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- ShareMethods Develops Its Own On-Demand Applications to Run on Salesforce.com's Proven Sforce Platform
- ShareMethods' original QuickTime developer needed platform to deliver new, on-demand services. The company desired to focus on core expertise & leverage existing technologies where possible. They sought ability to extend business to CRM applications & services and wanted to drive profitability by removing unnecessary costs. The company built new applications...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., On-demand Application, Platform, On-demand, ShareMethods, Sales Force Management, Sales
- Case studies
- Delivering on the Service Proposition: What to Look for When Considering On-Demand Applications
- If the ease and economics of Software-as-a-Service SaaS appeal to you, check out this informative white paper from SpringCM. It highlights best practices in SaaS operations and offers guidelines for evaluating providers based on these key criteria: Performance Reliability Availability Information Stewardship Scalability...
- Tags: SpringCM, Software-as-a-service, On-demand Application, Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies
- White papers
- Introduction to the Apex Platform
- The Apex platform from salesforce.com is a service that lets companies create, customize, integrate, and share on-demand applications over the Internet - all without needing to purchase or install software. The service is composed of two main parts: the AppExchange directory, an online marketplace for sharing on-demand applications, and the...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., On-demand Application, Sales Force Management, Internet, Sales
- White papers 2006-12-06
- Oracle SaaS Platform: Building On-Demand Applications
- The adoption of Software as a Service SaaS or On-Demand presents several technical and business challenges for all players involved - Independent Software Vendors ISVs, hosting services providers and the customers. The technical challenges for SaaS providers include support for multi-tenancy, security, usability and service-level management. Oracle SaaS Platform consisting...
- Tags: Software, Software-as-a-service, On-demand Application, Oracle Corp., On-demand, Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies
- White papers 2007-06-01
- TechNet Webcast: Why Customers Are Virtualizing Their Applications and How You Can Make a Success of It (Level 300)
- Virtualization has a profound impact across the IT environment. Enabling on-demand application delivery through application virtualization increases agility and makes the IT infrastructure more dynamic. This webcast shares recent best practices for large customers. It costs organizations a lot of money and effort to get their applications, upgrades, and patches...
- Tags: Application, On-demand Application, Webcast, Microsoft TechNet, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage
- Webcasts 2007-10-23
- Solution Provider Uses Virtualization to Cut Costs, Add Flexibility, Boost New Business
- Florida-based AcXess is a Microsoft partner whose resilient on-demand application solutions provide a virtual platform to help customers increase business and avoid loss of revenue during emergency situations. For the past several years, many of the organization's customers have begun asking for more scalable, flexible, on-demand solutions. To meet those...
- Tags: On-demand Application, On-demand, Microsoft Corp., Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Disaster Recovery, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Data Management, Storage
- Case studies 2007-11-01
- Application Delivery Networks: The New Imperative for IT Visibility, Acceleration and Security
- Your business depends on one thing: getting the right information to the right people at the right time. To gain a competitive advantage, improve customer service and access more business intelligence, you have to ensure fast and responsive application delivery to users wherever they are. At the same time, you...
- Tags: Security, On-demand Application, Network, Information Technology, Business, Blue Coat Systems Inc., Strategy, Server Consolidation, Globalization, Management, Servers, Hardware
- White papers 2008-09-19
Additional Resources
- On the Effect of Ontologies on Web Application Development Effort
- Ontologies play a key role in the Semantic Web the goal of which is to provide an environment able to advance quality of state-of-the-art web applications. Since the authors expect qualitative gains to come at the costs of increased development effort, they have decided to study the effect of an...
- Tags: Web Application Development, Web, Web Application, Ontology, Vrije Universiteit, Cloud Computing, Strategy, Management
- White papers
- Managing application directory partitions in Active Directory
- Although the Windows Server 2003 Active Directory closelymimics the Windows 2000 Active Directory, Windows Server 2003 does offer a fewActive Directory features that are not present in Windows 2000. One suchfeature is the ability to host application partitions. As you probably know, Active Directory is really nothingmore than a distributed,...
- Tags: application directory, Brien M. Posey MCSE, directory partition, domain controller, LDAP, Microsoft Windows Active Directory
- Technical articles 2005-06-22
- XML meets the challenge of application integration
- Over the past few years, I have been struck with the level of integration in the business application environment. Oh sure, it was not a total surprise. About 15 years ago I was responsible for the support of two of our company’s large databases that contained customer master information and...
