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Microsoft who was the late entrant to the cloud market will finally be known as the overall leader in the software-as-a-service (SaaS) market setting aside Salesforce, albeit by a small margin. Microsoft had a 15 per cent share of worldwide enterprise SaaS revenues and Salesforce 14 per cent in Q2, according to Synergy Research Group. Strangely, Salesforce doesn’t even rank in all the different aspects of SaaS. It holds the dominant position in customer relationship management (CRM), true. Read Also:Ex-Microsoft MD Karan Bajwa To Join IBM Like a lot of...

Worldwide spending on information security products and services will reach USD 81.6 billion in 2016, an increase of 7.9 per cent over 2015, according to the latest forecast from Gartner. Consulting and IT outsourcing are currently the largest categories of spending on information security. Until the end of 2020, the highest growth is expected to come from security testing, IT outsourcing and data loss prevention (DLP). Preventive security will continue to show strong growth, as many security practitioners continue to have a buying preference for preventive measures. However, solutions such...

The channel is very optimistic about the much talked about Oracle-NetSuite deal and is hoping for the best outcome from the USD9.3 billion acquisition. However, partners demand more clarity on the impact of the deal on the channel business and opportunities, as well as challenges coming up with synergies of two cloud veterans coming together. “There is a lot of cloud buzz in the market and every vendor wants to capitalize on it. Oracle is also trying to capture the bigger market share and the company will certainly get millage...

In an effort to accelerate the delivery of next generation cloud networking and application performance solutions worldwide, Riverbed Technology has setup a new R&D center in Bangalore. At the facility, the engineering team of the company will be expanding as much as 3-fold over the next few years, in order for them to accelerate their delivery process, for cloud networking and application performance projects they have at hand. The new center will be the largest Riverbed R&D facility outside the US, and focus on solving some of the toughest challenges...

Freshdesk, a leading cloud-based customer engagement software provider, has announced the launch of Freshsales, a customer relationship management (CRM) solution and sales system designed for corporate sales team.These sales teams require multiple integrated systems to do their jobs effectively: lead, deal, and account management; email and phone integration; user behavior tracking; lead scoring; a visual sales pipeline; and reporting. Freshsales is the only CRM on the market to offer all of these key capabilities with the ease of use that Freshdesk customers have come to expect. The San Francisco and...

Spirent Communications has announced the launch of a new platform that allows companies to manage all their testing needs from anywhere, using any device. Spirent Temeva, a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution for network and cloud testing, offers three web-based applications covering everything, from network traffic testing and network functions virtualization (NFV) infrastructure benchmarking, to cloud performance and capacity planning. Temeva solves a number of challenges businesses face today, when selecting testing tools to validate next-generation network and virtualized infrastructures. Users have to manage multiple vendors’ software and licensing schemes and the...