Astrid van Dorst
At the ‘Salesforce1 World Tour’ conference in London yesterday, Salesforce.com announced it achieved #1 market share leadership in the CRM software market in the UK. This leadership position is based on the Total Software Market Revenue data for 2013 by Gartner. Marked as the fastest growing software company in the world, Salesforce.com has shown 42% … Read more
On Monday, Microsoft announced the public version of its new cloud-focused, device-based Office: Office 2013 with Office 365. Office 2013 will be installed locally on devices, while the cloud-based edition, Office 365, will from now on be the main focus of development, said CEO Steve Ballmer during a webcast press conference earlier this week. The … Read more
The top 10 IT trends and technologies that, according to Gartner, are going to be most important for you in 2012-2015, include: (click image to download larger chart) STRATEGIC IT Technologies – in Detail 1. Media Tablets and Beyond. Choose between various form factors when it comes to mobile computing. No single platform, … Read more
SohoOS, a simple way to manage your micro-business for free. If you have ever ran a small business or worked as a freelance, i.e. had a ‘micro business’, then at any given time you are doing 100 things at once. As a result, when working at your computer, you might have 10 + applications open … Read more
Your cloud computing events for the next 10 days, starting today. Worldwide coverage. THIS WEEK’S EVENTS, RELEVANT TO CLOUD COMPUTING 1. JAXconf in San Jose, California, starts today, till June 23. Focus on technologies like Java, Architecture & Agile Experience. Cloud is a hot topic in the Java world, so it will … Read more
The hope & dream for the future of cloud-based collaboration tools is underpinned by the notion that we all would effectively work collaboratively, if only we had the proper tools available to us at all times, i.e. when in the cloud. This notion is based on some assumptions which have yet to become reality. The … Read more
Just prior the 2011 Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) on June 6, Apple just made several important announcements, one of which is the release of iCloud. This upcoming release encapsulates Apple’s own cloud service release as a competitive response to Amazon & Google, and comes after year-long talks about iCloud being in the making. It’s unclear … Read more
Chatter.com is ‘live’. Previously an integrated feature of Salesforce.com’s paid CRM package called ‘Chatter’, the new website-based service Chatter.com offers direct online access to the same basic functionality and free, too. Even if it would not be free, even in its currently still first & ‘basic’ online version of the application, it works and looks … Read more
Worldwide software as a service (SaaS) revenue within the enterprise application software market is forecast to reach $9.2 billion in 2010, up 15.7 percent from 2009 revenue of $7.9 billion, according to Gartner, Inc. The market is projected for stronger growth in 2011 with worldwide SaaS revenue totaling $10.7 billion, a 16.2 percent increase from … Read more
2010.. Cloud computing.. What is cloud computing & how does it work? Let me begin with a cloud computing definition, a diagram, then an overview of cloud computing companies, of who does what and who to watch in 2010. Cloud Computing Definition Cloud computing is a facility of services, software, or infrastructure, delivered via the … Read more