BT bets big on AI with ServiceNow to cut legacy baggage Promises no pink slips despite service desk in crosshairs SaaS03 Jul 2024 | 16
Salesforce investors reject plan to add extra $20M to Benioff's total pay Board to take non-binding vote at mega SaaS haus into consideration SaaS02 Jul 2024 | 8
EU accuses Microsoft of antitrust violations for bundling Teams with O365 Statement of Objections sent to Redmond HQ following probe that began July 2023 SaaS25 Jun 2024 | 23
Europe accuses Apple of preventing devs from telling users about world outside Plus: Commission launches new probe into iPhone maker's efforts to work with new laws SaaS24 Jun 2024 | 13
Anthropic delivers Claude 3.5 model – and a new way to work with chatbots Video Fast, funny, visionary, sure ... anything that knocks OpenAI down a peg will do AI + ML20 Jun 2024 | 11
After 13 years, Atlassian delivers custom domain names for Jira Customers aren't thrilled at double subdomain or need for Premium license SaaS19 Jun 2024 | 12
Google DeepMind's latest model promises realistic audio for your AI-generated vids Video Launch comes as Runway, Pika, Kling push the boundaries of machine-imagined video AI + ML18 Jun 2024 | 2
SAP customers may struggle to escape ECC before support shutters if they don't start now User group warns of systems integrator and consultant shortage to make herculean shift to S4/HANA SaaS12 Jun 2024 | 10
Salesforce expects lowest quarterly growth in two decades Allure of AI fails to inspire customers to increase software spending with CRM giant SaaS30 May 2024 | 5
In support of Internet projects Company offering cloud-based hosting, mail, SaaS, backup, CDN and other services celebrates 27th birthday Sponsored Post
EMEA enterprise folks scrutinize deals more closely – and it's hurting Workday Pesky 'macro' stuff forces SaaS biz to yank revenue forecast, share price plunges double digits SaaS24 May 2024 | 3
HMRC must grow 'intelligent client' function to sort out post-Brexit tech issues – watchdog Already delayed, IBM and Deloitte's 'Single Trade Window' presents SaaSy challenge's to tax collector Public Sector20 May 2024 | 36
AWS CEO logs off after three years at the helm Adam Selipsky off on new adventures. What those are, we'll have to wait and see SaaS14 May 2024 | 2
AWS CISO tells The Reg: In the AI gold rush, folks are forgetting application security RSAC 'Everybody's learning as they go. But there's a rush to get these apps out' AI + ML13 May 2024 | 5
Dropbox dropped the ball on security, haemorrhaging customer and third-party info Only from its digital doc-signing service, which is isolated from its cloudy storage Security02 May 2024 | 20
Workday abandons new-build Dublin office project Continues to expand EMEA HQ in existing buildings instead SaaS27 Apr 2024 | 12
Are we in a cost of technology crisis? Our vultures think so Kettle Won't somebody please think of the shareholders SaaS17 Apr 2024 | 5
Open source versus Microsoft: The new rebellion begins Opinion Neither side can afford to lose, but one surely must SaaS15 Apr 2024 | 187
Microsoft hikes Dynamics 365 prices by around ten percent or more First rise in five years varies between 9.26 and 16.67 percent for different products – for no apparent reason SaaS15 Apr 2024 | 15
British watchdog has 'real concerns' about the staggering love-in between cloud giants and AI upstarts Billions in investment? Yeeeah, right – looks more like ensuring only select few developers thrive AI + ML12 Apr 2024 | 4
VMware license changes mean bare metal can make a comeback through 'devirtualization', says Gartner Latest datacenter Hype Cycle also includes augmented reality, new types of memory, nuke power
FreeDOS and FreeBSD prove old code never dies, just gets nifty updates Anniversary time and both are going strong into their 30s
Switzerland to end 2024 with an analog FM broadcast-killing bang Time to upgrade that receiver if you're one of the few Swiss that still don't have one able to receive DAB+ signals
Affirm fears customer info pilfered during ransomware raid at Evolve Bank Number of partners acknowledging data theft continues to rise
UN telecom watchdog wags finger at Russia for satellite interference European neighbors say interference comes from Moscow and Kaliningrad, Kremlin claims it didn't find anything
Despite OS shields up, half of America opts for third-party antivirus – just in case Wisdom of the oldies or just a traditional fear of malware?
Kernel tweaks improve Raspberry Pi performance, efficiency There's a lot of room for improvement in modern computing, from the low end to the very high
Microsoft Stores all close their doors in China Slump in Surface sales suspected as one reason for move online
Japan's digital minister declares victory against floppy disks The war on the relic is finally won. Now on to fax machines?
