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Executive Report Highlights |
May 2008
Issue 1 |
- Running for the Exit: What Investors Want to See in Exit Planning
- FrontRange Solutions Acquires Centennial Software
- Xeronics Selects Axeda Remote Service Software
- HCL Technologies Introduces New Breed SaaS Service Delivery Platform
- Revelation Software Concepts, Panaya Ink Deal to Integrate Automated Impact Analysis in Change Control
- New On-Demand Platform as a Service to Enable Java and Ajax Over the Cloud
- Operating Benchmarks Point to Different Operating Models and Results
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April 2008
Issue 2 |
- The Agile Desktop
- ELC Technologies Releases ELC Core Rails Library to Reduce Development Time and Costs for Enterprise Applications
- Bungee Labs to Offer Federated Hosting for PaaS
- Microsoft Reports Record Third-Quarter Revenue
- McAfee, Inc. Announces Exclusive Partnership with Acer, Inc.
- Ecosystems Summit 2008
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April 2008
Issue 1 |
- Finding the Real Value of SOA - By Payton Byrd, System Architect, Topcoder
- Expand the Pie with a Set of Non Monetary Trade-ups - By Ron Hubsher, Managing Director, Sales Optimization Group
- Salesforce.com and Google Introduce Salesforce for Google Apps
- Aria Systems and Rackspace Team to Provide On-Demand Billing for SaaS Industry
- IBM and Oracle Partner to Serve Midsize Businesses
- Jamcracker Integration Toolkit Enables ISVs
- IT Leaders Should Prepare for the Third Wave of Innovation to Drive Growth
- On-Demand CRM Market Becomes New SaaS Battleground
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March 2008
Issue 2 |
- Offshore Outsourcing Strategy: Does India Still Make Sense? By M. M. Sathyanarayan, President of Global Development Consulting, Inc
- Magic Number for SaaS Companies By Lars Leckie, Associate, Hummer Winblad
- Collaboration: The Impact on Your Company and Your Partners By Linda Moffat & Holly Simon - Evolving Collaborations, LLC
- Mindjet Accelerates Licensing and Protection for MindManager
- Magic Software Unveils a New Roadmap for its Application Platform Technology
- Licensing Toolkit from jProductivity
- InfoStreet Announces Small Business CRM
- QuickArrow and Pervasive Software Partner to Deliver ''SaaS-to-Anything'' Integrations
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March 2008
Issue 1 |
- Are You Keeping Your Customers Up at Night?
- 2007 Was a Good Year for Software IPOs and M&As, SoftwareCEO Annual Reports Finds
- Intacct Launches Expanded Channel Partner Program
- SolutionsIQ Helps With Microsoft SharePoint Training
- Attensity VoC On-Demand Provides Secure 'Voice of the Customer' Analysis Via Web Browser
- Blueroads Offers Partner Opportunity Management Solution
- Channel Partners Authorized to Sell a Combined Unified Communications Solution from Cbeyond and Cisco
- Sage Announces Global CRM Strategy
- Bluewolf And BigMachines Announce Alliance to Deliver SaaS Solutions to Manufacturers
- POSititive Technology Uses Commerce Toolkit from IP Commerce
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February 2008
Issue 2 |
- Taking the Pain Out of Software Evaluations
- Top 10 Internationalization Tips
- IT Salaries to Increase by 5.3 Percent in 2008
- eVapt Inc. Lands Seed Funding led by Applied Reasoning, LLC
- Electronic Arts Proposes to Acquire Take-Two Interactive Software
- TrialPay Receives $15.8 Million in Funding
- Ubicom Secures $18 Million
- VFA Enables Better Control of Capital Costs with Enhanced Spend Management Software
- Innotas Adds Request Management to its On-Demand PPM Platform
- IBM and Partners Utilizing SOA Strategy to Help Healthcare Providers
- Openbravo ERP Passes 500,000 Downloads
- Microsoft Online Marketing Certification Awarded to Engine Ready
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February 2008
Issue 1 |
- Trying to Find a SaaS Partner? 10 Things to Keep in Mind
By Anubhav Saxena, AVP – HCL ISD
- Digg Popularity Rankings Made Transparent by QlikTech
- LogLogic Closes Over-Subscribed $13.5 Million in Series D Financing
- SugarCRM Secures USD 20 Million Expansion Stage Investment
- DPAC Technologies Closes on New Financing
- VKernel Secures $4.6 Million Series A Financing
