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HP, NetSuite Partner On SaaS Solutions For Growing Companies
Through a partnership with on-demand software provider NetSuite, HP is moving to establish a larger presence in the cloud and provide its extensive VAR network a bridge from legacy on-premises solutions to the on-demand offerings gaining popularity with small and midsize businesses. -- Nov 11, 2008
Fill-In-The-Blank Online Video Advertising
So long, blue skies? A California start-up has rolled out a software-as-a-service platform that inserts ads smack-dab into the actionless portion of a Web video. -- Nov 10, 2008
Salesforce.com Extends Platform To Host Web Sites
Salesforce.com is broadening its cloud with a hosted service that lets subscribers build and run Web sites using its Force.com platform. -- Nov 3, 2008
Don't Miss: Cloud Computing For Your Business
Smaller Business SaaS Still In Early Adopter Phase
Despite bullish predictions that the market for SaaS is ripe and small and midsize businesses are embracing subscription-based applications and IT services, the market for may still be in the early stages, which means lots of opportunity. -- Oct 30, 2008
Smaller Businesses Have IT Envy, See SaaS As Solution
How do smaller businesses use and manage IT? Not surprisingly, smaller organizations struggle to compete with larger enterprises and often don't know how to gain access to the high-quality IT services that could offer competitive parity or advantage. But hosted services may open doors previously closed to smaller organizations. -- Oct 30, 2008
Google Apps Looks To The Future
In the wake of yesterday's announcement of Labs for Google Apps, I just happened to get a chance to sit down with a Google project manager on the apps enterprise team. He offered some insight into the company's plans to differentiate its products. -- Oct 29, 2008
Yahoo's Zimbra Joins The Cloud Club
Yahoo's Zimbra is becoming a hosted service provider in its own right, for the first time taking its open-source, Web-based messaging and collaboration application straight to a select customer segment. -- Oct 28, 2008
SaaS Revenue Poised To Double Within 5 Years
Business may have concerns about letting vital business data move offsite, but those concerns aren't stopping the SaaS market from growing by leaps and bounds according to a new report. And more big name vendors, such as IBM, are jumping on the SaaS bandwagon. --Oct 23, 2008
We Have Lift-Off: IBM Launches Lotus Notes Into The Cloud
Look, up in the sky, it's a bird, it's a rocket from India, AND it's Lotus Notes Hosted Messaging, a software-as-a-service version of IBM's popular e-mail offering. -- Oct 23, 2008
Benchmark Your Business With Freshbooks
Business owners know how well they're doing relative to last year, last quarter, and last month. Knowing how you're doing relative to your competitors, is another story. That's the gap Freshbooks aims to bridge. -- Oct 14, 2008
Free Cloudmail Continuity Offer From LiveOffice
Snailmail may be immune to rain, sleet snow, etc. but heavy weather can wreak heavy damage -- and outright interruption and downtime -- on your e-mail traffic. A new free service from LiveOffice argues that the solution to storm clouds' potential for disruption lies in the digital Cloud. -- Sep 29, 2008
Amazon Floats The Cloud Closer To End Users
Amazon continues to spread its cloud-computing wings with a new content-delivery service it says will help businesses get their files onto their customers' computing systems via the Internet quicker than ever. -- Sep 19, 2008
Intuit's Triple Play Pushes QuickBooks Into SaaS Spotlight
Intuit heats up the SaaS competition with the announcement of a new application suite combining sales, warehouse, and field service management -- QuickBooks adds much need power and Intuit announces ambitions beyond financial management. -- Sep 11, 2008
ZoooS and Zoho Boost Cloud-Based Alternatives To Microsoft Office
At the Office 2.0 conference in San Francisco this week, ZoooS and Zoho offered new evidence that productivity software is moving to the cloud. -- Sep 5, 2008
Smaller Businesses Drive SaaS Growth In China
Worldwide, the market for SaaS is projected to grow 25% annually and reach $19.3 billion by 2011. Much of the fuel for the growth comes from China, where the annual growth rate is pegged 33% and almost 20% of the total market ($3.8 billion). And in China, the SMBs are the growth engine -- 42 million of them contributed 60 % of GDP and by 2012 there will be 50 million. -- Aug 29, 2008
QuickBooks Climbs Into The Cloud
"SMBs are at an interesting point right now. When they open for business they don't think about main street, they think across the county, they think globally. The days of the yellow pages are gone." -- Aug 18, 2008
SMBs Say "Show Me" When It Comes To Cloud Computing
There's so much cloud computing talk right now, it borders on inescapable. But smaller businesses have been taking a wait and see approach, holding steady until the mists fade and reveal a clear path to follow. That reticence may have saved some from missteps, while costing others opportunity, but now the clouds may be lifting. -- Aug 8, 2008
Trio Of New Security Companies Launching This Week
Busy week in the security business -- at least three new companies hope it's a busy week. Targeting security software-as-a-service (SaaS), anti-malware needs and cloud security, the companies are launching a variety of ambitious technology strategies. -- Aug 5, 2008
Online Marketing Just For Smaller Businesses
For many smaller companies, online marketing is " or should be -- a crucial component of their business. But online marketing, which involves SEO, e-mail marketing, and pay per click ads, takes time, some money, and increasingly, some expertise. Products designed for small and midsize businesses are finally entering the market. -- Jul 30, 2008
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