Sage to acquire remaining stake in ecommerce platform Brightpearl for £225m Plans afoot to integrate financial management with retail SaaS20 Dec 2021 | 6
West Sussex County Council faces two-year delay to replace ageing SAP system for Oracle Project hits the buffers after 'increased understanding' of the product SaaS14 Dec 2021 | 23
Not only was the UK Financial Ombudsman Service's Workday system months late, 38 IT workers' jobs are at risk Questions remain over data warehouse dependencies and redundancies SaaS03 Dec 2021 | 11
Microsoft 365 admins 'flooded' with bulk and bogus notifications for over an hour Updated Recent change to cloud services suspected as cause, any real messes will be advised in email only for now SaaS03 Dec 2021 | 11
Microsoft's Teams Essential tier seems designed to coax people on to Business Basic Looks like good value, but sorely lacking in some important areas SaaS01 Dec 2021 | 23
So it turns out Google would like to pass Knative to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation after all That means the 'forseeable future' at Mountain View is... about two years SaaS01 Dec 2021 | 1
Workday subscription revenue forecasts leave investors cold, wiping 9% off company value SaaSy vendor takes comfort in contingent workforce software acquisition SaaS19 Nov 2021 | 8
CIOs across Europe add their VOICE to chorus of calls to regulate cloud gatekeepers What do we want? Licences not lock-in! Where do we want to use them? Anywhere! SaaS18 Nov 2021 | 4
AWS still growing like a weed but Amazon's retail empire hit by soaring labour, supply chain costs CFO warns of $4bn in extra costs in the Christmas quarter SaaS29 Oct 2021 | 2
Ever wondered where the 'cloud' was in Adobe Creative Cloud? Here it is in beta form In-browser editing previewed for Photoshop and Illustrator SaaS26 Oct 2021 | 22
Surrey County Council faces £700k additional SAP support fees as £30m Unit4 ERP set to miss go-live target Which doesn't help when there's a £47.1m hole in the budget SaaS07 Oct 2021 | 14
Brit builders merchant Travis Perkins opts for Oracle after ERP disaster with Infor 'Technology has been a source of pain,' CIO admits to investors SaaS06 Oct 2021 | 32
Salesforce should rename its Dreamforce conference to Feverdreamforce because this is getting ridiculous Comment Apropos of nothing, here's Lionel Ritchie SaaS22 Sep 2021 | 7
Still divided on whether teachers, parents or politicians are to blame Register Debate Can we close the education divide? Maybe, but not by stuffing it with computers and smart boards SaaS17 Sep 2021 | 15
What have the Romans ever done for us? In ServiceNow's new Rome release, replaced intranets, for one Adds Teams integration for new ‘Employee Centre’, automated automation for service desk SaaS16 Sep 2021 | 1
Technology doesn’t widen the education divide. People do that Register Debate And no, we don’t want a generation of early-years coders SaaS16 Sep 2021 | 53
Technology does widen the education divide. But not always in the way you expect Register Debate The pandemic has turned children away from tech, says early-years teacher Maria SaaS15 Sep 2021 | 29
Intuit branches out into email marketing by splashing $12bn on Mailchimp acquisition Part of a planned assault on the 'small business mid-market' SaaS14 Sep 2021 | 14
Technology has the potential to close the education divide. Key word: Potential Register Debate Quieter kids can speak up in chat, students can record lessons to watch again, and more, says professor SaaS14 Sep 2021 | 38
Tech widens the educational divide. And I should know – I'm a teacher in a pandemic Register Debate Teaching online is like talking to a brick wall SaaS13 Sep 2021 | 105
Element's latest bridge for Matrix: 'All the good stuff from WhatsApp, without the less good Facebook stuff' For when it's time to kick that shadow IT habit SaaS09 Sep 2021 | 3
Chinese prosecutors end investigation into rape claim against Alibaba manager Accused served 15 days for 'molestation', says report SaaS08 Sep 2021 | 6
'It takes a hell of a mental toll' – techies who lost work due to COVID share their stories COVID Logfile III Some refined their CVs relentlessly. Others studied. Many wept, more than once. But most see an upside to their changed circumstances SaaS07 Sep 2021 | 24
Power users of Microsoft OneDrive suffer massive inconvenience: Read-only files Workaround available for problem which started a week ago SaaS01 Sep 2021 | 26
Minnow Freshworks nips at tails of SaaS giants Salesforce and Servicenow with IPO plans Bach to basics: The well-funded IPO-er SaaS31 Aug 2021 | 1
In Microsoft's world, cloud email still often requires on-premises Exchange. Why? Comment Use third-party tools 'at your own risk' – but what of the risk of Exchange itself? SaaS31 Aug 2021 | 29
In 2006, Amazon debuted EC2. 15 years on, HashiCorp says firms blowing their cloud budgets is all part of the fun Altered priorities ahead SaaS24 Aug 2021 | 15
Microsoft, flush with cash, raises cloud office suite prices for businesses Microsoft 365, Office 365 to cost a little bit more from next March SaaS20 Aug 2021 | 56
Zoom incompatible with GDPR, claims data protection watchdog for the German city of Hamburg Updated Takes aim at US videoconferencing software as tech world+dog calls lawyer for a quick chat SaaS17 Aug 2021 | 80
