Philippines national ID registration portal opens, glitches out in first hour
2FA hasn’t kept pace with registration and real-world biometric capture
SaaS04 May 2021 | 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!
SaaS30 Apr 2021 |
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'
SaaS29 Apr 2021 | 4
Court snubs Microsoft, US govt's request to throw out Amazon's complaint against JEDI cloud contract decision
Updated Yes, AWS is still fighting for this $10bn deal
SaaS28 Apr 2021 | 22
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
SaaS27 Apr 2021 | 27
Where meetings go to die: Microsoft Teams outage lets customers skip that collaboration call they've been dreading
Updated Another month, another Teams TITSUP*
SaaS27 Apr 2021 | 26
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
SaaS23 Apr 2021 | 3
Something went wrong but we won't tell you what it is. Now, would you like to take out a premium subscription?
Something for the Weekend, Sir? Get with the disruptive app design, granddad: meaningless errors are cool
SaaS23 Apr 2021 | 131
Adobe shareholders sign off on exec raises, with CEO Shantanu Narayen winning a plush $7m pay rise
Once again, the cloud makes it rain
SaaS22 Apr 2021 | 7
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
SaaS21 Apr 2021 | 7
Element rolls out bridge for Microsoft Teams to cross into Matrix's encrypted comms land
Exclusive For a small fee, of course – and no video or voice yet
SaaS14 Apr 2021 | 2
State of Maine says Workday has shown 'no accountability' for farcical $56.4m HR upgrade
It takes two to tango, says SaaS vendor
SaaS14 Apr 2021 | 22
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
SaaS13 Apr 2021 | 12
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
SaaS09 Apr 2021 | 5
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
SaaS09 Apr 2021 | 16
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
SaaS08 Apr 2021 | 30
UK government rings £1.5bn dinner bell for software design and implementation, 54 vendors come running
Though framework agreement 'cannot guarantee any business'
SaaS08 Apr 2021 | 9
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
SaaS07 Apr 2021 | 9
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
SaaS06 Apr 2021 | 36
If you can't log into Azure, Teams or Xbox Live right now: Microsoft cloud services in worldwide outage
Updated It's not DNS. There's no way it can be DNS... It was DNS
SaaS01 Apr 2021 | 37
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'
SaaS31 Mar 2021 | 40
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
SaaS26 Mar 2021 | 19
Microsoft 365 tries again at filtering swearing, bad behavior: Classifiers for seven languages offered
Meanwhile, Outlook on Windows gets magical email completion powers
SaaS26 Mar 2021 | 64
Can you imagine Slack letting people DM strangers in another org? Think of the abuse. Oh wait, it did do that
Updated Chat app that was supposed to save us from unsolicited email warms to unsolicited messaging. Now it's kinda walked that back
SaaS24 Mar 2021 | 19
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'
SaaS24 Mar 2021 | 18
Bournemouth, Christchurch, Poole Council awards reseller a multimillion-pound contract for Microsoft services
Updated Sun, sea and software? UK south coast authority goes all in on Redmond
SaaS23 Mar 2021 | 4
SQL now a dirty word for Oracle, at least in cloudy data warehouses
Python still welcome, though
SaaS18 Mar 2021 | 33
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
SaaS17 Mar 2021 | 9
Microsoft customers locked out of Teams, Office, Xbox, Dynamics – and Azure Active Directory breakdown blamed
Updated Redmond says gremlin identified tho rollback is taking longer than expected
SaaS15 Mar 2021 | 77
Google and Microsoft's public squabble over who's the worst is giving us life right now, not gonna lie
Video Weapons-grade hypocrisy on one side, opportunistic hand-wringing about the press on the other
SaaS13 Mar 2021 | 39
Dropbox absorbs DocSend to add analytics, secure links to document sharing
Cloud biz pays $165m to create full file workflow system
SaaS09 Mar 2021 | 3
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
SaaS09 Mar 2021 | 3
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
SaaS09 Mar 2021 | 14
Customer comment and contributions no more as Microsoft pulls the plug on Office 365 UserVoice forum
No obvious replacement yet either
SaaS08 Mar 2021 | 35
Remember that day in 2020 when you were asked to get the business working from home – by tomorrow?
