Tag: SaaS

  • Report: Small Business Needs IT, Partners to Thrive

    Lawrence Walsh

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    Small and midsize businesses are bearing the brunt of the economic downturn, as they’re finding customers less willing to spend and credit harder to come by. Nevertheless, one in four SMBs is investing more in IT and another 30 percent will maintain level IT spending through the recession, according to a new report by Microsoft.… Read more

  • USA.NET, HP Partner to Deliver SaaS to Target SMBs

    Sharon Linsenbach

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    USA.NET will partner with Hewlett-Packard to deliver a more comprehensive set of hosted services and advanced collaboration tools that can generate new revenue streams for solution providers. The agreement, announced last week, will allow HP’s approximately 25,000 solution provider partners access to USA.NET’s hosted e-mail, messaging and collaboration solutions as a part of their software-as-a-service… Read more

  • SAAS Drives Business Consulting

    Michael Vizard

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    When it comes to software as a service, there’s a lot of understandable fear and loathing in the channel. After all, all too often it appears that the only way to make money reselling a SAAS offering is to act as an agent on behalf of the vendor that builds and maintains the application. Unfortunately,… Read more

  • SAAS or On-Premise E-mail: Which is Best?

    Frank Ohlhorst

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    No application has succeeded in superseding e-mail as the killer app of modern business. While few people think of e-mail as being a business-enabling tool, few people would want to run their business without persistent access to digital messages from employees, contractors, suppliers, partners and—most of all—customers. Microsoft Exchange has long held the dominant title… Read more

  • SAAS Vendor Achieves Highest Security Standards for Cloud Transactions

    Pedro Pereira

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    Increased reliance on cloud computing and on-demand software models is highlighting the need for airtight security, particularly where billing is concerned. Aria Systems, a provider of on-demand billing and customer lifecycle management, is leaving nothing to chance. On Jan. 7, the company revealed its A+ Billing Platform has achieved Level One PCI (Payment Card Industry),… Read more