SAP announces surprise software-as-a-service move.

SAP’s Vice-president, John Wookey made the shocking announcement of offering SaaS product line to its biggest clients.  "On-demand is the next stage in applications development. It is important to hear SAP say that the future of the company is tied to successfully developing and marketing on-demand. SAP believes in on-demand and so does the SAP board," he said. The move is seen as way to fight falling profits and increased competition. 

Symantec vows huge push into SaaS market.

Symantec Inc, world leaders in security applications today vowed huge push into SaaS market and offered a glimpse at upcoming back-up products at its Financial Analyst Day event in San Francisco. "We've fallen short on delivering on the needs of small-business customers," admitted Greg Hughes, group president of Symantec's Enterprise Products Group.

TalentDrive Releases TalentFilter℠ Version 3.0.

In recent announcement, TalentDrive unveiled version 3.0 of TalentFilter, the innovative SaaS recruitment technology. The new version gives clients a fresh GUI that improves ease of use, as well as superior sourcing capabilities. "Our mission with TalentFilter 3.0 was to create a technology that required minimal to no training for clients and an extremely user-friendly interface. We know that our clients are the best source of information and feedback, so the main initiatives for version 3.0 were heavily client driven.” said Sean Bisceglia, CEO TalentDrive. 

LeadMaster Launches Expanded Lead Nurturing Service.

LeadMaster, a leading provider of cloud computing Customer Relationship Management (CRM) solutions announces expanded lead nurturing capabilities to help clients maximize their sales and marketing return on investment. The new lead nurturing features allow LeadMasterCRM customers to have a series of pre-programmed events which automatically 'nurture' prospects without having to do anything other than add the prospect to the appropriate lead nurturing 'track'. 

MindFireInc Cross-Media Campaign Management Software.

A leading SaaS-based provider of cross-media campaign management software provider, MindFire Inc today announced the latest version of their flagship product known as LookWho'sClicking. The software is internet marketing's premiere solution for tracking, analyzing, and improving the effectiveness of integrated campaigns using personalization. This latest release is immediately available to all 3,000 of MindFireInc's licensed users worldwide and is made possible quickly as it’s delivered through SaaS.

HP Launches App Security Solutions for IT Organizations.

HP announced major new releases of its application security software reportedly designed to help companies lower costs and protect against malicious web attacks by hackers."HP Application Security Center helps IT organizations manage the growing risk of security breaches that take place through web applications," said Rajesh Nayak, Business Manager Application, HP Software "Today's application modernization efforts are creating a better end-user experience but it may also produce websites that are more vulnerable to hackers," he added.

Rise Vision, Inc. Partners With AOpen To Develop Turnkey Digital Signage Solution.

A new partnership was announced between Rise Vision Inc and AOpen America Inc, to pre-load the Rise Display Network, its web-based content management system for the control of digital signage networks, on AOpen's robust, ultra small form factor Digital Engine powered media players. "This partnership makes sense for Rise Vision and AOpen, but more importantly, it makes sense for digital signage resellers and their customers," says Ryan Cahoy, Managing Director, Rise Vision, Inc

HP to offer Symantec's Online Backup on PCs.

At Symantec’s financial analyst conference in San Francisco, company announced a strategic partnership with HP. HP will offer Symantec’s Online Backup service’s 30 days trial as part of the partnership. Symantec President and CEO Enrique Salem said that this type of SaaS product will be increasingly important to Symantec's business.