Application Service Provider News Archives

LightPole , a mobile application service provider focused on the "Long Tail" publishing market, has announced integration with Yahoo! Fire Eagle, a personal location service platform. via Macsimum News

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BELFAST : Belfast's growing Montessori School could soon expand into a former MBNA office building, with athenahealth as its landlord. via Village Soup

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“The real testament to this release has been about building a technical solution that scales from small box up to the data center”

On April 22, Microsoft announced the "general availability" of its Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online product. via The Industry Standard

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“We see them co-existing. People will wind up using both. In many cases, that's already happening, but not via enterprise purchases. It's via the independent actions of individual users and groups of users”

Google's attempt to push its online applications to businesses by deepening its relationship with CRM specialist Salesforce.com attracted a lot of interest recently, but it's still not clear how many companies ... via BuilderAU.com.au

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“We know exactly how to win in this space”

Microsoft will soon detail ways that partner companies will be able to deliver their services based on Microsoft's hosted services, the software company said on Tuesday. via PC World

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For the past couple of years, Microsoft has been crowing about its hosted CRM service that competes head-to-head with services from Salesforce.com. It wasn't until today, April 22, however, that Microsoft's ... via ZDNet

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One of the four newly announced Socialtext Use Cases is particularly close to my heart, Collaborative Intelligence. via Socialtext

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“If you're an IT department in a big enterprise, it makes you wonder what your job is going to be”

Gaving found success with the SaaS business model, Salesforce.com is now promoting its Force.com platform, which offers cloud-based app dev Now that Salesforce.com has proved that SaaS is a successful business ... via Infoworld

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Google reported earnings for the first quarter. The fears of a meltdown were overblown . via TechCrunch

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“SnapCMS is a cross-platform social networking solution that will save nonprofits time while enabling them to manage a coordinated brand presence on multiple social networking sites”

Kintera Inc. today announced that Kintera Connect partner, FreeCause, has created a social networking application that integrates Facebook with Kintera's donor management system. via Freshnews

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“No. For every application Google offers, there's a blog with it. Go read the blog, they say, and you'll see what new features we offer. You'd never accept this from a mainline vendor.”

Monday's announcement that Salesforce.com would provide Google Apps for free to its customers sparked off a debate among analysts about whether Google 's web-based software can make inroads with large ... via PC World

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“The NSA 3500 lets me handle up to 800 remote locations, so that we'll rely on getting long-term returns on our investment.”

SUNNYVALE, Calif. and NASHUA, N.H., April 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- SonicWALL, Inc. via Imaging Magazine

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TriCipher announced the acquisition of Sxip User Manager, a technology supporting today's integration announcement from Salesforce.com and Google Apps. via EbizQ

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“There is still a big trust issue, rightly or wrongly”

Salesforce.com Inc.'s online software service is becoming a showcase for Google Inc. via Chicago Tribune

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Google App Engine is a development "platform in the cloud" that currently has a relatively narrow scope. via Gartner

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“It's strategy is to keep Microsoft off-balance, and away from Google's own core strengths.”

Open source has grabbed a big part of the server and app dev market. Apple has redefined the mobile device market and rendered Windows Mobile devices beyond pass © . Firefox has blunted Internet Explorer's ... via Infoworld

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“In the future, all applications will tie back to Sun servers running on the Internet”

Sun officials preached on Thursday the benefits and nuances of Project Caroline , a research project pertaining to running Internet services. via The Industry Standard

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CRM / GOOG / ORCL Google is obviously making big moves into the enterprise. In February, it relaunched JotSpot as Google Sites under the enterprise group, and next week it is expected to announce deeper ... via Seeking Alpha

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Kintera , Inc. today announced that on April 2, 2008 it received a notice from the Nasdaq Stock Market indicating that it has failed to comply with Nasdaq Marketplace Rule 4450 , which requires a minimum $1.00 ... via Freshnews

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Salesforce will be making a whole bunch of partner announcements at an event in San Francisco next Monday. via TechCrunch

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“You can almost get lost sitting around thinking of ideas and how to do them. It's nice to have a sounding board of other customers to bounce ideas off of”

News By Chris Kanaracus Following a path laid out by companies such as Salesforce.com, risk-compliance software vendor Archer Technologies is opening up the Archer Exchange, an online marketplace and community ... via CIO

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“I'd like to give you some advice, but I don't know if you'll take it, because you are a bit younger.”

Hasso Plattner of SAP and Marc Benioff of Salesforce.com squared off in a debate Thursday over which company has the best platform to run a company's business. via PC World

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“SalesByFone makes it possible to access, update, and manage key prospect information directly in salesforce.com through voice commands”

Angel.com, a vendor of on-demand call center and Interactive Voice Response products, has introduced the latest version of its Virtual Call Center product, VCC'08. It combines automated call distribution and ... via TMCnet

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“I would be scared at what you just said. If you extend that to whole enterprise system, I would be scared to death”

Two titans in the enterprise software business faced off Thursday at a Churchill Club event at the Computer History Museum here, and a bit of history was made. via CNET News.com

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“The continued acceptance and adoption of salesforce.com as the CRM product of choice across all segments of the business community has been one of the key drivers behind our success”

CRM manager, a provider of full-service implementation and ongoing consulting services for clients of salesforce.com, the market and technology leader in Software-as-a-Service and Platform-as-a-Service, today ... via Imaging Magazine

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United Arab Emirates: 32 minutes ago This makes them the first company to deliver end-to-end solutions to the Middle East. via AME Info

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“Based on what these important donors told us, we believe a tremendous opportunity exists for nonprofit organizations to better leverage their online presence to improve the online experience of the wired wealthy”

While more wealthy donors are using the Internet to spread their philanthropic dollars, most charity Web sites are missing opportunities to engage them, according to a national study released Monday. via Nashville Business Journal

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