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Traditional on-site business intelligence appears to be losing some traction in the face of SaaS-based alternatives, according to a survey by Gartner. A third of the 1,364 IT managers polled reported Read more...

CIOs and CTOs last year spent much of their online conversations talking about managed services, cloud computing, social networking, SaaS and workplace issues, according to a compilation of buzzwords Read more...

For an interesting and expansive overview of the changes enterprise software underwent last year, take a look at an article by IDG News Service's Chris Kanaracus. While it would be going too far to Read more...

Software as a service is in the midst of an evolution, and enterprise customers considering an SaaS purchase need to ask an evolving set of questions, according to Forrester Research. Read more...

Subway has 35,000 restaurants across the globe and the data center capacity to internalize most technology needs, but the sandwich chain recently signed up for a spending management system hosted on Read more...

About half of the cloud-based infrastructure services sold these days are purchased by business users outside the IT department, and when it comes to software as a service, those non-IT rogues are Read more...

Fujitsu has rolled out a specialized cloud platform specifically for the manufacturing sector, with the aim of enabling companies of any size to use large computing systems without having to make the Read more...

Software-as-a-service is poised to gradually take over IT infrastructure, whether or not CIOs want it to, according to InformationWeek's Charles Babcock. Software executives offer a variety of Read more...

Confidence in open source technology is growing among businesses of all sizes, according to a survey conducted by The 451 Group and North Bridge Venture partners. A majority of respondents said that Read more...

The cloud may look increasingly appealing for a large variety of applications, but it isn't likely to be the main vehicle for four categories of software, according to researchers at Forrester. Read more...