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CloudNews for November 28th, 2008.

Sunrise Software's New Subscription Pricing Model Broadens Reach For Best Of Breed ITIL Tool.

An independent IT Service Management software provider, Sunrise Software has announced a new subscription pricing model designed to help organizations for ITIL in a tougher economic climate. This will combine the benefits of on-premise hosted software and SaaS models for ITSM and ITIL software solutions.

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CloudNews for November 27th, 2008.

NetSuite Enables Customers to Rapidly and Easily Comply With UK VAT Changes.

In recent news, NetSuite, a leading vendor of on-demand, integrated business management software suites for mid-market enterprises and divisions of large companies made an announcement that they have taken care of the recent changes made by the UK govt. “we designed the tax engine within NetSuite to easily accommodate such changes on-the-fly. We also realize that our cus...
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I'll See Your 50% Saving and Raise You

Steve posted about the newly available (well soon and only if you're in the US) online versions of Exchange and SharePoint. It seems the Microsoft boffins have worked out that the change could see small businesses access a level of functionality recently only available to massive corporates (say oh ah please) like Coca Cola and Phillips. Steve recounted that;

In a nutshell, this is Microsoft offering to host Exchange and SharePoint in ...

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Salesforce.com’s India Plans

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Salesforce.com is planning to invade Indian market. According to a report in the Industry Standard, Doug Farber, Vice President of Salesforce’s Asia Pacific operations, told the media that they are planning to focus on some select cities like Hyderabad, Bangalore, Gurgaon and Mumbai. They are hoping to slowly create awareness about cloud computing in India. The biggest drawback usually quoted ...

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CloudNews for November 26th, 2008.

Reader's Digest Selects Revel Consulting to Implement SaaS Solution.

In a recent report, Revel Consulting has announced that it has been selected by Reader's Digest for the integration of the SaaS solution with the company's current CRM platforms. "The combination of Revel's industry expertise in SaaS and direct access to their senior consultants made the difference," said Kelly Kolb, Director of Business Intelligence for Allrecipes.com (Food &am...
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Sandy Gets the Sack

SandyI am always on the lookout for free or low cost web services that will help me (and my clients) to better organise their day, and to be more productive.

About a year ago, I stumbled upon a free service called 'I Want Sandy', which, in a nutshell, is an online virtual assistant.  The way it works is, I can send Sandy an email asking her to remind me to do something or to remember any pertinent detail, and she would do it quickly and effic...

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Domain, Business or Tech-Specific knowledge - Which Trumps?

A few months ago I took part in a session that was pushing independent governance for hi-tech, hi-growth businesses. Speaking at the event was a very experienced board member with a bunch of independent directorships to his name. I asked a question around domain knowledge and his reply was interesting;

I know business, I don't need to know the business I direct. I have a computer, I think it's a PC, someone told me I should get an App...

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CloudNews for November 25th, 2008.

Cielo MedSolutions Releases First Embeddable Web Service for Clinician Prompts.

Cielo Clinic, the clinical quality management system with its web services will help enable third party software partners to integrate the clinical decision support into their applications GUI.

Parallels Operations Automation SaaS Module Simplifies Application Delivery for Service Providers.

Parallels released parallels Operations Automation 2.8 Software in the form of ...
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Melamine (in Low Doses) Makes Your Baby's Holiday Bottle

The more I hear about the Chinese melamine story, the more outraged I become. The only good news is that the Chinese people are outraged as well and hopefully this will translate to tighter quality and safety controls so poisons and substitute ingred...
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Attempting to Be the Oracle of Oracle Spend Management (Part 2)

As someone who likes to do a flyby on the basic numbers to analyze vendor traction, it is tempting to start off analyses like these with basic facts such as number of customers, percentage of spend enabled, etc. But when it comes to tracking down met...

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Frustration Free Packaging

This is a truly great initiative, as any parent who has had to deal with the gauntlet of plastic clamshells, plastic coated wires, and interlocking packages will attest to. I dread those plastic wires the most. On a more serious note, this is also a great example of a company that takes the attitude that [...]

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Reality Check 2.0

Over the past month, I’ve been wrestling with blogger’s block. A number of items have kept me from blogging, but the key agitator is the current economic crisis. I’ve attended conferences; I’ve participated in discussions on social media; I continue to Yammer and Twitter, but in the back of my mind a blaring [...]
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Satellites

Phoneflix has completely changed my interactions with Netflix. Now, wherever I am I can open it on my iPhone and manage my Netflix queue. It’s as random as while watching television or at the car wash or even sitting is a movie theatre watching previews.

TweetDeck (and Thwirl before it) accelerated my twitter usage. Yammer’s desktop [...]