El Reg talks to Azure Data veep as Microsoft flicks the switch on Azure Arc for SQL Managed Instances Interview Longevity, PostgreSQL, and 'the default relational database of choice' SaaS11 Aug 2021 | 10
RingCentral shouts revenue growth from the rooftops while shareholders can't help but notice deepening losses Isn't that work-at-home-workforce eyeing a return to the office? SaaS04 Aug 2021 | 2
Get ready to make processes fit the software when shifting to SAP's cloud, users told Business teams might want to look at their operating models post-pandemic, user groups suggest SaaS04 Aug 2021 | 23
Xero says accounting software users were locked out by login glitch, not nefarious deeds Issue has been resolved and your data is 'secure', claims SaaS outfit SaaS28 Jul 2021 | 1
Workday shares slide following claims Amazon ditched company-wide HR system Updated Some customers have a 'unique set of needs' SaaSy vendor says SaaS28 Jul 2021 | 29
Microsoft made $167m a day in profit, every day, over the past 12 months Robust cloud, business not enough to overcome concerns about decline in Windows hardware maker revenue SaaS27 Jul 2021 | 34
'Login infrastructure issue' blamed as sustained Xero outage threatens payrolls Accountancy software goes TITSUP* as biz users can't invoice customers nor see who's paid their bills SaaS27 Jul 2021 | 32
Financial Ombudsman Service to ditch tech heads as it open arms to Workday and outside service provider Not just the legacy HR and finance systems being booted SaaS22 Jul 2021 | 10
IBM's 3% sales growth may not seem like much but it's the biggest it's had in three years Maybe keep the email systems down a little longer if it helps this much? SaaS20 Jul 2021 | 10
I no longer have a burning hatred for Jewish people, says Googler now suddenly no longer at Google Veep of cloud devrel exits after 'beyond car crash' all-hands meeting SaaS20 Jul 2021 | 171
It had to happen: Microsoft's cloudy Windows 365 desktops are due to land next month The good: It's a Windows PC running in the cloud. The bad: It's a Windows PC running in the cloud SaaS14 Jul 2021 | 80
Informatica bids to become Switzerland of data with SaaSy governance and catalogue tool Stakes claim for neutral territory after Databricks and cloud vendors make play to manage your data SaaS14 Jul 2021 | 1
Salesforce's Patterson blazes a trail for humble-braggers everywhere UK & I shindig has everything: Olympians, Bake-Off stars, and the ever-rising former BT boss SaaS08 Jul 2021 | 12
Pentagon scraps $10bn JEDI winner-takes-all cloud contract Updated Y'know what, a single-vendor IT mega-deal probably isn't the best idea after all, says US military SaaS06 Jul 2021 | 66
Singapore's migration to cloud continues, and expect more SaaS once we secure it, says GovTech Shifts strategy to work more closely with industry on digital projects SaaS30 Jun 2021 |
SFX house Weta goes into the SaaS business with cloudy pipeline and its in-house animation tools Code behind LoTR, Planet of the Apes and other flicks wrapped around Autodesk Maya SaaS22 Jun 2021 | 2
Google opens Workspace to anyone with a Google account, but you'll need to cough up for the good stuff Chocolate Factory presses home its advantage in web-based collaboration SaaS14 Jun 2021 | 12
Flush with cash: UK utility Southern Water names 13 winners who'll drink up £50m application deal Firm provides fresh water and wastewater to millions of Brits SaaS14 Jun 2021 | 3
Indian Finance Minister throws Infosys under the bus as new e-tax portal fails on first day Minister moved from celebrating new facility to complaining about it in a handful of hours SaaS09 Jun 2021 | 11
In-person Dreamforce returns: Real people, real lanyards, real sandwich platters... and no James Corden Not the first plane trip you wanted to do post-lockdown, but there you are SaaS28 May 2021 |
Fortunate Son: Softbank chief took 50 per cent pay cut in 2020, but that's not the worst of his worries He remains fabulously wealthy, for now SaaS27 May 2021 | 5
Back to the office: Workday hiring 20% more Workdayers in anticipation of postponed projects opening up The desk and chain awaits those extra 2,500 people... the lucky blighters SaaS27 May 2021 | 2
Autoforwarding in Exchange Online falls over due to a problematic spam rule deployment Updated If only there were an AI to do what Microsoft's engineers don't seem to be able to SaaS26 May 2021 | 8
What you need to know from today's Google IO: Chatty AI, collab tools, TPU v4 chips, quantum computing Google IO Great, another tech thing that sounds like 'lambda' SaaS18 May 2021 | 7
Salesforce fell over so hard today, it took out its own server status page Updated It’s not DNS. There is no way it’s DNS. It was DNS SaaS12 May 2021 | 29
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?" SaaS05 May 2021 | 11
Some stayed in Croatian castles. Some hid in cars. We speak to techies who experienced lockdown in very different ways Covid Logfile II Tales from less-conventional bunkers at the height of the pandemic SaaS05 May 2021 | 30
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
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