Saas

Salesforce's Benioff warns of AI 'false prophets' while promising true profits by 2030

CRM messiah preaches data discipline while rivals chase LLM miracles

SaaS16 Oct 2025 | 5

McKinsey wonders how to sell AI apps with no measurable benefits

Consultant says software vendors risk hiking prices without cutting costs or boosting productivity

AI + ML09 Oct 2025 | 62

ServiceNow thinks you're doing AI fast and wrong

And of course thinks it can help you do it right, once it gets around to delivering

AI + ML30 Sep 2025 | 14

SaaS vendors are hiking costs faster than inflation, but squeaky wheels can still get deals

And also force them to improve resilience

SaaS20 Sep 2025 | 5

Workday U-turns on rehiring pledge as activist investors take $2B stake

Layoffs to stand following $1.1B AI acquisition

SaaS18 Sep 2025 | 7

Sopra Steria bags £115 million legacy extension from UK pensions department after delays to replacement ERP project

New SaaS system awaits a 'fully costed and deliverable integrated plan' before it can support 280,000 employees

Databases08 Aug 2025 | 2

Replit makes vibe-y promise to stop its AI agents making vibe coding disasters

Announces beta for separate production and development databases that will land in a few weeks

AI + ML22 Jul 2025 | 15

Vibe coding service Replit deleted user’s production database, faked data, told fibs galore

AI ignored instruction to freeze code, forgot it could roll back errors, and generally made a terrible hash of things

AI + ML21 Jul 2025 | 144

Atlassian tweaks licenses to reward those who buy more, but gets its sums wrong

Happy to bill for parts of a month when you buy, not when you say goodbye

Software03 Jun 2025 | 12

CISA says SaaS providers in firing line after Commvault zero-day Azure attack

Cyberbaddies are coming for your M365 creds, US infosec agency warns

Security23 May 2025 | 2

Microsoft pitches pay-to-patch reboot reduction subscription for Windows Server 2025

Redmond reckons $1.50/core/month hotpatch service is worth it to avoid eight Patch Tuesday scrambles each year

OSes28 Apr 2025 | 41

Daddy of a mistake by GoDaddy took Zoom offline for about 90 minutes

Manager of the .us namespace managed to block zoom.us

Networks17 Apr 2025 | 17

Atlassian makes its Rovo AI free, for now, to reduce 'friction' holding you back from agentic nirvana

Apparently it's time to assume you will work with AI and must 'move from doing the thing to being the architect of the thing'

AI + ML10 Apr 2025 | 3

Heterogeneous stacks, ransomware, and ITaaS: A DR nightmare

Comment Recovery's never been harder in today's tangled, outsourced infrastructure

Disaster Recovery Week03 Apr 2025 | 6

Nvidia’s AI suite may get a whole lot pricier, thanks to Jensen’s GPU math mistake

Comment Old naming convention didn't just 'screw up' the NVLink nomenclature - it left money on the table

AI + ML01 Apr 2025 | 22

Interest in SAP cloud migration triples in its biz heartland

User group chairman warns, however, that ERP giant's pace is not feasible for every org

Databases25 Mar 2025 |

AdTech CEO whose products detected fraud jailed for financial fraud

Made up revenue and pretended to use non-existent data

Cyber-crime21 Mar 2025 | 9

ServiceNow's new AI agents will happily volunteer for your dullest tasks

Yokohama release also adds meta-observabiilty and takes a tilt at CRM

AI Software Development Week12 Mar 2025 | 11

Workday talks up AI agents platform that will reap rewards of staff cuts

CEO assures investors he'll plough headcount savings into risk-management enterprise product

AI + ML26 Feb 2025 | 21

Avaya hangs up on users with fewer than 200 SaaSy contact center seats

Customers told to pay up, quit, or wait for promised alternative ‘innovation’ coming real soon now

SaaS18 Feb 2025 | 26

Microsoft invites Chinese software vendors to sell on its marketplace and through its partners

Good luck getting buyers and resellers excited about that

Channel09 Jan 2025 | 7

Workday on lessons learned from Iowa and Maine project woes

Interview Nine in ten of our implementations are a success, CEO Carl Eschenbach tells The Reg

SaaS02 Jan 2025 | 11

Asda decided on a 'no go' for 'mass rollout' of store IT conversion

Exclusive Amid plans to convert smaller stores, retailer opted to stall December shift as Walmart tech divorce continues

On-Prem19 Dec 2024 | 52

Are your Prometheus servers and exporters secure? Probably not

Infosec in brief Plus: Netscaler brute force barrage; BeyondTrust API key stolen; and more

Security15 Dec 2024 | 1

Citrix goes shopping in Europe and returns with gifts for security-conscious customers

Acquires two companies that help those on the nice list keep naughty list types at bay

Virtualization12 Dec 2024 |

Alibaba Cloud brings chatty SaaS products out of China and into more markets

Teams-like DingTalk gets an enterprise edition, and virtual Androids unleashed

SaaS25 Nov 2024 |

Billionaire SaaS CEO loses title after week of sleaze allegations

Not much more than a slap on the wrist as WiseTech boss stays on in new role and keeps salary

