rlebherz wrote: Alf,
Interesting article. I think the Cloud services and cloud infrastructure lines are a bit blurred, but I agree with most of what you are saying.
Dont underestimate the SLA's role in accountability. For companies that have dynamic requirements and no down time can be afforded, make sure you have very tight SLAs. For example, OpSource provides a 100% SLA in the cloud and 100%SLA around production application environments. Now 100% is ideally perfect, it comes down to accountability, yo...
NetSuite, Inc., the leader in on-demand business software suites, today
announced that it was the one and only winner of the Enterprise Software
Product of Year Award for 2006 given out by CNET UK. The full list of award
winners in various categories can be found at
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NetSuite's awards, please go to www.netsuite.com/ukawards .
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criteria included: Innovation, Risk Management, Productivity, Return on
Investment, Ease of Management, Ease of Implementation and the Competitive
Edge a product provides. Particularly impressed by the way the company
continues to deploy cutting-edge technologies without diluting the product's
usefulness, and the many satisfied customers who are themselves highly
successful, modern enterprises, the judging panel touted NetSuite by saying:
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hosted services would be won by now."
"It is gratifying to receive this honor from CNET Networks UK. We'll
continue to innovate; the next era of business computing will be driven by
on-demand software," said Zach Nelson, CEO of NetSuite. "Software as a
Service has become mainstream. It's starting to change the way businesses run
their operations. Because of this revolution, businesses can do what they
could never do before."
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About NetSuite
NetSuite, Inc. is the leader in on-demand business software suites and
the fastest-growing software company in North America (source: Deloitte Fast
500 study). NetSuite enables companies to manage all key business operations
in a single system, which includes accounting/Enterprise Resource Planning
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large, up-front license fee, and no complex set-ups. Finally, NetSuite's
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