Covid Logfile IT pros from orgs large and small tell The Reg the tech delivered, mostly, tho couriers, home Wi-Fi suddenly became their problem
SaaS08 Mar 2021 | 85
SAP tells investors it plans to make €5bn RISE up into its clouds with lift and shift push
You may be interested in tech, but backers want to know about revenue 'multipliers'
SaaS02 Mar 2021 | 4
Chin up, weary key workers: Google's pushing out a Workspace for frontliners
But the Chocolate Factory has workers' privacy at heart. No, really
SaaS01 Mar 2021 | 8
Rude awakening for SaaS giants Salesforce, Workday as both find 20% growth isn't good enough for market
Yeah, you did great, but you should have done better
SaaS26 Feb 2021 | 7
Digital trust-busting time? US lawmakers mull how to tame giga-corps Amazon, Apple, Google, Facebook
Remedies to gatekeepers range from nothing to an antitrust breakup
SaaS25 Feb 2021 | 16
Stop us if you've heard this one before: Microsoft to lure users with industry-specific solutions in the cloud
Redmond taking a leaf out of the enterprise app makers' book
SaaS25 Feb 2021 | 6
Google admits Kubernetes container tech is so complex, it's had to roll out an Autopilot feature to do it all for you
More expensive, less flexible, but easier and safer to use
SaaS25 Feb 2021 | 30
UK minister tries to intervene after Government Digital Service migration mangles Ministry of Justice webpages
Public outcry over access – all because £450m agency doesn't have school-grade web skills
SaaS25 Feb 2021 | 40
macOS Big Sur muscles onto Amazon's cloudy Macs
AWS flicks the switch on EFS too for those who fancy sharing cloudy volumes
OSes24 Feb 2021 |
Wave of AMD Epycs and updated Xeons wash up at DigitalOcean
Adds ‘Premium’ tier to ‘You can have any CPU so long as it’s a slightly old Xeon’ cloud
SaaS24 Feb 2021 |
UK's Health Department desperately seeking service provider to run IT after 'cloud-first' shift
Updated Service desks, end user computing, networks... you know the drill. Tens of millions of pounds up for grabs
SaaS23 Feb 2021 | 27
Cloud Direct stung for £80k in constructive dismissal lawsuit after director's 'insincere' evidence to tribunal
'Shambolic', 'unfair', 'wholly incorrect'... all because they wanted rid of their sales manager
SaaS22 Feb 2021 | 29
AWS tops up the Bezos rocket fund thanks to more money from Brit tax collection agency
A 48-month, £41m hyperscale cloud service deal done with HMRC
Off-Prem19 Feb 2021 | 8
Fancy a £130k director of technology role with the UK's Ministry of Justice? All you need to do is 'fix the basics'
Miserly? No, they'll throw in a loan for a season train ticket too
SaaS19 Feb 2021 | 23
Big Tech workers prefer 3 days at home, 2 in the office. We ask Reg readers: What's your home-office balance?
Poll Little love for a return to the five-days-on-campus week, Blind survey shows
SaaS19 Feb 2021 | 96
New York AG sues Amazon for putting 'profit over people' when it comes to COVID-19
State legal filing answers Amazon's preemptive federal lawsuit last week
SaaS17 Feb 2021 | 8
Uncle Sam's Department of Justice isn't Slacking over $28bn Salesforce merger
Hold up, just a few more questions...
SaaS17 Feb 2021 | 4
Amazon sues NY Attorney General in preemptive strike: Web giant faces claim it did not fully protect workers in COVID-19 pandemic
Subsidize public bus service and slow down production? No thanks, says Bezos Bunch
SaaS13 Feb 2021 | 41
New Jersey blames Microsoft for weeks of outages, glitches plaguing coronavirus vaccine sign-up website
Promised software may never work as specified, it is feared
Off-Prem12 Feb 2021 | 24
Better buckle up: Volkswagen puts Microsoft in driver's seat to deliver 'automated' platform
German car giant looks to Azure for AI smarts as Ford opts for Google's cloud
Off-Prem11 Feb 2021 | 52
After first trying to use federal COVID-19 relief aid, State of Iowa comes up with funds to pay for Workday project
And the cost of hitching their HR and finance system to the cloud? $52.5m over half a decade
SaaS10 Feb 2021 | 8
Salesforce: Forget the ping-pong and snacks, the 9-to-5 working day is just so 2019, it's over and done with
54k staffers can WFH permanently, come in 1-3 days a week for meetings - or if they must - use vendor's 'immersive workspaces'
SaaS10 Feb 2021 | 41
What the heck is FinOps? It's controlling cloud spend – and new report says it ain't easy
Too much money wasted on on-demand pricing
SaaS10 Feb 2021 | 22
Survey: Techies reckon open sourcery has better prospects than familiarity with a single vendor's cloud wares
Dodging lock-in good for the career as well as the soul
Off-Prem10 Feb 2021 | 20
Salesforce likes to play the diversity nice guy in public – Black ex-employee claims the reality is quite different
Resignation letter posted to LinkedIn accuses cloudy CRM biz of 'countless micro-aggressions and inequity'
SaaS09 Feb 2021 | 47
Linode ponders adding Windows servers to its fluffy clouds of Linux-only boxen
Exclusive Customers are asking and so spreadsheets are being compiled
Off-Prem09 Feb 2021 | 4
Biting the hand that feeds IT