- The Yale Group Announces Mincron SBC Has Been Acquired by Briarcliff Solutions Group, LLC
- Virtual Iron Raises $20 Million in New Equity Financing
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January 2008
Issue 2 |
- Many Software Companies to Engage in New Business Models in 2008
- IBM and SAP Ink Agreement to Develop Their First Joint Software Product
- Webroot Delivers SaaS Perimeter Security for SMB Market
- SmartTurn Secures $5 Million in Series A Funding
- CFO Strategies Selected to Join Microsoft Startup Accelerator Program
- Pillar Data Systems Supports Oracle VM Server Virtualization Environments
- Small- and Mid-Sized Customers Deploying SuccessFactors
- FLEXnet Removes Manual Mayhem from License Generation & Activation
- CiRBA Raises $12 Million with Sigma Partners
- Unisfair Receives $10 Million in Series B Funding
- Adchemy Lands $19 Million Investment
- VersionOne Unveils New User Interface, Free Open Source Tool Integrations
- Softrax Increases Staff Efficiency by Improving Problem Resolution with BMC Appsight Problem Resolution System
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January 2008
Issue 1
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- Don’t Gamble with Your Software ROI
by Amena Ali, Chief Marketing Officer, Arxan
- Leaders and Laggards in the Internet Infrastructure Sector
- Coghead Brings Its Web Application Development Platform to Amazon Web Services
- SaaS Offering from Atos Origin and Axway Serves Growing Worldwide Market for B2B Integration Outsourcing Services
- ReachForce Secures $5 Million in Series B Funding
- Oracle Software as a Service Platform Leveraged by Agistix
- IRM and Trackmax Solutions Form Strategic Partnership
- Capterra Grows to Largest Business Software Database with 10,000 Software Companies
- Softrax Increases Staff Efficiency by Improving Problem Resolution with BMC Appsight Problem Resolution System
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December 2007
Issue 2 |
- Global Demand for Human Productivity Impacts Software Companies
By Vladimir L Pavlov, Chairman and Chief Strategy Officer of the International Software and Productivity Engineering Institute
- Sales Self-Sabotage: The Cause and the Cure
By Jeff Thull, CEO and President of Prime Resource Group
- CA and HCL Technologies Announce Strategic Partnership to Drive CA’s Threat Management Security Business
- Akamai Supports Hitachi’s Global Business
- Ariba Completes Acquisition of Procuri
- Micro Focus Announces Enhanced Application Provider Program
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December 2007
Issue 1 |
- Busting Seven SOA Myths - Avrami Tzur, Vice President, SOA, Technology Solutions Group Hewlett-Packard Company
- "Post-Disruption" Marketplace Taking Hold in 2008 - Excerpted from IDC
- NetSuite IPO Auction Commences
- Varonis Selects Marketbright for Marketing Automation
- Vivat Partners with rPath to Provide Clients with Virtual and Software Appliance Solutions
- Software as a Service (SaaS) Will Impact Partnering Landscape
- DreamFactory Leads the Way in Delivering Business Essentials Across the Web
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November 2007
Issue 2 |
- Capturing Visitors: Online Lead Generation 2.0 By Michael Ortner, Founder/President Capterra
- Russian Enterprise Software Market Red Hot as Increasingly IT-Savvy Businesses Seek Competitive Advantage
- HP Announces New Software and Services to Fully Automate the Management of Business Services
- 8 out of 10 Top SaaS ISVs Delivering Mission-Critical Applications Run on Oracle
- Salesforce.com Introduces New Force.com On-Demand Platform
- BLUEROADS and CoAMS Announce Strategic Alliance to Deliver Leading Integrated Deal Registration and Incentive Management Solution
- Arxan Releases GuardIT for Microsoft .NET Framework
- RevenueRecognition.com and IDC White Paper - Best Practices in Revenue
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November 2007
Issue 1 |
- Using Outsourcing to Increase Revenue
By Theo Forbath, Chief Strategist & Practice Leader, and Peter Brooks, Senior Business Architect in Wipro’s Product Strategy & Architecture Practice
Outsourcing is well known to lower costs, but today’s leading ISVs are now using global sourcing to produce new sources of revenue. What are they doing and how are they doing it?
