Editor’s note: The following article by Kevin McDonald, VP of account management for SourceMedical, appeared in the Fall 2010 edition of SourceMedical’s “Insider Source” magazine. In today’s mature ...

As it becomes more popular to have applications hosted by an external service provider, what implications does this have for integrating those applications with your other systems? The integration of ...

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You probably run Office and other software directly from a PC hard drive. But server-side tools can put any Windows application into the cloud, keeping virtual ...

After years of tinkering with computing devices, I’ve accumulated huge volumes of data – including photos from my childhood, movies I’ve bought over the last decade, and the ebook library I’ve ...

As more businesses move away from traditional legacy on-premises systems, the cloud is setting a new standard for how IT professionals manage and deploy new applications. There is, however, an ongoing ...

Nsite, a hosted-applications company, is expected on Tuesday to introduce tools to customize its online sales application, and it's relying heavily on AJAX, a Web development technique. The company is ...

With appropriately drafted SLAs (service-level agreements), health-care company The Schumacher Group has used hosted applications successfully for over two years. Unlike many of his peers who remain ...

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Although Steve Ballmer claims that within 10 years all software will be delivered as a service, current application service providers struggle to make their businesses work. Heavy maintenance and ...

The company also disclosed pricing for the Microsoft Dynamics Live CRM hosted software: $39 per user per month for a Professional version as an introductory price through 2008, increasing to $44 per ...

Hosted version of program to appear within six months, CEO says, as company looks to combine online features with packaged apps. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge ...