Saas

Microsoft hikes Dynamics 365 prices by around ten percent or more

First rise in five years varies between 9.26 and 16.67 percent for different products – for no apparent reason

SaaS15 Apr 2024 | 15

ServiceNow goes to Washington DC, with a suitcase full of AI

Claims the tech has brought 38 percent improvement to its own dev cycle time

Software21 Mar 2024 | 3

Sunak's defunct SaaS scheme spent seven percent of budget designed to help 100,000 SMEs

Unicorn Kingdom prime minister fails to provide £300 million of magic software beans promised

SaaS13 Mar 2024 | 26

Amid Broadcom's subscription push, VMware killed a SaaS product

Another 50-plus products also binned in move to big bundles

Virtualization24 Jan 2024 | 11

HPE to start pumping AI capabilities into Greenlake under Project Ethan

HPE Discover EMEA OpsRamp now natively available through IT-as-a-service platform

On-Prem01 Dec 2023 |

Atlassian predicts its on-prem products will grow faster than cloud

That is not the plan – nor was a larger loss – so investors whacked the Aussie’s share price

Software03 Nov 2023 | 19

ServiceNow quietly addresses unauthenticated data exposure flaw from 2015

Researcher who publicized issue brands company’s communication 'appalling'

Research26 Oct 2023 | 3

Apple jacks prices to juice profits because $19.3B a quarter isn't enough

Shareholders rejoice! Apple TV+, News+ raises prices over 40%

Personal Tech25 Oct 2023 | 73

As it prepares to abandon its on-prem server products, Atlassian is content. Users? Not so much

Massive price rises are coming for smaller holdouts, and Australian vendor knows its bottom line could hurt

Software16 Oct 2023 | 58

Atlassian buys 'asynchronous video' outfit Loom for almost $1 billion

Imagine a Jira bug report with an embedded video explaining the situation

SaaS13 Oct 2023 | 25

Canva creates $200M kitty to pay creators for stuff they feed its design-bot

Maybe this being-ethical-with-creators-and-not-just-ripping-off-their-stuff thing is gathering steam

AI + ML05 Oct 2023 | 7

Salesforce engineers roll back change after breaking own cloud for hours today

Updated Services said to be returning to normal from downtime though Tableau Cloud still MIA

SaaS20 Sep 2023 | 3

Getting to the bottom of BMW's pay-as-you-toast subscription failure

Opinion Fuming customers steamed as they'd already paid luxury prices

Personal Tech18 Sep 2023 | 202

SAP checks cloud forecast to find it's not raining as much revenue as hoped

Yet mission vital to ERP giant's financial future remains on track

Databases21 Jul 2023 |

Buckle up for meetings on the road as Cisco brings Webex to Audi autos

Have you considered taking up cycling?

Applications02 Jun 2023 | 35

Atlassian says 'Don't #@!% the Planet' so it can keep making money

Which when you think about it, is a pretty good reason to build a sustainable business

Devops24 May 2023 | 9

SAP's cloud drive hits speed bumps with American users

ERP giant losing points on execution and flexibility

Databases23 May 2023 | 3

What's your Mean Time To Innocence – the time needed to prove that mess is not your problem

ServiceNow reckons it can shrink it with integrated cloudy observability

Software19 May 2023 | 25

Ransomware-as-a-service groups rain money on their affiliates

Qilin gang crims can earn up to 85 percent of extortion cash, or jail

Cyber-crime17 May 2023 | 4

WordPress plugin hole puts '2 million websites' at risk

XSS marks the spot

Patches08 May 2023 | 17

Salesforce boss Benioff scores payday of nearly $30m amid cost cutting

Average employee got $199k, changes afoot to exec compensation

SaaS28 Apr 2023 | 4

After 11 years, Atlassian customers finally get custom domains ... they don't want

Oz upstart promised jira.domain.com, now offers something.jira.domain.com

Software03 Apr 2023 | 31

Salesforce under investor pressure to dump more staff

Promised 10,000 cull unlikely to be enough to satisfy gaggle of activist investors

SaaS27 Feb 2023 | 6

AWS dragged over lengthy downtime to migrate PostgreSQL DBaaS

Aurora needs a break to get users off 11.x, says cloud giant

Spotlight on Databases14 Feb 2023 |

Cloudflare engineer broke rules – and a customer's website – with traffic throttle

Updated Those who think Big Tech has its thumb on the scales are going to love this

Off-Prem09 Feb 2023 | 25

OpenText completes Micro Focus buy, CEO says bye to 8% of workforce

Here's your new desk, phone, security card, and an unpleasant missive for some

Software01 Feb 2023 | 5

WAN router IP address change blamed for global Microsoft 365 outage

Command line not vetted using full qualification process, says Redmond. We think it involved chewing gum somewhere

Networks30 Jan 2023 | 66

Salesforce refreshes board as activist investors circle

Slack said to be worth fraction of price paid, new hires not as productive amid downturn

