CloudNews for December 3rd, 2008

Dec 03 2008 09:31:09 AM Posted By : Mayank Gupta
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Award-Winning Servoy Launches New Servoy 4.1 for Fast, Flexible, Sexy, SaaS Applications

Servoy 4.1, the upgrade to Servoy 4.0 was launched today by Servoy, a SaaS soluton provider. This will enable Servoy developers to produce even better, more powerful enterprise level applications using a standards-based IDE including iPhone apps. "Servoy's professional development and deployment environment enables ISVs and companies to build fast, flexible, sexy SaaS business applications that can be deployed to the desktop, browser and over the Internet -- with a single code base."  said Bob Cusick, President, Servoy USA.

Infusionsoft Picks Message Systems' Software for SaaS Application

According to a sources, Infusionsoft, a vendor of marketing automation software for small businesses has selected Message Systems' Delivery Manager message management platform. Marc Chesley, vice president of Development for Infusionsoft, said the suite of products offered by Message Systems “will enhance our ability to provide e-mail deliverability to our customers, and help us to integrate the use of e-mail with our SaaS application.”

Miles & Stockbridge Law Firm Gains Efficiencies with Cloud-Based Unified Email Management by Mimecast

A holistic email management company offering SaaS-based email archiving, Mimecast has announced that Maryland-based law firm Miles & Stockbridge P.C has selected its cloud based management with a 50 % imprpvement in its cost savings. "Mimecast provided the services of three or four different products in one holistic solution. With Mimecast, there is nothing for me to manage. We are very pleased." said Ken Adams, CIO for Miles & Stockbridge.

Web Hosting On-Demand SaaS Services, OpSource, Deployed by Entry.com


To supprt its On Demand service and to deliver enterprise-class power, Entry Software firm has selected OpSource. Treb Ryan, CEO of OpSource remarked, ''The world is rapidly moving to on-demand. Companies are finding that successfully delivering applications and services over the Web requires much more than simply selecting a managed hosting provider. It requires a partner who understands and thrives in the on-demand world.

Apprenda to Aid Software Vendors with New SaaS Platform

In an effort to tackle recession, Apprenda Inc. has released a SaaS platform designed to give independent which will help independent vendors to manage business and application products. According to Sinclair Schullerm, “We’ve created a cloud operating system for SaaS, which provides a new layer of abstraction that takes the burden of creating SaaS specific technology, architecture and business components off of ISVs shoulders,”

Webroot offers free security hardware recycling

Webroot has teamed up with a recycling company Centillion to launch a Go Green campaign which offers to recycle legacy security hardware for free when customers sign up to Webroot's SaaS offering. "When we realized that the tremendous success of security SaaS solutions would be making hardware-based security obsolete, we took steps to provide a socially responsible alternative for recycling this influx of electronic waste, " said Peter Watkins, chief executive at Webroot.

Datalliance Delivers New Release of Vendor Managed Inventory and Retail POS Data Analysis Services


Datalliance VMI and Datalliance Sales Insight services are now available as announced by Datalliance. Both of them will be delivered via the Internet through a SaaS model. Enhancements are immediately available to all users and are based on input from the growing community of companies using each service.

Tomax And Revionics Announce Strategic Partnership Benefitting Grocery Retailers And Wholesalers

Tomax Corporation has announced its plans to partner togther in two key areas of need for grocery retailers; Workforce Optimization and Price Optimization. Under the planned agreement, Workforce Optimization, a key aspect of the Tomax Retail.net solution suite, will be offered by Revionics on a Software-as-a-Service ("SaaS") basis. In addition, Tomax will offer the Revionics Advanced Pricing System ("RAPS") to supplement and enhance its Revenue Management portfolio. "The very same demand intelligence data that we are analyzing for our clients is an essential part of planning and optimizing store-level workforce requirements for enhanced productivity and increased efficiency." said Todd P. Michaud, Revionics President and CEO.

Moneris Solutions Selects inContact by UCN

The On-Demand contact center provider, UCN Inc. has signed a 2 year renewable agreement for inContact Hiring with Moneris Solutions. Moneris Solutions is an industry-leading processor of debit and credit card payments with 230 agents at multiple contact center locations. Moneris Solutions is an industry-leading processor of debit and credit card payments with 230 agents at multiple contact center locations." said Tony Wood, Moneris Solutions customer service team manager.

KickApps Integrates ClipBlast! Video Search and Embedding

In a renent news, it was announced that ClipBlast! has partnered with KickApps to integrate the former's video search into the KickApps platform. ClipBlast! is a premier Web-wide video navigation and distribution platform. “The breadth of the ClipBlast! index makes it extremely easy for members of KickApps websites to find the perfect video or videos that help to complete their stories. Our integration of ClipBlast! is yet another example of KickApps’ ability to extend the KickApps Platform by integrating best-of-breed functionality from third party applications.” said Alex Blum, CEO, KickApps.

SaaS to grow in 90% of organizations says Gartner

According to a recent survey conducted by Gartner, nine out of ten companies plan to grow their use of SaaS in the next year. The survey involved eight major countries worldwide and 258 IT executives that make purchasing decisions of enterprise software. Most respondents were either currently using SaaS, or planned to use it within the next 12 months. Sharon Mertz, research director at Gartner, said: "Use of SaaS has been evolving during the past decade and the SaaS model has become increasingly popular over the past three or four years."

Ryma and Pervasive Software Join Forces to Bridge the Gap Between Product Management and Sales to Increase Opportunity Closure Rates

It was announced in a recent news that Ryma Technology Solutions and Pervasive Software Inc. have launched SalesforceConnect. SalesforceConnect will be hosted and delivered on the Pervasive DataCloud platform from today onwards.
SalesforceConnect is a unifying, collaborative environment for communicating and managing prospect, customer, and product opportunities. "SalesforceConnect is the only solution on the market that integrates these functions on a single integrated platform, and we are proud to make it available to our customers today." said Rene Bellei, President and CEO of Ryma Technology Solutions.


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