SAP transformation program a 'euphemism' for job cuts, claims European Works Council 8,000 roles affected worldwide, but Germany will bear heaviest losses SaaS10 Apr 2024 | 7
Microsoft unbundling Teams is to appease regulators, not give customers a better deal Think before you pull the trigger, warn analysts SaaS04 Apr 2024 | 54
EU antitrust cops probe Microsoft ties between Entra ID and 365 services Exclusive Google claims rival has made an 'art and science' out of licensing SaaS22 Mar 2024 | 29
ServiceNow goes to Washington DC, with a suitcase full of AI Claims the tech has brought 38 percent improvement to its own dev cycle time Software21 Mar 2024 | 3
Microsoft hits Inflection point, peels off top personnel to form AI division FYI, FTC: Karén Simonyan, DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman absorbed rather than acquired AI + ML19 Mar 2024 | 12
Don't be like these 900+ websites and expose millions of passwords via Firebase Warning: Poorly configured Google Cloud databases spill billing info, plaintext credentials CSO18 Mar 2024 | 11
Microsoft promises Copilot will be a 'moneymaker' in the long term Exec tells investors to 'temper' expectations as mission to convince customers of price tag continues AI + ML18 Mar 2024 | 57
Oracle adds GenAI to Fusion with a whopping 50 use cases But is there one that can sort out failing ERP projects? Well Larry, is there? AI + ML14 Mar 2024 | 2
SAP accused of age discrimination, retaliation by US whistleblower Complainant moved to 'retire in place' role after Sarbanes Oxley Act report, filing alleges SaaS14 Mar 2024 | 10
Sunak's defunct SaaS scheme spent seven percent of budget designed to help 100,000 SMEs Unicorn Kingdom prime minister fails to provide £300 million of magic software beans promised SaaS13 Mar 2024 | 26
European Commission broke its own data privacy law with Microsoft 365 use Euro folk have until December to put house in order Public Sector11 Mar 2024 | 29
Google sends Gemini AI back to engineering to adjust its White balance Comment Big Tech keeps poisoning the well without facing any consequences for its folly AI + ML23 Feb 2024 | 50
UK Cabinet Office hits pause on £9M Microsoft deal Google Workspace hangout extended indefinitely SaaS15 Feb 2024 | 33
NHS in Wales bets big on Microsoft with deal worth nearly half a billion Forget historic cloud downtime, latest contract with reseller to offer 'agile and flexible' approach SaaS13 Feb 2024 | 28
Twitter spinout Bluesky ends invite-only phase and opens its doors to all comers Dorsey-backed federated social media alternative promises custom feed algos, and more SaaS06 Feb 2024 | 21
Snow day in corporate world thanks to another frustrating Microsoft Teams outage Network rollback fails to resolve issue in Americas as Redmond scrambles to optimize its way out of the problem SaaS27 Jan 2024 | 35
Microsoft 365's add-on avalanche is putting the squeeze on customers Like buying a car where the seats are an optional extra SaaS18 Jan 2024 | 45
Duke Uni libraries decamp from 37Signals' Basecamp over CTO's blogs We're canceling our subscriptions, say librarians citing co-founder's views SaaS01 Dec 2023 | 43
Microsoft's Swiss army knife app hopes to cut through cloud clutter Ignite A 'win' for Windows or just another pane in the glass? SaaS16 Nov 2023 | 6
Microsoft 365 Copilot 'generally available' – if you can afford 300 seats Updated Small businesses need not apply SaaS03 Nov 2023 | 15
Amazon to drop a cool $1B on Microsoft 365 cloud suite Over a million licenses for office software to be used by corporate and frontline workers SaaS18 Oct 2023 | 19
So this one time, at Bandcamp, half the staff were laid off Epic redundancies all round SaaS17 Oct 2023 | 45
Atlassian buys 'asynchronous video' outfit Loom for almost $1 billion Imagine a Jira bug report with an embedded video explaining the situation SaaS13 Oct 2023 | 25
ServiceNow upgrade goes from AI to Zero Trust You can’t not do GenAI in 2023, and 'Vancouver' release has gone there – but its detours may be more worthy SaaS21 Sep 2023 | 1
Salesforce engineers roll back change after breaking own cloud for hours today Updated Services said to be returning to normal from downtime though Tableau Cloud still MIA SaaS20 Sep 2023 | 3
Salesforce flipflops from 'you're fired' to 'you're hired' in six short months Recruitment U-turn down to search for growth and margins, CEO says SaaS15 Sep 2023 | 27
Microsoft billing 3 cents a minute to revisit tedious Teams meetings via API One more reason to keep them short and sweet SaaS04 Sep 2023 | 23
