As SAP and Oracle are raising the maintenance rates for their on-premise ERP solutions, one might wonder if they are keeping in step with the demands of the market, which is seeing an ever-growing presence of SaaS vendors that don’t charge for maintenance. SAP and Oracle are realizing they cannot completely ignore the recent SaaS wave. As a result, they have started to move into the cloud by acquiring SuccessFactors (SAP) and Taleo and RightNow (Oracle). But many people wonder if SAP and Oracle are really in it to win it. Can you, after all, “buy” the cloud?
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Business software solutions can help you more effectively manage nearly everything involved with your company. You name it, and business software solutions are probably available to help you succeed.
GlobalOne released the first, of three, CRM (customer relationship management) cloud packages to help financial service firms and banks transition to cloud computing with Salesforce.com. G1 Asset Management takes software systems commonly used in asset management and adds Salesforce.com elements like user interfaces, work flows, and libraries.
On November 9, 2011, Oracle officially announced the availability of Solaris 11, the first Cloud OS. Cloud computing is delivering computing as a service, instead of a product, like hardware. Users can easily share software, resources and information through a utility over a network, like the Internet.
Verizon Wireless announced that its recent pay-as-you-go cloud computing solution, Computing as a Service (CaaS) is aimed at small and midsized businesses. CaaS was initially introduced in 2009, as Verizon worked on the solution along with major cloud companies Vmware and Terremark.
