SaaS Provider Cvent Cuts Storage Administration Costs by $500,000 with 3PARSaaS Provider Cvent Cuts Storage Administration Costs by $500,000 with 3PAR

Cvent Inc., the SaaS provider recently announced that it has successfully installed 3PAR’s Utility Storage Solution to strengthen internal systems, assist mission critical SaaS offerings with the network and change its complicated and bulky tape-based backup. According to 3PAR CEO David Scott, “The fact that our customers continue to come back to us time and time again to help them solve their key business challenges demonstrates how our advanced virtualization technologies, combined with the native simplicity and efficiency of our utility storage platform, deliver benefits that traditional storage vendors simply cannot not offer."

Computer Guidance Corporation Announces SaaS Platform for Its eCMS Solution

Computer Guidance Corp. announced the launch of eCMS construction management software solution on a SaaS platform. “Industry trends and customer feedback indicated the continued need to deliver flexible, innovative and advanced solutions to stay ahead of the competition,” said Roger Kirk, President/CEO, Computer Guidance Corporation. “Our newly released eCMS hosted application provides construction companies with increased productivity and operational efficiency in a cost-contained fashion.”

OpenAir Wins Best of SaaS Showplace Award

OpenAir, the Netsuite Inc. company recently announced that it has been named the latest winner of the Best of SaaSShowplace (BoSS) Awards program. The company helps businesses worldwide in automating project-centric business processes. "We are proud to be recognized by the SaaS Showplace for the measurable business benefits we are delivering to our customers," said OpenAir CEO Morris Panner. It was named the latest BoSS Award winner for the benefits gained by Bluewolf Group and Metricstream. 

Cast Iron Systems and HP to Deliver Cloud Integration Services to Small and Midsize Businesses

Cast Iron Systems and HP have announced the formation of a partnership for offering integration services or SMBs looking to reduce costs by leveraging SaaS applications within their existing infrastructures and applications. "Cast Iron's collaboration with HP will accelerate our penetration of the SMB market worldwide and demonstrate that VARs can play a major role in delivering cloud computing solutions," said Ken Comée, chief executive officer, Cast Iron Systems. "VARs now have the flexibility to offer integration as a cloud-based service or as an on-premise appliance. Also, SMBs can have peace of mind knowing that their on-premise integration solution is running on high-performance HP servers.”

Theorem Launches Theorem Analytics™ 3.0

According to a report, Theorum Inc. will be debuting the third version of its proprietary SaaS program, Theorem Analytics™.  The new version will allow ad agencies and publishers to explore and analyze data associated with digital marketing campaigns, including display, search and email. “With online marketing data becoming increasingly complex, ad agencies, networks and publishers are in need of our program more than ever,” said Jay Kulkarni, CEO and founder of Theorem. “Theorem Analytics™ has provided our clients with a cost-effective and efficient way of handling reporting and campaign analysis. The upgraded version makes certain processes streamlined even more.”

QED Connect Inc. has announced that it will be introducing a SaaS-based Software License Manager (SLM) product. The application will enable centralized management of software licensing whether users are on or off network and is aimed at increasing revenue through channel partners: Manage Service Providers (MSP), Internet Service Providers (ISP) and Telco.

Compiere Releases New Manufacturing ERP Solution Available On-Premise

Compiere Inc. reportedly unveiled the details of Compiere Manufacturing, a manufacturing ERP solution developed on an open source platform. “We are delighted that Compiere has made the investment to expand its manufacturing capabilities,” said Remus Cazacu, general manager of BIT Software, a European-based Compiere Silver Partner. “Manufacturing is a huge market opportunity for both Compiere and BIT Software; with Compiere's new manufacturing product, we can offer a broad set of functionality, consulting and system integration services to current and future customers.” This is a planning and control solution that streamlines and automates critical business processes which in turn result in lower manufacturing costs. 

IAP to integrate Empirics with Birst's on-demand business intelligence

Information Asset Partners and Birst have announced a partnership for integration of IAP's Empirics with Birst's on-demand business intelligence. Birst said that, the new solution, Empirics BI, will use Birst's SaaS business intelligence (BI) application to provide financial institutions with Empirics's behavioral, market-based metrics. Raisa Suhir, co-founder and head of analytics and development at Information Asset Partners, said: "Financial firms have volumes of customer data, but in today's highly competitive environment you also need objective behavioral measurement, including market, customer, and growth potential metrics. IAP will offer Empirics BI to provide these metrics to represent buying behaviors and intents across channels and competitors."