Application Service Provider News

The computing industry is gradually evolving to cater to the demand for software-as-a-service . Two core competencies that have emerged over the past few years are that of the application service providers and the application infrastructure providers .

UNIT4, a company you've likely never heard of is changing the way it does business.

The medical sector as a whole is up 5.5% year to date, slightly trailing the major indices.

Salesforce.com has made a series of changes to its support services that include the removal of certain features from the Standard tier, but which the company says overall will provide a better experience for customers.

TSL had been one of the most consistently growing and profitable companies within the PV sector, but 2011 may be the first year in the company's history as a public company where it may post an annual U.S. GAAP net loss.

Explore why not just revenue streams and business models are slowing the demise of installed software.

According to PwC, in 2009, the top 100 software vendors generated 3.7% of their revenues from SaaS in the US There's an excellent discussion going on over on the Cloud Computing Google Group about the pace of migration of traditional software to a SaaS model.

Page 1 of 4 ShoreTel solution providers see ShoreTel's $146 million acquisition of hosted UC vendor M5 Networks as a long-time-coming move for the scrappy UC vendor -- one that, at the very least, puts a stake in the ground for ShoreTel's cloud strategy and gets partners excited about the possibilities.

Elpida Memory has reported net losses of JPY42.1 billion for its fiscal third quarter ended December 31, 2011 compared to losses of JPY29.6 billion a year ago.

Salesforce.com will include some new analytics capabilities at no additional cost with the Enterprise and Unlimited editions of its CRM software, following complaints from customers who argued that the features should have been used to fill long-standing gaps in the products' core functionality, not sold separately.

TMX Group said it has advanced implementation of it phase four of its co-location facility, to open by the end of June.

Kent Christensen is virtualization practice manager for Datalink, where consults with both Fortune 500 and mid-tier customers on storage consolidation, virtualization, cloud strategies and technologies.

Memory chip maker Hynix Semiconductor has posted its second straight quarterly loss in the fourth quarter.

Salesforce.com will include some new analytics capabilities at no additional cost with the Enterprise and Unlimited editions of its CRM software, following complaints from customers who argued that the features should have been used to fill long-standing gaps in the products' core functionality, not sold separately.

Salesforce.com on Tuesday unveiled a new SaaS help-desk application called Desk.com that can reach end users through social networks like Facebook and Twitter.

The Digital Media Law Project , assisted by Harvard Law School's Cyberlaw Clinic, last week asked the Massachusetts Appeals Court to reject a claim of trademark infringement based on the use of a company's name in metadata on a web page containing speech about that company.

Deutsche Bank AG - Heavy trading traffic in Deutsche Bank put options this morning, one week before the investment banking firm is scheduled to report fourth-quarter earnings, may mean some traders are bracing for a pullback.

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AthenaHealth was upgraded by research analysts at Robert W. Baird from a "neutral" rating to an "outperform" rating in a report issued on Wednesday.

Equities research analysts at Sterne Agee started coverage on shares of AthenaHealth in a research note issued to investors on Monday.