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Social Networking Services
Facilitating social collaborative spaces for consumers and unleashing the power of communication via social computing has become one of the hotter topics in business and technology today. Social software platforms like Facebook and Twitter have become one of the primary communication channels - sometimes more prominent than traditional communications like email and IM.
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Enterprise Collaboration
Today's Internet entrepreneurs often have a product vision that defines a new way of harnessing web technology to communicate, collaborate, or share information. Similarly, enterprises are gaining real competitive advantage by deploying collaborative technologies that link together disparate internal and external applications and services.
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SaaS Security Assessment
Security has emerged as the biggest challenge for adoption of SaaS applications. According to Forrester, the technology research firm, security concerns are the most commonly cited reason for why enterprises are not interested in SaaS. Most enterprises are uncomfortable with the SaaS model due to the lack of control over the storage and security of their sensitive data. There is a strong apprehension about insider breaches and security vulnerabilities in the applications that can lead to loss of sensitive data and money.
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SaaS Enablement
How can ISVs transition to delivering applications as services quickly and without disruption to the current business model while maintaining control and flexibility? Nearly everyone agrees that applications will migrate from the desktop to the Web. While some companies have already made the transition, many are struggling with getting started, and others are somewhere in between.
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SaaS Accelerator Framework - Oracle
Persistent builds SaaS accelerator framework to SaaS-enable legacy applications and reduce development efforts and costs by 40% - leveraging Oracle's Weblogic 10 Application Server and Oracle 10g database to deliver reusable components.
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Cloud Computing - The Business Perspective
The evolution of cloud computing over the past few years is potentially one of the major advances in the history of computing. However, if cloud computing is to achieve its potential, there needs to be a clear understanding of the various issues involved, both from the perspectives of the providers and the consumers of the technology.
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Google App Engine - A Platform for Scalable Java Web Apps
This paper discusses the strengths and limitations of Google App Engine Platform and how Persistent Systems can help companies migrate web applications to the Google App Engine Platform to leverage Google's scalable infrastructure.
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Securing SaaS Applications
Oracle provides an extensive suite of products that are specifically tailored for developing SaaS applications. This document begins by laying out the architecture for SaaS-enabled applications. It then provides details of how to leverage Oracle tools to implement this architecture.
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Building Scalable and Secure SaaS Solutions Leveraging the Oracle Platform
Understand the challenges of deploying SaaS solutions that embody the scalability and security dimensions that are needed for business applications. Follow an actual case study that illustrates these issues along with the process of developing and deploying a solution. See how the Oracle stack can be leveraged to reduce time to market.
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Cloud, SaaS, PaaS - Cutting through the Fog to make the right choices
This webinar, exclusively for Persistent's customers, focuses on sorting out the confusion as to how Cloud Computing relates to Software as a Service (SaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS). As many of you have personally experienced, Persistent has been successfully developing ISV roadmaps for nearly 2 decades.
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Persistent Systems Launches SaaS Initiative for ISVs Using Oracle Platform
Pune - February 25, 2009 - Persistent Systems, a leading provider of Outsourced Product Development (OPD) services, today announced its Software as a Service (SaaS) enablement initiative for independent software vendors (ISVs).
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