- Selling to Executives: Getting in and Earning the Keys to the Elevator
By Jeff Thull, CEO and President of Prime Resource Group
- Arxan Announces Technology Relationship with Microsoft Software License and Protection Services
- Sapotek Partners With NaviSite To Provide SaaS Using Sun Startup Essentials Program
- NetSuite Customers Can Now Deploy Boomi On Demand
- Tripwire Enterprise 7 Solution Provides "Compliance Cornerstone" for BMC
- IDC: Market is Ready for Advancement for Companies of All Sizes
- Kronos Acquires Deploy Solutions
- Verio Launches Verio Business Solutions On-Demand Software
- Checking the Pulse of Enterprise Software
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October 2007
Issue 2 |
- Quality: The Missing Link in Software Development
- Hiring the Right Sales Team
- SLAM 2008 Set for April 3-4 in San Franscisco
- InfoNow Secures $6 Million in Series a Venture Financing
- Infusion Software Closes $9 Million Funding Round Led by Mohr Davidow Ventures
- Wrapped Apps Becomes Enablement Partner for salesforce.com’s AppExchange
- Market2Lead Receives Funding
- HP Announces Strategy to Expand Its Software-as-a-Service Offering
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October 2007
Issue 1 |
- Companies Rate Revenue Recognition Among Top Three Ongoing Control Risks
- Five Major Trends Will Force IT Organizations to Change the Way They Support Workers
- Disruptive Market Changes Require a Clean Sheet Approach
By John Ciacchella and Ragu Gurumurthy, Principals, Technology Industry Practice, Deloitte Consulting
- Manhattan Associates Taps Kineticsware As First Master VAR in the Americas
- HP Closes Neoware Acquisition
- Adobe to Acquire Virtual Ubiquity
- BMC Software Acquires Emprisa Networks
- Visual Mining’s NetCharts On-Demand Powers OpSource Analytics
- Rackspace Acquires Email Hosting Specialist Webmail.us
- Macrovision signs Corporate Purchasing Agreement with Lockheed Martin
- Jamcracker Introduces Desktop Support as a Service
- Aspect Software Launches PerformanceEdge
- INTSPEI P-Modeling Framework with Reverse Semantic Traceability
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September 2007
Issue 2 |
- HP Software -- Software Industry Leadership Excellence
- Parlano -- Best Partnering Initiative With a Large Company
- DreamFactory -- Best Partnering Program
- Concur -- Best SaaS Company (Large Company)
- Gomez -- Best SaaS Company (Mid-sized Company)
- Symantec -- Best SaaS Migration By a Traditional Software Product (Large Company)
- Maxager -- Best SaaS Migration By a Traditional Software Product (Mid-sized Company)
- GeoLearning -- Best Marketing Initiative
- Cognos 8 Go! Mobile -- Best Market Changing Product (Large Company)
- OpSource On-Demand -- Best Market Changing Product (Mid-sized Company)
- Checking the Pulse of Enterprise Software -- McNamee Lawrence & Co.
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September 2007
Issue 1 |
- CRM Software Market Will Grow 14 Percent in 2007
- Software Business 2007 -- The Premier Training Event for Software, SaaS and Web 2.0 Companies
October 2-3, Hyatt Regency Santa Clara, Santa Clara, CA
- The Presentation Trap: Why Making Presentations Can Cost You the Sale By Jeff Thull, CEO of Prime Resource Group
- Wipro and SAP Strengthen Relationship to Foster Growth for Customers
- AppStream Helps Advance America Deliver on Service Commitment
- Silver Creek Systems and Endeca unveil DataLens Foundry for Endeca IAP
- Bluefolder Uses Ajax Technology to Streamline Workflow
- Pitney Bowes Creates Single Software Business Unit
- SugarCRM Unveils Sugar 5.0
- Citrix Brings Web 2.0 Applications Closer to the Enterprise with Acquisition of QuickTree
- Cognos to Acquire Applix
- Skywire Software Completes Acquisition of Whitehill Technologies
- SupplyScape Raises $10 Million
- Infobright Announces $8M Series B Investment
- Atempo Secures $22 Million in Expansion Capital
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August 2007
Issue 2 |
- Software as a Service Revenue in the Enterprise Application Software Markets to $11.5 Billion in 2011
- IT Leasing and Financing Availability Critical In Selecting an IT Supplier
- Understanding Service Oriented Architecture: Aligning IT with Business Goals Sandy Carter, Vice President, SOA and WebSphere Strategy, Channels and Marketing, IBM
- Increasing Software Provider Profits through Effective Usage
Chris Dowse, Founder and CEO, Neochange
- Distributors Improve Operational Visibility with Infor
- Runaware TestDrive Delivers Online Software Demos to an International Audience
- Sage Software Announces Over 60 Add-On Partner Solutions For The New ACT!
