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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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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 divi...
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Enterprise Software
by prashanth on December 30, 2006
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.
I...
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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 fast-chan...
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Enterprise Software
by prashanth on December 30, 2006
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 O...
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Enterprise Software
by prashanth on December 30, 2006
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 multi-bi...
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Enterprise Software
by prashanth on December 29, 2006
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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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, P...
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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 Wednesda...
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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 accom...
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Enterprise Software
by prashanth on December 29, 2006
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 sign...
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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 St...
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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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Enterprise Software
by prashanth on December 27, 2006
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! O...
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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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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 suppor...
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Outsourcing
by prashanth on December 26, 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 Outsour...
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Enterprise Software
by prashanth on December 24, 2006
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-servic...
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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 a...
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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 Globalizatio...
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Enterprise Software
by prashanth on December 21, 2006
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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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 servi...
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Enterprise Software
by prashanth on December 19, 2006
AMR Research released the "Enterprise Resource Planning Spending Report, 2006-2007," which found U.S. companies will increase their ERP budgets by 12.3% in 2007.
Points to ponder:
ERP vend...
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Management
by prashanth on December 18, 2006
In August we had a post up titled "China & India IT Outsourcing" in which we highlighted a pool in which 35% felt that China will overtake India as the next hub for IT outsourcing servic...
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General
by prashanth on December 18, 2006
Satyam Computer Services Ltd today announced that it will resell Oracle's JD Edwards applications to mid-market Companies in India. The arrangement is a natural extension of the Company's 10-y...
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General
by prashanth on December 18, 2006
Springboard Research have a Executive Summary up on their predictions for the AsiaPac IT Market for 2007, Below is a list of the same , With some supporting graphs from the summary, to get the full wh...
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Enterprise Software
by prashanth on December 18, 2006
Springboard in a study released in the middle of the year forecasted strong growth in adoption levels in India and across Asia for Software as a Service (SaaS) in 2005, and even brighter prospects ahe...
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Offshoring
by prashanth on December 18, 2006
Economic Times has a piece higlighting the inputs from Sudin Apte, Sr. Analyst & Country Head (India), Forrester Research. Below are some excerpts from the piece, i think the next phase of the IT ...
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Management
by prashanth on December 18, 2006
L&T Infotech which was ranked 10nth by Nasscom's Top 20 IT Software & Service exporters from India (2005-06) list, has signed an agreement to acquire GDA Technologies and all its design ce...
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Offshoring
by prashanth on December 17, 2006
Forrester evaluated the leading Indian service providers across 25 criteria with regards to their offshore infrastructure management services and found that HCL, TCS and Wipro have established early l...
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Integration Software
by prashanth on December 17, 2006
One of the biggest turnoffs to Oracle, says Sport chalet CFO Howard Kaminsky, was the lack of integration between Oracle financial applications and the retail apps of Retek, which it acquired about 18...
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Management
by prashanth on December 17, 2006
Information week has an article on this topic highlighting comments from Gartner ...Excerpts below:
Organizations with more than $1 billion in revenue have lowered their IT spending projections for ne...
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Management
by prashanth on December 17, 2006
An IDC study forecasts strong growth for the worldwide mobile enterprise application (MEA) market. "Vendors and organizations alike must recognize that MEAs are not just about mobilizing a partic...
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Management
by prashanth on December 17, 2006
Small and medium businesses, those with fewer than 1,000 employees, worldwide are on track to spend US$2.44 billion on hosted/SaaS CRM and ERP/SCM in 2007, up some 17 percent over 2006 levels, accordi...
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Enterprise Software
by prashanth on December 15, 2006
IBM OmniFind™ Yahoo! Edition is a no-charge, entry-level enterprise search software solution that enables rapid deployment of intranet and file system search for both employees and customers. Seamless...
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Management
by prashanth on December 14, 2006
Michael Krigsman points to a report released by the UK National Audit Office, on the subject of IT project failures.The NAO report features some two dozen IT-enabled programmes and projects, from both...
