Adobe abandons Creative Suite, goes all-SaaS with replacement Creative Cloud

Adobe Systems Inc. is going all-in on a software as a service (SaaS) business model for its suite of heavy-lifting creative tools, announcing today at its Max conference in Los Angeles that it

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: May 7th, 2013 Francis Moran

Why a Toronto startup wants to reinvent online project management

After using a range of unintegrated offerings to run its own digital project management and development solutions business, Toronto’s Hardboot decided to write its own project management suite to help its staff manage

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: April 22nd, 2013 Jeff Jedras

CRM market shifting sharply to mobile devices, Gartner says

With fewer PCs being sold, businesses are quickly shifting to mobile customer relationship management (CRM) apps and away from the traditional desktop software, Alex Williams reports on TechCrunch. Gartner Research is the Stamford,

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: April 18th, 2013 Brian Jackson

5 web tools to quickly create amazing presentations

Having a hard time trying to get people to focus on your presentations? Usually everyone uses Microsoft PowerPoint and it is still one of the most-used tools for slideshow presentations all over the

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: April 12th, 2013 Wolston Lobo

Cloud-based offerings make ERP more agile: Report

Consulting firm Eval-Source has updated its ERP Cloud and SaaS Buyer’s Guide due to the explosion of offerings in the market. Managing director Keean Persaud said the guide has been reformatted to accommodate

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: April 9th, 2013 Dave Webb

JOI offers Katipult as a white label crowdfunding platform

Calgary-based software development company JOI Media Inc. has announced the release of its Katipult crowdfunding platform for corporate and non-profit organizations. The company, which develops custom Web aaplications, originally created Katipult to host

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: April 8th, 2013 Dave Webb

The enterprise headache with Windows Live ID and SkyDrive

I’m confident that everyone reading this has received spam from a friend’s Hotmail account and then got the apologetic “sorry my account was hacked” email. Or worst, had it happen to them. If you

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: March 12th, 2013 Brian Bourne

Microsoft launches Office 365 with rates tailored to small business

After stumbling twice with offering productivity applications as a service, Microsoft Corp. is finally giving what those who dream of in a cloud service have always wanted: a full-featured Office 365. The company

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: February 27th, 2013 Howard Solomon

Businesses embracing cloud software: IDC

Cloud-based software offerings overcame recent high profile data breaches to grow 27 per cent in the Canadian market, according to an IDC Canada study.Revenues from cloud software, or software as a service (SaaS),

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: November 21st, 2012 Brian Jackson

Ottawa’s jBilling snapped up by AppDirect

Cloud app store company AppDirect has acquired jBilling, an open source billing firm based in Ottawa. br>Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Related Story | FreshBooks launches its first iPhone appFounded

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: October 16th, 2012 Christine Wong

Advantages of SaaS in the workplace

By Debbie Stephenson Software as a Service (SaaS) is a distribution model in which applications are hosted by a third party vendor over a network - typically online - and delivered “as a

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: September 21st, 2012 Debbie Stephenson

Sophos Mobile Control released in cloud version

As employees are bringing smartphones to work more often and using them as productivity tools, many small and medium businesses are likely grappling with how to approach managing and securing all those new

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: September 11th, 2012 Brian Jackson

What you need to know – to say yes or no – to cloud computing

Millions of people use cloud computing every day to send emails, host and share files, and sync their digital lives. But that’s just the beginning. Cloud computing is also penetrating the walls of

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: September 11th, 2012 Debbie Stephenson

How Canada’s SMB cloud providers are changing the global landscape

Toronto-based Rypple became a poster child for Canadian cloud success stories when Salesforce.com announced plans to buy the firm last December.Although the financial value of the Rypple acquisition deal wasn'tdisclosed, it proved that

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: March 22nd, 2012 Christine Wong