Tag: SaaS

  • Rackspace Expands SAAS Offerings to Include Online Storage

    Jessica Davis

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    As software as a service has risen to gain the attention of more business customers and solution providers, plenty of service providers have cropped up with offerings that solution providers could private-label to their customers. Hosting provider Rackspace has been no exception, rolling out a hosted e-mail service and then a hosted Microsoft Exchange service.… Read more

  • Top SaaS Growth Markets

    Top SaaS Growth Markets

    Carolyn April

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    Top SaaS Growth Markets Momentum continues to build behind software as a service. Gartner is forecasting worldwide software SaaS revenue to hit $7.5 billion in 2009, a 17.7 percent increase from 2008 revenue of $6.4 billion. And it’s not stopping there. Expectations for sales total $14 billion by 2013. Channel Insider breaks out the most… Read more

  • Fujitsu BPM Cloud Challenges IBM, Oracle

    Leah Gabriel Nurik

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    BPM big boys Oracle and IBM face a growing threat in the business process management market – Fujitsu. The Japanese giant today unveiled version 11 of its BPM product Interstage and commenced a free development program designed to take advantage of the growing trend around BPM cloud computing. The new program is designed for channel,… Read more

  • Cisco Buys ScanSafe, Ups Security SaaS Reach

    Carolyn April

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    Cisco continued its recent shopping spree on Tuesday, snapping up security software-as-a-service player ScanSafe for approximately $183 million in cash and retention-based incentives. The acquisition of the privately held ScanSafe marks the latest in a recent spate of acquisitions made by networking behemoth Cisco, included among them the purchase of video conferencing giant Tandberg for… Read more

  • NetSuite to Snap Up QuickArrow

    Channel Insider Staff

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    Consolidation in the software-as-a-service (SaaS) market continues. This time, NetSuite has signed a definitive agreement to acquire QuickArrow, a SaaS vendor targeting professional services businesses, for $20 million (US) in cash. Assuming the acquisition is completed, NetSuite plans to integrate QuickArrow into its OpenAir business to create a larger professional services automation (PSA) software company… Read more

  • Level Platforms Enables Monitoring of Cloud-Based SAAS Apps for MSPs

    Jessica Davis

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    Resellers and solution providers recognize a competitive threat when they see one. That’s why they ranked Microsoft and its software-as-a-service (SAAS) offering as the biggest competitive threat they face—not any apps from Google. Now managed services platform provider Level Platforms is looking to help its MSPs take advantage of the opportunities created by Microsoft’s launch… Read more