http://saas.sys-con.com/ Latest articles from Saas & SOA Copyright 2008 CLOUD COMPUTING JOURNAL Sun, 27 Jul 2008 04:34:00 GMT CLOUD COMPUTING JOURNAL 10 http://backend.userland.com/rss http://saas.sys-con.com/read/614372.htmhttp://saas.sys-con.com/read/614372.htm Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:00:00 GMT Zoho, the online Office wannabe, has gotten Swisscom, the telephone side of the old Swiss PTT monopoly, to offer its 300,000 business customers a suite of Zoho's SaaS applications as part of a six-month pilot through its Teamnet portal. The Zoho Business suite, including Zoho Writer, Sheet, Show, Notebook and Meeting, will be free. http://saas.sys-con.com/read/579826.htmhttp://saas.sys-con.com/read/579826.htm Fri, 18 Jul 2008 10:30:00 GMT Cloud computing is becoming one of the next industry buzz words. It joins the ranks of terms including: grid computing, utility computing, virtualization, clustering, etc. Cloud computing overlaps some of the concepts of distributed, grid and utility computing, however it does have its own meaning if contextually used correctly. The conceptual overlap is partly due to technology changes, usages and implementations over the years. http://saas.sys-con.com/read/580489.htmhttp://saas.sys-con.com/read/580489.htm Tue, 17 Jun 2008 10:30:00 GMT AmberPoint announced that it has extended the reach of its runtime SOA governance software to include enterprise applications from software vendors and Software as a Service (SaaS) providers. SOA-based systems are heterogeneous composite applications that often include packaged applications - such as customer relationship management (CRM) suites, order management systems and billing systems - as well as hosted applications that are provided on demand. Through its non-invasive SOA runtime governance technology, AmberPoint is able to monitor these prominent participants in SOA systems. http://saas.sys-con.com/read/576327.htmhttp://saas.sys-con.com/read/576327.htm Tue, 27 May 2008 14:45:00 GMT Boomi and StrikeIron announced a partnership focused on driving Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) adoption by enabling seamless integration of StrikeIron's Marketplace Web services into Boomi On Demand. Boomi users can now integrate the full spectrum of business intelligence, CRM, e-commerce and financial solutions that StrikeIron offers with no additional coding required. http://saas.sys-con.com/read/559110.htmhttp://saas.sys-con.com/read/559110.htm Mon, 05 May 2008 17:00:00 GMT Locus has been selected by the Los Angeles Board of Harbor Commissioners to perform environmental site assessment, soil and groundwater investigation and cleanup, environmental compliance assessment and environmental information management services for The Port of Los Angeles. The agreement with Locus is valued at $1,890,000 for a 3-year period. http://saas.sys-con.com/read/559109.htmhttp://saas.sys-con.com/read/559109.htm Mon, 05 May 2008 16:45:00 GMT Trubiquity (formerly Autoweb) has launched its new software-as-a-service (SaaS) architecture. Trubiquity's new software architecture, named TRUcore, improves communications among global business teams, from an OEM (original equipment manufacturer) level down through a company's global supply chain. The new architecture also streamlines customers' internal business processes and offers better coordination, data management and process execution between a company's business units and its global supply chain partners. http://saas.sys-con.com/read/555145.htmhttp://saas.sys-con.com/read/555145.htm Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:00:00 GMT EquaTerra announced that its Governance WorkPlace tool, which automates the management of multiple service providers and enables informed decision-making in support of back-office processes in both shared services and outsourced environments, is now available as a hosted, Software as a Service (SaaS) solution. http://saas.sys-con.com/read/555173.htmhttp://saas.sys-con.com/read/555173.htm Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:00:00 GMT HCL Technologies announced the launch of its new SaaS Service Delivery Platform (SDP) AGORA. Service disruption and Web 2.0 have resulted in a sudden outburst of participation by the user and developer communities. This, along with increasing collaboration between independent service providers, communications service providers, application service providers and content service providers have resulted in the service value chain becoming larger. http://saas.sys-con.com/read/548261.htmhttp://saas.sys-con.com/read/548261.htm Mon, 21 Apr 2008 18:00:00 GMT The way business applications are evolving, enterprises are learning to accept and embrace the notion of applications that they neither control nor host. Now enterprises are leveraging applications that run a business through the Internet platform. As these applications become core to many businesses, so does the need to incorporate these applications into the enterprise's existing infrastructure and make them work together. http://saas.sys-con.com/read/463023.htmhttp://saas.sys-con.com/read/463023.htm Thu, 15 Nov 2007 13:00:00 GMT I asked what she did for a living. She said she was a software engineer working with SOA. I did not think about my plane ride much until I arrived in San Francisco to attend the SOA World Conference & Expo this past Monday and Tuesday. The first day of the conference as I walked into the hotel, guess who I saw? My friend who I met on the Turkish Airlines flight from Istanbul. What a small world, isn't it? Her company was one of the sponsors of the event.