implement and deploy packaged ERP, CRM and SCM applications. Now these organizations need to move away from operational efficiency gains achieved and into leveraging their data for performance management and business intelligence.
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TechWeb - The portion of new business software revenue generated from SaaS products is expected to increase to 25 percent by 2011.
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Users on hand for this week's Enterprise Architecture Practitioners Conference say a move to SOA can yield substantial rewards -- after a company has first navigated the problems such a move can uncover.
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One of the proverbial back stories of IT operations has always been the battle between the "suits" and the "techies." From the techie point of view, the hapless but disturbingly powerful suits are the business guys who put more thought into picking out hundred-dollar silk ties at Nordstrom than they put into million-dollar IT decisions. Worse, the suits gravitate towards outsourcing and service firms that implement big-dollar solutions. Many techies start on the other end of the spectrum with free open source solutions that reflect a substantial DIY ethic. Will the twain ever meet?
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Don't worry, it's moving slow enough you can jump on Quocirca's changing channels If you're an independent software vendor (ISV) and concerned that you are about to miss the software as a service (SaaS) bandwagon, rest assured there is no shortage of organisations out there ready to lend a hand.â¦
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InfoWorld - SCOTTSDALE, ARIZ. -- While the glitzy new consumer products may get most of the media attention at the Demo@15 show this year, enterprise applications were also well represented.