AI is ushering in a third software era where intelligent agents replace one-size-fits-all SaaS, creating customized systems that can adapt to each business.

Forrester’s Jeffrey Hammond recently posted interesting data on custom software spending based on a survey of 1,138 IT professionals in North America and Europe in Q4 2009. According to Forrester, ...

Wall Street fears AI models will replace all packaged software. AI models' coding ability is still very mixed. Software executives are positioning their firms to be survivors. The modern software ...

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - German business software maker SAP posted quarterly profit at the low end of forecasts, hit by weak sales of its traditional packaged software and a rapid shift by customers to ...

Not surprisingly, skeptics, led by big-name ISVs, have derided those claims. But many Net-native vendors are, in fact, growing their customer rosters and revenue. According to a recent survey by ...

Retail-sector CIOs said last week that they still face challenges finding packaged software to meet their needs, particularly in the supply chain areas. Such difficulties plagued Kmart Corp., which ...

Spending on databases, accounting, networking, productivity and system software will account for more than 90 percent of the total software spending by SMBs this year. SMBs prefer to pay only for the ...

Supply chain leaders love shiny objects. The shiny object syndrome happens when teams focus undue attention on an idea that is new, and trendy yet drop it in its entirety as soon as something new can ...

Last week saw people react to Klarna’s decision to replace SaaS package software with AI-developed apps. Much of the analysis seems right, but Brian Sommer adds an additional perspective we might want ...

The packaged software industry includes companies that offer multiple software programs bundled together to make a complete set. Microsoft Office, for example, is a packaged software as it includes ...

Motherboard has an interesting look at the somewhat surprising survival of physical software in shrink-wrapped boxes, which continues to account for roughly a third of software sales. This is true ...

What did the future of software look like in 1984? That year, the U.S. Department of Commerce commissioned a report to analyze the future of the software industry in the U.S. and abroad. The industry ...