Let’s forget the arguments around ability to collaborate and online accessibility. Instead lets think about what we want from Office Productivity apps – we want to obtain, display and process information. Now, courtesy of ReadWriteWedb’s comment of the day,…
News this morning that Google has rolled out an Ap that syncs Google call with Outlook. I was excited until I read that it only works for one Google calendar – if you’re like me and you run multple…
Over on the Silicon Welly blog, Tim Norton from PlanHQ is asking for Wellington based volunteers to give some feedback on some new products and services due to be rolled out over the coming year. This is one of…
Krissi Danielsson over on eBizQ interviewes Rene Bonvanie, a senior vice president with Serena, about the company’s internal SaaS use and why SaaS is as good for the enterprise as it is for SMBs. Click here to download the…
ZDNet reports that Microsoft CFO (New Zealander!) Chris Liddell said Yahoo, assuming it is acquired by the software giant, will play a big software as a service role in the combined company.Liddell, speaking at the Morgan Stanley Technology Conference,…
I’m a fan of platform plays, similarly I’m a fan of SaaS. Put the two together and you have PaaS or platform as a service, a place where SaaS applications can be crated and hosted. One of the shining…
Well so much for the earth shattering news. The much discussed MS announcement regarding SaaS products this week amounted to an extension of its hosted SharePoint and Exchange offerings. As ZDNet commented, Microsoft Online Services is “about maintaining the…
A number of prominent blogs including Renee Boucher Ferguson, Sinclair Schuller and Bob Warfield this morning wrote about the outcome of an informal straw poll conducted during a panel discussion hosted by Phil Wainewright at the OpSource SaaS summit…
In a case of “there being nothing new under the sun”, SaaSu today announced its approach to within-SaaS transaction processing. Like Xero’s “Xero to Xero transaction processing”, SaaSu’s cloning allows an invoice from a supplier using SaaSu to be…