It’s always good to see cloud computing vendors putting their money where their mouth is. Cloud ERP vendor NetSuite therefore has good reason to make a meal of its announcement, expected later today, that SaaS CRM stalwart RightNow Technologies is running its global financials on NetSuite OneWorld, [...]

Dell has just announced it has agreed to acquire Software-as-a-Service integration company Boomi. Terms of the deal were not disclosed and, as usual, the purchase is subject to customary closing conditions. Dell did not say when it expects to complete the purchase of the startup. Dell chairman and C [...]

NetSuite (N) this afternoon reported Q3 revenue of $49.7 million and non-GAAP profits of 4 cents a share, ahead of the Street consensus of $48.5 million and 3 cents. Although there was no specific guidance in the release, the company did say that it is “again raising our 2010 outlook for [...]

Rackspace Ranks #11 on Forbes’ List of the Top 100 Best Small Companies in America Rackspace® Hosting , the world’s leading specialist in the hosting and cloud computing industry, announced that it ranked number 11 on the Forbes’ listing of the Top 100 Best Small Companies in America . Read more on [...]

NetSuite For Dummies by Julie Kelly, Luke Braud, Malin Huffman Lowest Price: $16.49 The first part of the book (part I & II) will be used to provide an overview of the NetSuite system and give the users an idea on how it can be used to improve business processes. The second part of the book (part II [...]

Dell Inc. announced on Tuesday that the acquisition of cloud computing business-software firm Boomi is all set to take place as computer maker Dell looks to extend its hold in the corporate technology market. Cloud computing firm Boomi is based in Berwyn, Pa., and is a newly fledged company that was [...]

Is it yet another Open Cloud Manifesto (last one put forth by IBM). Or, this time the wide spectrum of members include Canonical, Cisco, Citrix, Dell, EMC, Enomaly, Eucalyptus Systems, Gproxy, HP, IBM, Joyent, Microsoft, NetApp, NetSuite, Novell, Parallels, Red Hat, Univa and VMware, and the $50B ma [...]

Tweet NetSuite is making a savvy bet by opening a dedicated cloud ERP development center in Brno, Czech Republic for several reasons. According to today’s announcement the company will build the center out to employ one hundred people in the next 12 to 18 months and the company already has a good fo [...]

According to the August 2009 Forrester Research report " eCommerce Web Site Performance Today," poor site performance leads to shopper dissatisfaction and [...]

Last week, I had the great pleasure of traveling to Des Moines, Iowa to give a talk and facilitate a discussion at CDS-Global's Nonprofit Roundtable. The latter is an affinity group that includes representatives of nonprofit organizations that are CDS-Global customers. CDS-Global's Cathy Hut had ask [...]