- MadCap Feedback Server Delivers First Server-Based Web 2.0 Features for Collaboration
- Zoho Delivers Online Apps to Entrepreneurs
- Business Objects and Accruent Expand Partnership
- Industry Trends for Agile Licensing
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August 2007
Issue 1 |
- Publicity Sharing: How to Keep Your Company in the Limelight When a Big-Name Customer Gets All the Credit
- Creating the Voice of Your Company: Strategies for Maximizing Customer Satisfaction
- Dos and Don’ts in Software Pricing
- Rapid Growth for Business Process Management Software Market
- Visionary Keynotes Announced for Software Business 2007 Conference
- Metastorm Acquires Proforma Corporation
- SeaTab Software Announces Version 4.0 of PivotLink OnDemand
- NaviSite Acquires Alabanza and Jupiter Hosting
- Wipro to Acquire Infocrossing
- Why Cross-Selling Fails -- By Matt McDarby, Senior Client Executive and Team Leader, Huthwaite
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July 2007
Issue 2 |
- Microsoft SLP Services to Streamline Software Development and Sales for ISVs
An interview with Thomas Lindeman, Group Product Manager, Microsoft
- Bluewolf Joins Google Enterprise Professional Program
- Cincom Systems Wins 2007 ReBrand 100 Award
- Ontario Systems Partners with BlueLock Platform to Deliver Products in Software-as-a-Service Model
- The TAS Group Launches Dealmaker QuickStart for Oracle's Siebel CRM
- Lingoport Releases Enhanced Globalyzer for Faster Globalization of Software
- Xandros Acquires Scalix
- CDC Software acquires Leading Australian Business Intelligence Services Company
- Micro Focus Launches SOA Express
- Cloud9 Analytics Closes $5 Million in Funding
- DreamFactory Announces Free Tools for Next-Generation SaaS Platforms
- Electric Cloud Offers Build and Release Solution
- An ISV’s Guide to Achieving Business Advantage Through Faster Application Program Resolution From BMC Software
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July 2007
Issue 1 |
- The Deciding Factors that SaaS Companies Use When Evaluating Their Infrastructure Partners
- The Outsourcing Debate: Are Our Fears Misplaced? By Greg Burnell, CEO and co-founder, 6th Sense Analytics
- HP and Microsoft Alliance Continues to Drive Productivity in High-Performance Computing
- Business Objects Completes Inxight Acquisition
- Invensys Completes Cimnet Acquisition
- Henry Schein Offers to Acquire Software of Excellence Limited
- SAVVIS Sells Two Data Centers to Microsoft for $200 Million
- Petris Acquires Software Product Suite from Production Access
- Perficient Acquires Tier1 Innovation
- UC4 Software Delivers Strong Financial Performance
- Solidware Technologies Offers M&A Due Diligence SaaS
- New Solution Provides Electronic Delivery of Initial Downloads, Fulfillments and Updates
- Metrics that Matter: Measuring Professional Services Business - by Thomas E. Lah, author of Mastering Professional Services
- Selling Up Selling Out M&A Conference for Software and IT Executives
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June 2007
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- Software Companies Need to Address Widening Economic Impact of Unlicensed Technology
- The Common Application Safeguards its Online Offering Via Technology Escrow By Frank A. Bruno, Manager, Iron Mountain Intellectual Property Management
- SAP Co-Innovation Lab to Offer Hands-on Environment for Collaborative Work With Partners and Customers Around Enterprise SOA
- New HP Software and Services Accelerate Delivery of IT Projects to Improve Business Outcomes
- Softrax Releases Newest Versions of Its Comprehensive Revenue Management and Billing Solutions
- SeaTab’s PivotLink Version 3.5 Provides Users with Increased Access to Graphically Rich, User-defined Visualizations
- Pitney Bowes MapInfo Enters Strategic Alliance with Accruent
- Uniloc Develops Global Piracy Auditing Solution as Part of New Software Copy Control Product Suite
- Alchemy Launches Alliance Program
- Software for Assessing Partnerships and Alliances Released
- 2007 Software Industry Award Nominations Are Open to Software, SaaS and Web 2.0 Companies
- Metrics that Matter: Measuring Professional Services Business - by Thomas E. Lah, author of Mastering Professional Services
- The Roadmap to Accurate Revenue Recognition
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June 2007
Issue 1 |
- Best Practices for Selecting a SaaS Solution for Customer Service - By Scott Sieper, Director of Product Marketing OnDemand Solutions, KANA
- XO Communications and Jamcracker to Deliver On-Demand Software Services to Small and Medium BusinessesRunaware Helps Deliver the 2007 Microsoft
- Office System Online Test Drive
- ESS Software Sales Increase 200 Percent in 2007
- Market2Lead Announces 300% Increase in Customer Base
- Astoria Software and Idiom Technologies to Offer SaaS Solution for Content Management
- Kronos Shareholders Approve Acquisition by Hellman & Friedman
- SunGard Acquires Aspiren
- Migo Completes Acquisition of MacroPort, Inc.
