The Department of Defense, especially the Defense Information Systems Agency is starting to move to a software as a service model for its computing needs. I see this as a good thing but not everybody in the industry is happy about this as evidenced in this article. Not surprising as this will definitely start to [...]
You can tell that SaaS is really taking off when you start to see the old school software guys starting to offer the capabilities of their products through on-demand services. This article in InformationWeek talks about Informatica (a long time vendor of ETL products) offering data integration as an on-demand service to integrate internal enterprise [...]
StrikeIron recently announced the ability to integrate web services from their Business Network into Excel. Web services have been lacking an end user-friendly client for a while. Will this announcement from StrikeIron push Excel to fill that gap? We all know that Excel has always been the tool of choice for business analysts. Now that [...]
