News Item - Nov 21, 2009

Web-Hosted software can keep you in line with ever-changing regulations -  Who's best able to make sure your company stays up to date and compliant in the face of ever changing regulations and standards? For a growing number of companies, the answer is a software-as-a-service provider. A recent Gartner study found 15 to 20 percent of responding companies, both large and small, use web-hosted software to track compliance. And more companies are using Web-hosted software to oversee compliance every year, Gartner found.

What's the attraction? As with all software-as-a-service (SaaS), it allows the company to avoid using IT staff to oversee a non-core function. "Using software to manage compliance and compliance reporting becomes too big a burden for a small organization with limited resources," explains Dariel LeBoeuf, senior vice president of communications and education services at TraceSecurity, a SaaS provider that helps companies with governance, risk management and compliance (GRC). "They tell us they don't have the staff to keep up with the regulations," he says....Read More

News Item - Dec 2, 2008

Gartner: SaaS to grow in 90% of organizationsDec 2, 2008, 12:36 PM - Computerworld UK —  Nine out of ten companies plan to grow their use of software-as-a-service (Saas) in the next year, according to a survey by Gartner.

More than one third of respondents (37%) plan to replace on-premises software with SaaS to drive down total cost of ownership (TCO), Gartner found. Those surveyed cited cost-effectiveness and ease of deployment as primary reasons for adoption. Other major drivers included replacing on-premises solutions that had not met performance expectation, or changes in sourcing strategy. ...Read More