[2008-10-20] Planning and Intergration of On-Premise Applications Via Cloud Here are several excerpts from an informative article by Mathew Schwartz, Integrating Your Cloud And On-Premises Applications: Most small and midsize businesses are eyeing one or more software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications, yet have already made numerous investments in on-premises software. And despite the potential cost upsides of making the move to SaaS, one crucial success factor for running part or all of your business in the cloud is going to be the ability to tie cloud computing applications to on-premises systems.
[2008-10-07] Financial Struggles With Enterprise Software Here's a timely post by Thomas Wailgum, Editor of CIO magazine, Help! We Need ERP and CRM Software, But We Can't Afford It Right Now!: