Tag: software

May 10, 2017

Maybe I haven’t shown Adobe enough love in the past year. For whatever reason, the company reached out to me and offered an exclusive insight into news coming up at its Summit EMEA, and the chance to sit down (virtually, […]

April 10, 2017

“We would have had to dump an entire batch,” the brewmaster said. When beer is your bottom line, that’s a calamity. The software that spotted the temperature anomaly is from Microsoft Corp. and it’s a new type that uses a […]

March 31, 2017

Sage, a market leader in cloud accounting software, announced today at Sage Summit 2016 its strong commitment to future technologies, with a focus on new and existing partnerships that power business growth. Revealed during CEO Stephen Kelly’s keynote address, which […]

March 20, 2017

Forty-three percent of software vendors now receive half or more of their revenue from the perpetual license model of enterprise software vending, according to a report from Flexera Software. The report Software Licensing 2016: Seismic Shifts – Shaky Foundations, released […]

October 7, 2016

Attribution and marketing mix modeling solutions measure the impact of marketing and media efforts, and suggest ways to improve that impact. Increasingly, marketing leaders use both methods — either in parallel or unified within the same platform — to expand […]

September 2, 2016

VMworld 2016 is underway in Las Vegas this week. Here are the latest news and product announcements related to cloud computing that have emerged from the event so far. The VMworld conference is now in its twelfth year. That makes […]

June 23, 2016

By the year 2020, it will be a cloudy world. Researchers at Gartner are out this week with new predictions on what the infrastructure computing market will look like in the coming years. And they’re very bullish on the cloud. […]

May 4, 2016

Oracle announced on Monday that it will acquire Opower, an Arlington, Texas-based company that provides SaaS solutions to the utility industry. Oracle will pay approximately $532 million for the company, or roughly $10.30 per share in cash, according to a […]

May 4, 2016

CloudPhysics channel partners have been using the company’s platform for years to manage and assess their customers’ virtualized IT environments, but that wasn’t the intended use case of the analytics platform. After recognizing that partners were doing more with its […]

May 3, 2016

While SaaS accounts for only 8 percent of all software sales, it’s a market that grew by almost 40 percent in 2015, and should more than triple within five years, according to a forecast from Synergy Research Group. The analyst […]

March 7, 2016

As application software publishers progressively transition their business models to SaaS subscriptions, conventional licensing programmes and contracts remain a key mechanism for clients to agree commercials and commitments beyond a single year. Rather than being put out to pasture EA, ELA, ETLA and […]

February 17, 2016

How does software really work in the cloud and what does it look like? Okay hang on, before you answer that, how does software application development actually work in the cloud computing model of online-connected software-defined virtualization and abstraction? These […]

February 4, 2016

Microsoft’s Azure IoT Hub for managing fleets of devices that collect data about the the physical world will be made generally available on Thursday. The product, which was announced in September, allows companies to provision, manage and ingest data from millions […]

February 2, 2016

With more than 600,000 direct customers and 2 million customers indirectly through resale partnerships, Hostway Services, Inc., a provider of cloud, managed, Web and hybrid hosting, has emerged as one of the largest cloud hosting and infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) providers in […]

January 19, 2016

As the demands placed on data centres intensify, more quality cloud-based solutions emerge. This means Data Centre Migration to the cloud, is becoming an increasingly unavoidable consideration for IT managers. Although a complex undertaking, the efficiency benefits further down the […]