Official: Microsoft unbundles Teams in Europe Breaking up is hard to do: Redmond reluctantly lets EU play matchmaker for software suite flings SaaS31 Aug 2023 | 19
Verizon to 'sunset' Blue Jeans vidconf platform Also-ran service done in by ‘changing market conditions in a post-pandemic landscape' SaaS09 Aug 2023 | 26
Google launches $99 a night Hotel Mountain View for hybrid workers And pandemic video conferencing poster child Zoom ushers staff back into the office for two days a week SaaS07 Aug 2023 | 68
It's official: EU probing bundling of Teams with Microsoft 365 Updated Antitrust inspectors trying to figure out if Redmond has breached local competition laws SaaS27 Jul 2023 | 42
Global Slack messaging outage cuts world off from colleagues Come back Teams, all is forgiven SaaS27 Jul 2023 | 14
MySQL Heatwave dives into object storage data lakes Oracle joins the analytics anywhere bandwagon, promises future access to AWS S3 SaaS20 Jul 2023 | 2
Euro monopoly cops to probe Microsoft for slipping Teams into Office Three years after Slack flagged up 'illegal' bundling of chat app SaaS17 Jul 2023 | 44
Investors give Salesforce a 4% slap on back for raising prices Just think of the margins SaaS12 Jul 2023 | 1
Microsoft Azure OpenAI lets enterprises feed corporate secrets to ChatGPT Updated Apparently you're all dying to do this? SaaS22 Jun 2023 | 22
Google formally accuses monopolist Microsoft of trapping people in its cloud Updated Fight! Fight! Fight! SaaS21 Jun 2023 | 24
Suit alleges Oracle oversold and under-delivered on NetSuite software Binding service terms hidden in contractual documents, plaintiff claims SaaS21 Jun 2023 | 4
Tech vendors have been hiking prices by up to 24% amid inflation Customers also warned to look out for audits following M&As SaaS16 Jun 2023 | 14
Salesforce lures staff with $10 donation to charity for each day they're in the office Promo runs from June 12 and 24 as company promises it's not tracking which workers participate SaaS07 Jun 2023 | 14
Microsoft battles through two 365 outages in one day Updated Windows titan blames technical problems while hacktivists claim it woz them wot did it SaaS06 Jun 2023 | 36
CRM giant Salesforce's focus on margins sees sales growth slip After activist investor pressure and job losses, professional services projects struggle SaaS01 Jun 2023 | 1
Get ready, Snowflakes: Azure AI is coming for you with one click Ingest, integrate... and imprison SaaS01 Jun 2023 | 6
Salesforce boss Benioff scores payday of nearly $30m amid cost cutting Average employee got $199k, changes afoot to exec compensation SaaS28 Apr 2023 | 4
Microsoft tackles SaaSy URL sprawl, dumping its dotcom in favor of cloud.microsoft Promises more cross-product links, better security, and easier admin – for you and Redmond’s own crew SaaS27 Apr 2023 | 23
Where are we now – Microsoft 363? Cloud suite suffers another outage Final update Some customers unable to use the search function for online services like Teams and Outlook SaaS24 Apr 2023 | 20
Microsoft not a Teams player as admin center, 365 service suffer partial outage Final update It’s not the caching. There’s no way it’s the caching. It was the caching SaaS20 Apr 2023 | 22
Microsoft switches gears, keeps Exchange Online's CARs around until Sept 2024 At least Redmond listens to some customers SaaS10 Apr 2023 | 1
Activist investor Elliott holds off board-level influence at Salesforce Benioff gets a pat on the head and an undefined reprieve SaaS27 Mar 2023 | 3
Microsoft dips Teams in the metaverse vat with avatars ahead Can't be bothered with cam? Replace yourself with a 3D diligent worker SaaS15 Mar 2023 | 29
Salesforce latest to sprinkle ChatGPT on itself, will ask language models to write code Collaboration with OpenAI tech also threatens AI-generated sales emails, Slack messages, customer Q&As SaaS07 Mar 2023 | 8
Salesforce banks savings by sweating tech infrastructure for an extra year Revenue rocks, but boosting margins means five year old servers and four year old PCs SaaS02 Mar 2023 | 8
Salesforce under investor pressure to dump more staff Promised 10,000 cull unlikely to be enough to satisfy gaggle of activist investors SaaS27 Feb 2023 | 6
Google staff asked to share desk space in latest cost purge From free massage therapy and on-site gyms to alternating desk days with fellow Googlers SaaS23 Feb 2023 | 57
Salesforce woes continue as Twitter slashes spending with SaaS supermonster Performance improvement plans and prompt exit packages in the offing SaaS15 Feb 2023 | 9
