I’ve been paying more attention to the SaaS data portability space, especially since data portability in general is an important and currently undervalued area of enterprise software.
Here’s a round-up of three that I know of that focus on enterprise data (including Oracle, SAP, and Microsoft applications):

Jitterbit
Talend
SnapLogic

Of the three, Jitterbit is my favorite [...]

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I caught an interesting article by Larry Dignan over at ZDnet that talks about what we’ll likely see as upcoming FUD around SaaS vendors and viability in a down economy, expanding on an earlier post from Vinnie Mirchandani about methods that SaaS providers should use to calm customer’s possible fears of a company collapse.  [...]

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Microsoft jumped into the OpenSource blogging platform world today… Well, kind of.  They announced the release of Oxite, an ASP.NET-based OpenSource platform for blogging.
The site for Oxite admits that this isn’t meant to be much more than a very large example of what can be done with ASP.NET.  And it’s actually a probably a [...]

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