Feb 29, 2008 | Application Development Trends
OpSource Rolls Out SaaS App Integration Offering
“You actually get to see how your customers use your application everyday”
OpSource, the Santa Clara, Calif.-based software-as-a-service hosting company, today added an option to its service offerings that lets companies consume and publish multiple Web services, and connect those ... via Application Development Trends
Businesses Enhance QuickBooks With Add-ons
National Group Awards 'Awesome Add-ons for QuickBooks' LAS VEGAS, Oct. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- The Sleeter Group, the nation's premier network of QuickBooks consultants, has announced its annual selection of ...
PayCycle Named as the Top Payroll Service Provider in the CPA...
PayCycle , America's #1 online payroll service, today announced that it has been recognized with the CPA Technology Advisor's Readers' Choice Award.
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Oracle To Boost SaaS Efforts With Upgraded Siebel CRM On Demand
“Larry [Ellison] is very concise about our strategy: Oracle serves the largest companies in the world”
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, in a conference call with financial analysts last fall, candidly summed up traditional software companies' predicament with the software-as-a-service model. via InformationWeek
Free CRM Integrates Vonage VOIP
“The new generation of software-as-a-service companies like CRM ASP and FreeCRM.com is ushering in the new era of integrated telecommunications and software”
CRM ASP, the market leading SAAS CRM provider with over 75,000 companies, today announced the availability of Vonage VOIP services fully integrated in the CRM platform. via Market Wire
Salesforce.com Unveils Adobe AIR Tools
Salesforce.com on Monday introduced a toolkit for building Adobe AIR and Flex applications to run on Salesforce.com's software-as-a-service platform. via InformationWeek
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Bungee Offers Platform-as-a-Service Dev Beta
“It's a model that we didn't invent”
Bungee Labs this week rolled out the full public beta of a hosted service designed to provide a complete Web-based application development environment. via Application Development Trends
Blackboard Announces Opening of Australian Datacentre Servicing the Asia Pacific Region
“This partnership ensures inter-institutional benefits for our members should they decide to host the Blackboard Academic Suite(TM) at Blackboard's datacentre.”
Blackboard Inc. , a leading provider of enterprise technology for the education industry, announced the opening of a state-of-the art, enterprise class datacentre in Mascot, New South Wales, Australia. via AndhraNews
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InsideSales.com Receives CRMReviews.com 1st Annual Product of the Year Award for Lead Management
“We are grateful to be recognized by CRM Reviews as the leader in the Lead Management category”
PROVO, UT, February 22 / MARKET WIRE/ -- InsideSales.com announced today that it has been named the winner of the Lead Management category for CRM Reviews 2007 Best Product of the Year. via Customer Interaction Solutions
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Bluewolf Announces Expansion of Authorized Training Centers to Boston ...
“Customers are adopting salesforce.com's CRM applications and Force.com Platform in record numbers, and there is significant demand in Boston and Philadelphia for these training centers”
Bluewolf , the world's leading on-demand consulting firm, today announced the opening of two additional Authorized Training Centers in Boston and Philadelphia. via Customer Interaction Solutions
Kintera Launches First Connect Developer's Challenge
Kintera Inc. today announced its Connect Developer ' s Challenge. The contest, sponsored by Kintera, is designed to provide nonprofits with innovative solutions to meet their business and technology needs. via Earth Times
Linedata's Beauchamp Enterprise Solution Deployed by Tennyson Fund Solutions
“We are pleased to have licensed Beauchamp Enterprise to Tennyson Fund Solutions and feel that this partnership will afford the alternative investment market both opportunity and access to our award winning Hedge Fund Solutions”
Tennyson has integrated Beauchamp's complete set of hedge fund products to form an investment management platform on an ASP basis, significantly expanding their technology and client services offering. via PR-inside.com
Russell Harris Appointed as President and CEO of MontaVista Software; ...
MontaVista Software, Inc., the leader in embedded Linux commercialization, today appointed Russell "Rusty" Harris as president and chief executive officer of the company, effective immediately. via M2.com
Saleforce.com for Sale to Oracle at $75 a Share
Salesforce CEO and erstwhile Larry Ellison lieutenant Marc Benioff might be Ellison's natural successor By: Maureen O'Gara Feb. via WEBSPHERE Journal
Sarah Lacy knifes NetSuite CEO on air [Clips]
In this Tech Ticker segment , correspondent Sarah Lacy laughs and smiles and pitches softball questions -- "Salesforce.com is going to become Siebel, and you're going to become SAP?" The flattery is effective: ... via ValleyWag
What can SaaS vendors learn from mobile operators?
