Despite the cost savings software-as-a-service (SaaS) promises to provide, some businesses believe the on-demand delivery model is not suitable as a platform for core enterprise-class applications.
Telstra announced today that it will be launching its own software as a service (SaaS) platform, incorporating applications from the largest vendors as well as smaller Australian developers.
In a few years' time, almost all businesses will use open source, according to Gartner whether IT managers know it or not.
Microsoft has come around to Google's way of thinking on Software as a Service (SaaS) -- announcing a beta program for a multi-tenant service that will serve multiple Exchange and SharePoint customers from a single software instance.
EMC has launched a new strategy and a product for businesses looking to make use of online storage and backup -- the company also plans to roll out the service in Australia the second of this year.
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A recent thread of conversation across a couple of 2.0 blogs has been the subject of whether Web 2.0 is suited not only for implementation inside a corporate firewall, but by companies with a view to improving their relations with their customers.
Blogs consisting solely of bullet points seem to be popular these days, if Guy Kawasaki's rather lazy blog is anything to go by. This morning, Microsoft's Don Dodge detailed venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins' list of seven rules for software startups, as told by KP partner Ajit Nazre at a recent conference.
For years, CEO of Salesforce.com Marc Benioff appeared in public wearing an "End of Software" button on his lapel -- just to rankle Bill Gates, Larry Ellison, or any other software mugwump making a killing on selling packaged applications.
Melbourne-based AFL club, The Western Bulldogs, recently implemented the enterprise-edition of Salesforce.com CRM for its corporate sales division.
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