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Google has created a free tool to simplify and automate the migration of e-mail, calendar, and contacts data from Microsoft Exchange servers to its Google Apps collaboration and communication hosted suite. The tool, called Google Apps Migration for Microsoft Exchange, is available for free as of Wednesday to organizations that sign up for the Premier or Education editions of Apps.

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Update: Google to simplify Exchange to Apps migrations with new tool

Microsoft is offering financial enticements to customers of on-demand ERP (enterprise resource planning) vendor NetSuite to switch over to Microsoft’s Dynamics family of business applications.

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Microsoft tries to lure NetSuite users with new deal

Microsoft in recent months has slowly boosted its share of the search business, but still remains far behind a so-far unbeatable foe in its battle with Google. Hitwise, an online traffic monitor, today reported that Google last month remained firmly at the head of the search pack while its rival’s well regarded Microsoft Bing product gradually picks up a little traction.

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Google still tops, but Bing inches ahead in search market

Data integration specialist Cast Iron Systems is about to release a new offering aimed at both on-premises and cloud-based scenarios. Cast Iron OmniConnect, to be available Tuesday, represents an evolution of the vendor’s existing IaaS (integration as a service) and on-premises offerings. It is available in on-demand form, as an on-premises or hosted virtual appliance, or as a hardware appliance.

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Cast Iron rolls out OmniConnect data integration kit

The technical services group of Capgemini has traditionally helped companies with system integration, but cloud computing is changing that. The company is increasingly assembling lots of different software-as-a-service applications, a phenomenon that has led Capgemini to create a new business unit.

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New Capgemini unit to offer cloud help

Google recently extended what it describes as highly advanced and sophisticated data backup and recovery to all components of its Apps communication and collaboration suite.

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Google covers all Apps with advanced data backup, recovery

At the RSA Conference today, CA is expected to announce additions to its enterprise identity management product that will allow customers to extend access and provisioning controls to the Salesforce.com Sales Cloud 2 application.

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CA extends identity management to Salesforce.com apps

NetSuite is trying to energize its sales channel with a new offer that gives resellers 100 percent of a subscription deal’s value in the first year and 10 percent thereafter.

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NetSuite courts old-school VARs with new offer

Customer relationship management applications are still the largest segment of the ballooning SaaS (software-as-a-service) market. But the landscape is changing

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Beyond CRM: SaaS slips into the mainstream