- Tags: IT Services, Middleware, Recruitment & Selection, Tom Mochal, application integration, XML, integration
- Technical articles 2003-02-26
- Store .NET application settings in custom XML .config files
- The .NET Framework makes it easy to manage run-time issues by consolidating run-time settings in a series of XML configuration files. With a little planning, your team can work from a common set of easy-to-update environment settings.Before you begin deploying applications based on the .NET framework, you need to decide...
- Tags: .NET, Middleware, Application servers, e Advantage, Microsoft .NET, application configuration, XML
- Technical articles 2002-05-29
- Decision Support: Determining whether you need an application server
- Use these tips to determine if you need an application serverIn the 70s and early 80s, when mainframe databases ruled and the micro- and mini-computer revolutions were in their infancy, there were literally hundreds of companies competing to be the new database of choice.It had become clear that as more...
- Tags: Application servers, Middleware, Servers, Databases, e Advantage, decision support, application server, server, database
- Technical articles 2002-06-20
- Vice president of a virtual company offers advice on application selection
- In this interview, Sean McCormack, vice president of operations for e-business consultancy Crestone International, outlines his strategy for application selection. The catch—Crestone is a virtual organization.Sean McCormack, vice president of operations at the e-business consultancy Crestone International, faced a common difficulty for senior IT executives: selecting the “right” business application...
- Tags: Thin clients, Operational accounting, Matthew Osborn, Sean McCormack, Crestone International, PeopleSoft Inc.
- Technical articles 2000-10-06
- Oracle's latest software focuses on enterprise application integration
- As recently as 2002, Oracle'sapplications pitch was all about the suite: an integrated set of applicationswith a single, consistent data model. By contrast, the message at Oracle OpenWorld 2004 was all about integration. Oracleannounced enhancements to E-Business Suite 11i and Application Server 10g thattogether create an end-to-end integration infrastructure.Oracle still...
- Tags: Bob Watkins, EAI, enterprise application, Oracle Corp., software
- Technical articles 2005-02-23
- Application support staff provides a number of key services
- Three or four decades ago, complex business processes were understood by only a handful of people who had been with the company a long time. Today, all of the complex business processes are supported on computer software and hardware. However, just as people are susceptible to making mistakes, software and...
- Tags: Operational planning, Tom Mochal, emergency response, production emergency
- Technical articles 2003-07-16
- Waterfall or RAD? The application may dictate your choice
- One member contends that the waterfall methodology means delayed client feedback and inflexibility. Does that make RAD a better approach? Project management expert Tom Mochal says your choice of methodology will often depend on the type of application.Project management veteran Tom Mochal periodically responds to questions and discusses issues that...
- Tags: Tom Mochal, RAD, waterfall, waterfall approach
- Technical articles 2002-01-14
- Constructing an application security architecture using IIS, SQL 7, and NT groups
- Microsoft bundled SQL Server 7 with the ability to apply object-level security using Windows NT groups. In this Daily Drill Down, Joe Barnes shows you how to manage security on an intranet application based on NT group accounts, SQL Server 7, and IIS 4.0.In a “pre-Web” Windows NT environment, how...
- Tags: Databases, Joe Barnes, application security, SQL, Microsoft Windows NT, security, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft IIS Server, Microsoft SQL Server 7.0, database
- Technical articles 2000-04-10
- Mashups put a new face on the Web
- Mashups draw upon existing Web applications or data sources and combine these resources to create a new application. Tony Patton offers examples of current Web sites that are embracing the mashup concept. One of the more popular trends to fall under the Web 2.0 umbrella is the creation...
- Tags: Web, XML, Tony Patton, Channel management, Web services, mashup, Web service, Web Development Zone Newsletter, Idea, Data, Site, ProgrammableWeb Site
- Technical articles 2007-02-05
- Online Job Application
- Can anyone tell me how to create an on line job application...so that i can put it on my company's website??Are there any free templates to design of it??I suspect you want to construct an on-line job application form or application acceptor rather than an application. If so, be aware...
- Tags: job, job application, wolfman_20601@..., career
- Q&A 2004-12-09
- Learn how to beef up Web application security
- Starting with HTTPS and finishing with HTTPThank you for a very informative article.As a relative newbie, the following statement is unclear to me:**********Secure all Web applications entirely through either HTTPS or another secure protocol. However, don't make the mistake of securing the authentication and then running the application over HTTP....
- Tags: greg@..., HTTP, HTTPS, security, Web, Web application
- Discussion threads 2005-03-25
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