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Real-Time Analytics at Salesforce.com

Learn how Salesforce makes BI real time. Donovan Schneider, Principal Architect at Salesforce.com, gives the inside story at the SDForum BI SIG.

Posted in Analytics, Cloud Computing, Salesforce, SVForum

Cloud Security: Selected Challenges, Solutions, and Directions

Yuecel Karabulut, Chief Security Advisor at SAP, gave an interesting presentation to a joint meeting of the SDForum’s Securing and Cloud Services SIGs on how to architect applications securely in the cloud. For a description, see an article I’ve submitted

Posted in Cloud Computing, SAP, Security, SVForum

Box.net vs. SharePoint vs. Box.net and SharePoint

Box.net is like SharePoint but without the hassles, announces a billboard on U.S. Route 101 as it runs by  Redwood Shores in Silicon Valley. The Box.net web site boasts of unleashing a SharePoint killer, a white knight in the cloud destined

Posted in Cloud Computing

Software-as-a-Service, the Pure and the Hybrid

Among CRM vendors, SalesForce.com pursues the pure software-as-a-service strategy and Microsoft the hybrid strategy. Microsoft customers choose between licensing Dynamics CRM for on-premise installation, hosting with Microsoft, or hosting with a third-party hosting provider. SalesForce.com lets customers host its software

Posted in Cloud Computing, Salesforce

Cloud to Agile to Innovation

Given all the cloud hype, it is little wonder that so many vendors have aligned their products and services around the concept. Yet despite the diversity of vendors claiming their piece of the cloud, there is a consistent theme running

Posted in Agile, Cloud Computing, Innovation