RedPrairie Extends SaaS Offerings.

RedPrairie Corp, a productivity software company has opted to offer their every application as SaaS offering. The company has aggressively pursued a recent development strategy to enable simple capacity addition or subtraction across its entire line, making just-in-time scalability a reality for its customers, without a large initial capital investment. “RedPrairie recognizes that many organizations need more flexibility with their product pricing,” says Llew Heinz, RedPrairie Director Hosting Strategy.

datmedia launches monthly SaaS option for DatpresenterV2 at Streaming Media East 2009.

datmedia, web TV platform development company has announced an online version of Datpresenter. Datpresenter V2 is W3C standards compliant platform designed to allow anyone with basic computer skills to create and brand their own Internet TV channel with synchronized rich media. “The demand for video streaming will continue to grow as companies realize the wide-ranging benefits – and as they realize they can get easy access to it. Part of our mission is to push the boundaries of how people view streaming media, and that means making it available as flexibly as possible. By launching a monthly billing option, we are following our dream of really opening up this technology to the widest range of users.”

InnRoad's SaaS Helps Hotels Cut Costs.

In recent news, InnRoad Inc boasts about the fact that their solutions have helped New York based client Chelsea Pines Inn, in churning out a 720 percent return on the investment made on technology. “Within months of using innRoad, our revenues soared by 20 percent and occupancy rates improved by 4 percent, reflecting an overall return on investment of 2500 percent,” said Enclave Inn owner Michael Wudyka.

Start-up Testuff Selected as One of the Best and Most Promising Start-ups by IGT.

In the international scenario, The Israeli Association of Grid Technologies has selected Testuff, an on-demand software testing company as one of the 20 most promising start-ups in the cloud, grid, virtualization and SaaS models. "Testuff is happy to be recognized by experts from the SaaS industry as one of the most promising start-ups. We believe that the world-wide software testing industry will be able to start using the new service in a only a few months." said Gil Bloom, Business Development & Marketing manager at Testuff.

Lyris Acquires UK Email Marketing Consultancy.

In recent news, Lyris Inc has acquired Facultas, a full-service email-marketing agency based in the UK. “We have seen tremendous momentum for our Lyris HQ integrated marketing suite in the US and recognize a large opportunity in the European market for a SaaS-based, online marketing solution,” said Luis Rivera, CEO, Lyris.

SiriusDecisions Leverages iCentera's Portal Software for Fourth Consecutive Year to Power Streamlined, Eco-Friendly Conference Communications.

iCentera, the brains behind Portals for Mortals and the leading provider of on-demand portal software for 360-degree sales enablement, today announced that its SaaS-based solution will again be used by SiriusDecisions, a leading advisory firm focused on sales and marketing integration, to streamline conference communications, deliver and track usage metrics for all conference material including presentations, sponsor vendor brochures, best practices and other content to reduce the paper footprint at the Fourth Annual SiriusDecisions Summit 2009. iCentera is a Gold Sponsor of the event which takes place May 13-15 at the Fairmont Scottsdale in Arizona.

Google Apps gets first global customer.

Manufacturer Valeo, has created the history in the SaaS world by choosing Google Apps for its 30,000 employees spread across 192 locations in 27 countries. "We were searching for an innovative way to reduce significantly our office infrastructure costs while simultaneously improving user collaboration and productivity," said André Gold, Valeo's technical senior vice-president. "Our pilot projects demonstrate that this target is achievable."

Deltek Launches New Business Intelligence Solution for GCS Premier.

Deltek, Inc, the leading provider of enterprise applications software for project-focused businesses, today announced the release of Premier Analytics, a business intelligence solution for GCS Premier built in partnership with Analytix on Demand – the leader in SaaS BI and on-premise business intelligence. The new business intelligence solution will be generally available in June 2009.

30,000-Employee P.F. Chang's Selects UltiPro for Human Capital Management Delivered through SaaS.

Ultimate Software, a leading provider of human resources, payroll, and talent management solutions, today announced that P.F. Chang's China Bistro, Inc, has selected UltiPro as SaaS for comprehensive human capital management (HCM)'including HR, benefits, payroll, recruiting, on-boarding, and salary planning and budgeting for its 30,000 employees.

i365, A Seagate Company, EVault Data Protection Solutions to Support VMware vSphere.

i365, a Seagate company announced the support for VMware vSphere, the industry’s first cloud operating system, transforming datacenters into dramatically simplified cloud infrastructures to enable the next generation of flexible, reliable IT services.  “We are pleased that i365 is taking the next step to helping provide customers with a more flexible, reliable and scalable computing environment,” said Bernie Mills, senior director, alliance programs, VMware. “By supporting VMware vSphere, our partners can further enable increased efficiency, control and choice for customers.”