Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) is attractive not only for its accessibility but also for its economic advantages.
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Salesforce.com has Force.com, a development platform that sits on top of its industrial-strength software-as-a-service infrastructure.
Ninety-sixty percent of respondents indicate that user adoption of Software-as-a-Service applications is also causing complications.
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It took him a decade to get the respect he deserves for pushing software-as-a-service.
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Analysys Mason's forecast, created as part of the Enterprise program, covers software-as-a-service and infrastructure-as-a-service.
We also had a conversation around software-as-a-service, and the only asset they had was Business By Design.
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His sole concern with the stock is the one that often comes up with the software-as-a-service giant: valuation.
Software-as-a-service (SaaS) will account for 70% of revenue in 2010, while 30% will be related to infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS).
Right now he favors software-as-a-service firms, including Salesforce.com and Cornerstone OnDemand, which tend to have less European exposure.
Riverbed and Akamai this morning announced a joint project to speed up the performance of cloud-based software-as-a-service applications.
This marks the expansion of the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) portfolio already available from Sprint which includes support, office and field-productivity services.
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Murphy points out that the stock is up 11% in the last 12 months, versus 56% average gains for other software-as-a-service players.
For SAP Business By Design, the Software-as-a-Service offering, using cloud based services is natural, because Business By Design is delivered in the cloud.
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Indeed, times have never been better for companies evaluating CRM choices, especially those provided by software-as-a-service, or as they say now, cloud vendors.
Some executives cite examples of 60 to 70 percent savings by replacing custom-developed internal applications with software-as-a-service alternatives sourced from the public cloud.
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The number of Software-as-a-Service applications available today for managing business functions like finance, HR and more can help startups better handle rapid growth.
In a recent report, Wells Fargo tech analyst Jason Maynard zeroed in on syndicated commerce as an emerging software-as-a-service category extension to ecommerce solutions.
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About Acxiom: Acxiom is an enterprise data, analytics and software-as-a-service company.
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Cornerstone OnDemand shares are trading lower Tuesday morning after Goldman Sachs analyst Greg Dunham this morning reduced his rating on the software-as-a-service company to Neutral from Buy.
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The Europe, Middle East and Africa accounts for just a small piece of the software-as-a-service market, 13% last year, according to IDC, versus 74% in the Americas.
As organizations prepare for this transition, we encourage them to look at the opportunities afforded by the supply chain and by deploying software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications in the cloud.
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IBM's Web focus also exploits the timely appeal that software-as-a-service has to IT managers' wallets in the midst of the current economic downturn, says IDC Research Analyst Frank Genz.
Beginning with the well-known Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) structure, Gartner added in a Business and Information Systems layer that includes brokerages, management and security.
Scribe Online is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) integration platform that is multi-tenant based, enabling a on-premise to on-premise, on-premise to cloud, and cloud to cloud integration of CRM and enterprise systems.
OpenX products, including OpenX Enterprise, OpenX Market, OpenX Lift and JumpTime provide a unique Software-as-a-Service platform by combining ad serving, an ad exchange, a Supply Side Platform and content valuation.
Major software companies, including Oracle, IBM, Google and even Amazon.com, are all beginning to offer their own forms of utility computing applications, such as software-as-a-service and rented storage and processing power.
Hadoop is rising to prominence in an era of ubiquitous cloud computing and proven models for Software-as-a-Service, which dilute the power of some of the traditional models for commercializing open source.
More than one out four of the 1, 364 organizations surveyed (27%), in fact, already use or plan to use cloud or software-as-a-service (SaaS) offerings to augment their core business intelligence (BI) functions.
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Along with the mainframe makeover, IBM has also announced that it will acquire software-as-a-service provider Kenexa (NYSE: KNXA), a company that has experienced approximately 15.9 percent revenue growth over a five-year period.
The programs, an addition to the company's "Lotus" group of applications, also represent one of IBM's most ambitious forays yet into enterprise software-as-a-service, the browser-based model of applications pioneered by companies like Salesforce.com.
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