Editor’s note: The following article by Kevin McDonald, VP of account management for SourceMedical, appeared in the Fall 2010 edition of SourceMedical’s “Insider Source” magazine. In today’s mature ...

With appropriately drafted SLAs (service-level agreements), health-care company The Schumacher Group has used hosted applications successfully for over two years. Unlike many of his peers who remain ...

But while on one hand there's nothing new about hosted applications, on the other hand everything is new as enterprises of all sizes begin migrating more and more mission-critical technology to the ...

FoneMine’s ready-to-use software uses existing cellular services to allow companies to reach out to cell phone users with a range of mobile content. A start-up mobile content vendor is offering ...

Like a snowball rolling downhill, the software-as-a-service platform is gaining in size and depth as vendors continue to add on more and more components to the core hosted application. This week, ...

One of the more important lessons the pandemic has taught us is that client and firm applications based on a locally based server are not always the best way to handle this important resource. That’s ...

You probably run Office and other software directly from a PC hard drive. But server-side tools can put any Windows application into the cloud, keeping virtual ...

Oracle on Tuesday will attempt once again to get its software-for-rent plan off the ground. Analysts hope that Oracle will announce a clearer software rental strategy that will appeal to information ...

This week, Microsoft hopes to remove some roadblocks to partner-hosted ERP adoption with the introduction of expanded Service Provider Licensing Agreement (SPLA) options for its full business ...

What's SAP's next move? The business software maker has been particularly guarded about its plans for a new, on-demand version of its customer relationship management, or CRM, software. So far, ...

As part of its shift in business model, Microsoft is rewriting many of its applications to make them support multitenancy so that they may be offered in a hosted fashion Microsoft is rewriting many of ...

Although Steve Ballmer claims that within 10 years all software will be delivered as a service, current application service providers struggle to make their businesses work. Heavy maintenance and ...