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Canada rated world's soundest bank system: survey | Reuters

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Photokina Interview Series: Olympus: Digital Photography Review

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Photokina Interview Series: Canon: Digital Photography Review

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Finextra: Social savings outfit SmartyPig targets Australia with ANZ deal

SmartyPig, a US online saving service that uses Web 2.0 technology to enable account holders to deposit money and receive funds from others, has recruited ANZ Bank to launch the system in Australia

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LinkedIn: Answers: SaaS: Software As a Service

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Economic View - Pursuit of an Edge, in Steroids or Stocks - NYTimes.com

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Tripinform.com · Value of Aeroplan Points

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Collecting Aeroplan Points and Their Value

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Will Paulson's plan work? | I want your money | The Economist

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British Journal of Photography - Leica's big Surprise

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LinkedIn: Answers: Developers: How's your career affected by shifts to SaaS and social networking?

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the design of our EAI platform incorporates both an enterprise install and SaaS component
One impact will be that interfacing with so many other SaaS, S+S and SN offerings will force us to keep a clean architecture and interface. That will slow down our short term responses to solutions but be a long term benefit, even internally and to our customers.
The impact of SaaS and social networking on my career has been that expertise in multitenancy (multi-tenant data architecture and security in particular) and social networking APIs such as Open Social and the Facebook API is now part of my toolkit.
compelling ways to integrate social computing into traditional enterprise applications
When gathering requirements for a new application, I help my customers understand the potential benefits and opportunities of SaaS and social networking for their business
If SaaS brings swift turnaround then we're going to need to adhere even closer to principles of sound engineering so that our application models can move as quickly as the business does
Working on a "live" application one must apply discipline to test and deployment of upgrades as a slip-up can cost many customers downtime and lost business
a result they need less IT staff in their company and they save quite a bit not having to maintain a technology in house. With this trend the Future of IT jobs as we know them today is quite grim.
Writing applications for SaaS adds some complexity in the security model of applications
In SaaS as a service, you must add company/organization and purchased features.
Customers don't know what their own systems cost

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LinkedIn: Answers: What will be the impact, if any, of social networking in the enterprise?

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LinkedIn: Answers: Corporate Blogging / Facebook: Has your organization taken the next step in social media? If so, to what extent?

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LinkedIn: Answers: What is the difference between ASP and SAAS?

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SaaS is a more modular approach
The one real difference that I sometimes hear in usage is that ASP often entailed the service provider maintaining a significant (and sometimes dedicated) hosting operation. SAAS often means that the environment in which the software runs is shared between clients and/or virtualized.
Software as a Service offerings are architected as multi-tenant, where the SaaS provider offers a common feature set available to all customers (with potentially different tiered offerings).
ASPs (Application Service Providers) offer single-tenant (single instance of an application) per customer where the feature set may be unique to the customer
SP as 1st generation and SaaS as 2nd generation.
a SaaS provider is the so called Multitenancy architecture
it depends on your perspective.
an end-user I probably would not know or care to know the difference between an ASP or SaaS application
ASP is provided on a 'one to one' model
In SaaS on the other hand, the application (and usually the data storage) is multi-tenant
Since ASP is in the one to one model, there are fewer opportunities for economies of scale
Profitability (for the provider) would generally be a factor of different sources of revenue like subscriptions, services, customizations, and support offset by the higher operating costs
In a SaaS model, revenues are driven by subscriptions and profitability is driven by economies of scale and operational efficiencies