Birst is a multi-tenant Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) provider of data warehousing, business intelligence (BI), and analytics for both public and private cloud deployments. Today we published this On the Radar briefing note that follows a simple “ten questions” format, which we designed to provide a concise but thorough overview of a company and its products and [...]
Posted on Tuesday, January 31, 2012 by adminAre you thinking of moving your email to the cloud? Or perhaps you have already made the switch? Whatever your position on cloud email – positive, negative or just interested – we’d like to invite you to take part in our Email in the Cloud web survey. The survey aims to find out organisations’ priorities [...]
Posted on Thursday, June 30, 2011 by Angela AshendenYesterday saw the long-anticipated launch of Microsoft Office 365, the company’s first true software-as-a-service (SaaS) offering, and the replacement for its Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS). The product, which has been in public beta since April (and in private beta since November), includes SharePoint Online, Exchange Online, Lync Online and Office Web Apps, as well [...]
Posted on Wednesday, June 29, 2011 by Angela AshendenLast week I made my annual 24-hour flying visit to the US east coast and the Progress Software analyst day. Last year CEO Rick Reidy laid out plans to create a $1billion company by bringing together a number of its brands (particularly Savvion, Actional, Apama) together under the concept of ‘Operational Responsiveness’ through ‘Responsive Process [...]
Posted on Tuesday, May 17, 2011 by Neil Ward-DuttonA few weeks ago I was given a hush-hush pre-briefing on a new product offering from Active Endpoints called Cloud Extend for Salesforce.com. It takes the BPM and SOA technology provider into new territory, but I think it’s a sensible move – and one that prefigures a broader trend I think we’ll be seeing a [...]
Posted on Monday, May 9, 2011 by Neil Ward-DuttonSince the launch of Google Apps Premium Edition (now called Google Apps for Business) in 2007, Google has been blazing a trail in the SaaS-based enterprise collaboration market focusing on making small, regular software updates, in place of the more traditional 12 month+ release cycles which we are used to with on-premise software. However, for many large organisations, this approach is simply too “realtime”, and doesn’t give them the opportunity they need to manage and prepare for the introduction of such new features, particularly when they are released on a weekly basis…
Posted on Thursday, March 17, 2011 by Angela AshendenEarlier this week, as part of its autumn 2010 launch of updated ‘business agility’ offerings covering BPM, SOA, virtualisation and cloud computing topics, IBM announced the upcoming launch of a new SaaS offering for organisations pursuing business agility initiatives: Blueworks Live. Blueworks Live isn’t IBM’s first foray into the world of SaaS tools for customers [...]
Posted on Friday, October 15, 2010 by Neil Ward-DuttonYesterday Salesforce.com’s customer, partner and media event, Cloudforce 2010, took place in London, drawing an impressive 3,000 or so attendees – all the more impressive given that the company changed the date only a week in advance in order to avoid clashing with Tuesday’s London Tube strike. The event itself was the first since the [...]
Posted on Thursday, September 9, 2010 by Angela AshendenOne of the themes we delve into in our free online framing a Cloud Computing strategy event is the emerging role of the Service Integrator. This is something I’ve been talking about for a while in discussions with clients but I thought I’d share it a bit more widely… So what is a Service Integrator? [...]
Posted on Tuesday, February 23, 2010 by Neil Ward-DuttonIt’s easy to dismiss Cloud Computing as just another IT industry hype bubble that will one day burst, showering everyone in a slightly stale-smelling mist. Certainly, as with all waves of technology advancement, there’s been an *awful* lot of hype about the potential and – just like any other technology advancement – Cloud Computing offers [...]
Posted on Tuesday, February 16, 2010 by Neil Ward-Dutton
