The Tekrati site has an article up on AMR's research finding on ERP spending, AMR Research forecasts U.S. companies will increase their ERP budgets by 11.3 percent in 2007. "This year and...
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All IT Services companies need to think about the idea of "Moving your supply chain team to Manage Human Capital" , the Human Capitalist has a post up on this topic, you can check it out ....
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Oracle & Red hat go head on head ....Excerpts: Oracle CEO Larry Ellison used his keynote speech at the conference to unveil the new support offering for Raleigh, N.C.-based Red Hat Inc.'s...
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Cognizant recently launched Oracle Fusion Portfolio Assessment (OFPA), a service that provides companies with comprehensive analysis of their Oracle Fusion platform readiness and a customized roadmap...
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by prashanth on October 29, 2006
I was reading the first chapter of the Bangalore TIGER, The book by author Steve Hamm examines the rise of India as a destabilizing force in the $650 billion worldwide tech services industry. He...
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by prashanth on October 29, 2006
IBM is endevouring to solve the biggest problem of them all, communication between IT & business, they seem to have in place a software technology, "Dot2Dot," that was created at...
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by prashanth on October 29, 2006
EDS announced that it received a rating of "strong positive" for its Data Center Outsourcing in the July 26, 2006, Gartner MarketScope for Data Center Outsourcing, North America, 2006...
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by prashanth on October 28, 2006
2006-Capgemini, one of the world's foremost providers of Consulting, Technology and Outsourcing services, and Kanbay International, a global IT services firm focused on the financial services...
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by prashanth on October 28, 2006
Baseline has an article up higlighting IT Salaries for the next year, Excerpts from this: Starting salaries for IT pros are expected to increase an average of 2.8 percent in 2007 over 2006, and more...
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by prashanth on October 28, 2006
Jeff Wacker a EDS fellow has a post up on thier blog on the future IT, below are some excerpts from the same: Faster Exponential ITFlattening WorldUbiquitous EdgePredictabilityFrom Push to PullA...
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by prashanth on October 26, 2006
silicon.com has an article highlighting British Airways move towards LEAN Tech, a concepts which seems to be gaining ground these days. Below are excerpts from the article: British Airways (BA) is...
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Opensource ERP catching on ....One is growing in SAP home ground, Computerworld has an artile on them, Excerpts below: "Businesses that buy software from large, well-known venders believe when...
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The enterprise resource planning (ERP) applications market grew to $25.4 billion in 2005, and will reach $29 billion in 2006, according to AMR Research. Over the next five years, the ERP market will...
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by prashanth on October 25, 2006
Wipro Technologies announced recently that it has won the National Outsourcing Association's (NOA) award for "I.T Outsourcing Service Provider of the Year". According to Dr. A L Rao,...
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SAP seems to be making some ground in the banking industry vertical (not thier strong area). If i remember right they are setting up an Industry Business Unit for Banking.....also i saw a couple...
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by prashanth on October 25, 2006
Following up on the earlier set of Service Product offering, as indicated during the initial announcement - highlighted in the post here, now IBM Middleware Services & IBM Storage and Data...
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Marc Schwarz, senior VP, Oracle On Demand, said, "Customers will benefit from repeatable processes for implementation, upgrades and operation that help speed deployment and provide a...
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AMR in a survey conducted late last year in which they asked respondents about their biggest challenges managing systems. Integration issues (25%), pace of change (24%), and cost of change (21%) are...
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by prashanth on October 23, 2006
According to AMR in the 7 categories tested for outsourcing -application development, hardware maintenance and support, data center operations, web hosting, application implementation, application...
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Congnizant recently announced its acceptance into the IBM SOA Specialty program after successfully completing IBM's rigorous SOA technical and business requirements.Cognizant was one of the early...
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by prashanth on October 23, 2006
In December of last year i wrote a post highlighting the Nasscom & Mckinsey report it indicated clear diconnect between the demand & supply in the talent market, Here is an quote from the same...
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According to a report by the AMI Partner the US medium businesses (MBs, 100-999 employees) will spend over $1 billion this year on customer relationship management (CRM) solutions, as they...
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by prashanth on October 23, 2006
Recently IBM announced that a dozen key India-based Solution providers will incorporate IBM's self-managing autonomic technology into their software and solutions. By working with IBM, these...
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