Tag: SaaS

  • Coghead Helps Partners Deliver Killer Apps

    Coghead Helps Partners Deliver Killer Apps

    Sharon Linsenbach

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    Coghead wants ISVs with ideas for “killer apps” to design, build and deliver applications to customers via a new SAAS platform. The platform offers a simple way for ISVs to launch a custom application business and provide those applications using a software as a service model to generate recurring revenue, said Paul Salazar, vice president… Read more

  • Symantec Delays SAAS Offering

    Symantec Delays SAAS Offering

    Jessica Davis

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    Still stinging from recent partner problems in the aftermath of a disastrous ERP integration, Symantec has delayed delivery of its first software-as-a-service offering on the advice of those same partners. The security and storage vendor had planned to deliver a selection of its technology as a service to reach more small and midsize businesses, announcing… Read more

  • The SAAS Paradox

    Pedro Pereira

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    Being a solution provider in the dynamic IT channel is tough enough, and it becomes especially so as you try to wrap your mind around new trends such as software as a service. The fundamental question about this new software delivery model revolves around whether it poses a threat or creates an opportunity for solution… Read more

  • Webroot/Email Systems Merger Offers Security SAAS to VARs

    Webroot/Email Systems Merger Offers Security SAAS to VARs

    Sara Driscoll

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    Email Systems’ software-as-a-service security offering will be offered to VARs for the first time following the company’s merger with Webroot Software, announced Nov. 27. The merger will see on-premises security software vendor Webroot integrate its offerings with SAAS security provider Email Systems. However, while Webroot has an established channel in the United States, Email Systems… Read more

  • Dell to Acquire SAAS Provider Everdream

    Dell to Acquire SAAS Provider Everdream

    Jessica Davis

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    PC maker Dell has signed an agreement to acquire Everdream, a provider of software-as-a-service solutions for remote service management. Dell said the deal would complement the capabilities it gained earlier in 2007 when it acquired MSP (managed services provider) platform company SilverBack Technologies. Together, the technologies from the two companies will further enable end-to-end remote… Read more

  • SAAS Projects Mean Less Cash for VARs

    SAAS Projects Mean Less Cash for VARs

    Jessica Davis

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    VARs will need to alter their business models to take advantage of the growing software-as-a-service market because projects will pay less than traditional on-premises solution integrations. A new report from Forrester Research has found that SAAS is restructuring software channel managers’ relationships with their channel partners because of the difference in what those projects pay.… Read more