Saas News & Articles

More enterprises have begun to see the cloud as a viable option for everything from physical servers to end user facing applications. This increased user demand is allowing companies such as data platform-as-a-service provider Cloudant to grow rapidly. The company announced that it is further expanding its data centers globally to improve reliability and performance.

Can an enterprise content management system promise to delight end-users and keep the company CEO out of jail at the same time?

If EMC’s CEO Joe Tucci aimed to put its partners' collective mind at rest over the fate of Documentum, then Jeremy Burton, the company’s CMO, was there to outline where EMC is going with the cloud and Big Data.

Usually it’s the Monday of any given vendor conference that the big news gets released. In the case of EMC, it was the partner conference yesterday in Las Vegas (Sunday) that set the tone for a conference that looks set to be full of interesting nuggets. Two big things came out of it yesterday, both of them issues where many people wanted to see what EMC would say.

Polycom has announced updates to its RealPresence video content management system, offering secure access to video content for smartphone and tablet users, as well as real-time transcoding for compatibility across various mobile and Web platforms.

It has been clear for some time that the market for software applications has been changing. "Agile" has become a buzz word in the apps world, with everyone talking about it, a few delivering and many more depending on their tried and tested on-premises apps.

Yes, I know, it’s a pretty harsh title, but I experience this week after week: ERP vendors coming up with the cloud-hosted copy of their ERP software and not understanding why it doesn’t sell. I wrote this post to stop them repeating this mistake and to share the lessons I’ve seen at least 10 times in the last three months.

Investing in business intelligence is a costly affair. Even for larger enterprises, it is not something that is entered into lightly, and before doing so, there are a number of issues that need to be considered before any decision is made. A recent white paper from Birst Software looks at those issues and what business intelligence vendors should be offering.

No matter what you say about Google, Google Apps has become one of the everyday work tools for many enterprises, especially -- although not exclusively -- in the SMB space. Most people assume that easy functionality combined with bargain-basement pricing is the main attraction. However, according to research by Cloud Alliance, that is not, in fact, the case.

Adobe's new offering, Creative Cloud, brings the company's expansive and expensive range of legendary publishing and art applications, Flash development software and other tools to all via an affordable software as a service solution.

Microsoft has found itself a big market for cloud services in India's national government. Starting this year, the Indian government will deploy Microsoft Software-as-a-Service solutions to about 7.5 million users in the education market.

Springpad, the Android and iOS productivity app, has been completely redesigned, and a new look accompanies added features that make Springpad more social. It really does look quite a bit more like the uber-popular Pinterest app that has the Web world sharing their favorite things in a more visual way.

When it comes to big data, just how much of it is used to leverage your site’s analytics? Thanks to the Dachis Group and its new SaaS product, Advocate Insight, you can monitor and measure the daily interactions in an effort to identify a brand’s most passionate and engaged customers across their social footprint.

Consumers are responding to data overload by turning to online content management services. The success of tools like Dropbox and Evernote is largely attributed to their distribution via the software-as-a-service business (SaaS) model, which leads to the following question:

Is the enterprise community, especially small and medium businesses, (SMBs) ready to adopt a SaaS model for their content management?