Zoho’s CloudSQL – another step toward the Data Cloud?
Already a popular provider of Cloud-based ‘Productivity & Collaboration Apps’ for individuals and ‘Business Apps’ for SMEs, Zoho today took the next step and unveiled CloudSQL. As Dennis Howlett notes in his coverage for ZDNet, “Put simply, this is the first step to providing a cloud based integration framework that allows developers to pass data...
Sage preparing SaaS offering for 2009… just in the UK?
Ahead of announcing their half-year results this week, it appears that the biggest software company in the UK is finally preparing to go up against SaaS offerings from MYOB, Intuit, Microsoft and others. Sage is a titan of the UK software scene but has struggled recently, both with expansion beyond Europe and (like others) with...
Can traditional software companies embrace SaaS without Disruption?
Bob Warfield is amongst those reopening the self-inflicted wounds of European software behemoth SAP AG with his latest post on the SmoothSpan blog this week. The central question, though, isn’t whether they messed up; but whether what they’re attempting is even possible. Facing the real prospect of significant disruption to the mid-range part of their business...
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