Bill Gates' replacement Ray Ozzie on whose shoulders the company's future
rests, the guy who has to dig Microsoft out of the Internet hole it finds
itself it and at all costs salvage the client, started this week to try to
redefine SaaS, software-as-a-service, as "software and a service," a
combination of desktop software and web-based widgetry, the company's latest
shot at the Internet.
"Even SaaS providers have found the need to expand offerings to include an
offline edition," he said. "SaaS 1 meant the web; SaaS 2 has come to embrace
the unique value of the client."
"It is thought provoking," he ventured, "to listen to the extreme viewpoint:
no more software." But "I've been though five software transitions and the
pendulum did swing, but the best solutions were integrated that would bring
together the best of one world with the best of the other."
This all happe... (more)
Parallels and Smart Online announced the Parallels SaaS Development Kit, a
suite of software development tools that will help independent software
vendors (ISVs) to package software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications for the
more than 10,000 service providers worldwide that use Parallels solutions.
"Through continued collaboration with the industry, Parallels is advancing a
unified platform to help our customers and partners take advantage of SaaS
with minimal effort and cost," said Serguei Beloussov, CEO of Parallels.
"Service providers and ISVs can use these development tools to of... (more)
Akamai announced a global increase in the amount of end-user geographies it
is serving on behalf of its SaaS clientele. Akamai-accelerated SaaS
transactions have grown ten-fold over the past two years, delivering
optimized performance and availability of its customers' SaaS offerings to
geographically-dispersed users residing in nearly 150 countries.
Presently, one out of every four SaaS transactions delivered over the Akamai
platform is executed outside of the United States, emphasizing the need for
SaaS providers to develop application delivery strategies for a global user
comm... (more)
Epicor announced Boot Barn has selected the Epicor Retail Software as a
Service (SaaS) solution to streamline its retail operations and support its
long-term growth plans. Boot Barn was one of four Retail SaaS deals Epicor
signed during the first quarter of 2008.
To support its current growth strategy, Boot Barn sought an end-to-end fully
integrated, retail solution to replace existing disparate systems and in
doing so, eliminating the manual processes required to integrate and share
data among these systems. To this end, Boot Barn chose the Epicor Retail SaaS
solution over a nu... (more)
Hot Banana Software, Inc. (www.hotbanana.com), a provider of Web content
management for marketing, has announced that its Software as a Service (SaaS)
hosted offering enabled Versa Management Systems, Inc. (www.versasys.com), to
relaunch its Web site in less than six weeks.
Versa Systems, a provider of regulatory software solutions for North American
government agencies, had a 10-year-old, custom-coded Web site that could only
be updated by computer programmers.
The new Hot Banana-powered site can now be updated by non-technical employees
without IT assistance. It has a cleaner d... (more)
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