Microsoft dips Teams in the metaverse vat with avatars ahead Can't be bothered with cam? Replace yourself with a 3D diligent worker SaaS15 Mar 2023 | 29
Salesforce latest to sprinkle ChatGPT on itself, will ask language models to write code Collaboration with OpenAI tech also threatens AI-generated sales emails, Slack messages, customer Q&As SaaS07 Mar 2023 | 8
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Salesforce banks savings by sweating tech infrastructure for an extra year Revenue rocks, but boosting margins means five year old servers and four year old PCs SaaS02 Mar 2023 | 8
Salesforce under investor pressure to dump more staff Promised 10,000 cull unlikely to be enough to satisfy gaggle of activist investors SaaS27 Feb 2023 | 6
Google staff asked to share desk space in latest cost purge From free massage therapy and on-site gyms to alternating desk days with fellow Googlers SaaS23 Feb 2023 | 57
Salesforce woes continue as Twitter slashes spending with SaaS supermonster Performance improvement plans and prompt exit packages in the offing SaaS15 Feb 2023 | 9
No more rockstars, say Billy Idol, Joan Jett in Workday Super Bowl ad Blast 'corporate' types who are much more square than $5.14 billion HR corp SaaS10 Feb 2023 | 40
Microsoft injects AI into Teams so no one will ever forget what the meeting decided In the virtual corporate world, slackers have nowhere to hide SaaS02 Feb 2023 | 61
Salesforce refreshes board as activist investors circle Slack said to be worth fraction of price paid, new hires not as productive amid downturn SaaS30 Jan 2023 | 6
Changes afoot at Salesforce after activist investor Elliott takes a decisive slice It is 'never a good sign when Elliott shows up' says analyst of fund manager whose reputation precedes it SaaS23 Jan 2023 | 12
IBM top brass accused again of using mainframes to prop up Watson, cloud sales Special report Securities fraud lawsuit reloaded SaaS18 Jan 2023 | 36
Security tech chief quits Salesforce as list of top-table departures grows CRM slinger's annus horribilis continues as 'father of SSL' departs for VC fund SaaS12 Jan 2023 | 2
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Salesforce: There's no more Slack left to cut Opinion SaaS CRM slinger blamed the pandemic for 10% workforce cull, but scattergun M&A strategy hasn't helped SaaS10 Jan 2023 | 23
Salesforce to chop 10% of workforce in $1.4 billion restructuring blueprint CRM specialist to 'reduce operating costs, improve operating margins' as pandemic catches up with tech industry SaaS04 Jan 2023 | 6
British Airways flights grounded due to glitch in flight planning app Flight computers down for 2 hours worldwide 'and no BA plane can file a flight plan? Seems not ideal' SaaS20 Dec 2022 | 16
Salesforce's new hires are less productive, says CEO Benioff Founder and bossman asks if WFH freedoms to blame SaaS19 Dec 2022 | 35
Adobe confirms UK looking into its $20b Figma deal, EU probe 'expected' Options? Customers have heard of them. Software giant reports record $17b+ revs, with biggest growth in ... PDFs? SaaS16 Dec 2022 | 10
Where are EU going with that Teams antitrust probe? Microsoft wants a word Updated Software behemoth reportedly wants a chat with the regulators – on the other side of the pond this time SaaS13 Dec 2022 | 25
UNIX co-creator Ken Thompson is a… what user now? Elder statesman of system software makes a shocking revelation
Google: Turn off Wi-Fi calling, VoLTE to protect your Android from Samsung hijack bugs Four flaws open mobiles, cars to remote-control at baseband level with just a phone number
Eufy security cams 'ignore cloud opt-out, store unique IDs' of anyone who walks by Gadget maker accused of 'corporate voyeurism' by gathering up footage against your wishes
Germany clocks that ripping out Huawei, ZTE network kit won't be cheap or easy More than half of Euro nation's infrastructure would have to go
We read OpenAI's risk study. GPT-4 is not toxic ... if you add enough bleach Analysis Tough to see how this model can be released in good conscience
Free-Teams-gate: Docker apologizes for shooting itself in the foot Botched data deletion threat roils open source worlds
Ellison's healthcare obsession carries risks for Oracle Analysis But if he swings it, the company can secure long term growth
Reg FOSS desk test drive: First beta of Fedora 38 drops Spoiler: It's looking much better than 37 did at this stage
