Filed in archive CIO
by prashanth on December 31, 2006
Baseline highlights the New Year Resolution of Jeff Peterson, CIO of UNICCO Service Company, a $700 million facilities and equipment management company, who has big plans for 2007 the resolutions are...
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Filed in archive Management
by prashanth on December 31, 2006
"There is a huge market for e-governance Projects across the globe, especially in developing countries. In three years, about 50% of revenues will flow in from international markets and this...
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Recently released Forrester Wave report - retail banking Platforms Q4 2006, Finacle from Infosys emerged as a leader. Finacle stood out for its convincing strategy and a very sound current offering....
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Filed in archive Management
by prashanth on December 30, 2006
EDS predicts that eight major trends will influence companies in 2007, As manufacturers continue to watch shrinking margins, they are facing unprecedented challenges developing products in a...
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Joshua Greenbum has a detailed post on Infor post thier analyst meet, also found a piece by AMR analyst Jim Shepherd titled "Infor: The $2B Enterprise Application Company You've Never Heard...
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Computerworld is carrying a set of case studies from the Retail sector form HCL Tech, The document has 3 case studies which are summarized below: 1.0 Business Case JAGThe Client a fortune 500...
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EDS teamed up with EDS Agility Alliance partner, Oracle, to modernize Surveyor, a key credit processing application in EDS' financial services portfolio. EDS Technology Alliance partners Intel and...
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Filed in archive Offshoring
by prashanth on December 29, 2006
Sutherland Global Services, a leading multi-national Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) provider, today opened its third BPO Delivery Center in the Philippines. The newest facility located in Clark,...
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Filed in archive Outsourcing
by prashanth on December 29, 2006
IBM has signed a multimillion dollar contract to provide a range of IT services to Scotiabank Mexico, a wholly owned subsidiary of Canada's Bank of Nova Scotia. Under the deal, disclosed...
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Filed in archive Offshoring
by prashanth on December 29, 2006
Satyam Computer Services has signed a MoU with the Egyptian government for setting up a global development centre in Giza in line with its plan of expanding its global footprint. The centre will...
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Infor is the first ERP Partner of INGRES, I am sure we are going to see more on these lines in the future: Roger Burkhardt, president and chief operating officer at Ingres, positioned the move as...
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Filed in archive General
by prashanth on December 29, 2006
During the Sapphire'06 at Orlando, Hasso Plattner's key note was on design a topic he seems be really interested in, he helped launch and fund at the Institute of Design at California's...
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Filed in archive Management
by prashanth on December 27, 2006
An article in Bloomberg highlights the plan to reduce hiring in SAP, As inidcated by Claus Heinrich an SAP board member in charge of personnel.: Excerpts: The ratio of new software engineers to total...
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Baseline Mag, Highlights a set of new uses of BI, excerpts below: Office Apps/Mobile AccessCognos in 2005 introduced, as part of its new Cognos 8 business intelligence software, a feature called Go!...
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Filed in archive Outsourcing
by prashanth on December 27, 2006
Recently came across this report by TPI on the budling of BPO+ITO, this is a trend that is increasingly become very popular, one example was the merging of Infosys's BPO division Progeon into the...
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Filed in archive General
by prashanth on December 26, 2006
Have been thinking about the SaaS model a lot and also came across this post on the notion of that is enabled by SaaS applications, two thoughts that occurred to me on similar lines are: 1.Ad...
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Filed in archive Outsourcing
by prashanth on December 25, 2006
One of the most common outsourced element is ADM, this is usually the first step in the outsourcing journey of most companies.Recently came across a report by Aberdeen Group, titled "Does...
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Some time back we had a post on the Indian SaaS market, Now time to look east to Japan, AMI Parner had a report on the same some time back, below are some excerpts from the same: Software-as-a-service...
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Filed in archive Outsourcing
by prashanth on December 23, 2006
Continuing on the topic of cost arbitrage, I was reminded of an article in Strategy and Business which was an interview with Fransico D'Souza, COO, CTS. During the interview Mr.D'Souza talks...
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Filed in archive Offshoring
by prashanth on December 23, 2006
On the on going discussion on the topic of the increasing cost of salaries in India and therefor the loss of the cost arbitrage advantage that created this Industry of outsourcing and put...
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Definition: Application on Demand (AoD) denotes an enterprise application that is owned, delivered and managed remotely by one or more providers. The provider delivers an application based on a single...
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Filed in archive Outsourcing
by prashanth on December 21, 2006
Pune based telecom software services company Tech-Mahindra, has bagged the largest outsourcing deal valued at $1 bn from British Telecom (BT). This is the largest contract bagged by any software...
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