Filed in archive General
by prashanth on June 30, 2006
The new sponsor at the CIO-Weblog is Camtasia, you can see a banner ad of thiers to your right, i spent some time to check out their site to better understand what they offer/provide, my understanding...
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Just came across this white paper at Computerworld which is a comparision of the On Demand providers by Nucleus research last year, here are some excerpts from the same: The functionality war is on in...
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JasperSoft Corporation, the leader in open source business intelligence, today announced JasperReports for SugarCRM, the first open source Reporting engine for the SugarCRM Sugar Suite. The new...
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Last month RightNow acquired SalesNet an SaaS based CRM vendor, as Dan Farber puts it "RightNow, which is known more for its call center solution than its sales force automation offering,...
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The US$32 billion company completed a three-year IT overhaul on May 31, streamlining the company so it could absorb a collection of recently acquired companies while preserving crucial IT abilities...
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Salesforce.com will reach beyond its traditional CRM boundaries next month into a wider market: PRM (partner relationship management), with a new offering on its SaaS site called, Partnerforce,...
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Airbus is installing the travel management component of SAP's new ERP (enterprise resource planning) software, mySAP ERP 2004, which uses SOA (service-oriented architecture) technology. The new...
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Routinely harassing part suppliers with demands for across-the-board price cuts? is a common practice, but this changed at Peoria, Ill.-based caterpillar Inc, when, two Caterpillar managers, Nelson...
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Melding Business process with Business intelligence, rather opertionalizing busines intelligence, is becoming a hot topic these days. Business intelligence houses are making the journey from being...
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Tom Pisello, a former managing vice president at Gartner Inc., is founder and CEO of Alinean Inc., has written an article in ComputerWorld on SOA, discussing if its just a buzzword or if there is real...
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Hyperion recently announced that Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., is using Hyperion for consolidation and management of source data from its 36 companies around the world to meet its strategic goals. Since...
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SearchSAP covered the Hyperion's Solutions 2006 Business Performance Management conference, Here are few excerpts from the same: Driven by the belief that "actionable insight is a...
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At the Hyperion site i cam across the IBM CFO study, Finance's move toward enhancing flexibility and responsiveness is a Progressive one. The IBM 2005 Global CFO Study shows that Finance...
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Came across the Gartner magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Implementation Services, North America, 2006 white paper at the Satyam Website, Below are some initial notes from whitepaper: Note1:...
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Compiere ERP & CRM, the leading open source enterprise resource planning application, is used by small to medium enterprises and large corporations worldwide across a variety of industries...
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Computerworld has an post "Top 10 SaaS Traps", which highlights the areas that customers need to watch out for when engaging with an SaaS vendor, also while reading the article it occured to...
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Interesting analysis by TDWI, on microsofts approach to BI market, Below is excerpts from the article: Microsoft Corp. last week dropped a bombshell on the business intelligence (BI) industry. Redmond...
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Ever since SAPPHIRE06 - Bloggers Corner, I have been meaning to write about SAP & Software-As-A-Service, well a post at the IDC Exchange site & than this interview of Shai Aggasi at...
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Nasscom recently announced that India's exports of software and services such as call centers and back-office operations totaled $23.6 billion in the year to March 31, up by 33% from a year...
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Filed in archive CIO
by prashanth on June 13, 2006
Harrah's is a very popular case for analytics, well covered in the HBR article Competing with Analytics (a must read), now a recent article has highlighted thier efforts on the "Operational...
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Filed in archive CIO
by prashanth on June 13, 2006
Computerworld has an interview with Ex-CIO of Kraft foods, who is now the CIO of NYPD ...Jim Onalfo. NYPD was recognized for its data warehouse at the Computerworld Honors ceremony in the government...
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The pillar of most open source applications is the ubiquitous LAMP -- Linux, Apache, MySQL, and Perl/PHP/Python stack. According to results of a Coverity study, the LAMP stack has fewer code defects...
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An ERP like system specifically for the IT Operations is the idea being discussed at the Enterprise Ventures 2006 conference. In a panel session entitled "Big Governance: Expanding IT...
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