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by prashanth on August 31, 2006
Below are some of the key points from IDG's Interview with Klaus Zimmer, SAP's president and chief executive officer of Northern Asia, who took charge of SAP's Chinese operations in 1997....
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Filed in archive by prashanth on August 31, 2006
Was reading a post at the Think Flat blog, on China, India and IT Outsourcing, here is an excerpt from it: Infosys recently polled 237 IT and business professionals. The survey asked "Do you...
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Ariba is completing 10 yrs of operation and are doing a tour of sorts building around the ringing of the NASDAQ "bell" in September. As a part of this tour they fixed up a call / interview...
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Filed in archive Offshoring
by prashanth on August 25, 2006
At the Cognizant site there is a document with the same title available from Financial Insights. The document is based on inputs during the first Cognizant European Analyst Day. Notable results...
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Filed in archive Offshoring
by prashanth on August 25, 2006
AMR's Dana Stiffler has an article on Indian IT Services Vendors performance, you can get the article here. Some key highlights from the article: Cost has always been a factor, but the difficulty...
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Sun has competition from Amazon after the announcement of S3 storage in the cloud sometime back, they have come out with a new announcement of computing in the cloud - EC2. Just as Amazon Simple...
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Filed in archive by prashanth on August 25, 2006
Ahmar Abbas, VP Slashsupport has a nice article up at ITWorld on the SaaS business. He details the challenges that SaaS vendors face as service and not software providers: 24 x 7 x 365 Operational...
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ETRE 2006: 'Disruption, Globalization and New Challenges' - European Technology Roundtable Exhibition in BarcelonaFrom October 8th-11th, 2006, Barcelona, Spain will transform into the center...
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Open source is accepted...starts showing up high. Gartner has positioned JBoss in the Leaders Quadrant in the 2Q06 Enterprise Application Servers Magic Quadrant. According to Gartner, vendors listed...
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Oracle plans to unveil a developer's preview of Oracle SOA Suite 10g Release 3, which will wrap a conglomeration of Oracle Fusion middleware products into a single install for the first time....
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Recently HP bought Mercury for 4.5 Billion $....Infoworld tries to understand the reason why? Adaptive. Enterprise long-standing HP initiative purports to link IT assets directly to business value....
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Filed in archive CIO
by prashanth on August 19, 2006
Nearly 60 percent of CIOs anticipate increasing their software spending through the rest of 2006, while only 33 percent expect spending to remain flat and 2 percent expect a decrease in spending -...
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Filed in archive CIO
by prashanth on August 19, 2006
An Old concept in the IT world seems to be surfacing again, an recent article at computer world focusses on Centralization of IT. A quote from an old Oracle Presentation "By 2004 over 75% of IT...
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Filed in archive Management
by prashanth on August 17, 2006
Eweek in its article titled "IT: The Next Chapter " has some interesting reasons why it believes the next chapter for the IT worker is expected to be quite interesting, the points mentioned...
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by prashanth on August 16, 2006
August 2006 IT Organization Survey, confirms the CIO's except IT organisations to continue growing: Excerpts: IT organizations grew 3.8% on average during the past 12 months, and 45% of...
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Filed in archive Offshoring
by prashanth on August 15, 2006
An article at Global Services Magazines focuses on Tier 2 Offshore providers, suggests that contrary to the prevalent notion that the lower rungs of the offshore ladder settle for the crumbs of the...
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by prashanth on August 15, 2006
Wal-Mart-arguably the world's largest retailer with 6,601 stores and 240 distribution centers worldwide (221 are in the United States)-has been the standard bearer for RFID in the retail sector....
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The International Association of Outsourcing Professionals (IAOP) announced the list of companies selected for the first-ever listing of the world's top outsourcing service providers - Can access...
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Filed in archive by prashanth on August 13, 2006
The GlobalServices site has an article on salaries in offshore locations, excerpts from the same: Wage differentials comparative to U.S. salaries as reported in neoIT's annual survey of nearshore...
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Tom Berquist the CFO of Ingres recently had a post on "On-Demand" Applications. Check it out here: Some excerpts from the post: Salesforce.com doesn't have an order management system or...
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BusinessWeek has an artile on SAP's small and medium sized biz segment business, some excerpts from the article, SAP has been working on the small-business market for years. But now the company...
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Filed in archive General
by prashanth on August 09, 2006
Small and medium businesses (SMB) across multiple industries continue to select Oracle after evaluating Microsoft, Oracle today announced. Companies such as Advanced Steel Recovery, Cirro Energy, DTS,...
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by prashanth on August 09, 2006
Richa Govil from the Infosys Think Flat blog points to a report at Forrester titled "IT Services Paradigm Shift Drives Continued Indian Provider Success" by Stephanie Moore with Christine...
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The have really gone after Guy Smith hammer and tongs on his post at Sandhill, my quick thoughts on the topic: well I think instead of taking each point in the piece and critically analyzing it, what...
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80% of Indian SME's await ERP Solutions - Frost & Sullivan was reading an article in the Industry 2.0 June edition titled "Mid-market Fever", which is a compilation of a Frost &...
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by prashanth on August 06, 2006
EDS Blog has a post with the Three Steps To create A Multi-Year Plan To Transform Your Consumer Packaged Goods Company. Here are some excerpts from the post: Getting there starts with three basic...
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When i was at SAPPHIRE i spent some time at the Cognizant enclosure and we got talking about the testing center that they had setup for SAP, recently i Came across this IDC News Flash titeled "...
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Filed in archive by prashanth on August 05, 2006
Pentaho Corp. announced July 11 that its core open source BI platform and related projects hit a cumulative monthly download record of more than 55,000 in June. This rapid market uptake follows a...
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by prashanth on August 05, 2006
Satyam ranked No. 1 amongst Indian IT companies, No. 2 globally out of 872 outsourcing vendors in 63 countries Survey conducted by Brown-Wilson Group Inc., for publishing in The Black Book of...
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by prashanth on August 05, 2006
Hiring/Recruitment in IT services has become one of the key activities, in that contact , i just came across this innovative idea by Satyam Computers....called "Remember"...which is an...
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Filed in archive by prashanth on August 05, 2006
SAP recently announced the SAP World Tour 2006, a series of events in 76 cities around the world engaging local businesses in direct dialogue on how SAP software can help to drive innovation and run...
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Accenture has opened its Innovation Center for Oracle at the Oracle headquarters in Redwood Shores. The Accenture Innovation Center for Oracle is dedicated to the development of new ideas and...
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On the heals of IBMs announcement of investment of 6 Billion in India, SAP has announced an investment of 1 Billion in India.The professor - "Kaggerman", described India as one of the...
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Filed in archive CIO
by prashanth on August 05, 2006
Baseline's 2006 CIO compensation ranking shows that most of the 46 technology executives on the list got fatter wallets last year. Twenty-seven of them saw their total compensation increase in...
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Techsmith - Snag IT are sponsors of the CIO-Weblog have made a recent announcement about the release of thier new tool "Free SnagIt-to-Skype Screen Capture Profile".This tool allows SnagIt...
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by prashanth on August 04, 2006
The Baseline Magazine has an article titled "Outsourcing: What CIOs Need to Know" which suggests that there is a decline in outsourcing. The article refers to multiple reports from several...
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by prashanth on August 03, 2006
The poster boy for Customer Ananlytics,Harahs Entertainment, who was covered as a part of the HBR Article "Competing with Analytics" is now rethinking its IT Metrics, here is a company that...
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Infoworld carries an article of how the fourth largest bank in the U.S.,is using/planning on leveraging SOA to "make a difference". "Rock the boat, change everything, and build a...
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