View from the Cloud: will Salesforce Chatter be silenced by enterprise pricing?
There is overwhelming evidence to suggest that marketing professionals expect to use social media tools for their campaigns in the next year: 82% said this would be the case.
Gartner's five roles for government in the Cloud
There are five roles government organisations could play in order to realise and maximise the benefits of Cloud Computing, according to a new report from Gartner. The report pointed out a number of reasons for the increasing interest from government organisations in the Cloud, not least budgetary constraints and “the need for flexibility”, and called for the alignment to occur under a number of recommendations.
SaaS users turned away from 'too slow' SAP
New research of SAP customers has revealed that nearly three-quarters of users believe that the enterprise applications vendor has been slow to adopt a software-as-a-service delivery model - with 16% turning to third-party SaaS providers as a result.
Police inquiries delay LA's Google Apps roll out
Royal Mail gives Capgemini stamp of approval
Royal Mail has announced a new six-year deal with Capgemini which will see the UK’s national postal service turn to the Cloud once more in a bid to “transform its business and consumer online services, help to reduce its annual website IT costs and support expansion and diversification into a wide range of new web-based business opportunities”.
Gartner: Global SaaS market to grow 14% in 2010
Gartner predicts that the global software-as-a-service market will grow by 14.1% this year to $8.5 billion, with the delivery model taking a 26% share of total CRM sector revenues.
SaaS accounted for 24% of total CRM sales last year, with penetration levels ranging from between 11% and nearly 40% depending on the sub-segment.
Business cloud market more than double by 2015
Enterprise cloud services: worldwide forecast 2010–2015, the latest report from Analysys Mason, estimates that the global market for enterprise cloud-based services will grow from $12.1 billion in 2010 to $35.6 billion in 2015.
Supercomputing as a Service
SaaS has acquired a new meaning, Supercomputing as a Service, thanks to Cambridge University’s desire to turn its High Performance Computing (HPC) Solution Centre into a profit centre from being a cost burden. The answer has been to turn it into a cloud-delivered SaaS operation.
`Cultural change’ in mobile clients coming for the cloud
The acquisition of Sybase by SAP will bring the latter several additional levers to pull in the enterprise marketplace, not least in its database and analytics portfolio of products. But perhaps the most important opportunity to spring from the deal still lies out in the future – the integration of the mobile client base as the ultimate access point between businesses and end users, be they road warrior executives, production line operatives, business partners, suppliers or, of course, customers and consumers.
View from the Cloud: overcoming the interoperability barrier
What do businesses want from Cloud Computing? It's clear they find its promised benefits of agility, flexibility and elastic scalability highly attractive – but as adoption grows, an increasing number of organisations will demand more.
Cloud Computing means more ICT jobs?
Four in 10 IT professionals predict that increasing use of Cloud Computing will create more jobs, according to IT jobs specialist CWJobs.co.uk.
View from the Cloud: Flexibility drives Cloud, not savings
Evangelists who bang on about the potential cost-savings of web-based accounting have got it wrong, argues Aqilla’s Hugh Scantlebury. What they should be talking about is the Cloud’s flexibility.
Microsoft squares up to Salesforce.com in online marketplace
Microsoft plans to square up to SaaS rival Salesforce.com by opening an online CRM apps marketplace.
Trust us in the Cloud, not Google, says Microsoft
Customers are willing to pay out for 'trusted providers' in the Cloud such as Microsoft even if they will insist on flirting with the likes of Google at first. That was the sabre-rattling assertion from Stephen Elop, President of Microsoft Business Division, at the firm's Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) in Washington last week.
Doing business with Business ByDesign
The typical SAP customer over the next five years will gradually shift towards a mixture of running their applications on-demand, on-device and on-premise.
Private clouds high on IT execs agenda
Organisations that own supercomputers are generally in the large enterprise community. They are also amongst those that favour the idea of private clouds, where they can keep some measure of ownership over the infrastructure involved. So it perhaps comes as no surprise that a survey, taken by Platform Computing at the recent International Supercomputing Conference, shows that demand for private clouds remains undiminished, with 28% of organisations planning a deployment in 2010.
Cloud makes planning more difficult, survey suggests
There are signs that the spread of operational choices the cloud now presents top business users is making a confusing contribution to that important business equation: “what do we do now?”
Mainframe development gets cloudy
One elephant that arguably should be in the room labelled 'cloud computing’ is the mainframe computer. Yet it still remains largely absent. But there are occasional sightings of services that are in the mainframe space.
CloudApps cuts Norland energy costs
Building facilities services provider, Norland, has turned to CloudApps Carbon for its standard carbon emissions management solution across its estate portfolio.
Tibco aims to take BI social
Tibco is trying a new approach to Business Intelligence that could mark the start of a whole new way of marketing business services so that individuals can access the same benefits as businesses.