Can Web Services & SaaS be used to replace Client Service applications?

Obviously web services are just that - services. Therefore this may seem like a ridiculous question.

However, I don’t think it is. After all, an application is simply multiple modules communicating with each other via procedure / method / function calls.

Business Intelligence deals

Patrick Reames wrote on the UtiliPoint ETRM Community Blog that IBM has acquired Cognos and noted that this is the third such huge acquisition this year: “IBM announced this morning that they are picking up Cognos for $5 billion. This is the third huge business intelligence acquisition this year, following SAP’s acquisition of Business Objects for $6.8 billion and Oracle’s buying Hyperion […]