SAP launching Salesforce.com rival
At the CeBIT show, SAP will show off an upcoming application called Sales OnDemand that could be a potential rival to the likes of Salesforce.com and Microsoft CRM Online.
Sales OnDemand is part of a series of on-demand applications SAP is positioning as extensions to its on-premises ERP (enterprise resource planning) systems. The strategy aims to preserve lucrative revenue streams from on-premises software while serving the needs of those same customers, who want to innovate their IT operations through SaaS (software as a service).
Puma.com Runs on Eucalyptus Cloud; Is There a Lesson Here?
Link Farming & Other SEO Misdeeds Make Headlines
Back in the early days of search engine optimization (SEO), I accidentally learned the fine art of "Google-bombing." After a colleague had written what I thought was a particularly off-base column, I linked to his article from my personal blog with the phrase, "incredibly idiotic." And others followed in kind. Before long, entering "incredibly idiotic" in Google offered up my colleague at the top of the results.
Technology Will Make Collaboration Your Next Competitive Advantage
Powerful software and widespread Internet connectivity are making it easier than ever for people to work together no matter where they happen to be. Throughout March we will look at the latest tools for collaboration within and between organizations. We’ll analyze why some technology-enabled collaborations work and why others don’t. We’ll explain why some collaboration tools have failed to prove useful to the employees meant to benefit from them. We’ll present case studies, profiles, and interviews that help you understand how to make the people in your organization more collaborative and more productive.
IBM’s Cloud Expansion
IBM is announcing a series of big software products for large scale data centers, designed to speed provisioning and management of thousands of servers, operating in a “cloud” system that efficiently performs diverse tasks – and, not incidentally, put IBM at the center of a company’s cloud computing resources.
Cloud computing market ‘set to mature in NZ’
New Zealand is set to see its cloud computing market mature over the course of 2011.
This is according to Richard Talbot, solutions director at recruitment company Randstad, who told the NZ Herald that corporate enterprises are showing an increasing amount of interest in the cloud at the moment.
"There are large investments being made in data centres, with web-oriented technologies in extraordinary demand," he explained.
Microsoft cites three basic flaws with Google’s Office Cloud Connect plug-in
Microsoft fired back at Google last week, reacting to a recently released Google plug-in for Microsoft Office that enables document sharing and collaboration.
Load Balancing in the Cloud
The beauty of the cloud is that it puts an end to IT’s constant struggle to provide adequate resources to meet current and expected data loads.
But since data has a way of spiking with little or no notice, even the most state-of-the-art cloud environment will be of little use without a highly robust, automated load balancing component.