Concur splurges $88m on Outtask
In a little-noticed deal, on-demand expense management vendor Concur Technologies is to acquire Outtask, an on-demand corporate travel management provider.
Software as Services
In the best-informed blog on software-as-a-service and on-demand business applications, Phil Wainewright cuts through the vendor spin, analyzes the trends to watch and adds his thought-provoking insights.
Phil Wainewright
Since 1998, Phil Wainewright has been a thought leader in cloud computing as a blogger, analyst and consultant.
Latest Posts
Benioff: AppExchange is our second killer app
AppExchange could open up a much broader marketplace for Salesforce.com, potentially becoming a far bigger 'killer app' than its CRM product.
Retro programming as a service
Microsoft founder Paul Allen has put his personal collection of DEC museum pieces online at a new website, giving a modern spin to the notion of timesharing.
Analysts who really understand on-demand
There are plenty of industry analysts out there who will rent-a-quote about SaaS and on-demand, but only a handful really understand what it's all about. Here's an introduction to them.
Learning to love software reuse
Only when you move to a truly loosely coupled services architecture do you get to reuse software without the temptation of changing the code. But there are still obstacles.
Web 3.0: Salesforce.com's 'Business Web'
Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff is hitting all the right notes as its AppExchange platform gathers the momentum it needs to become the 800lb gorilla of on-demand.
Web 3.0: NetSuite's on-demand ecosystem
Successful vendors in the on-demand era will be the ones that build thriving partner ecosystems. How does NetSuite's NetFlex strategy, announced last week, stack up?
CSFB says 'traditional software is dead'
A Wall St investment bank has launched a new index to track what software analyst Jason Maynard is calling the software industry's 'tectonic shift' to the on-demand model.
On-demand in plain English
Veteran software industry commentator Amy Wohl has been keeping a blog about SaaS and although she's now stopped, the archive is a mine of useful insights.
Mashup or mash-up?
Does it have a hyphen or doesn't it? Google, wikipedia and my hazy recollections of what I learnt about English usage at university all agree on the answer.