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Security and SaaS: SaaS Offers Small Businesses Better Security Than They Can Provide Themselves In-House

By Dick Weisinger

Increasingly small and medium sized businesses (SMBs) are outsourcing their IT operations to SaaS vendors.  In the past businesses worried about poor security and the loss of data when using cloud applications.  That thinking has now totally flipped.  Businesses now see

Cloud Computing and SaaS: SaaS Takes on Ever Greater Percentages of IT Budgets

By Dick Weisinger

Ernst and Young Transaction Advisory Service recently performed a survey of nearly 200 IT managers and CIOs. The survey found that SaaS is increasingly being used by businesses and is expected to take a growing share of the IT budget.

SaaS and Security: Closing the Security Gaps Brought on by the Public Cloud

By Dick Weisinger

Increasingly businesses are adopting cloud and SaaS tools that promote business agility.  But the flip side of this benefit is that use of the cloud often bypasses standard corporate security.  Gartner estimates that in five years that more than one

SaaS Disruption 2.0: Established SaaS Vendors Challenged by Upstarts

By Dick Weisinger

Innovation waves are poised to disrupt first generation SaaS vendors, according to Techcrunch. “We believe HR SaaS is one of the first clear cases of a third, newer path of broad SaaS innovation — next-generation SaaS (SaaS 2.0) disrupting established previous

SaaS: Spending on Cloud Applications to top $50 Billion by 2024

By Dick Weisinger

Businesses are expected to spend $12 billion this year on cloud-based SaaS applications, according to analyst numbers compiled by price comparison company Better Buys.  Over the next eight years, SaaS spending is expected to increase to $50 billion.  The growth