http://tenxco.com/blog A search, ranking and rating service for Web Services and SaaS components. Fri, 07 Dec 2007 16:49:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I spent the evening debating the value of SaaS components with the guys from Palmtreee the other night. The main question was "will corporate America embed SaaS components within their infrastructure?" My argument is "well, it depends!" It depends upon who else is using the component, what the other users think of ... http://tenxco.com/blog/web20/andrew/will-corporate-america-use-saas-components/ 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. Each module probably reads / writes/ edits / deletes from ... http://tenxco.com/blog/trading/andrew/can-web-services-saas-be-used-to-replace-client-service-applications/ I did a google search for web services energy trading and to my amazement who should appear 6th on the list but IBM!  It is not a dated document either... it's a PDF dated 2006 titled "The next generation of energy trading To reach new levels of functionality and maturity, companies need to know ... http://tenxco.com/blog/trading/andrew/ibm-energy-trading-web-services/ 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 ... http://tenxco.com/blog/business-intelligence/andrew/business-intelligence-deals/ blo.gs: aboutA service that seems to have been purchased by yahoo for showing recently updated blogs. http://tenxco.com/blog/cool-tools/admin/recntly-updated-weblogs/