Hosted applications — renting the use of business software that runs in an outside service provider’s data center — can sound very good to small businesses. Businesses can be up and running fast with ...

Editor’s note: The following article by Kevin McDonald, VP of account management for SourceMedical, appeared in the Fall 2010 edition of SourceMedical’s “Insider Source” magazine. In today’s mature ...

As it becomes more popular to have applications hosted by an external service provider, what implications does this have for integrating those applications with your other systems? The integration of ...

After years of tinkering with computing devices, I’ve accumulated huge volumes of data – including photos from my childhood, movies I’ve bought over the last decade, and the ebook library I’ve ...

Siebel Systems, the customer relationship management software giant, has introduced the latest update to its online hosted software, adding new tools for workplace collaboration and product marketing.

As more businesses move away from traditional legacy on-premises systems, the cloud is setting a new standard for how IT professionals manage and deploy new applications. There is, however, an ongoing ...

You probably run Office and other software directly from a PC hard drive. But server-side tools can put any Windows application into the cloud, keeping virtual ...

With appropriately drafted SLAs (service-level agreements), health-care company The Schumacher Group has used hosted applications successfully for over two years. Unlike many of his peers who remain ...

Although Steve Ballmer claims that within 10 years all software will be delivered as a service, current application service providers struggle to make their businesses work. Heavy maintenance and ...

Whether you’re a gaming enthusiast, bibliophile, or productivity-centric everyday user, you'll find a handful of self-hosted services that cater to your needs. If you're into coding, there are a ton ...

The company also disclosed pricing for the Microsoft Dynamics Live CRM hosted software: $39 per user per month for a Professional version as an introductory price through 2008, increasing to $44 per ...