Bill.com and Intacct Get Together on Financials.

A new partnership was announced today between Bill.com Inc, the leading provider of on-demand accounts payable applications and Intacct, the market and technology leader in on-demand financial management and accounting applications. "Intacct, Bill.com and other like-minded SaaS innovators are pioneering a new model, one that shifts responsibility for aligning, delivering and supporting business applications to the vendors -- where it belongs. Aligning accounts payable with other accounting processes is critical to financial management -- particularly in these challenging economic times. We are excited to offer this integration to customers and we welcome Bill.com into the Intacct-Ready Partner Program." said Daniel Druker, senior vice president of marketing and business development at Intacct.

LiveOffice Announces Bailout Plan for Failed On-Premise Email Archiving Deployments.

LiveOffice, the provider of SaaS based e-mail archiving solution today announced the availability of Troubled Archive Relief Program (TARP) that will help organizations struggling to deploy and manage on-premise email archiving products. In other news, LiveOffice LLC has partnered with Procedo, a leading provider of data archive migration services to attract new customers at discounted rates. "Many organizations are quickly realizing that their current on-premise solution isn't satisfying their changing needs or the lengthy, resource-intense deployment is proving too costly," said Joseph Kvidera, CEO of Procedo.

SpringCM Announces Version 4.5 of Its Award-Winning on-Demand Content Management Service.

SpringCM INC released a new version of the award winning SaaS Content Management System. The new release includes 54 features and enhancements designed to improve document-centric processing and the SpringCM user experience. Dan Carmel, CEO of SpringCM, commented on the new release, "Version 4.5 is another strong step forward for SpringCM and again highlights the advantages of delivering ECM as a service.”

Sonora Quest Laboratories Signs Agreement With XIFIN, Inc. Paving the Way for Next Generation Business Platform.

Sonora Quest Laboratories selected XIFIN Inc as its revenue cycle solution. Six out of ten largest labs in the US are now XIFIN clients. "XIFIN was designed to meet the needs of the largest labs with regards to volume and complexity," said Lale White, Executive Chairman of XIFIN.  "Sonora Quest's deployment of Web 2.0 systems and services will shake up the competition by setting new standards for managing a major clinical lab."

Dell highlights super-light E-Family commercial laptops, M109S projector at Dreamforce conference.

CEO Michael Dell of Dell Inc said that it used Salesforce.com’s SaaS technology to improve its business model at the Dreamforce conference. Dell also introduced its new products like E-Family commercial laptops featuring all day battery life and the M109S projector.

Gladstone introduces membership relationship management software.

Orbit, a web based membership relationship management software was designed by Gladstone by adopting web based deployment models including hosting services and SaaS. It has been designed for health club managers. Said Ziai, chairman and chief executive of Gladstone, said: "The introduction of Orbit has been much anticipated across the industry and we have already received numerous sales enquiries.”

Informatica Launches Industry’s First On Demand Data Synchronization Service For Cloud Computing.

Informatica On-Demand Data Synchronization Service for Salesforce.com was announced as their latest addition to its family of On-Demand Data Integration Services. “Informatica continues to move the integration market into the cloud with the release of their Data Synchronisation Service for salesforce.com,” stated Andrew Leigh, Director Platform Marketing, salesforce.com.

Tata Comm launches new vulnerability management service.

Tata Communication’s SaaS based vulnerability management service (VMS) will now be available globally and will provide discovery and mapping of IT assets, Assets prioritization, comprehensive reporting etc.

Access Intelligence buys ArgentVive’s Solcara operation.

In a deal worth 750,000 GBP, Access Intelligence has agreed to acquire Solcara Ltd from fellow AIM Company ArgentVive. The move will be a welcome boost to Access’s own product offering and its efforts to focus on a software as a service (SaaS) approach.

Alert Logic and HostMySite.com Partner to Deliver Software-as-a-Service Solutions for IT Compliance and Security.

The award winning provider of On-Demand IT compliance and security solutions, AlertLogic announced a partnership agreement with managed hosting provider, Hostmysite.com. "We are excited to partner with Alert Logic because of their extensive experience delivering innovative intrusion detection, vulnerability management and log management solutions to the hosting industry," said Art Zeile, CEO at HostMySite.com.

Oracle puts 'social' in corporate CRM.

In a latest move by Oracle, the enterprise software giant has announced embedding social networking functions into its latest CRM offerings. This will allow the applications to emulate social network sites like Facebook, Friendster, LinkedIn. According to Prasad Rai, Oracle's senior CRM networking collaboration and mobility, there has been "a wave of innovations currently ongoing in the CRM space". One of these, he said, focuses on the transformation of "corporate" CRM applications to allow these applications to "mimic" social networking Web sites.

Maxplore is the Winner of the Force.com $1 Million Challenge.

Emergence Captial Partners and Salesforce.com have announced that Maxplore has been named the winner of the Force.com $1 Million Challenge. The former intents to invest $2 Million in Maxplore, subject to closure of the transaction. The Force.com $1 Million challenge is a venture competition for entrepreneur’s and companies building on the Force.com platform. “The Force.com platform allowed us to build and deliver a field service application suite much faster than is possible with client/server or other SaaS architectures,” said Sam Mukherjee, Co-Founder and CEO, Maxplore.

Nelson company integrates with Salesforce.

FuseIT from Nelson has built a product which will now be a part of Salesforce.com’s Force.com’s AppExchange. The company has claimed to be the first New Zealand Salesforce Consulting Partner to be accepted in the world wide program. “FuseIT bridged the technology void between legacy on-premise software and the latest web based services,” says Print Sf’s chief executive Mark Cira.