SaaS sweetens the cloud pot, but vendors struggle to capitalise
For customers, SaaS options are proliferating and spanning a wide swath of business functions. But the space remains difficult to sum up.
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News about SaaS
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SaaS spending soars as incumbent vendors go to war with upstarts
Traditional enterprise software vendors are slugging it out with born-in-the-cloud players such as Workday, Zendesk, ServiceNow and Dropbox.
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Government ICT marketplace poised for go-live with cloud catalogue
A new government digital procurement marketplace recently completed testing with agencies and suppliers and is set to go live shortly.
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Seattle-based Nintex buys Auckland-based Promapp
Intelligent process automation software vendor Nintex has acquired Promapp, a business process management software company based in Auckland.
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Finance focused Workday snaps up Adaptive Insights for $1.55B
Workday has acquired cloud specialists Adaptive Insights in a US$1.55 billion deal designed to bolster capabilities across the finance and HR markets.
Features about SaaS
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Chance for channel growth as SaaS remains dominant Public Cloud type
“Over the past several years, the software industry has been shifting to a Cloud-first (SaaS) development and deployment model."
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SaaS dominates as Public Cloud services spending skyrockets
“By 2018, most software vendors will have fully shifted to a SaaS/PaaS code base."
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New Kiwi CEO targets overseas SaaS expansion for NZ software firm
“It’s a great opportunity to lead a New Zealand business that is experiencing strong growth overseas."
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Review: Microsoft Office Online vs. Apple iWork for iCloud vs. Google Drive
Online word processors, spreadsheets, and presentation apps can be surprisingly useful, or surprisingly lame, and not even Microsoft aces Office document compatibility
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An in-depth look at Adobe’s updated Creative Cloud
This may be the last time that Adobe will be releasing new versions of its products all at once, according to Adobe digital media product marketing manager, Michael Stoddart.
