SaaS
Microsoft reassures Teams freebie fans: We're not going to delete all your data, honest
The bug: IF Tier = Free THEN PRINT "Can we offer you an upgrade?"
05 May 11:42 | 11
SaaS
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Some stayed in Croatian castles. Some hid in cars. We speak to techies who experienced lockdown in very different ways
Tales from less-conventional bunkers at the height of the pandemic
05 May 07:01 | 28
SaaS
Philippines national ID registration portal opens, glitches out in first hour
2FA hasn’t kept pace with registration and real-world biometric capture
04 May 03:32 | 3
SaaS
Feel like you've been sucked through your vendors' pipes? ServiceNow's marketing has you in mind
Violet, you're turning ... to our digital workflows!
30 Apr 11:20 |
SaaS
Not as many $1m customers as last quarter? Sorry, we're out: ServiceNow shares fall despite soaring revenues
Not a good look for company 'at the epicentre of the workflow revolution'
29 Apr 14:30 | 4
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Court snubs Microsoft, US govt's request to throw out Amazon's complaint against JEDI cloud contract decision
Yes, AWS is still fighting for this $10bn deal
28 Apr 22:53 | 22
SaaS
State of Maine lays off 15 independent consultants on $13k a month amid efforts to implement troubled Workday system
Vendor claims government failed to provide 'clear direction' for the project
27 Apr 19:35 | 27
Updated
Where meetings go to die: Microsoft Teams outage lets customers skip that collaboration call they've been dreading
Another month, another Teams TITSUP*
27 Apr 11:36 | 26
SaaS
Salesforce beats banks to top UK exec salary survey while Microsoft drops out of league
Come for the 'ohana', stay for the massive piles of cash
23 Apr 15:01 | 3
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Get with the disruptive app design, granddad: meaningless errors are cool
23 Apr 09:13 | 131
SaaS
Adobe shareholders sign off on exec raises, with CEO Shantanu Narayen winning a plush $7m pay rise
Once again, the cloud makes it rain
22 Apr 17:00 | 7
SaaS
Microsoft renews cloud contracts with UK.gov amid ongoing legal spat with on-prem licence reseller
Lawyers, say hello to the Digital Transformation Agreement 2021
21 Apr 10:30 | 7
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Element rolls out bridge for Microsoft Teams to cross into Matrix's encrypted comms land
For a small fee, of course – and no video or voice yet
14 Apr 11:30 | 1
SaaS
State of Maine says Workday has shown 'no accountability' for farcical $56.4m HR upgrade
It takes two to tango, says SaaS vendor
14 Apr 10:49 | 22
SaaS
Salesforce's get-back-to-work strategy starts with 'Volunteer Vaccinated Cohorts' on designated floors
Sounds kind of like a vaccination passport for California offices
13 Apr 12:32 | 12
SaaS
State of Iowa approves $17m in budget for Workday project after bid to use coronavirus relief funds was denied
Questions raised about procurement process but, gosh, they badly need a replacement HR system
09 Apr 19:52 | 5
SaaS
Vietnam reveals state-run Alibaba-and-Amazon alternative, aims it at the EU
Government hopes to cash in on free trade agreement with B2B e-commerce
09 Apr 02:54 | 16
SaaS
Website maker Wix embarks on weird WordPress-trashing campaign, sends 'influencer' users headphones from 'WP'
'Creepy' videos liken CMS giant to 'absent, drunken father' – but its market share is only rising
08 Apr 15:09 | 30
SaaS
UK government rings £1.5bn dinner bell for software design and implementation, 54 vendors come running
Though framework agreement 'cannot guarantee any business'
08 Apr 08:29 | 9
SaaS
AWS straps Python support to its automated CodeGuru tool, slashes prices – just don't go over 100,000 lines
Or the cost triples, which is one way to encourage concise programming
07 Apr 19:06 | 9
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21 nails in Exim mail server: Vulnerabilities enable 'full remote unauthenticated code execution', millions of boxes at risk
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Basecamp CEO issues apology after 'no political discussions at work' edict blows up in his face
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JET engine flaws can crash Microsoft's IIS, SQL Server, say Palo Alto researchers
Trio claim database queries can lead to remote code execution
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East London council blurts thousands of residents' email addresses in To field blunder
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Chrome on Windows turns on Intel, AMD chip-level defenses against malicious websites
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SaaS
Think tank report names and shames 'stakeholder capitalist' Salesforce for paying no corporate income tax in the US
'Improving the state of the world'... by not paying the government
06 Apr 18:58 | 36
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If you can't log into Azure, Teams or Xbox Live right now: Microsoft cloud services in worldwide outage
It's not DNS. There's no way it can be DNS... It was DNS
01 Apr 22:58 | 37
SaaS
State of Maine orders review of $54.6m Workday project as it alleges delivery failure and threatens cancellation
Falls back on ancient mainframe as Workday protests state has 'no basis to terminate our agreement'
31 Mar 14:05 | 40
SaaS
Salesforce to face trial after software used by Backpage 'to track sex traffickers, pimps, johns on social media'
Cloud giant manages to dismiss only part of lawsuit brought against it
26 Mar 21:46 | 19
SaaS
Microsoft 365 tries again at filtering swearing, bad behavior: Classifiers for seven languages offered
Meanwhile, Outlook on Windows gets magical email completion powers
26 Mar 03:58 | 64
Updated
Can you imagine Slack letting people DM strangers in another org? Think of the abuse. Oh wait, it did do that
Chat app that was supposed to save us from unsolicited email warms to unsolicited messaging. Now it's kinda walked that back
24 Mar 19:58 | 19
SaaS
Workday bets big on staff coming back to the office by splurging $172.5m on HQ and five more Bay Area buildings
This from the CEO who says 'five days is too much family time'
24 Mar 13:47 | 18
Updated
Bournemouth, Christchurch, Poole Council awards reseller a multimillion-pound contract for Microsoft services
Sun, sea and software? UK south coast authority goes all in on Redmond
23 Mar 10:15 | 4
SaaS
SQL now a dirty word for Oracle, at least in cloudy data warehouses
Python still welcome, though
18 Mar 04:58 | 33
SaaS
Wikimedia Foundation to offer community's free content via paid-for Enterprise API
Looking for a service-level agreement? Have we got a deal for you
17 Mar 23:58 | 9
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16 Mar 18:00 |
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Microsoft customers locked out of Teams, Office, Xbox, Dynamics – and Azure Active Directory breakdown blamed
Redmond says gremlin identified tho rollback is taking longer than expected
15 Mar 21:19 | 77
Video
Google and Microsoft's public squabble over who's the worst is giving us life right now, not gonna lie
Weapons-grade hypocrisy on one side, opportunistic hand-wringing about the press on the other
13 Mar 01:04 | 39
SaaS
Dropbox absorbs DocSend to add analytics, secure links to document sharing
Cloud biz pays $165m to create full file workflow system
09 Mar 20:52 | 3
SaaS
Spotted in the wild: Rare Microsoft 365 price cut for frontline workers
There are caveats but deal perfect for the ten Surface Go users out there
09 Mar 20:01 | 3
SaaS
State of Maine threatens to tear up Workday HR contract and request $21m refund if it cannot remedy concerns
Also: SaaS provider completes acquisition of employee feedback platform Peakon
09 Mar 16:36 | 14
