Given that your business is likely cash-strapped and budget-squeezed–and that Software as a Service (SaaS) companies like ADP, Concur, and Salesforce.com have taken the scariness out of information technology (IT) outsourcing routines (for all but mission-critical business functions): Would you consider completely outsourcing your routine accounting functions and department (people AND technology) at a cost savings of 20 to 40%? Read the rest of this entry »

Time and again during my decade or so of covering the enterprise applications market as an industry analyst I have witnessed what difference a year can make. And boy, would 2008 be such a year!

A year ago or so, I concluded an in-depth four-part series on Deltek (NASDAQ: PROJ), whose executives were recently happy to tell me that 2008 was not that terrible a year for the company. Quite the contrary, Deltek feels comfortable as a company even in these troubled economic times. Read the rest of this entry »