Peter has a good post today about the outages being suffered by Salesforce.com and I posted earlier this week about Blackberry's outage. via Blah Blah Blog [Ryan Rogers]
Downded Salesforce systems slow Europe and US
“We take the success of our customers very seriously. There is no finish line when it comes to system performance.”
Salesforce.com systems are calling in sick this Monday. The company's service status page has been winking red X's as the software-as-a-service poster child struggles to wrangle its machinery. via The Register
BroadSoft Inc: De-Fi Mobile Chooses Broadsoft To Enable...
“De-Fi represents a fundamental shift in the mobile services industry toward mobile VoIP services that are 'De-Fined' by their quality, advanced features and price predictability.”
RDATE:12022008 Mobile World Congress, Barcelona, Spain -- BroadSoft Inc., a leading provider of VoIP application software, today announced at Mobile World Congress that mobile application service provider De-Fi ... via TMCnet
Salesforce.com Climbs on Speculation Oracle May Purchase Software Company
Salesforce.com Inc., the world's biggest maker of Internet-based customer management software, rose the most this year in New York trading on speculation that Oracle Corp. via Bloomberg Business News
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iLink opens new office in Austin, Texas
With broad spectrum of services iLink Systems is well poised to serve the local ISV's and ASP's market to build software and product using Microsoft technologies. via Press Release News From 24-7 Press Re...
Re: RAID, journaling, and ASPs, oh my
In the referenced doc, the steps for such a recovery are the first listed in "Choosing the procedure to recover user ASPs"; i.e. in the task list, under the heading "Recovering a basic user auxiliary storage ... via Midrange-l mailing list
Analysts stay bullish on IC growth
“What it comes down to is that these actions cost the market 6 to 8 points in growth and did for the forecasts that we gave in January 2007”
Although storms may be howling around the general economy, the bulls and bears are in surprising harmony when it comes to predicting the prospects for the global semiconductor industry in 2008. via My ESM
ASP Free Software Test Drive: WAUSAU Offers Opportunity to Experience Remote Capture Solution
“As the number of remote capture providers continues to multiply, the choices become many and the decision becomes more difficult for financial institutions”
WAUSAU, the industry leader in distributed payment and document processing solutions, today announced a limited time, 30-day free trial offer of its Application Service Provider solution to qualified prospects ... via Intelligent Enterprise
snom Incorporates Camrivox Software to Deliver CRM Telephony Integration for SMEs
“In cooperation with Camrivox we offer a comprehensive computer-telephony integration solution that provides a unique added-value to the customer deploying it in his enterprise and that ensures productivity at the highest level.”
BERLIN & CAMBRIDGE, United Kingdom -- -- snom technology AG, developer and manufacturer of Voice-over-IP phones and Camrivox Ltd, the developer of CTI software for CRM applications, today announced that they ... via TMCnet
VSoft Acquires Branch21 Assets
“VSoft realized a growth in customer base as well as internal infrastructure expansion during 2007”
Financial technology solution provider VSoft announced on Monday that it has acquired financial software provider Branch21 for an undisclosed amount at the BAI TransPay Conference and Expo. via TheWHIR.com
Intacct Announces Record Growth and Corporate Expansion
“The market for on-demand financial applications reached a tipping point in 2007, and Intacct was well positioned to capitalize on the shift toward SaaS solutions”
Intacct, a leader in on-demand accounting and financial management solutions, today announced that in 2007, the company experienced record demand for its suite of Software-as-a-Service applications -- resulting ... via CPA Software News
Microsoft has begun a global rollout of its Dynamics CRM application , designed to appeal to hosting companies and give Redmond a legitimate place in an on-demand software world now dominated by SalesForce.com. ... via Techworld
WorldAPP Announces Salesforce.com Integration
“Salesforce integration is one of the many API-based solutions we are providing our users with.”
WorldAPP, a developer of online data collection platforms, has announced its ultimate integration service for Salesforce.com customers. via TMCnet