Shareholders sue Google, claim it hid anticompetitive ad practices Aggrieved investors claim tech giant fibbed to inflate stock prices... and it backfired
Oracle clouds never go down, says Oracle's Larry Ellison That summer heatwave in Britain? Our servers were just resting SaaS13 Dec 2022 | 23
Salesforce calls some workers back to the office amid slowing sales Months after CEO Benioff said return to office mandates don't work, a bunch told to come in three days a week, take half customer calls in-person SaaS02 Dec 2022 | 9
Exchange Online and Microsoft Teams went down in APAC because Microsoft broke itself Updated Legacy process overwhelmed infrastructure, brought ten hours of trouble SaaS02 Dec 2022 | 34
Cloudflare hikes prices by a quarter, blames the accountants Cash flow is king, even in the cloud SaaS01 Dec 2022 | 14
Salesforce ends CEO job share – again. Marc Benioff back as sole boss Bret Taylor returns to entrepreneurial roots after losing his gig as chair of Twitter SaaS01 Dec 2022 |
As recession looms, Workday warns that legacy HR systems need updating Company hopes future will be 'nearly impossible to navigate' without its wares SaaS30 Nov 2022 | 15
Low code is no replacement for software development, say German-speaking SAP users Updated 'It remains to be seen to what degree of process depth the offer will prove itself in practice' SaaS25 Nov 2022 | 39
Salesforce trims workforce as growth slows post-lockdowns The COVID-era hiring spree which saw thousands onboarded comes to an abrupt end SaaS09 Nov 2022 | 2
ServiceNow boss embarks on corporate trolling to get rise out of SAP Workflow biz ignores digital naysayers, avoids wider malaise in Q3 software spending SaaS27 Oct 2022 |
AWS users can finally use Nitro Enclaves on Arm Graviton EC2 instances Just don't forget Enclave data is held in memory and costs can ramp when processing digital reams SaaS25 Oct 2022 |
Sage denies misleading customers over perpetual licensing, users not happy Vendor and resellers offer conflicting advice about subs and upgrades, though vendor says it's been 'clear' SaaS30 Sep 2022 | 25
Oracle's NetSuite tests automation, warehouse management waters Analyst says challenges remain in attracting partners to roll out products SaaS28 Sep 2022 | 1
Salesforce set to hire thousands in India after hitting brakes on US recruitment Headcount in subcontinent quadruples in 3 years thanks to CFO's 'measured approach' to recruitment SaaS27 Sep 2022 | 9
Microsoft highlights 'productivity paranoia' in remote work research You know you're working, your colleagues know you're working, but the boss? Survey says: Paranoid SaaS23 Sep 2022 | 38
Salesforce lets Genie out of the bottle Integration tooling might work for those with multiple installs, but check the budget first – analyst SaaS21 Sep 2022 | 1
Enterprise software deals slower to close as macroeconomics hit IT departments Picture of longer sales cycles, more deliberation, enterprise upgrade challenges emerging across industry SaaS09 Sep 2022 |
Green alert: SaaS giants may use sustainability to justify price hikes Which should make you see red because using renewable energy is supposed to cut their costs SaaS01 Sep 2022 | 4
SAP picks Airbus finance chief Dominik Asam for next CFO Set to take the controls next year as software giant executes tricky maneuver in the cloud SaaS31 Aug 2022 |
Deals are being 'inspected by higher levels of management,' says Salesforce Customers 'more measured' and this will continue, says CRM giant, but Snowflake lifts forecasts SaaS25 Aug 2022 | 4
Microsoft: Outlook desktop app crashing due to missing identity setting A new Windows esport event: Opening Outlook SaaS12 Aug 2022 | 26
After eleven-year wait, Atlassian customers promised custom domains in 2023 Updated Some got so cranky waiting they made a t-shirt celebrating the 'CLOUD-6999' Jira ticket SaaS12 Aug 2022 | 14
Barclays inks multi-year deal with Microsoft, starts rolling out Teams Deployment plan includes unified data governance platform Purview SaaS09 Aug 2022 | 16
ServiceNow valuation dips after subs forecast cut Strong growth in quarterly financials, investors not convinced SaaS28 Jul 2022 | 1
Microsoft reviews M365 resilience after Indian outage Asia In Brief Plus: Amazon and Alibaba risk Indonesia ban; Pegasus in Thailand; South Korea's semiconductor education surge; and more SaaS24 Jul 2022 | 2
