Oracle set to release seven SaaS offerings

Oracle has announced seven new SaaS offerings including applications for sales and marketing and HR professionals, according to a Wall Street Journal report, which cited sources briefed on the plans and a company document. Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison said during an earnings call in June 2008 that on-demand services were not profitable enough, although he admitted that this would change over time.

Cast Iron Systems Selected as Red Herring 100 Finalist

Cast Iron Systems has announced that the Red Herring editorial team has selected Cast Iron as one of the Red Herring 100 finalists for 2009. "The Red Herring editorial team diligently surveys entrepreneurship around the globe in order to determine which startups will lead the next wave of disruption and innovation," said Alex Vieux, Publisher and CEO of Red Herring. "Cast Iron Systems, among all 200 finalists, is well qualified to be in the company of past winners, which have included Google, Salesforce.com, Skype, Yahoo! and YouTube."

ESET launches pay-as-you-go security

It was recently announced that ESET has released a pay-as-you-go antivirus and security software offering in Australia. “We’ve created the SaaS option for clients to be able to purchase online and seamlessly through the online portal, giving them instantaneous access to antivirus software,” he said. “The beauty of it is there’s no contract obligation unlike licensed software products. For normal antivirus software, you would need to renew it every 12 or 24 months, whereas this just continues to roll over as long as you’ve got the service in place.” Under the Affiliate program, the reseller places an icon on their website and once a customer clicks through, a trail code is activated and defines where the user has come from.

iSALUS healthcare and Idilus Partner to Sign Multi-Year Deal With Rockford Nephrology Associates for OfficeEMR

iSALUS healthcare and Idilus have announced that Rockford Nephrology Associates, a nine physician network covering north central Illinois, and located in Rockford, IL has signed a multi-year agreement subscribing to the iSALUS healthcare OfficeEMR unified Electronic Medical Record and Practice Management solution. "We are just getting inundated by thousands of paper charts. We need a plan for paperless clinical documentation that is seamlessly integrated with our billing process. OfficeEMR is our choice because it is affordable and complete; it will be there for us at our satellite locations," explains Dr. John Maynard, President of Rockford Nephrology.

Emergency Consultants Inc. Switches to Learn.com to Deliver Continuing Medical Education (CME) Course

According to reports, using the LearnCenter platform, ECI will deliver an internal and external curriculum for CME courses to clients across the country. ECI is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), which allows for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ courseware to be the delivered through the LearnCenter platform. “Having had a previous learning management system we knew exactly what we did, and did not want in a LMS. What really drew us to Learn.com was the flexibility of the LearnCenter platform, the ability to customize the portal, the advanced reporting, and the ability to create sub-LearnCenter’s which will allow us to create custom sub-portals for our learners at no additional cost,” said Justin Visser, Education Coordinator at Emergency Consultants, Inc.

Qualys won Best Vulnerability Management Solution at European SC Magazine 2009 Awards Event

Qualys Inc. has announced that it has won the SC Magazine Award Europe for Best Vulnerability Assessment. The awards were announced at the annual SC Magazine Awards dinner and presentation on Tuesday night at the Hurlingham Club in London. “We are incredibly honoured to be recognized by SC Magazine both in the Europe and the US” said Philippe Courtot, CEO and chairman of Qualys. “We attribute this recognition to our customers around the world who helped us make our QualysGuard SaaS offering address their security and compliance requirements.”