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IBM Beats Microsoft to Meeting Space

NEW YORK -- IBM (Quote, Chart) is looking to recuperate in real-time collaboration what it has lost in asynchronous workplace tools. The...

SaaS Versus SaaS

I attended a technology industry conference not too long ago and watched a group of executives from software-as-a-service (SaaS) vendors...

Cognos Layoffs a Growing Pain For BI

Business intelligence (BI) applications vendor Cognos (Quote, Chart) announced that it is laying off 6 percent of its workforce. Cognos president and...

SAP Pushes Compliance as Strategy

SAP (Quote, Chart) wants companies to think of governance, risk and compliance (GRC) management in strategic terms. The leading vendor of enterprise...

Gazing Down The Glass Pipeline

Corporations are more willing to spend bucks on cross-enterprise collaboration than expected, according to a new study published by AMR Research. Spending...

Thank SaaS For Flexible Financing

Competition from software-as-a-service (SaaS) vendors has hit software vendors hard. Spending growth on new enterprise software licenses has slowed to just...

Software Vendors Jumping on SaaS Wagon

Pioneering vendors of software-as-a-service (SaaS) have spent the better part of a decade defending their model against purveyors of traditional on-premise...

Will All of ISS Fit With IBM’s On-Demand Strategy?

On the face of it, IBM's (Quote, Chart)$1.3 billion acquisition of ISS (Quote, Chart)makes perfect sense. But deeper looks...

Vista Outlook Not as Cloudy?

Bill Gates is more Daddy Warbucks than Little Orphan Annie, but his new mantra might well be "The sun will...