Microsoft Teams outage widens to take out M365 services, admin center Updated Remember: telephones exist, are handy for collaboration, and usually work SaaS21 Jul 2022 | 51
Slack to increase prices for Pro customers Freebie users to get 90 days of message history and file storage SaaS19 Jul 2022 | 12
Back-to-office mandates won't work, says Salesforce's Benioff As industry and governments push to get workers crammed into commuter trains, glass box edifices, tech boss says: 'Why?' SaaS24 Jun 2022 | 72
Microsoft unboxes Exchange Online certification in bid to push customers off-prem More support engineers needed to keep the email flowing, it seems SaaS24 Jun 2022 | 8
£11.5b in 10 years: UK's government cloud services unit G-Cloud Updated 50% of public sector tech budgets in the cloud by 2015? Well that didn't happen! SaaS23 Jun 2022 | 5
End of the road for biz living off free G Suite legacy edition Firms accustomed to freebies miffed that web giant's largess doesn't last SaaS21 Jun 2022 | 47
Oracle cloud growth up 19% but it's still a market minnow Acquisition of health data specialist Cerner adds $15.8b to Big Red's debt SaaS14 Jun 2022 | 1
Open source 'Office' options keep Microsoft running faster than ever LibreOffice, Collabora, KDE Gear all updated their Microsoft alternatives – whatever your OS SaaS13 Jun 2022 | 72
Salesforce touts Google Ads, ecommerce, social media integration for Customer 360 Meanwhile, NFT Cloud pilot will allow companies to mint, manage, and sell the controversial web tokens SaaS09 Jun 2022 | 1
Salesforce faces diversity audit from activist investors CRM slinger set to be challenged on lack of progress at investor meeting SaaS09 Jun 2022 | 3
UK Home Office awards Oracle a deal extension worth tens of millions Fellow travelers in the Whitehall shared services journey await their SaaS move SaaS07 Jun 2022 | 5
AI-driven HR startup snapped up as companies fight to retain employees Remember when ServiceNow said 'no acquisitions? Someone should tell Hitch Works SaaS06 Jun 2022 | 5
Renegotiating a Salesforce software agreement? It could take up to two years Salesforce complexity can be 'difficult and expensive to govern', especially for multicloud, warns Gartner SaaS31 May 2022 | 8
Salesforce staff back an end to its relationship with NRA Texas school shooting should prompt a rethink in commercial ties with powerful gun-lobby group, workers urge management SaaS30 May 2022 | 134
Dutch public sector gets green light to use Google Workspace Data Protection Impact Assessment merely a 'standard step' SaaS30 May 2022 | 25
Workday nearly doubles losses as waves of deals pushed back Figures disappoint analysts as SaaSy HR and finance application vendor navigates economic uncertainty SaaS27 May 2022 | 17
ServiceNow takes aim at procurement pain points Purchasing teams are a bit like help desks – always being asked to answer dumb or inappropriate questions SaaS25 May 2022 |
Infosys board asks boss Salil Parekh to stay another 5 years As staff churn at 27% a year, senior execs offered lots of shares to keep growth coming SaaS23 May 2022 | 3
You can keep your old ERP system, but you'll still need ServiceNow, CEO tells The Reg Interview Bill McDermott thinks companies need workflow on top of enterprise apps, whether they replace them or not SaaS16 May 2022 | 18
Trying and failing to update Visual Studio? You aren't alone The progress bar of lies reborn as a cheery 'Checking' message SaaS11 May 2022 | 13
Google Docs crashed when fed 'And. And. And. And. And.' Cloud grammar police more Keystone Kops SaaS06 May 2022 | 62
CNCF sinks Dockershim with Kubernetes 1.24 launch Docker container runtime will no longer ship by default with K8s SaaS04 May 2022 |
US judge dismisses Republican efforts to block release of Salesforce emails Probe into Capitol attack must wait for appeal before data can be accessed SaaS03 May 2022 | 62
ServiceNow shrugs off Ukraine fears with upbeat financials Growth set to continue unabated despite headwinds, CEO says SaaS28 Apr 2022 |
Oracle users fail to get that moving apps to cloud means business transformation – Gartner Analyst house warns of unrealistic expectations moving Big Red’s enterprise workhorses to SaaS SaaS22 Apr 2022 | 20
Under pressure, SAP shuts down Russian operations On-prem software may remain albeit without support nor maintenance SaaS20 Apr 2022 | 33
