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Tag: saas (page 9)
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Acquia Cloud Site Factory Debuts for Churning Out Websites
Commercial Drupal services provider Acquia has debuted a tool called Site Factory, an apt name as it's meant to help marketers launch multiple websites in short order for building campaigns and launches.
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Tableau Moves Business Intelligence to the Cloud with Tableau Online
Data analytics and data visualization company, Tableau Software today announced the general release of Tableau Online, the SaaS version of its Tableau Server.
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Gartner MQ Leaders for Secure Email Gateways: Cisco, McAfee, Microsoft, Proofpoint, Symantec
Earlier in the week we saw that the market for Secure Email Gateways (SEG) is a mature one with low digit growth expected annually over the coming years. We also saw that it is characterized by a move towards SaaS models with most vendors providing some kind of service offering.
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Cloud Service Models (IaaS, SaaS, PaaS) + How Microsoft Office 365, Azure Fit In
Cloud is a hot, but ambiguous buzzword in the IT industry. A Sofware Developer may describe the Cloud in a different way than a System Admin, while a Database Admin may have an altogether different definition. What constitutes the cloud is a rather complicated question.
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Gartner MQ Secure Email Gateways: Market Moves to SaaS, Microsoft, Proofpoint, Symantec Dominant
If Gartner’s recently published Magic Quadrant for Secure Email Gateways is anything to go by, email security is still a major concern for many enterprises. As a result, the market grew by nearly 2% last year.
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Boston Celtics' Most Valuable IT Player - SaaS #e2conf
If you’re thinking that Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions are primarily for information economy companies, there’s a business model in Boston based on men throwing and bouncing a ball that disagrees. As Jay Wessel, VP of Technology at the Boston Celtics, told a session at the E2 conference in his team’s city
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SaaS Flattens the World, and the Enterprise #e2conf
Was there really a time when software tools lived mostly on your computer and the cloud was something that blocked the sun? It’s hard to remember those days here at the E2 conference in Boston, just as someday it will also be hard to remember the days when businesses
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Adobe Creative Cloud Debuts, Digital Publishing Suite Creates 100 Million Downloads
Adobe's Creative Cloud has officially debuted, and the Digital Publishing Suite has created 100 million downloaded items in two years, the company announced this week. New Customers to the Cloud Starting June 17, all new Adobe Creative Cloud (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign) users will have to go to the cloud. There's
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SDL CEO Mark Lancaster on Saas, Partners + CXM #sdlinnovate
SDL has developed a global CXM strategy, will slowly transition to a Sass model for some products, and work harder to build up partner relationships, SDL CEO Mark Lancaster said at the SDL Innovate conference this week.
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SAP Buys hybris to Deliver Cutting Edge Customer Experience, E-Commerce
Enterprise application mega-vendor SAP has just pushed further into the customer experience management space with the announcement that it is buying Swiss-based e-commerce platform vendor hybris for an undisclosed sum.
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IBM Buys SoftLayer For Estimated US$ 2 Billion, Beefs Up Cloud Offerings
While there are many different flavours of cloud computing, with hybrid cloud deployments currently the flavour of the day, IBM is muscling its way to the top of the cloud heap through the acquisition of cloud providers.
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Centrify for Office 365 Simplifies Deployment, Gives IT More Control
Office 365 has been gaining momentum. Last week Office 365 Home Premium Edition passed the 1 million subscription mark. Before that it was reported that one in five of Microsoft’s enterprise customers have now subscribed to Office 365, up from one in seven a year ago.
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Getting the Vendor Back Into the Driver's Seat
The last decade has seen major disruptions in software, completely reversing the power roles between vendor and user. It’s been said many times that the customer is king, and it couldn't be truer.
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Japan-Based ChatWork Launches Collaboration Platform in U.S.
Someday, a study will determine if business teams have become more -- or less -- collaborative because of all of the enterprise collaboration software now available. Another one emerged this week, with Japan-based ChatWork announcing the official entry into the U.S. market of its cloud collaboration solution.
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