- Sopheon Announces Agreement to Acquire Alignent Software
- June 14 -- Ultimate Software Presents Free Webcast: “6 Secrets Your Peers Already Know about Software-as–a-Service”
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May 2007
Issue 2 |
- Software Industry Award Nominations Are Open
- Are Data Connectivity Issues Sabotaging your Software Sales?
- Partnerships With WebApps Prove Fruitful
- Cognos Now! to Be Delivered as Hardware Appliance and SaaS
- Intacct Announces “Buy With Confidence” Customer Success Program
- QuickArrow Delivers Spring '07 Release
- Lawson Software Delivers Human Capital Management On-Demand
- Astoria Software Offers On-Demand Dynamic Product Documentation
- Sage Software Increases Online Demos
- Layered Technologies Runs Advanced Marketing SaaS Applications for mobileStorm
- Saugatuck to Keynote SLAM 2007 Conference
- Runaware to Participate in SLAM 2007
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May 2007
Issue 1 |
- Market Based Branding for Fast-Growth Software Companies
- The Island of Misfit Mis-thought Products and Customer Advisory Councils
- IT Companies Too One Dimensional in Marketing Performance Measurement
- Adobe Gives Developers Ability to Enhance Flex
- Skype Extras Surpass 10 Million Third-Party Plug-in Downloads
- BackFlip Software and Visual Mining Introduce Communication-Enabled Performance Dashboards
- Aldon Announces Acquisition by Marlin Equity Partners
- KANA to Acquire eVergance
- Invensys Agrees to Acquire CIMNET
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April 2007
Issue 2 |
- How to Prevent 11th Hour Negotiations in Software Sales - by Jeff Thull, CEO and President of Prime Resource Group
**Opening Keynote Speaker for SLAM 2007, June 6-7**
- Register for SLAM 2007 at $795 Through April 27
- Software as a Service: Putting the Desktop Under Siege
- DataDirect Technologies Offers Data Connectivity for the Software Industry
- Symantec Enters SaaS Market
- Ping Identity Delivers PingFederate 4.3 for Software on Demand Providers
- PreEmptive Solutions Releases SO-signal 1.1
- Iron Mountain Protects both SaaS Applications and Data with new Escrow Service
- Software-as-a-Service Providers Turn to Akamai for Application Acceleration
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April 2007
Issue 1 |
- Achieving Business Advantage through the Elusive Balance of Development & Support
By Eldad Maniv, VP of Product Management, BMC Software
- Enterprise Applications Market Has 550 Mergers and Acquisitions Between 2004 and 2006
- Enterprise SOA Adoption Expected to Double Over Next Years
- Workbrain Corporation to be Acquired by Infor for $12.50 in Cash Per Share
- Shea Development Corp. Acquires Riptide Software
- Embarcadero Technologies, Inc. to Be Acquired by Thoma Cressey
- ANTs software inc. Completes $13 Million Private Financing
- ExtendMedia Receives $12 Million in Series B Funding
- Invoice Insight Announces Acquisition of Oreon
- Microsoft and EMC Enter Licensing and Collaboration Agreement
- BEA and AmberPoint Announce Strategic Agreement to Deliver Management Solution for SOA Implementations
- PowerSteering Achieves 250% Sales Increase
- Progress Software’s SaaS Empowerment Programs Have Enabled over 400 SaaS On-demand Applications
- Axentis Wins IBM PartnerWorld Beacon Award for IGS Teaming for Independent Software Vendors
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March 2007
Issue 2 |
- Accelerating BPM Through On-Demand Analytics Been There?
- Software Business 2007 Call For Papers is Open
- Uniloc’s softANCHOR Solution Available via Hosted Delivery
- Marketing and Sales Effectiveness Suite from Brainshark
- QlikView Connector Links BI Solution with SAP Solutions
- Rally Software Offers Major Updates to Its Family of Agile Software Development Products
- Rainmaker To Continue to Support Sybase’s Software Update Subscription Plan
- DataDirect Technologies Optimizes Web Services Security
- WebSideStory Selected by Digital Insight to Provide Web Analytics Solution
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