Atlassian outage lingers, sparking data loss fears Microsoft OneDrive: Missing documents? Hold my beer SaaS08 Apr 2022 | 24
Google focuses Lens on combined image and text searching Want that thing, but in a different color, and don't know the name? Multisearch has your back SaaS07 Apr 2022 | 12
IBM deliberately misclassified mainframe sales to enrich execs, lawsuit claims Special report Lawsuit accuses Big Blue of cheating investors by shifting systems revenue to trendy cloud, mobile tech SaaS07 Apr 2022 | 84
Atlassian adds Analytics, Atlas, Compass to line up One hopes they can stay online long enough for customers to evaluate SaaS06 Apr 2022 | 1
Atlassian Jira, Confluence outage persists two days on 'Routine maintenance script' blamed for derailed service for unlucky customers SaaS06 Apr 2022 | 34
Baidu added to list of Chinese companies facing US stock exchange delisting Vid-streamer iQIYI also earns a place SaaS31 Mar 2022 |
Google unrolls search features to tackle misinformation Will provide tips on spotting bad info, frontload highly cited sources SaaS31 Mar 2022 | 22
Russian devs plan alternative Android app store after Google Play bans paid apps Claim NashStore will help Russians access common apps from May 9 SaaS30 Mar 2022 | 10
Oracle adds autoML to its MySQL HeatWave service As with analytics, so with ML – we're keeping everything in the box, says Big Red SaaS29 Mar 2022 | 1
GlobalFoundries continues chip design’s transition to the cloud Putting silicon in the cloud so you can design silicon in the cloud SaaS24 Mar 2022 |
IBM powers up cloud service for managing crypto keys As in encryption, not coins, thankfully SaaS23 Mar 2022 | 1
US, Canada to figure out rules on cops and Feds accessing people's data across borders Agreement could simplify demands for potential evidence, leaves real-time surveillance unaddressed SaaS23 Mar 2022 | 11
Nvidia's Omniverse heads to the cloud GTC Plethora of updates for what the GPU giant believes will be its 'biggest growth driver this year' SaaS22 Mar 2022 |
Google Maps just got lost for a few hours Outage tripped up web, native apps while cloud had a wobble SaaS18 Mar 2022 | 35
IBM meshes with Flexera to boost AIOps IT automation Aimed at nixing non-compliance penalties, cloud overage costs SaaS16 Mar 2022 |
Salesforce sued in attempt to block release of Capitol riot info CRM giant pleased to be named yet again on World's Most Ethical Companies list SaaS16 Mar 2022 | 51
Intel eyes subscriptions to grow software sales from 2021's $100m Analysis SaaS-y x86 goliath dreams of recurring revenue SaaS11 Mar 2022 | 17
Microsoft introduces pay-as-you-go tier for Power Apps The plan? Pay for low code and Azure services subscription in one shot. The price? Double pre-paid plans SaaS10 Mar 2022 | 5
Intune out of tune after an Android 12 update? Help's coming Affected OPPO owners due an OTA update. OnePlus and Realme to follow SaaS08 Mar 2022 | 2
Oracle, SAP suspend business in Russia amid invasion As Moscow tries to retain IT talent with military exemption, a three-year tax suspension for biz SaaS02 Mar 2022 | 14
Akamai's Linode buy: Good for enterprise, risky for others Opinion Feisty indies that do too well don't stay indie for long SaaS21 Feb 2022 | 12
IT vendors set to use headline inflation to justify price hike Analysis It shouldn't affect costs, but it will, says software asset management intel org SaaS18 Feb 2022 | 14
IBM Consulting assimilates cloud firm for Azure expertise Big Blue continues to bulk out its hybrid multicloud services SaaS16 Feb 2022 | 11
UK's National Savings & Investments bank looks for new IT partner in £172m deal Outfit behind Premium Bonds wants fresh start after 25 years with Atos SaaS16 Feb 2022 | 12
Cringe: Salesforce latest megacorp to jump on non-fungible tokens bandwagon How to get nothing for something SaaS10 Feb 2022 | 13
ServiceNow CEO says mergers and acquisitions are off the table – too messy It's as if Bill McDermott's SAP tenure never happened SaaS27 Jan 2022 | 11
Tougher rules on targeted ads, deepfakes, crafty web design, and more? Euro lawmakers give a thumbs up Analysis 'This is strongly limiting the scope of maneuver by Big Tech', expert tells El Reg SaaS22 Jan 2022 | 38
Google sours on legacy G Suite freeloaders, demands fee or flee Updated Free incarnation of online app package, which became Workplace, is going away SaaS20 Jan 2022 | 109