Posts Tagged ‘on-demand’

Holding IT Hostage - Another Case for Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)

Wednesday, July 16, 2008 8:49 No Comments

When Terry Childs, a disgruntled network administrator, held the city of San Francisco hostage from getting into their computer systems, records such as officials’ emails, city payroll files, confidential law enforcement documents and jail inmates’ bookings were inaccessible by they city — virtually shutting down operations.
This makes yet another case for SaaS and Cloud Computing [...]

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GigaOm: The Long Tail of IT

Thursday, June 26, 2008 12:33 1 Comment

Our CEO, Pankaj Malviya, has been published on GigaOm recently discussing the how IT and PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service) solutions can work hand in hand.
Below is the complete article:
The Long Tail of IT
Pankaj Malviya, June 25, 2008
Everyone who has worked in — or even with — an IT department knows that the demand for projects always exceeds [...]

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LongJump at GigaOm’s Structure 08 Conference

Thursday, June 26, 2008 9:20 No Comments

We had a great time sponsoring the GigaOm’s Structure 08 Conference in San Francisco yesterday.
It’s very clear that the infrustructure of web products and components is starting to consolidate into ready-to-go solutions from hosting, applications, and (like LongJump) complete enterprise application development plaforms.
According to Om Malik:
The platforms on which we have done business for over a decade [...]

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LongJump Expands Management Team by Adding CRM Industry Veteran

Monday, May 19, 2008 15:25 No Comments

Company Appoints Vice President of Business Development to Lead Newly Unveiled Partner Program and Drive Channel Strategy
Sunnyvale, CA May 19, 2008 — LongJump, a platform for highly customizable, interconnected on-demand business applications, announced today that it has appointed Jay Noble as its new Vice President of Business Development. Noble brings with him more than 20 [...]

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Recession-Proof Campaigning: CRM Helps Harvest Low Hanging Fruit

Thursday, May 8, 2008 9:01 No Comments

Recently, there was a news report on how a lot of families are dealing with the (possible) recession by growing their own fruits and vegetables. Makes perfect sense. It cuts down on expensive gas, its self-replenishing, and you can grow what you need. It also is tasty and satisifying. What’s the point?
There is a term in [...]

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