No more rockstars, say Billy Idol, Joan Jett in Workday Super Bowl ad Blast 'corporate' types who are much more square than $5.14 billion HR corp SaaS10 Feb 2023 | 40
Microsoft injects AI into Teams so no one will ever forget what the meeting decided In the virtual corporate world, slackers have nowhere to hide SaaS02 Feb 2023 | 61
Salesforce refreshes board as activist investors circle Slack said to be worth fraction of price paid, new hires not as productive amid downturn SaaS30 Jan 2023 | 6
Changes afoot at Salesforce after activist investor Elliott takes a decisive slice It is 'never a good sign when Elliott shows up' says analyst of fund manager whose reputation precedes it SaaS23 Jan 2023 | 12
IBM top brass accused again of using mainframes to prop up Watson, cloud sales Special report Securities fraud lawsuit reloaded SaaS18 Jan 2023 | 38
Security tech chief quits Salesforce as list of top-table departures grows CRM slinger's annus horribilis continues as 'father of SSL' departs for VC fund SaaS12 Jan 2023 | 2
Salesforce: There's no more Slack left to cut Opinion SaaS CRM slinger blamed the pandemic for 10% workforce cull, but scattergun M&A strategy hasn't helped SaaS10 Jan 2023 | 23
Salesforce to chop 10% of workforce in $1.4 billion restructuring blueprint CRM specialist to 'reduce operating costs, improve operating margins' as pandemic catches up with tech industry SaaS04 Jan 2023 | 6
British Airways flights grounded due to glitch in flight planning app Flight computers down for 2 hours worldwide 'and no BA plane can file a flight plan? Seems not ideal' SaaS20 Dec 2022 | 16
Salesforce's new hires are less productive, says CEO Benioff Founder and bossman asks if WFH freedoms to blame SaaS19 Dec 2022 | 37
Adobe confirms UK looking into its $20b Figma deal, EU probe 'expected' Options? Customers have heard of them. Software giant reports record $17b+ revs, with biggest growth in ... PDFs? SaaS16 Dec 2022 | 10
Where are EU going with that Teams antitrust probe? Microsoft wants a word Updated Software behemoth reportedly wants a chat with the regulators – on the other side of the pond this time SaaS13 Dec 2022 | 25
Oracle clouds never go down, says Oracle's Larry Ellison That summer heatwave in Britain? Our servers were just resting SaaS13 Dec 2022 | 23
Salesforce calls some workers back to the office amid slowing sales Months after CEO Benioff said return to office mandates don't work, a bunch told to come in three days a week, take half customer calls in-person SaaS02 Dec 2022 | 9
Exchange Online and Microsoft Teams went down in APAC because Microsoft broke itself Updated Legacy process overwhelmed infrastructure, brought ten hours of trouble SaaS02 Dec 2022 | 34
Cloudflare hikes prices by a quarter, blames the accountants Cash flow is king, even in the cloud SaaS01 Dec 2022 | 14
Salesforce ends CEO job share – again. Marc Benioff back as sole boss Bret Taylor returns to entrepreneurial roots after losing his gig as chair of Twitter SaaS01 Dec 2022 |
As recession looms, Workday warns that legacy HR systems need updating Company hopes future will be 'nearly impossible to navigate' without its wares SaaS30 Nov 2022 | 15
Low code is no replacement for software development, say German-speaking SAP users Updated 'It remains to be seen to what degree of process depth the offer will prove itself in practice' SaaS25 Nov 2022 | 39
Salesforce trims workforce as growth slows post-lockdowns The COVID-era hiring spree which saw thousands onboarded comes to an abrupt end SaaS09 Nov 2022 | 2
ServiceNow boss embarks on corporate trolling to get rise out of SAP Workflow biz ignores digital naysayers, avoids wider malaise in Q3 software spending SaaS27 Oct 2022 |
AWS users can finally use Nitro Enclaves on Arm Graviton EC2 instances Just don't forget Enclave data is held in memory and costs can ramp when processing digital reams SaaS25 Oct 2022 |
Sage denies misleading customers over perpetual licensing, users not happy Vendor and resellers offer conflicting advice about subs and upgrades, though vendor says it's been 'clear' SaaS30 Sep 2022 | 25
Oracle's NetSuite tests automation, warehouse management waters Analyst says challenges remain in attracting partners to roll out products SaaS28 Sep 2022 | 1
Salesforce set to hire thousands in India after hitting brakes on US recruitment Headcount in subcontinent quadruples in 3 years thanks to CFO's 'measured approach' to recruitment SaaS27 Sep 2022 | 9