STRATEGIES

Behind the Curtain of Microsoft's 'Great Oz'
Ray Ozzie took over Bill Gates' role as Microsoft's chief software architect last year, but just who is he really and what's he doing with his software-plus-services 'vision thing?' (Sep 28, 2007)

SAP Takes Blue-Sky Approach to Web 2.0
SAP's Imagineering division is bringing widgets, social networks, and even Second Life to the buttoned-down enterprise software scene. (Aug 29, 2007)

Ozzie on Microsoft in the Cloud
Microsoft's Chief Software Architect sheds new light on the company's software-plus-services vision but leaves much to be revealed. (Jul 30, 2007)

Salesforce.com Seeds Its Future
The SaaS company has a unique plan to encourage what it hopes is the next killer app for AppExchange. (Apr 26, 2007)

Brains Behind Browsers on Web 2.0
Opsware co-founders Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz discuss how traditional management software is obsolete in today's Web 2.0 world. (Apr 10, 2007)

Software Plus Services Not Quite Office on Demand
Microsoft articulates a different vision of software-as-a-service (SaaS) than the rest of the world. (Mar 19, 2007)

A Giant Copes with Change: Microsoft's SaaS Strategy
A Microsoft exec offers insight into the company's roadmap for software-as-a-service. Will the software leader someday offer all of its apps through SaaS? (Feb 15, 2007)

Suranga Chandratillake, CTO, Blinkx
How video search is different from text search and why it should behave differently. (Jan 5, 2007)

A New 'Workday' for ERP
Former PeopleSoft co-founder Dave Duffield debuts on-demand ERP provider. (Nov 16, 2006)

HP and Hurd's No-Nonsense SOA Plan
Company is also taking aim at its own internal bloat by streamlining internal operations. (Oct 30, 2006)

Case Study: Integrating and Automating Business Processes
Getting all of your major business processes to play nice isn't easy, but it can be the single most effective way to grow your company. A company called Basic Communications did it, and we'll show you how. (Apr 27, 2006)

Company Spotlight: TheLadders.com
The hot online job market had space to fill for the $100K+ set and TheLadders.com moved right in. (Jul 28, 2005)

Outsource Security to the Cloud
One company is building security data centers, offering top-of-the-line, up-to-date products to business customers on a plan the company calls 'Security in the Cloud.' (Jun 1, 2005)

Company Spotlight: Ubersmith Oustources Billing for Businesses Both Large and Small
With solutions available for both large and small hosting companies, Ubersmith's billing application service is currently offered as an outsourced solution and, soon, as downloadable software as well. (Jan 25, 2005)

NetSuite's Online Advantage
NetSuite Small Business lets you manage your financial and accounting data from any Internet-ready PC. But is that enough to make you abandon QuickBooks? (Sep 9, 2004)

Out From Oracle's Shadow: NetSuite
With more than 7,500 paying customers and a new product suite, NetSuite is making its way out from under Oracle's shadow and is poised to take full advantage of the next wave of software delivered as a service. Which, according to founder Evan Goldberg, is coming. (Apr 2, 2004)

WebSideStory: An ASP Survivor
strategy — The on-demand Web analytics provider has weathered the stormy seas of the ASP industry, and is confident that better times lay ahead. Today, the company is finding success with a straightforward plan -- to make its service simple, relevant and real-time. (Mar 4, 2004)

Softricity Addresses Utility Computing at the Application Level
strategy — While several players jockey for position in the hardware and OS virtualization spaces, Softricity is making moves in application virtualization with SoftGrid 3.0. (Jan 29, 2004)

Appshop Sticks to Its Guns
strategy — The Oracle application outsourcing specialist has found success by sticking to what it knows best, and has found it can win more business by actually walking away from prospects that don't fit its strategy. (Jan 14, 2004)

The Rise and Fall (and Rise) of Data Return
strategy — The high-end hosting provider survived an acquisition by incubator divine, and divine's ensuing bankruptcy, to emerge as a stronger, profitable, standalone company. (Nov 11, 2003)