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<title><![CDATA[New SaaS Enablement Network entry: GNi]]></title>
<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:00:00 CST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[GNi is a premier provider of hosted infrastructure solutions. By providing extensive infrastructure as a service, GNi focuses on the performance requirements associated with delivering online applications. GNi gives customers the control to quickly customize, scale, and provision their infrastructure configuration, security, and routing.]]></description>
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<title>Webcast: In SaaS we trust? - 18 Nov 2009</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:00:00 CST</pubDate>
<description>Learn how Iron Mountain's hosted digital document repository solution enables companies to access, distribute, and manage essential business records more quickly, easily and securely in a variety of formats via the Web.</description>
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<title>Webcast: BlackBerry or iPhone CRM for your salesforce made easy - 17 Nov 2009</title>
<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:00:00 CDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Let IBM Business Partner iEnterprises and their customer MAPP Construction demonstrate CRM solutions that help get your contacts, opportunities, customer service tickets and other important information on your BlackBerry or iPhone smart phones in a quick and affordable way.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[New SaaS Enablement Network entry: Claritas Solutions]]></title>
<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 11:00:00 CDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[For over ten years, Claritas Solutions has provided fully managed hosting solutions on securely connected infrastructures. They are ideally positioned to work with ISVs in the design and facilitation of world class IBM SaaS platforms.]]></description>
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<title>Register for the Cloud Futures conference and receive a US$200 voucher from IBM</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 11:00:00 CDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Register for the Cloud Futures: Cloud Computing for Software Vendors '09 conference in San Jose, California, on 7-8 Dec 2009, and receive a US$200 voucher from IBM.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[YouTube: IBM Business Partner, Corent Technology, shares how their SaaS-Suite solution leverages IBM middleware with Amazon Web Services]]></title>
<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:00:00 CDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[IBM developerWorks' Scott Laningham interviews Scott Chate of Corent Technology, Inc., an IBM Business Partner, about his company's use of IBM middleware offered through Amazon Web Services.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[SaaS Business Partner community newsletter - July 2009 issue available]]></title>
<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 11:00:00 CDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Read the current issue to learn more about Software as a Service (SaaS) and its future from business and technical leaders, and receive future newsletters by e-mail by participating in the community.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[New SaaS Enablement Network entry: UBL OnDemand Services]]></title>
<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 11:00:00 CDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[UBL OnDemand Services offer secure, BSI-compliant hosting on IBM Power Systems and Intel systems, ranging from short-term requirements to all inclusive support.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Workshop: For startups: Running IBM on the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Simple Storage Server (S3)]]></title>
<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 11:00:00 CDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Learn how to use IBM product images in the Amazon cloud through live lectures and a demonstration.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Webcast replay: Optimizing your SaaS solution]]></title>
<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:00:00 CDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Discover tools to optimize your SaaS solutions as your business grows and learn how you can leverage business intelligence to help extend your user community, increase revenue, and elevate renewal rates.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[New SaaS Enablement Network entry: Ondit]]></title>
<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:00:00 CDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Ondit, part of the I.R.I.S. Group, provides on demand infrastructure and services, based on IBM hardware and AIX.  As an infrastructure provider with years of experience, Ondit is ideally suited to help you bring your SaaS project to market.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Updated SaaS demonstration series]]></title>
<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:00:00 CDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Our demonstration series contain common scenarios in sample applications, technologies, techniques, and best practices for delivering your software as a hosted service. The sample demonstrations show you the benefits of using IBM technology from the DB2, Lotus, Rational, Tivoli, and WebSphere product families to deliver secure and customizable multi-tenant applications.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Domtar saves millions of dollars and improves customer delivery service with solution from IBM and TransWorks]]></title>
<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 11:00:00 CDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Domtar opted to automate its freight needs process with an on-demand transportation management system (TMS) from TransWorks and realized millions of dollars in annual savings.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[New SaaS Enablement Network entry: Pasporte]]></title>
<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 11:00:00 CDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[As an experienced UK based managed IT and communications services provider, Pasporte provide a full suite of IT and networking services to a wide variety of clients and industries, ranging from small startup services to full regulatory compliance and disaster recovery solutions.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[New SaaS Enablement Network entry: Raiffeisen Informatik]]></title>
