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Yearly Archives: 2011

SaaS: On a Convergence Path with the Cloud

By Dick Weisinger

SaaS and Cloud Computing have been growing rapidly.   New research from Gartner estimates that the SaaS market grew at 15.7 percent in 2010 to $9.2 billion, with slightly stronger growth of 16.2 percent expected in 2011, raising global SaaS…

PLM: Enterprise Software Becoming More Usable and More Sociable

By Dick Weisinger

PLM vendors are doing their best to pivot their development paths and reinvent their software to incorporate better usability and more collaborative and social features.  It’s been a challenge for them, but by the end of 2010, some signs of…

Cloud Computing: Is the Cloud Green?

By Dick Weisinger

There’s no question that a single mammoth cloud data center is more energy efficient than the sum of the many in-house data centers that it can replace.  The cloud is more efficient because it can enable better utilization of resources and…