Renting business software can sound like a great deal, but it’s not always the cheapest, or most effective, answer to your software needs. Hosted applications — renting the use of business software ...

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 ...

A hosted application is simply software that runs on someone else's infrastructure instead of on-premise. You access these applications over the Internet with a web-based user interface. They are ...

Note: Click the player above to hear my podcast interview on hosted development with Jeffrey Walker and Jeff Leyser from Atlassian Software. Hosted software as a service (SaaS) development solutions ...

In the past decade, there has been a sea change in the business software domain. Many companies are no longer expending significant internal resources to develop software from scratch. Instead, they ...

If there's a hot spot in the enterprise software business, it's hosted applications. The reason hosting is taking off is simple: why buy the $500,000 red Ferrari when you can drive it any time of day ...

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 ...

The beauty of hosted applications is that they free IT from so much. But when those services go down, it is IT that takes the direct hit. The allure of a hosted application is clear. No servers to buy ...

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, ...