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SaaS: APIs — Pathway to the Enterprise

By Dick Weisinger

SaaS as a concept is growing in acceptance.  But one stumbling block that it keeping it from gaining wide-spread acceptance in the enterprise is the difficulty in integrating components that are hosted remotely.  The key to being able to gain

SaaS: Huge Growth in Asia Pacific

By Dick Weisinger

20 percent of companies in the Asia Pacific are using SaaS, and software specialty areas like ERP are set to grow from $35 million in 2008 to $193 million in 2012. Balaka Baruah Aggarwal, senior market analyst of Emerging Software

SaaS: Sun's Vision for the Clouds

By Dick Weisinger

With the backdrop of Oracle’s likely acquisition of Sun Microsystems, Sun’s James Gosling recently commented on technology and a variety of Sun’s initiatives. Gosling said that Sun has been planning a SaaS strategy for some time. Not too unexpectedly, Sun’s

SaaS: The End oF Maintenance Fees

By Dick Weisinger

Salesforce.com has long used the slogan: “the end of software”. Now Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff is calling for “an end to maintenance fees”. While the idea is similar to their longstanding slogan, the emphasis may be changing slightly in Salesforce’s

SaaS: Email Shift Towards On-Demand

By Dick Weisinger

SaaS has had a firm grip on the CRM market for some time. Now that trend towards SaaS is spreading to e-mail. In a new report by Gartner, the forecast is for 20% of the commercial e-mail market to shift