Brio's new look moves to packaged software Business intelligence tools can be tricky for users. Brio plans to hold their hands more with packages and dashboards Brio Technology will today announce a ...

Everyone takes it for granted that the natural order of business is to sell software just as though it were a physical product, shipping it out as a manufactured item and charging a one-time perpetual ...

AI thrives on data but feeding it the right data is harder than it seems. As enterprises scale their AI initiatives, they face the challenge of managing diverse data pipelines, ensuring proximity to ...

Microsoft's Office will continue to sell as both packaged software and subscription service. The company also updated its Office Web Apps to work with Android. Jay Greene, a CNET senior writer, works ...

The packaged software industry includes companies that offer multiple software programs bundled together to make a complete set. Microsoft Office, for example, is a packaged software as it includes ...

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - German business software maker SAP posted quarterly profit at the low end of forecasts, hit by weak sales of its traditional packaged software and a rapid shift by customers to ...

Last week saw people react to Klarna’s decision to replace SaaS package software with AI-developed apps. Much of the analysis seems right, but Brian Sommer adds an additional perspective we might want ...

When it comes to distributing software, Microsoft and Adobe are certainly on the same page insofar as they both believe that software-as-a-service is the future; it’s only a matter of time before ...

Ever since Microsoft introduced Office 365 Home Premium subscriptions in January, we’ve been wondering when Microsoft might give up on packaged versions of Office. Now it seems we have our answer. The ...

Podcast: Protecting your intellectual property: Everyday, it seems, there’s a new charge of one company stealing another’s intellectual property or violating a patent. Most recently, Microsoft charged ...

If every protagonist in the service-based, cloud-centric, software-integrated connected world is to be believed, the age of monolithic software is dead. They now talk about the merits of ‘composable’ ...

Forrester’s Jeffrey Hammond recently posted interesting data on custom software spending based on a survey of 1,138 IT professionals in North America and Europe in Q4 2009. According to Forrester, ...