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SaaS: Would a Recession Bring Good Times or Bad?

By Dick Weisinger

Only last week ZDNet bloggers Farber and Dignan described SaaS as a recession-proof industry, quoting Jeff Kaplan of ThinkStrategies as saying that during a recession “many companies could hold back on their capital investments to mitigate their risks. The ability

SaaS: The Allure of On-Demand

By Dick Weisinger

All signs continue to confirm the growth of On-Demand computing infrastructure and applications. Managed service providers are seeing strong demand for the off-site hosting of applications. A report by market research firm In-Stat predicts that the SaaS market will see

SaaS: Is Multi-tenancy Really an Advantage in On-Demand?

By Dick Weisinger

Salesforce.com, Microsoft and others are promoting SaaS multi-tenancy as a competitive advantage for their on-line offerings. Multi-tenancy means that a single software instance is used by and supports multiple organizations. How can this feature make companies more competitive? The advantage

SaaS: Microsoft Shoots for the Clouds

By Dick Weisinger

First there were the desktop wars. Then the browser wars. Now Microsoft is challenging players like Amazon, Google, and smaller companies like Zoho for dominance in the Cloud. When the browser wars started, Bill Gates made a dramatic change in

Technology: Enterprises Blend SaaS and On-Premise with SOA

By Dick Weisinger

Many organizations continue to prefer to develop applications in-house. That approach allows them to have complete control over feature sets, customizations and integrations. But as these organizations begin to use the concepts of SOA, they’re finding that custom blends of