Archive for August, 2007

CXOtoday.com - Software as a Service: A good deal!

Wednesday, August 29th, 2007

If you think business software is expensive and difficult to implement and use, think again! Several years back, we thought the same about owning and using a cell phone or a computer. Rules of the game are changing faster than we can imagine. Software as a Service or more popularly SaaS is one such disruptive technology that’s a catalyst to these changing times and is definitely here to stay…Read More

tech2.com: Synage to Venture in Channels

Monday, August 27th, 2007

…After successfully working with online distributors, Synage will look at having offline channel partners… Read More >>

Indiatelevision.com: Synage launches software as a service ‘DeskAway’

Saturday, August 25th, 2007

Indian start-up company Synage Software has launched ‘DeskAway’, a software as a service (Saas) initiative that provides users a central location on the web to create, manage and track company projects… Read More >>

CXOToday.com: Parksons Plays SaaS Card for Project Management

Saturday, August 25th, 2007

…Hence, the company - manufacturers of playing cards for over 50 years in India - has opted to use project management software called DeskAway, which is Software as a Service (SaaS)-based product. It has zeroed in on DeskAway, provided by Synage Software, as it provides powerful project and task management at a low cost with minimum training…. Read On >>

Enterprise e-mail gets pumped

Friday, August 24th, 2007

…A lot depends on how e-mail evolves, Hobert says.

In five years, we will still call it e-mail — but only because it is hard to get people to change nomenclature, Hobert says. Nevertheless, business users will be working with e-mail in a very different way than they do today.

What users are witnessing is the morphing of e-mail from the primary communications tool on the desktop to the primary tool to coordinate communications from multiple sources such as RSS feeds, blogs, wikis, IMs, and voice. Instead of opening an attachment from a Word file, for example, today’s e-mail clients simply use e-mail to communicate that a file is located somewhere. The e-mail tells the user where to find the file and provides a link to, say, Microsoft Sharepoint or Lotus ClickR.

“This promotes best practices, by putting content in a shared but secure repository and using e-mail just to communicate that it is there,” Hobert says.

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