Legal25 Oct 2024 | 6

On-prem SaaS? ServiceNow will do it if you ask nicely, and really need it

Turns out its application can work with databases other than its own

SaaS24 Oct 2024 | 6

Thousands of orgs at risk of knowledge base data leaks via ServiceNow misconfigurations

Updated Better check your widgets, people

Research19 Sep 2024 | 7

ServiceNow moves its backend off MariaDB to homebrew Postgres

Xanadu release also adds a Pro tier, along with lots more AI

Applications10 Sep 2024 | 4

Salesforce now owns Own Company after $1.9B bargain hunt

Acquisition of SaaS backup vendor ends mega-merger moratorium

Storage06 Sep 2024 | 3

Atlassian softens its cloud-first approach for remaining on-prem customers

Happy to have 'em go hybrid as it wises up to the enterprise

Applications05 Aug 2024 | 9

Google slashes maps API prices in India – weeks after a competitor emerged

Startup Ola slashes prices to zero for a year in apparent response

SaaS19 Jul 2024 | 8

After 13 years, Atlassian delivers custom domain names for Jira

Customers aren't thrilled at double subdomain or need for Premium license

SaaS19 Jun 2024 | 12

Indian stock exchange finally encrypting all messages to traders

Requests for pricing will soon be encrypted, after implementation deadline was extended

Security30 May 2024 | 2

EMEA enterprise folks scrutinize deals more closely – and it's hurting Workday

Pesky 'macro' stuff forces SaaS biz to yank revenue forecast, share price plunges double digits

SaaS24 May 2024 | 3

Atlassian outsources office drudgery to GenAI agents

Rovo will write to-do lists, create graphics, become virtual colleagues to whom you offload scutwork

Devops03 May 2024 | 6

Microsoft hikes Dynamics 365 prices by around ten percent or more

First rise in five years varies between 9.26 and 16.67 percent for different products – for no apparent reason

SaaS15 Apr 2024 | 15

ServiceNow goes to Washington DC, with a suitcase full of AI

Claims the tech has brought 38 percent improvement to its own dev cycle time

Software21 Mar 2024 | 3

Sunak's defunct SaaS scheme spent seven percent of budget designed to help 100,000 SMEs

Unicorn Kingdom prime minister fails to provide £300 million of magic software beans promised

SaaS13 Mar 2024 | 25

Amid Broadcom's subscription push, VMware killed a SaaS product

Another 50-plus products also binned in move to big bundles

Virtualization24 Jan 2024 | 11

HPE to start pumping AI capabilities into Greenlake under Project Ethan

HPE Discover EMEA OpsRamp now natively available through IT-as-a-service platform

On-Prem01 Dec 2023 |

Atlassian predicts its on-prem products will grow faster than cloud

That is not the plan – nor was a larger loss – so investors whacked the Aussie’s share price

Software03 Nov 2023 | 19

ServiceNow quietly addresses unauthenticated data exposure flaw from 2015

Researcher who publicized issue brands company’s communication 'appalling'

Research26 Oct 2023 | 2

Apple jacks prices to juice profits because $19.3B a quarter isn't enough

Shareholders rejoice! Apple TV+, News+ raises prices over 40%

Personal Tech25 Oct 2023 | 72

As it prepares to abandon its on-prem server products, Atlassian is content. Users? Not so much

Massive price rises are coming for smaller holdouts, and Australian vendor knows its bottom line could hurt

Software16 Oct 2023 | 57

Atlassian buys 'asynchronous video' outfit Loom for almost $1 billion

Imagine a Jira bug report with an embedded video explaining the situation

SaaS13 Oct 2023 | 25

Canva creates $200M kitty to pay creators for stuff they feed its design-bot

Maybe this being-ethical-with-creators-and-not-just-ripping-off-their-stuff thing is gathering steam

AI + ML05 Oct 2023 | 7

Salesforce engineers roll back change after breaking own cloud for hours today

Updated Services said to be returning to normal from downtime though Tableau Cloud still MIA

SaaS20 Sep 2023 | 3

Getting to the bottom of BMW's pay-as-you-toast subscription failure

Opinion Fuming customers steamed as they'd already paid luxury prices

Personal Tech18 Sep 2023 | 202

SAP checks cloud forecast to find it's not raining as much revenue as hoped

Yet mission vital to ERP giant's financial future remains on track

Databases21 Jul 2023 |

Buckle up for meetings on the road as Cisco brings Webex to Audi autos

Have you considered taking up cycling?

Applications02 Jun 2023 | 35

Atlassian says 'Don't #@!% the Planet' so it can keep making money

Which when you think about it, is a pretty good reason to build a sustainable business

Devops24 May 2023 | 9

SAP's cloud drive hits speed bumps with American users

ERP giant losing points on execution and flexibility

Databases23 May 2023 | 3

What's your Mean Time To Innocence – the time needed to prove that mess is not your problem

ServiceNow reckons it can shrink it with integrated cloudy observability

Software19 May 2023 | 25

Ransomware-as-a-service groups rain money on their affiliates

Qilin gang crims can earn up to 85 percent of extortion cash, or jail

Cyber-crime17 May 2023 | 4