Archive for the ‘SaaS’ Category

Squidoo: Put a Lens on Your Idea

Friday, April 9th, 2010

Internet offers more and more interesting tools for various users’ needs each day. One of such tools is Squidoo.

Squidoo is a unique publishing platform and community that makes it easy for you to create the so-called “lenses” online. The latter are pages, kind of like signposts or overview articles. You gather everything you know about your topic of interest in such lens and snap it all into focus by publishing it online. Like the lens of a camera, your page is your perspective on something important for you. It is a really great tool for sharing your knowledge, promoting your ideas, and bringing it all to the wide public. After all, Squidoo is totally SEO-friendly.

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Gartner: 22 Percent Growth in Global SaaS Earnings in 2009

Monday, October 26th, 2009

The latest forecasts of Gartner, the world’s leading information technology market research and advisory company, show that the market for software-as-a-service (SaaS) is expected to reach $8 billion in 2009, which is a 22% increase from 2008 revenue of $6.6 billion. Besides, the market will be consistently growing through 2013 with the worldwide SaaS revenue reaching the figure of $16 billion for the enterprise application market.

“The adoption of SaaS continues to grow and evolve within the enterprise application markets as tighter capital budgets in the current economic environment demand leaner alternatives, popularity increases, and interest for platform as a service and cloud computing grows,” said Gartner representatives.

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Outsourcing Will Continue to Grow in 2009

Wednesday, September 16th, 2009

According to the latest statement of Gartner, the world’s leading information technology market research and advisory company, outsourcing is expected to continue its growth in 2009 despite the global economic downturn.

“Although things look gloomy for the larger global economy, the outsourcing market represents a dichotomy: on the downside, organizations’ cost-cutting outsourcing strategies may negatively impact market growth, but at the same time, the upside is that outsourcing will be adopted by more organizations to help them work through financial and competitive challenges,” said Gartner representatives.

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Global CRM Market: 5 Years of Consecutive Growth

Wednesday, August 12th, 2009

Provided by Gartner, the world’s largest technology business research authority, the new research has shown that the worldwide customer relationship management (CRM) market experienced growth during last year (2008).

Those interested in IT outsourcing might find curious the figures which Gartner came up with. The researchers found that the global CRM market achieved revenues of $9.15 billion in 2008. According to statistics, this figure shows a 12.5% increase on the $8.13 billion revenue reported in the previous year.

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