Axway, the leading global provider of multi-enterprise solutions and infrastructure, has announced the latest release of SecureTransport™, one of its award-winning managed file transfer (MFT) solutions.

Following Axway’s strategy since its merger with Tumbleweed Communications, SecureTransport now integrates with Synchrony™ Sentinel to provide visibility inside and outside the enterprise. SecureTransport also provides users of Sterling Commerce’s Connect:Direct with more open, Internet-based connectivity. Additionally, it features an expanded and enriched end-user experience for file transfers via a new Internet Client.

Pairing SecureTransport with Sentinel offers extended end-to-end visibility services for auditing and reporting on file transfer activity at a business and technical level, internally and across trading communities. The solution provides proactive notifications and real-time dashboards via powerful event processing capabilities to correlate and correct potential process problems before they become a business threat.

ZenKraft has announced the availability of ZenKraft Shipmate - FedEx for Salesforce CRM on the AppExchange. ZenKraft Shipmate instantly adds seamless FedEx Shipping integration within Salesforce CRM. ZenKraft Shipmate is built natively on the Force.com platform, meaning it runs on the same trusted, reliable and secure platform running salesforce.com’s powerful applications. In addition, it leverages the familiar look and feel of Salesforce CRM, so customers will be productive from day one.

ZenKraft Shipmate allows customers to ship any mail or package to any Salesforce CRM Lead, Contact, Account or Opportunity through FedEx. It also allows customers to calculate FedEx rate estimates, generate FedEx shipping and return labels, track FedEx shipments and much more. Built entirely on the Force.com platform, ZenKraft Shipmate is now available for a free 14-day trial on the AppExchange. Visit http://www.salesforce.com/appexchange/.

WaveMaker today announced general availability of the first open source cloud development platform. WaveMaker 6.0 is available under the Apache open source license, providing organizations with the features and benefits found in proprietary cloud development platforms - such as Force.com and Azure - at a fraction of the cost.

With an open source community of 15,000 active developers, WaveMaker has established itself as a leading rapid application development platform for cloud computing. WaveMaker's browser-based, drag and drop platform makes it easy for anyone to prototype, develop and customize great looking web applications.

Because WaveMaker 6.0 was built using open source standards, it is the only cloud development platform to support deployment to any cloud, running on any Java server and connecting to any database. WaveMaker's studio was even built using WaveMaker, demonstrating the power of WaveMaker technology.

A new report from Gartner, “Market Trends: Software as a Service, Worldwide, 2008-2013, Update,” estimates that global software-as-a-service revenue will reach $7.5 billion this year, a 17.7 percent increase from 2008 revenue of $6.4 billion.

Gartner predicts the SaaS market will show consistent growth through 2013 when worldwide SaaS revenue will total more than $14 billion for the enterprise application markets.

Gartner is updating it's may report, where it had predicted that the global SaaS market would reach $8 billion in 2009, a 21.9 percent increase from 2008 revenue, which it had then pegged at $6.6 billion.

According to the report, the content, communications and collaboration (CCC) market and the customer relationship management (CRM) market had the largest share of SaaS revenue, with the CCC market generating $2.6 billion in 2009, up from $2.14 billion in 2008, and the CRM segment generating $2.3 billion in 2009, up from $1.9 billion in 2008.

The report revealed that CRM and ERP solutions make up the bulk of SaaS revenues – however, also contributing to the growth in the SaaS market are today’s SaaS-based call center solutions. A recent report from market research firm DMG Consulting arrives at similar findings and predicts that the SaaS-based call center software market will grow 30 percent in 2009, 35 percent in 2010 and 20 percent in 2011.

DMG’s findings reveal that the worldwide economic recession is actually driving many types of organizations in all verticals to consider hosted call center infrastructure solutions over expensive on-premises based systems.

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IceWEB, a leading provider of purpose built appliances and building blocks for cloud storage networks, announced today that the Company has entered into a Standard Procurement Agreement (SPA) with ExxonMobil Global Services Company, an operating division of ExxonMobil, the largest publicly traded international oil and gas company. The agreement for upstream services from IceWEB is for both the design of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and to provide GIS technical staff including Consultants, Project Managers, Senior GIS System/Software Architects, GIS Software Developers, Engineers, Data Base Analysts, and Senior Storage Engineering staff.

John R. Signorello, CEO of IceWEB said, "Land exploration in the oil and gas sector requires the ability to put detailed imagery in the hands of those who need it regardless of where they may be. With this agreement ExxonMobil will leverage IceWEB expertise to work on building new infrastructure to accomplish that task. We are very pleased to be able to make our resources available to ExxonMobil for this important project."

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Document Automation Provider Integrates with DocuSign for Salesforce to Deploy Complete Contract Creation and Execution Lifecycle

DocuSign, the leading provider of on-demand electronic signature and contract execution solutions, has announced that Drawloop Technologies employs DocuSign for Salesforce to accelerate its contract signing process.

The Irvine-based on-demand document automation solutions provider integrated DocuSign for Salesforce into its Salesforce customer relationship management (CRM) platform as the final piece of a full cycle contract management system.

After years of rising IT costs and influence by the Obama Administration, the Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously to switch all departments to Google's cloud computing email services, which includes Google Docs.

The contract, worth $7.25 million, places 30,000 Los Angeles city employees in Google's cloud. 

The decision came after a year of lobbying from both Microsoft and Google. Parties on both sides theorize that smaller cities may see the recent decision in Los Angeles as an endorsement of Google's cloud-based Apps, and may soon follow. 

Networking company Cisco Systems Inc reported last week that it intends to acquire ScanSafe Inc, a provider of software-as-a-service (SaaS) web security solutions.

Cisco said that this move builds on its successful acquisition of on-premise content security provider IronPort and will expand the company's security portfolio to offer on-premise, hosted and hybrid-hosted web security solutions..

The deal is subject to closing conditions but is expected to be completed in the second quarter of Cisco's fiscal year 2010.