An interesting article here discusses the demise of standalone enterprise CRM, but definitely not the end of spending on customer management rather than traditional CRM. Three years ago, at an...
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Excerpts from the IT Book review of "Open Source for the Enterprise.", One of the first things that is asked of any new project in a modern IT department is that a cost benefit analysis be...
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by prashanth on December 27, 2005
Volkswagen has sold its in-house IT services consultancy, Gedas, to T-Systems for between $473 million and $532 million, reports News.com.The deal, which still must be approved by antitrust...
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During a keynote at the apache software foundation's ApacheCon in San Diego, Tim Bray, director of Web Technologies at Sun and XML specification co-editor, said Sun was incorporating the...
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by prashanth on December 27, 2005
AMR Research (Bruce Richardson) Based on a survey of 236 IT and line-of-business executives - When asked about their IT spending plans for the next 12 months, 72% planned to increase spending and 25%...
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Filed in archive Outsourcing
by prashanth on December 27, 2005
Spanish bank La Caixa has extended its agreement with Electronic Data Systems Corp. to provide IT and business process outsourcing services for four more years in a deal valued at $240 million. Under...
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Filed in archive Outsourcing
by prashanth on December 26, 2005
Unilever NV has signed a seven-year contract with IBM Corp. to outsource major portions of its financial transactional services, the consumer goods company announced Friday. The deal will cover...
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by prashanth on December 25, 2005
Have been reading a lot about how the incumbents are becoming masters of the GDM (Global Delivery Model), well ...Business World India has an article on how the Multinational Players are eating into...
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RightNow Technologies is a publicly traded company that has built a successful business on open source.They are as important a user of open source technology as companies like Yahoo, Google, Sabre...
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Bolstering development of Web and enterprise J2EE applications in the open source arena, the eclipse Foundation on Monday is set to release Version 1.0 of its Eclipse web tools Platform. Version 1.0...
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by prashanth on December 25, 2005
I.B.M. announced yesterday that it would pay $865 million for Micromuse Inc., whose software is used to manage Internet-based computing networks that handle voice, video and data. The acquisition is...
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by prashanth on December 25, 2005
The ink had barely dried on Monday's $56 million purchase of Austria-based NewLogic, when on Thursday it acquired New Jersey-based mPower for an all-cash payout of $28 million. mPower, a company...
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by prashanth on December 25, 2005
Wishing you a very happy & Merry Christmas - Have a Great Time.......
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by prashanth on December 22, 2005
Here's infoworlds look back at 2005's wild mix of earth-shakers and underreported occurrences: Wal-Mart, DoD Mandates RFID Compliance Jan. 1 Oracle Completes PeopleSoft Buy Jan. 7 Publication...
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IBM is responding to demands from smaller companies for low-cost, ready-to-go software with a new content management offering packaged on its eServer iSeries systems. DB2 Content Manager Standard...
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In response to the Oracle advertisement, here are Facts on the subject as put up by Jeff Nolan of SAP Ventures - all based on "recent research" The Gartner report in question also stated...
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A couple of weeks ago Oracle ran an advertisement declaring that only 4% of SAP customers upgrade to the latest version of our product, confidently citing a Gartner Group research report that looked...
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Why will enterprises Move to SaaS?, Exerpts from Amy Wohl's Weblog, For a long time, we (the IT industry) told ourselves that SaaS would not be very tempting to large enterprises, except for...
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Optaros recently published a report titled "The Growth of Open Source Software in Organizations", This research report is based on survey data collected from an online poll distributed to...
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Filed in archive CIO
by prashanth on December 20, 2005
Computerworld hosted slides (part of its Premier 100 IT Leaders 2006) offering statistics on IT projects, spending priorities and staffing for this year's Premier 100 IT Leaders. (Here) Here are...
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XGooglers has an entry on the use of MySQL to run their adwords program. Adwords is the source of 99% of Googles Advertising Revenue, so it certainly a business critical application. There are some...
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Filed in archive Management
by prashanth on December 20, 2005
Wipro Ltd said it has acquired Austria-based semiconductor design services firm NewLogic in an all-cash deal worth 56 mln usd. Ramesh Emani, president of product engineering solutions at Wipro...
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by prashanth on December 20, 2005
At the Wipro Technologies site there is a Webinar by Paul Hopkins, VP and CIO, Global Technology Services, Honeywell talking about how Honeywell is using remote management technologies and processes...
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by prashanth on December 19, 2005
Podcast interview with Stephanie reel, Vice Provost/Vice President and CIO, Johns Hopkins Medical Center and University at Talkingpotraits, You can get the MP3 here and the streaming option here....
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