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A number of leading authorities have been urging caution on the adoption of Web-based services as a new wave of vendors unveil cloud initiatives. Cloud computing involves computing resources hosted in an off-premise “cloud” rather than an in-house computer room.
SAP’s World Tour 2008 event in London last week gave customers another opportunity to voice concerns about the mandatory rise in support costs they will pay from January next year. The concerns follow the UK SAP User Group’s failure successfully to oppose the plan, which will involve major price increases for many customers.
Sales of customer relationship management software rose dramatically in 2007, driven in part by the take-up of Software as a Service offerings, according to analyst group Gartner. Sales of CRM software totaled about $8.1 billion in 2007, Gartner said in a new report. That represents a 23 percent increase from sales in 2006.