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Kyriba provides secured, on-demand treasury and cash management solutions all over the world (with offices based in Europe, North America and South America)
Kyriba’s tools reduce transaction processing and errors and reduce or eliminate spreadsheets and the risks associated with replicating spreadsheet errors.
Kyriba’s services have been adopted by world-class companies such as Electronic Arts, Virgin Megastor, [...]

THINKstrategies is pleased to announce the launch of its new “Market Leaders” webcast series which showcases companies who are delivering innovative, on-demand solutions to meet the rapidly changing needs of large-scale enterprises, as well as small- and mid-size businesses (SMBs).
Our webcasts differ from the traditional, structured webinar format by combining the candid, unscripted, conversational qualities [...]

Last month, Bruce Richardson of AMR Research published a provocative commentary entitled, “SaaS and the Elusive Path to Profitability” that heightened the debate regarding the financial viability of the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model.
Bruce’s column elaborated on a presentation he gave at SaaScon 2008 entitled, “Balancing Customer Acquisition Costs and Elusive Profitability.” The talk was driven by [...]

HP’s decision to acquire EDS cannot be faulted when measured against all the standard metrics for doing a mega-deal in the traditional technology world. It gives both companies greater scale and access to more corporate customers without a lot of overlap.
The problem is that we are in the midst of a fundamental change in the [...]

Derek Gottfrid and his colleagues at the New York Times have obviously been having a lot of fun with Amazon EC2.
Their latest offering is the TimesMachine. Print subscribers can access any issue of the New York Times, dating back to Volume 1, Number 1 in 1851. Non-subscribers can take a peek at 6 different [...]

I will be participating in a webinar on Thursday, May 22nd at 11 AM PST. Hosted by AWS user Vertica, the webinar will cover Vertica's cloud-based approach to analytic data management. The webinar is free, but you will have to register in advance if you would like to attend.
The Vertica Analytic Database runs on Amazon [...]

In January of 2008 we announced that the Amazon Web Services now consume more bandwidth than do the entire global network of Amazon.com retail sites.
Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos has been showing a chart of the relative bandwidth usage and I just received permission to post it here:

Pretty cool, huh?
– Jeff;

Conversations in the SaaS enablement space tend to focus on companies offering cloud application platforms (such as our very own SaaSGrid), enablement technologies such as billing services offered by folks like Aria Systems, or players like Amazon that are pushing “closer to the metal” cloud utilities like file storage via S3 or virtualization constructs via [...]

I just read a post over at PaaSTalk that painted a scary picture in Germany. A recent survey showed that almost half of the ISVs have no plans for SaaS offerings. Granted, some subset of those probably are in a business where SaaS doesn’t fit at this point, but I imagine the remaining ISVs are [...]