SaaS30 Jan 2023 | 6

UK govt Matrix has unenviable task of consolidating several different ERP systems

Software to support 46,000 users as group part of £900m program to simplify central government back end

Government Tech Week26 Jan 2023 | 16

Salesforce to chop 10% of workforce in $1.4 billion restructuring blueprint

CRM specialist to 'reduce operating costs, improve operating margins' as pandemic catches up with tech industry

SaaS04 Jan 2023 | 6

Workday appoints VMware veteran as co-CEO

It doesn't work for SAP and Salesforce but does work for Workday. For now

PaaS + IaaS21 Dec 2022 | 2

Cisco closes in on debut of cloudy Nexus management service

Existing Nexus Dashboard to be recommended for sovereign clouds or air-gapped rigs

Networks12 Dec 2022 | 1

Deutsche Bank backs Nvidia's bet to make big bucks on software

German financial giant aids GPU maker's vision of vertical integration

Software07 Dec 2022 | 3

Rackspace customers rage as email outage continues and migrations create migraines

Hosting company has nothing to say on data loss, restore times, or root cause

Security05 Dec 2022 | 37

Exchange Online and Microsoft Teams went down in APAC because Microsoft broke itself

Updated Legacy process overwhelmed infrastructure, brought ten hours of trouble

SaaS02 Dec 2022 | 34

Cloudflare hikes prices by a quarter, blames the accountants

Cash flow is king, even in the cloud

SaaS01 Dec 2022 | 14

Salesforce ends CEO job share – again. Marc Benioff back as sole boss

Bret Taylor returns to entrepreneurial roots after losing his gig as chair of Twitter

SaaS01 Dec 2022 |

As recession looms, Workday warns that legacy HR systems need updating

Company hopes future will be 'nearly impossible to navigate' without its wares

SaaS30 Nov 2022 | 15

Low code is no replacement for software development, say German-speaking SAP users

Updated 'It remains to be seen to what degree of process depth the offer will prove itself in practice'

SaaS25 Nov 2022 | 39

Micro Focus prepares for private ownership, turnaround still WIP

Russia and strong dollar weigh heavy on 2022, but OpenText is ready for COBOL expert

Software14 Nov 2022 | 1

Nvidia bundles enterprise AI software with incoming H100 systems

GPU maker wants more of your money with next wave of servers

Systems14 Nov 2022 |

WTF is Sovereign SaaS? VMware’s way to satisfy pesky regulators your cloud is local

Reveals closer ties to Equinix and Wipro as Broadcom finds new ways to promise peace

Virtualization08 Nov 2022 | 1

Couchbase claims fourfold performance boost for DBaaS using a tenth of the memory

Improvements to storage engine follow DataStax update to API gateway

Databases01 Nov 2022 |

ServiceNow boss embarks on corporate trolling to get rise out of SAP

Workflow biz ignores digital naysayers, avoids wider malaise in Q3 software spending

SaaS27 Oct 2022 |

Laugh all you want. There will be a year of the Linux desktop

Opinion But, it won't play out the way you think it will

OSes14 Oct 2022 | 151

SAP's German-speaking heartlands still struggling with ERP vendor's cloud vision

'Customers will not – at least not in the short term – move exclusively to cloud scenarios'

Databases14 Oct 2022 | 8

SAP users see scattered clouds on the horizon

User group's views are at odds with the software giant's direction

Databases11 Oct 2022 | 1

Salesforce lets Genie out of the bottle

Integration tooling might work for those with multiple installs, but check the budget first – analyst

SaaS21 Sep 2022 | 1

Google says some AI call center agents took the morning off

Updated Replace unreliable people with tireless cloudy software, they said …

AI + ML20 Sep 2022 | 8

Software fees to make up 10% of John Deere's revenues by 2030

1.5 million machines and half a billion acres of land connected to the John Deere Operations Center within a matter of years

Software12 Sep 2022 | 88

Enterprise software deals slower to close as macroeconomics hit IT departments

Picture of longer sales cycles, more deliberation, enterprise upgrade challenges emerging across industry

SaaS09 Sep 2022 |

Green alert: SaaS giants may use sustainability to justify price hikes

Which should make you see red because using renewable energy is supposed to cut their costs

SaaS01 Sep 2022 | 4

Google Workspace Individual arrives in Europe

It's taken Mountain View a year to refine the service for the Continent

Personal Tech18 Aug 2022 | 1

Cloudera launches SaaS platform for the lakehouse crowd

And it IS a crowd – marketplace is busy, so it's hoping open approach sets it apart

Databases18 Aug 2022 | 1

After eleven-year wait, Atlassian customers promised custom domains in 2023

Updated Some got so cranky waiting they made a t-shirt celebrating the 'CLOUD-6999' Jira ticket

SaaS12 Aug 2022 | 14

GitLab plans to delete dormant projects in free accounts

Exclusive Hopes to save a quarter of hosting costs by binning repos that haven't been touched for a year

Devops04 Aug 2022 | 103