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Comparing Megavendors IBM, Microsoft, Oracle and SAP in SaaS
Shift in application architecture over the years A critical shift in the concept of an "application" is well under way. Once end users stopped creating their own monolithic applications, applications became vendor-constructed monoliths — mass-market-focused Read More...
Posted 14 April 08 08:08 by pdestoop | 1 Comments   
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S+S Architecture Site on MSDN
A new section released on the MSDN Architecture center a section dedicated to Software + Services (S+S). We realized that depending on whether you are a large enterprise, an ISV, a hosting company or trying to establish yourself as a trusted marketplace Read More...
Posted 19 February 08 08:30 by pdestoop | 0 Comments   
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"FedEx QuickShip" shows Office as a platform (OBA)
At the Office Developers Conference 2008 last week, FedEx SVP David Zanca joined BillG on stage and announced the public launch of FedEx QuickShip . FedEx QuickShip is an easy way to use FedEx tools and services from within Office. Zanca also showed how Read More...
Posted 19 February 08 07:54 by pdestoop | 1 Comments   
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The BizTalk® Adapter Pack for the masses
The BizTalk® Adapter Pack provides a single solution to easily and securely connect to Line of Business (LOB) data from any custom-developed .NET application, SQL Server-based business intelligence solution, or an Office Business Application (OBA). The Read More...
Posted 19 February 08 07:43 by pdestoop | 0 Comments   
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Just because it’s SaaS doesn’t make it good...
Interesting article in "The Register" that does a practical reality check that relativates the sometimes religious beliefs that "if it SaaS then it must be Good" versus on "if it on premise software then is must be Evil"... Some paragraph are copied below, Read More...
Posted 08 February 08 10:42 by pdestoop | 1 Comments   
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The end of the desktop is near?
SaaS is without discussion a very important trend in the ICT industry. A perception that often is associated to SaaS (fed by a number of bloggers, analysts, reporters, company executives) is that this implies a browser-only interface and hence the days Read More...
Posted 21 September 07 07:56 by pdestoop | 1 Comments   
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Observations on SaaS and S+S (Software+Services)
John Dvorak (well known columnist at PC Magazine) has written an interesting article that depicts some of the downsides of the pure SaaS model. An extract of that article below: "To analyze the illogic of certain trends, I like to employ a trick I call Read More...
Posted 29 August 07 04:13 by pdestoop | 0 Comments   
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Software + Services: strategy, business model, case studies
Interesting whitepaper about S+S . It provides a summary of the S+S strategy and explains the impact and opportunity for our large partner base - both VARs who traditionally make money from on-premise installs + maintenance and ISVs who traditionally Read More...
Posted 18 July 07 08:56 by pdestoop | 0 Comments   
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Microsoft Dynamics Live CRM: S+S and OBA applied
Microsoft CRM team announces Microsoft Dynamics Live CRM at the Worldwide Partner Conference 2007 in Denver this week. This offering is again a great illustration of the main architectural patterns advocated by MS: OBA : the knowledge worker has the CRM Read More...
Posted 17 July 07 01:13 by pdestoop | 0 Comments   
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Microsoft's "Cloud OS" takes shape: enter "Software + Services"
Microsoft is in the early stages of a plan that will see virtually its entire lineup of underlying Internet services opened up to developers. Some extracts out of the covering CNET article: Quote : "In addition to making available its existing services, Read More...
Posted 13 July 07 09:10 by pdestoop | 0 Comments   
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