Posts Tagged ‘SaaS’

  Oracle’s third quarter 2016 earnings call was peppered with strong revenues and big wins in various categories. But what was most striking was the incredible progress the enterprise software powerhouse has made with regard to the cloud. Between CEO Safra Catz, CEO Mark Hurd (yes, they’re both CEOs), and Executive Chairman of the Board […]

If you’re wondering what has been going wrong with the data retention capabilities of your Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications lately, look in the mirror. Recent survey findings regarding SaaS adoption, data protection, and compliance in the United States and the United Kingdom discovered that accidental deletion of information is the leading cause of SaaS data loss, […]

Security in the cloud is a critical concern of every customer who leverages cloud offerings. IBM InterConnect 2016 had a very informative session with great speakers, Staying Secure in the Cloud with SaaS. The following IBM leaders presented: David Cass, Chief Information Security Officer, IBM Cloud Nathan Reid, Director, Cloud Engineering, IBM Analytics Dave Durazzano, […]

  Key findings in a new Gartner report showed that cloud computing is likely to grow 16.5% in 2016, reaching $204 billion in spending. According to Sid Nag, director, cloud technologies at Gartner Research, “The market for public cloud services is continuing to demonstrate high rates of growth across all markets and Gartner expects this […]

In the coming few days, Oracle will be rolling out an upgrade of their Business Intelligence Cloud Service. There are a couple of main things to expect: First, the UI will look different but function in the same way. It is basically a new skin to BICS, with a slightly different way of navigation. Second, […]

“Hybrid cloud is our foundation and focus.” – Oracle SVP Steve Daheb After keynotes from Larry Ellison and Mark Hurd, there’s no doubt that Oracle is confident about its future not just as a leader in the cloud space, but as THE leader. They unveiled a long list of product launches and upgrades. But a […]

The International Legal Technology Association (ILTA) Conference is off to an exciting start! The Perficient team is in Las Vegas this week to present our solutions for the Legal industry including our partnership with Microsoft on the new Matter Center for Office 365. Matter Center was built for Microsoft’s own Legal and Corporate Affairs group […]

Some of the most common questions we get from customers considering a move to PBCS is how interfaces will work.  For example: Can the Cloud Service be deployed with another on-premises application? How can the Oracle PBCS interfaces be automated? The answers to these questions lie within the EPM File Transfer Utility and the EPM […]

Yesterday, we shared the top five SharePoint related blog posts of 2014. As several of those SharePoint posts alluded to, when it comes to the cloud, 2014 could be called the year Microsoft went “all in” and truly made cloud king. And Azure is a significant piece of that. 80% of Fortune 500 companies are […]

  Setting it all up Who are we trying to secure against? Think of millions of people and thousands of companies in hundreds of countries Who? Script Kiddies Hackers/Thieves Industrial Espionage Terrorist Most aren’t trying to protect themselves from state agencies.  They have vast intercept networks and the capability to break through most security Here’s […]

A lot has been written about potential cost savings for SaaS as utility computing. SaaS has a subscription cost model versus a large upfront capital investment. However, there is another interesting aspect of moving to a SaaS model – the reduction of risk. And, the reduction of risk should also influence your investment decision. Let’s […]

We’ve all seen a lot of hype in the world about software as a service.  Every major and many minor software vendors are rolling out SaaS solutions.  In the SharePoint 2012 conference Microsoft pretty much said that their main push will be to the cloud through Office 365 first and Azure second.  IBM has made […]