Hosted applications — renting the use of business software that runs in an outside service provider’s data center — can sound very good to small businesses. Businesses can be up and running fast with ...

BT and Microsoft on Wednesday launched a web-based applications platform for SMEs. As revealed on ZDNet UK two months ago, BT Applications Marketplace is a service that allows independent software ...

Editor’s note: The following article by Kevin McDonald, VP of account management for SourceMedical, appeared in the Fall 2010 edition of SourceMedical’s “Insider Source” magazine. In today’s mature ...

But while on one hand there's nothing new about hosted applications, on the other hand everything is new as enterprises of all sizes begin migrating more and more mission-critical technology to the ...

If there's a hot spot in the enterprise software business, it's hosted applications. The reason hosting is taking off is simple: why buy the $500,000 red Ferrari when you can drive it any time of day ...

Imagine accessing documents from any computer with an Internet connection and not worrying about misplacing a USB flash drive or hauling around a laptop. Web sites have emerged that allow just that, ...

As it becomes more popular to have applications hosted by an external service provider, what implications does this have for integrating those applications with your other systems? The integration of ...

With appropriately drafted SLAs (service-level agreements), health-care company The Schumacher Group has used hosted applications successfully for over two years. Unlike many of his peers who remain ...

You probably run Office and other software directly from a PC hard drive. But server-side tools can put any Windows application into the cloud, keeping virtual ...

As part of its shift in business model, Microsoft is rewriting many of its applications to make them support multitenancy so that they may be offered in a hosted fashion Microsoft is rewriting many of ...