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Oracle Making A SaaS Move
Posted on May 4th, 2009 No commentsJust caught a Reuters article titled “Oracle to Make SaaS Push” which details Oracle’s move toward expanding their line of SaaS offerings. An unnamed source at Oracle said that they’ll be expanding their HR and recruiting functions in a SaaS model. From the article:
The company is also expanding its line of customer relationship management software, or CRM programs, which companies use to manage sales and marketing activities, the person said.
Those CRM programs compete with ones from Salesforce.com Inc, the biggest provider of Web-based programs, which are known in the tech industry as software as a service or SaaS.
SaaS is becoming increasingly popular because their makers host the programs at their own data centers, saving customers the costs of running them on their own computers. The approach also makes it quicker and easier for companies to start using the new software.
Oracle has briefed some industry analysts on its plans to expand its SaaS offerings, though it is not clear when the products will be released, said the person who described the strategy.
So, while this really is a non-story since it was attributed to “a person, who was not authorized to publicly discuss the plan”, but since it’s Oracle, it’s a story.
