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Updated SaaSGrid Meters Application Usage and Provides Companies Insights on Feature Sets and New Revenue Models Apprenda, creator of SaaSGrid, the industry’s leading SaaS Application Server, today announces additions to SaaSGrid giving software companies the competitive advantage to seize new revenue opportunities through insights gathered from usage patterns within their applications.
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Apprenda Announces Availability of the World’s first SaaS-Enabling API for Silverlight Apprenda, creator of SaaSGrid, the first software-as-a-service (SaaS) application server, today announces the availability of a SaaSGrid API for Microsoft® Silverlight. Apprenda’s SaaSGrid now provides native support for Silverlight-based applications to be deployed in a zero effort fashion as a component of fully commercialized, multi-tenant SaaS offerings.
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Apprenda Announces SaaS Entrepreneur and Former Venture Capitalist Devon Watson as Director of Business Development Apprenda, creator of SaaSGrid, the first software as a service application server eliminating the difficulties of building and delivering SaaS, today announced Devon Watson as its new director of Business Development. Watson will be responsible for leading Apprenda’s partner and alliance channel programs. Watson joins Apprenda with an extensive background in SaaS entrepreneurship dating back to 2002, and as a technology investor with leadership roles in venture capital funds.
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RightNow Tries to Change SaaS Contract, Pricing Game In a provocative, if not holier-than-thou stance, RightNow, a supplier of Web customer experience management software, has issued what it calls its "Cloud Challenge" to Salesforce.com, Oracle, SAP, and others.
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Outsourcing to India: Europe plays strictly by the rules European outsourcing customers prefer contract staff and local delivery, as per a latest Forrester study. Western Europe, which accounts for nearly $6.8-billion worth of India’s software exports, follows strict local labour rules and plans to avoid any move that could be viewed as anti-social, according to research firm Forrester.
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Is the True Measure of Outsourcing’s Value Really About Productivity? When companies outsource work to another country there is an implicit understand that total delivery costs will be lower than they are in the host country. But a much more interesting question is: What is the value of my spend? Or, in other words, what is the nearshore or offshore provider yielding in work produced over a specified period?
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Why Your Cloud Applications Should Be Multi-tenant Listen to my conversation with Rick Nucci, chief technology officer of Boomi, a SaaS integration vendor, who we last interviewed here in April 2009 on the topic of SaaS Integration, Simpler through Sharing.
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SaaS Profitability – SaaS Company is as SaaS Customer Does Profitability, one would think, should come quite naturally to a successful, growing SaaS company. But, SaaS startups have consistently struggled to reach profitability. Unprofitable SaaS companies have gone public and remained unprofitable for years after their IPOs, even as they grow revenues into the hundreds of millions of dollars.
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The ROI Of Software-as-a-Service Firms almost always consider software-as-a-service (SaaS) as a cost-advantage over on premise in the short run due to its quick implementation times and pay-as-you-go pricing. But many firms question the long-term value of SaaS, wondering if the rent-versus-own model necessarily has a cost crossover point and if so, when?... Forrester examined client decisions across a range of SaaS solution areas and found that firms obtain long-term value with SaaS solutions.
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Weapons of SaaS Destruction On-demand software must overcome three hurdles to improve enterprise adoption.
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20% of Businesses Will Get Rid of All IT Assets As They Move to Cloud, Gartner Predicts Cloud computing will become so pervasive that by 2012, one out of five businesses will own no IT assets at all, the analyst firm Gartner (IT) is predicting.
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6 Offshore Outsourcing Hot Spots for 2010 Mexico is a hot spot for 2010! The headlines in offshore outsourcing in 2010 may focus less on the quantity of work organizations are sending overseas and more on where they're sending it.
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A Fact-Based Approach to Outsourcing for Product Managers Outsourcing. The word itself polarizes forces between those who love it and those who loathe it. The word outsourcing invokes fears of the unknown, of losing jobs, of losing competitive advantage, and of losing intellectual property. At some point in your product management career you will be asked to outsource part of your solution. Before you become paralyzed with fear, ask some critical questions
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Outsourcing 3.0 - Combining Nearshore Outsourcing with Agile Processes Why leading IT executives are embracing the combination of Neashore outsourcing and Agile project management
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Offshore Outsourcing and Agile Development IT organization must optimize their processes to better support the business, reduce costs, improve quality, and improve time-to-market. Many have turnet to offshore outsourcing or Agile application development processes to help address these challenges - but not both.
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AccuRev Announces VersionOne Integration AccuRev has announced integration for VersionOne, an Agile product planning and management tool. When implementing and managing Agile development, users can quickly leverage the power of AccuRev’s Agile process change management with their existing investment in VersionOne in order to optimize the software development process.
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IT outsourcing pros and cons for Latin America Outsourcing software development to Mexico is starting to make more and more sense as US and Canadian companies try to shore up costs and improve project success rates.
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México pisa talones de India en software El sector de la electrónica exportó 12,000 mdd en 2008 y en 2009 podría facturar 5% más; el cluster de Guadalajara aumenta su personal de servicios y detona el crecimiento de la industria.
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Microsoft's 2010 task: Make the cloud clear For Microsoft, 2010 is a platform building and marketing year with no less than the future success of its cloud strategy hanging in the balance, according to observers.
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How Cloud Economics Will Change IT Any IT department that has not embraced cloud computing had better be prepared to talk about it, at the very least, and that means getting a grasp on some wispy concepts. What are the true costs of cloud services? Does the cloud model support a corporation's overall economic goals? Is an internal cloud viable? Is cloud availability adequate?
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