SaaS has been gaining traction partially due to it’s ability to help companies adapt to the new state of “normal” they will face as we emerge from the global recession. SaaS and the “cloud” computing model help contain costs, shorten implementation cycles and enable CIOs to focus on more strategic initiatives rather than expensive hardware [...]

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My visits with business executives and media mavens over the past few weeks involved heated discussions about the future role of the Chief Information Officer in this age of Software as a Service (SaaS). Public perception is that SaaS is in direct competition with the CIO, chipping away at the death grip this top IT [...]

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Recent news that electronics manufacturing giant Flextronics selected an On Demand solution for its 200,000 users, caught the attention of the technology industry. And not just the two ERP giants that lost the deal to a budding On Demand upstart. CIOs took notice too. And for them, the message was clear: On Demand or Software [...]

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