CA Opts for Geminare's SaaS-Based Hosting Platform.

According to recent news, CA has selected Geminare and its SaaS based hosting platform for delivering solutions to SMBs. Officials said that this assures customers that their critical technology infrastructure—such as Windows based file and application servers—are provided uninterrupted access and does not require onsite hardware and capital purchases.

Enhanced Salesforce.com CRM BI/Analytics Offered by DecipherTech Using a SaaS/On-Demand Model.

DecipherTech Inc has announced the launch of Decipher for Salesforce.com. "Decipher is very flexible. Users can select their choice of metrics, graphical presentation and time frames," said Steve Williams, CTO of Virtual Management Technologies.

Salesforce Sees Record Revenue, Expects More.

Salesforce.com has announced that it has hit a $ 10.1 Million mark as far as its net income is concerned. For the quarter ended October 31st, it has shown an improvement of 3% per share from the 2007 quarter. "Our annual revenue run rate now exceeds $1.1 billion, and was $787 million in the first nine months, exceeding all the revenue for last year," said Salesforce.com chairman and CEO Marc Benioff on a conference call with financial analysts.

Enhanced Revenue Management And Billing Solutions Now Available From Softrax.

Softrax Corp has announced the availability of Softrax Operations 8.5, Softrax Contrax 3.5, and Softrax Financials 8.5. The three new services will deliver new and enhanced features to improve the way the companies manage deferred revenue, maintenance renewals and compliance related security processes.

UK SBs challenged to dump installed s/w for 24 hours.

KashFlow, accounting Software Company from UK is challenging small businesses to dump their desktop applications and evaluate online applications for 24 hrs during the UKs first national cloud-computing day on December 12th. "The Cloud Computing Day challenge is simple - for small businesses to exclusively use online software in their day to day business on December 12th. This is a fun challenge with a serious message. And we hope National Cloud Computing Day will help to raise awareness of a more efficient, economic and flexible way of working."

Hypatia Research Report Reveals Growing Use of Collaborative Planning, Forecasting & Replenishment as a Managed Service.

Hypatia Research LLC has released a report titled “Collaborative Planning, Forecasting & Replenishment: Vendor Selection Guide for Services” that throws the light on strategies, techniques, vendor solutions and services utilized by companies like WalMart, Motorola, BestBuy, Dell etc.

Corum Advises VTN Technologies in Acquisition by SilkRoad Technology.

Corum Group Ltd has announced the acquisition of its client, VTN Technologies Inc. The latter is known for its Ole (Online Learning Environment). Both organizations recognized the growing demand for a fully integrated 'talent management solution' especially with the convergence of e-Learning and HR Performance Management. Moreover, the business fit was remarkable: they both addressed critical talent management and e-learning needs in the enterprise market, delivered functionally-rich, complementary Web-based solutions, pursued the same target customers and offered a very attractive value proposition under a SaaS business model.' said Marshall Warwaruk, vice president of Corum.

Bycast launches digital archiving platform.

In recent news, Bycast announced the availability of the 8th generation of its StorageGRID platform. This will include range of enhancements like distributed file system gateway and multi tenancy capabilities along with support for virtual server deployments. "StorageGRID is an established platform for large-scale digital archives and this release raises the bar on scalability and performance. New capabilities enable customers to utilize StorageGRID across a broader set of data intensive applications, including the delivery of digital archiving as a service," Kermani says.

Celeritive Technologies, Inc. Announces Launch of VoluMill™ 2.5

Celeritive Technologies, Inc has announced the release of VoluMill 2.5 which is a highly efficient and cost effective toolpath engine developed by industry leading scientists and software engineers. “VoluMill toolpaths make it possible to drive machine tools and cutting tools to their fullest capabilities,” said Terry Sorensen, CEO of Celeritive Technologies.

Reality Digital Joins Vusion Digital IQ Partner Program to Support HD Streaming Video on Social Media Sites.

Reality Digital Inc has joined the Vusion Digital IQ partner program to offer HD video streaming to their customers. This will expand their solutions offerings to include high quality, long and short format HD video online. “Our customers look to us to provide them with complete solutions for their social media strategies,” said Mitchell Linden, senior vice president of business development for Reality Digital.