<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 11:00:00 CDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Raiffeisen Informatik is a leading Austrian IT-services provider with a comprehensive portfolio of managed services. Raiffeisen Informatik provides extensive experience, high-availability physical or virtual server infrastructures, and SaaS solutions including housing, hosting, co-location, network services, and security services.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Webcast replay: Introduction to Amazon EC2 running IBM]]></title>
<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 16:00:00 CDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Get a technical overview of the IBM products available on Amazon Web Services and real-world demonstrations of IBM technology running on the AWS cloud.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Cloud computing drives breakthrough improvements in IT service delivery, speed, and costs]]></title>
<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 11:00:00 CDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Learn how private and public cloud options enable businesses to cost effectively match their unique security, resilience, performance, and cost requirements to the most appropriate cloud platform.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Webcast replay: IBM software available in the cloud with Amazon Web Services]]></title>
<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 11:00:00 CDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[IBM and Amazon Web Services recently began offering no charge access to IBM software for development purposes and pay-as-you-go hourly pricing for a production cloud computing environment. Learn more about Amazon Web Services, what IBM software is available, the new hourly pricing model, and how to get started.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Amazon EC2 with IBM by the hour: Pay as you go or bring your own IBM license]]></title>
<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 14:00:00 CDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[On Amazon EC2 you can run many of the proven IBM platform technologies with which you're already familiar, including IBM DB2, IBM Informix, IBM WebSphere sMash, IBM Lotus Web Content Management, and IBM WebSphere Portal Server. By choosing Amazon EC2, you can get started in either of two ways. You can pay by the hour only for what you use, through Amazon EC2 running IBM. Alternatively, you can bring many of your own IBM licenses to run on Amazon EC2.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Seminar: Enabling applications for Software as a Service and cloud computing]]></title>
<pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 11:00:00 CDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In this half-day seminar, you will learn about three major approaches for enabling multi-tenancy, which differ in the degree of resource sharing and development complexity. You will also see a demonstration of how the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) pre-loaded with IBM middleware can give you a low cost, scalable, pay-as-you-go model to meet your development and deployment needs.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Workshop: Rapid enablement of existing applications for deployment in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud]]></title>
<pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 11:00:00 CDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In this one-day hands-on workshop, you will learn how to quickly develop and deliver SaaS offerings in a cloud by using the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) environment, a set of Web services that provide resizable compute capacity preloaded with IBM middleware (WebSphere sMash and DB2).]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[IBM and Business Partners help healthcare clients adopt electronic health records and improve operations with cloud software]]></title>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 11:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[IBM announced that American Occupational Network (AON) and HyGen Pharmaceuticals are improving patient care by digitizing health records and streamlining their business operations using cloud-based software from IBM Business Partners MedTrak Systems and The System House.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Software as a Service from IBM and Innovative Computing Corp. delivers speedy customer service for Nationwide Express]]></title>
<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 11:00:00 CDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Nationwide Express compared options, including a PC-based system, and chose an Innovative Computing and IBM SaaS solution as the most effective way to eliminate the cost of developing, buying, and maintaining an in-house technology solution.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Business Partner RSS news feed for Software as a Service (SaaS) now available]]></title>
<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 11:00:00 CST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Stay informed about the latest Business Partner news, events, benefits, and resources available from PartnerWorld. Subscribe to our RSS news feeds for a quick and easy way to learn about our newly added and significantly updated Web content.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[IBM to deliver software via cloud computing with Amazon Web Services]]></title>
<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 16:00:00 CST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[IBM today announced a new agreement with Amazon Web Services to deliver IBM's market leading software to clients and developers.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Podcast: Dave Mitchell on IBM software delivery using Amazon Web services]]></title>
<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 16:00 CST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Dave Mitchell, IBM director of strategy and emerging business for ISV and developer relations, lays out the details of IBM's partnership with Amazon Web Services to give developers access to IBM software products in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) virtual environment.]]></description>
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