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Software-as-a-Service [SaaS]
Predictions of the death of software are over-stated and the reality is that all businesses are becoming ever more reliant on it. What is changing are the number of options available for how the software applications that businesses rely on are managed, delivered and paid for. Many independent software vendors (ISVs) are recognising the benefits of offering software as a service (SaaS) as an alternative for their customers and once the teething problems have been overcome there are a number of long term benefits for both parties. [More]
There has been a lot of speculation lately about threats to the dominance of Microsoft Office on the desktop. The argument is that the anticipated cost and disruption of upgrading to the latest Office System 2007 release will drive businesses to look at open source alternatives (e.g. OpenOffice) or give up on desktop resident software altogether in favour of software-as-a-service (SaaS) offerings (e.g. from Google). [More]
The downturn that followed the collapse of the dot-com has resulted in an industry-wide drive towards the delivery of Information Technology (IT) in a way that best delivers business value. This initiative goes under a number of names, including Microsoft's "Agile Enterprise" as well as "Business On Demand" and the "Adaptive Infrastructure". These instantiations do not represent any one technology, but they all share a vision of how IT can be delivered in some way as a service to the business - a service where we can call on functionality to enable dynamic business processes, rather than being dependent on large, monolithic applications and dedicated servers to manage complete areas of the business [More]
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