ServiceNow upgrade goes from AI to Zero Trust
You can’t not do GenAI in 2023, and 'Vancouver' release has gone there – but its detours may be more worthy
SaaS21 Sep 2023 | 1
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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
Salesforce flipflops from 'you're fired' to 'you're hired' in six short months
Recruitment U-turn down to search for growth and margins, CEO says
SaaS15 Sep 2023 | 27
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Microsoft billing 3 cents a minute to revisit tedious Teams meetings via API
One more reason to keep them short and sweet
SaaS04 Sep 2023 | 23
Official: Microsoft unbundles Teams in Europe
Breaking up is hard to do: Redmond reluctantly lets EU play matchmaker for software suite flings
SaaS31 Aug 2023 | 19
Verizon to 'sunset' Blue Jeans vidconf platform
Also-ran service done in by ‘changing market conditions in a post-pandemic landscape'
SaaS09 Aug 2023 | 26
Google launches $99 a night Hotel Mountain View for hybrid workers
And pandemic video conferencing poster child Zoom ushers staff back into the office for two days a week
SaaS07 Aug 2023 | 68
It's official: EU probing bundling of Teams with Microsoft 365
Updated Antitrust inspectors trying to figure out if Redmond has breached local competition laws
SaaS27 Jul 2023 | 42
Global Slack messaging outage cuts world off from colleagues
Come back Teams, all is forgiven
SaaS27 Jul 2023 | 14
MySQL Heatwave dives into object storage data lakes
Oracle joins the analytics anywhere bandwagon, promises future access to AWS S3
SaaS20 Jul 2023 | 2
Euro monopoly cops to probe Microsoft for slipping Teams into Office
Three years after Slack flagged up 'illegal' bundling of chat app
SaaS17 Jul 2023 | 44
Investors give Salesforce a 4% slap on back for raising prices
Just think of the margins
SaaS12 Jul 2023 | 1
Microsoft Azure OpenAI lets enterprises feed corporate secrets to ChatGPT
Updated Apparently you're all dying to do this?
SaaS22 Jun 2023 | 22
Google formally accuses monopolist Microsoft of trapping people in its cloud
Updated Fight! Fight! Fight!
SaaS21 Jun 2023 | 24
Suit alleges Oracle oversold and under-delivered on NetSuite software
Binding service terms hidden in contractual documents, plaintiff claims
SaaS21 Jun 2023 | 4
Tech vendors have been hiking prices by up to 24% amid inflation
Customers also warned to look out for audits following M&As
SaaS16 Jun 2023 | 14
Salesforce lures staff with $10 donation to charity for each day they're in the office
Promo runs from June 12 and 24 as company promises it's not tracking which workers participate
SaaS07 Jun 2023 | 14
Microsoft battles through two 365 outages in one day
Updated Windows titan blames technical problems while hacktivists claim it woz them wot did it
SaaS06 Jun 2023 | 36
CRM giant Salesforce's focus on margins sees sales growth slip
After activist investor pressure and job losses, professional services projects struggle
SaaS01 Jun 2023 | 1
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Nvidia's 900 tons of GPU muscle bulks up server market, slims down wallets
Fewer boxes shipped, but with 8 H100s apiece, revenue is up amid AI frenzy
Marvell disputes claim Cavium backdoored chips for Uncle Sam
Allegations date back a decade to leaked Snowden docs
So what if China has 7nm chips now, there's no Huawei it can make them 'at scale'
Or so says US Commerce Secretary
GNU turns 40: Stallman's baby still not ready for prime time, but hey, there's cake
It turned the software industry upside down regardless
Google Bard can now tap into your Gmail, Docs, more
Web giant promises personal info and files won't be used to train this chatbot
The Clorox Company admits cyberattack causing 'widescale disruption'
Back to 'manual' order processing for $7B household cleaning biz, financial impact will be 'material'
'Small monthly payment' only thing that stands between X and bot chaos, says Musk
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Terraform fork OpenTF renamed and relocated as OpenTofu
Open wide!
Schneider Electric warns that existing datacenters aren't buff enough for AI
You're going to need liquid-cooled servers, 415V PDUs, two-ton racks, and plenty of software management
Sysadmin and spouse admit to part in 'massive' pirated Avaya licenses scam
Could spend 20 years in prison after selling $88M in ADI software keys
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SaaS01 Jun 2023 | 6
Salesforce boss Benioff scores payday of nearly $30m amid cost cutting
Average employee got $199k, changes afoot to exec compensation
SaaS28 Apr 2023 | 4
Microsoft tackles SaaSy URL sprawl, dumping its dotcom in favor of cloud.microsoft
Promises more cross-product links, better security, and easier admin – for you and Redmond’s own crew
SaaS27 Apr 2023 | 23
Where are we now – Microsoft 363? Cloud suite suffers another outage
Final update Some customers unable to use the search function for online services like Teams and Outlook
SaaS24 Apr 2023 | 20
Microsoft not a Teams player as admin center, 365 service suffer partial outage
Final update It’s not the caching. There’s no way it’s the caching. It was the caching
SaaS20 Apr 2023 | 22
Microsoft switches gears, keeps Exchange Online's CARs around until Sept 2024
At least Redmond listens to some customers
SaaS10 Apr 2023 | 1
Activist investor Elliott holds off board-level influence at Salesforce
Benioff gets a pat on the head and an undefined reprieve
SaaS27 Mar 2023 | 3
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
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
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 | 37
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
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
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