http://www.itworld.com/taxonomy/term/950/all xx http://www.itworld.com/virtualization/63346/getting-back-basics Look closely at the most recent technologies that offer competitive advantages. The common thread is that each one is an application or suite of applications. The business advantages of technology no longer rest with the physical infrastructure. http://www.itworld.com/virtualization/63346/getting-back-basics#comments IT management/strategy SaaS Opinion cloud computing hosted applications Thu, 26 Feb 2009 14:50:36 -0500 Martha Young 63346 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/saas/59335/study-lower-cost-ownership-main-reason-adopting-saas Lower cost of ownership, more than ease of use and management, is the most significant reason for adopting software-as-a-service (SaaS) for enterprises, according to a recent study by Springboard Research. http://www.itworld.com/saas/59335/study-lower-cost-ownership-main-reason-adopting-saas#comments SaaS News hosted applications Tue, 16 Dec 2008 16:03:17 -0500 ITworld staff 59335 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/software/57592/making-business-mash-ups-work Forrester projects that adoption of enterprise mash-ups will break 10 percent in 2012, so CIOs need a plan for how to address them within their organization. http://www.itworld.com/software/57592/making-business-mash-ups-work#comments Software Feature hosted applications mashup Mon, 10 Nov 2008 20:42:48 -0500 ITworld staff 57592 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/saas/55481/sold-saas Four companies who have done their SaaS homework weigh in on the pros and cons, successes and shortcomings, as well as some less obvious issues. http://www.itworld.com/saas/55481/sold-saas#comments SaaS Feature hosted applications Tue, 30 Sep 2008 13:04:34 -0400 ITworld staff 55481 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/news/54256/expresso-expand-online-access-office-files While Microsoft considers whether it will release a version of its Office suite as an online service, a California-based startup is giving business users a way to view and share Web-based versions of Office documents through its own hosted service. http://www.itworld.com/news/54256/expresso-expand-online-access-office-files#comments SaaS News eXpresso hosted applications Microsoft Office Wed, 13 Aug 2008 17:13:43 -0400 ITworld staff 54256 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/opinion/54248/hooking-your-apps-amazon-web-services Connecting your application into the Amazon Web Services (AWS) isn't complicated, particularly if you've done Web service programming on other projects. http://www.itworld.com/opinion/54248/hooking-your-apps-amazon-web-services#comments SaaS Opinion Amazon Web Services hosted applications hosted services Wed, 13 Aug 2008 14:20:03 -0400 ITworld staff 54248 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/feature/54111/mashup-uses-saas-apps-staff-hospitals-during-hurricanes Doug Menefee, CIO of the Schumacher Group, a company that provides staffing to hospitals, is a fan of software as a service (SaaS). More than 50 percent of the company's software runs on a SaaS model, and he is using both Salesforce.com to track the contact information of providers and is in the process of rolling out Google Apps to give employees basic productivity tools from any work station with a Web-browser in any hospital. http://www.itworld.com/feature/54111/mashup-uses-saas-apps-staff-hospitals-during-hurricanes#comments SaaS Feature hosted applications Thu, 07 Aug 2008 10:41:39 -0400 abennett 54111 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/hardware/54081/google-pushing-software-low-cost-linux-pcs With an eye for larger adoption of Linux, Google is actively working with open-source developers to integrate its applications in the OS, a Linux developer said on Tuesday. http://www.itworld.com/hardware/54081/google-pushing-software-low-cost-linux-pcs#comments Hardware Operating systems SaaS News Google hosted applications laptop Linux ultramobile Wed, 06 Aug 2008 10:05:06 -0400 ITworld staff 54081 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/software/53734/online-office-apps-get-real Web-based office suites are coming into their own at last. For quite a while, Web-based suites -- which offered word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, and other tools associated with desktop office suites -- were extolled not because they did these things well, but because they could do them at all. But the three major competitors, Google Docs, ThinkFree, and Zoho, have all made major improvements in recent months. They're becoming both broader, with more applications, and deeper, with more features and functionality in existing apps. http://www.itworld.com/software/53734/online-office-apps-get-real#comments SaaS Software Opinion Google hosted applications office suites ThinkFree Zoho Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:17:39 -0400 ITworld staff 53734 at http://www.itworld.com