Worldwide software as a service (SaaS) revenue is forecast to reach $7.5 billion in 2009, a 17.7 percent increase from 2008 revenue of $6.4 billion, according to Gartner, Inc. The market will show consistent growth through 2013 when worldwide SaaS revenue will total over $14 billion for the enterprise application markets. “The adoption of SaaS [...]
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SpeedTax SaaS Introduces Online Tax Software Solution
SAP ERP customers get access to an easy-to-use, affordable, technologically advanced, and SST-certified sales & use tax solution LAGUNA HILLS, Calif.–(Business Wire)– SpeedTax, a provider of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), fully-automated sales tax management solutions, today announced a product that gives SAP ERP customers access to the most technologically advanced, easy-to-use and affordable sales tax calculation, returns [...]
Microsoft cuts BPOS price to squeeze Lotus -SaaSBuzz
Microsoft cuts BPOS price to squeeze Lotus While most observers portray Microsoft’s sortie into online email and collaboration services as a titanic battle to keep Google off its productivity applications turf, the real target of this week’s price reductions is IBM’s Lotus unit. In a briefing earlier this week, Ron Markezich, corporate VP, Microsoft Online [...]
How Far Will Google Wave Go? SaaS and Cloud News
SAP’s Gravity shows the online collaboration tool’s future as a business platform. // // Google Wave, the Internet giant’s new online collaboration tool, has generated much buzz among developers, and now it has a large geeky fan following doing strange and relatively useless things. You can check out some of the silliness at the Google [...]
The Growing Cloud 2009 – The Top 150 Players in Cloud Computing
The Growing Cloud 2009 – The Top 150 Players in Cloud Computing The Top 150 Players in Cloud Computing — A robust ecosystem of solutions providers is emerging around cloud computing.Here, SYS-CON’s Cloud Computing Journal expands its popular list of most active players in the fast-emerging Cloud Ecosystem, from the ‘mere’ 100 we identified back [...]
Microsoft Offers Free SaaS To Salesforce, Oracle Customers
Microsoft Offers Free SaaS To Salesforce, Oracle Customers The offer for six free months of Dynamics CRM Online came a day after Microsoft dropped prices for cloud versions of Exchange and SharePoint. Microsoft, which has increased its focus on cloud computing in recent weeks, is now making a big push for its customer-relationship management software-as-a-service. [...]
Webroot Grows Web Security SaaS Business By 150 Percent
Webroot Web and Email Security Services fuel Webroot growth in security services market BOULDER, Colo., Nov. 3 /PRNewswire/ — According to a report (1) from industry analyst firm IDC, Webroot® more than doubled its Web security software-as-service (SaaS) revenue from 2007 to 2008 – growing its revenue in this market faster than any other security [...]
RMI Acquires SaaS Provider ExpressYard | A Rail Car Billing Service
ExpressYard Car Repair Billing System the Most Widely used in North America ATLANTA–(Business Wire)– RMI, a leading independent provider of comprehensive software solutions to the transportation industry, today announced it has acquired ExpressYard, a Flint, Michigan-based provider of SaaS software applications that support the billing of railcar repairs for contract shops and railroads in North [...]
