Cloud computing is everywhere. Some more evidence was in the Fall/Winter edition of Scholastic Administrator Magazine that dedicated a special section of their publication to Cloud computing. An Information Passing Exercise In school we performed an exercise where an instructor told a story to a student who then repeated what he could remember to...
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Background and Definitions Cloud technologies are currently being hyped and advocated by all software vendors. Almost every ERP, virtualization, infrastructure, and application vendor says that their software takes advantage of the cloud. The cloud has become synonymous with successful, modern, well developed software. As companies promote the cloud, the differences between a SaaS offering,...
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InfoWorld’s Pete Babb in his article “Is ERP as we know it dying?” explains that the battle on the ERP front has changed from fighting over new implementations (where relatively few opportunities exist) to fighting over add-on applications. He quotes Paul Hammerman, VP of enterprise applications at Forrester Research, “I think the battleground is...
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Julia King in Computerworld Article, Beyond CRM: SaaS slips into the mainstream, presents macro statistics as well as individual stories about the burgeoning SaaS industry. Statistics we pulled from the article: IDC projected a 36% worldwide growth in 2009. The number was revised upward to 40.5% as a result of the recession. Gartner expects...
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