SaaS: Europe Prepares for SaaS Boom

Europe typically lags the US in technology trends by about 18 months and is just now starting to begin to accept SaaS as the US did in late 2005.

Saugatuck Technology’s recent report about on-Demand companies in Europe is predicting that SaaS is ready to boom in 2007. The Saugatuck report finds that the US [...]

SOA/SaaS: SAP offers up A1S as On-Demand Platform

In the true spirit of SAP R/3-like product naming conventions, SAP has introduced the A1S on-demand platform.  [What does SAP stand for? -- Systeme, Anwendungen, Produkte (Systems, Applications, Products).]  But then Amazon’s names for EC2 and S3 services in the cloud may be equally nerdy.

A1S is a hosted on-demand platform built on top of SAP’s NetWeaver that [...]

Sarbanes-Oxley: Regulations Relaxed

Last week Wednesday the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) revised guidelines for the interpretation of Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.

The new directives relax the previous interpretation which had been called burdensome and inflexible. Small companies were most often cited as being adversely affected by the law, and accordingly, the new [...]