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In between the speculation about a possible takeover Salesforce has been carrying on with enhancing its position and has formed a partnership with Sage to get to a larger number of SMEs.

The cloud-based CRM software has been seen as being ubiquitous in large enterprises but not always associated as strongly with smaller customers.

Sage brings to the table millions of SME customers in both the UK and the US and has teamed up to provide some of its accounting and payroll functions on the Salesforce platform.

This study provides an overview over legislation, case law and administrative guidelines applicable to cloud computing contracts. It explains how the existing specific and/or general legal principles apply to certain key contractual issues. The study is carried out in three work packages. The first work package provides a general overview over relevant legislation, case law and administrative guidelines in relation to cloud computing contracts in 27 EU Member States and the U.S. level.

Video reportage of the full session "Jobs & Growth in ICT - How H2020 can respond to the EU Investment Plan" at Cloudscape VII, 9-10 March, Brussels.

Panel discussion speakers:

How are we tackling pricing, procurement and contractual issues in both the public and private sectors? Are there common, international approaches we can take to maximise impact? What are the essential practical elements that organisations need to know?

These are just some of the topics covered in the panel discussion "Taking on the Cloud challenge" at Cloudscape VII, 9-10 March 2015, Brussels.

A survey conducted by the European Commission’s Eurostat statistics service, reported that only 12% of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and 24% of large industry in the EU are using cloud computing.

The survey highlighted how security fear scored highest both for SMEs and  large enterprises.