Tag: SaaS

  • SAAS Momentum Outpacing Packaged Software, Study Says

    Jessica Davis

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    While cloud technologies are often greeted with caution by traditional value-added resellers who wonder how the business model could ever work for them, a new report from IDC finds that software as a service (SAAS) continues to gain momentum against packaged software sales. The IDC report says that SAAS revenue will grow five times faster… Read more

  • 10 Reasons to Dump Microsoft Office for a SaaS Office Suite

    10 Reasons to Dump Microsoft Office for a SaaS Office Suite

    Frank Ohlhorst

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    1. Lower costs: Business class SaaS office applications, like Google Apps and ZOHO Business, cost as little as $50 per user per year, while MS Office 2010 Professional retails for $499 per license. 2. Reduced storage costs: SaaS office applications include hosted storage as part of the user fee. Both ZOHO business and Google Apps… Read more

  • 10 Reasons Why VARs Should Love Content Security

    10 Reasons Why VARs Should Love Content Security

    Ericka Chickowski

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    10 Reasons Why VARs Should Love Content Security About 23 percent of SMBs have been compromised by employees who accessed personal webmail accounts, according to a survey conducted by Webroot. No Title Webroot also found that about 24 percent of SMBs had been compromised by employees using social networking sites. No Title According to Barracuda… Read more

  • Hosted SAAS Provider Verio Adds Exchange 2010

    Channel Insider Staff

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    Verio Inc., a provider of online business solutions to small to medium-size businesses (SMBs) worldwide, including Web hosting, application hosting and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), announced at its viaVerio Partner Summit the availability of Microsoft Hosted Exchange 2010, which the company said is now available. READ MORE >> Read more

  • Oracle Expands Health Care Portfolio with SAAS Acquisition

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    Oracle announced April 16 the acquisition of Phase Forward, which builds health care IT and life-science applications, in a cash merger worth about $685 million. The deal adds to Oracle’s health care IT portfolio at a time when the company is seeking to position itself as an end-to-end systems provider in a number of market… Read more

  • Open Source SAAS-based SugarCRM Gets New User Interface

    Channel Insider Staff

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    SAN FRANCISCO – The latest edition of SugarCRM’s open-source CRM package, released as a public beta June 13, includes a revised UI designed to deliver speedy, simplified navigation along with improved mobile accessibility, company officials said. Sugar 6, which was introduced during the company’s SugarCon user conference here, is scheduled to become available to a… Read more