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...

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...

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...

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...

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%...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

MySQL AB, the developer of the world's most popular open source database, today announced that it has been selected by Alcatel as a technology partner for development of Alcatel's future...

Gartner recently had a conference on Open source, Just some excerpts from the blogsphere on the same. Ray Valdes cited a number of examples in his presentation such as: Sabre Holdings reduced their...

Follow the Gospel of "Experience Marketing" in all you do. The shrewdest marketers today tell us that selling a "product" or "service" is not enough in a crowded...

More from the Mckinsey - Nasscom Report on India/Global IT & BPO Industry. Indias Leadership position in the global offshore IT and BPO industries is based on 5 main advantages: 1. Abundant Talent...

Working through my aggregator, I cam across this article by Robert B Carter, Executive VP & CIO, Fedex, titled "Every Framework has its place". Here Robert highlights the framework that...

From Technology Steward to Business LeaderComputerWorld has been running a series on CIOs as a part of this series they have a report on "The Changing role of the CIO", which primarily...

"Arbitraging labor" -- or reducing labor costs -- is an advantage, he said, the long-term opportunities for companies will come through IT automation. - HP CEO Mark Hurd said. Hurd also...

Hoping to capture more seats in the enterprise, Salesforce.com will introduce Salesforce Sandbox as part of its Winter 2006 release. Sandbox is a full parallel copy of a company's production...

The 2005 survey on Europe's IT competitiveness In September 2005, KPMG and the Economist Intelligence Unit polled 126 CIO's, IT managers and directors for their views on IT sector...

Business Objects and MySQL have strengthened their partnership by collaborating on software bundles that combine MySQL's open-source database with business intelligence (BI) software from...

India's outsourcing valued at $60 billion by 2010 growing at over 25 percent a year India's software and services exports were $17.2 billion in the fiscal year ended March 31 this year, up by...

Another piece from IDC - IT Spending Forecast, Please find below the snapshot of "Worldwide Implementation Spending Forecast" Prashanth RaiTag(s):IT+Services......

Was just reading this IDC report(Registration Required) that refers to the growing trend among business customers to to steadily reducethe number of IT vendor relationships they maintain. Almost 60%...

Epson Electronics America (EEA) has come a long way from the static HTML page it was running in 1998. Later EEA's Executive Director for New Business Roy DaSilva was given the responsibility to...

Computerworld 's Premier 100 IT Leaders list honors individuals who have had a positive impact on their organizations through technology. These are men and women who manage internal IT...

SugarCRM has realsed a new version of thier product last week. The company's release includes Sugar Open Source, a free basic version, plus two commercial editions, Sugar Professional and Sugar...

Fred Domke, Left a comment against the post "Is Open-Source Software Wreckign Havoc on Software Industry", that though a lot of people are getting excited about Open source, he felt the...

Excerpts from the KPMG Global IT Project Management Survey continued from here, The following 'golden rules' summarize what organisations can do to extract value from thier IT investments and...

Around 2000, there were big changes in the way businesses used the Internet, By 2003, businesses felt they had a handle on the Internet and that they had mastered it. But there are a new wave of...

Continued from here... IT: IT is now increasingly considered an important vehicle to improve Chinese enterprises' competitive edge, the IT market is still enjoying a stable and fast growth. But,...

KPMG, Conducted a survey of 600 Organisations across 22 countries and published the Global IT Project Management Survey. I was just flipping through the same , below is a summary of the findings at a...

SAP unvieled the project plans for the Medocina at its Sapphire show in April sparking customer interest, The software is intended to link SAP's back-office ERP systems with Microsoft's...

On the IDC blog , there is transcript available of an interview with Dorthy Yang, the Research Director IDC China. You can get the transcript of the interview here & listen to it hereBelow are...

Business Objects is offering small businesses access to a bundle of its portal, reporting, and business intelligence software for �1.99 ($2.33) a day under a new leasing program. The company will...

"The IT and telecom industry convergence, consolidation, and realignment of the past two years will continue in full stride in 2006," said Frank Gens, senior vice president of Research at...

MindTree Consulting, an IT services company, launched a "CIO Toolkit," an innovative service suite for CIOs of leading organizations. The new collection of intense workshop sessions will...

Researchers at IBM are developing stream-based middleware intended to broaden query capabilities in distributed application environments. SMILE (Smart Middleware Light Ends) technology enables...