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SaaS: Lack of Ability to Integrate — Show-Stopper?

By Dick Weisinger

There’s a lot to like about the SaaS model — easy upgradability, reliability, affordability, and ease of use. But what about the ability to integrate a SaaS application with something else, either another SaaS app or a traditional on-premise one?

SaaS: Software at a lower price point

By Dick Weisinger

Software pricing is under attack. Traditional software licenses based on per server or concurrent/registered user models are often expensive. Much of the success of the SaaS model has had to do with offering a pricing model that is more attractive

Oracle: A bright spot in a down economy

By Dick Weisinger

While the rest of the economy has been on a downward path since the beginning of the year, Oracle is an exception. At the end of May, Oracle closed out it’s fiscal year with strong growth. Total revenues reached $22.4

SaaS: A Case For Standards

By Dick Weisinger

McKinsey Research has argued that traditional languages like Java and .Net just don’t cut it when it comes to SaaS. Instead they predict that SaaS-based development platforms, something that some people are calling Platform as a Service (PaaS), like those

SaaS : Number of SaaS installations soon on Par with Traditional Software

By Dick Weisinger

A report from Scottsdale, Arizona-based market researcher In-Stat is predicting that the number of SaaS installations for enterprise applications like CRM and ERP in the US will match the number of installations deployed using traditional software licenses within the next