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SaaS and Cloud Computing: CIO's Increasingly Marginalized

By Dick Weisinger

We reported recently that increasingly CFO’s are calling the shots for how IT budgets will be spent.  Parallel to that trend is the fact that more CIO’s are reporting directly to the CFO.  Now Liz Herbert, principal analyst at Forrester Research,

Open Source: Companies to Spend More than Half of IT Software Budget on Free Open Source

By Dick Weisinger

Open Source is supposed to be free, so it is interesting to note that a new survey finds that by 2016, on average, 56 percent of IT budgets for software will be going towards Open Source software.  That comment is

Cloud: Alternative Cloud Roadmaps, Getting from Here to There

By Dick Weisinger

If you’re currently investigating how your organization can begin taking advantage of using the cloud, in a new white paper Gartner outlines a framework to use that gets you started down a suitable path of investigation. Gartner generalizes five different

SaaS: Disruptive, but Contained in Scope

By Dick Weisinger

SaaS and Cloud Computing has caused the world of software to dramatically change.  ‘Disruptive’ is a description frequently used to describe its impact on the industry. “SaaS is a disruptive force in the industry, and has caused people to think very

SaaS: More and More, Small and Medium Companies Take the Plunge

By Dick Weisinger

SaaS is gaining popularity with small and medium sized companies. Just how fast is shown by some recent surveys made available by AMI Partners.  AMI has forecast 25 percent compound annual growth for hosted business applications used by small and