Enterprise Saas News & Articles

If you were worried about the present and future of SaaS — Gartner says don’t be. Worldwide Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) revenue in the enterprise application markets is going strong.

Gartner predicts it will surpass US$ 6.4 billion in 2008, a 27% increase from 2007 revenue. Moreover, the market is expected to more than double with SaaS revenue reaching US$ 14.8 billion in 2012.

At the OpenWorld Conference today, Oracle unveiled its new line of CRM OnDemand applications.

The solutions are positioned as direct competitors to Salesforce.com’s hosted enterprise offerings.

For people sick of pseudo-enterprise Web 2.0 offerings with busy functions reminiscent of Twitter and the Facebook news feed, Oracle will lend you comfort. The CRM OnDemand suite is new media but all business, with the fat and frill completely sizzled off.