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Security
by prashanth on February 28, 2007
Infoworld highlights a company called Authentec, which is looking at securing the mobile/cell phones using biometric solutions, enabling CIO to look the mobile phone as secure delivery mechanism for a...
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Enterprise Software
by prashanth on February 28, 2007
All the ERP vendors are talking about the Mid market, Is the dark horse in the race "OPEN SOURCE", Below are excerpts from a recent article at ComputerWorld:
When Mark Alperin went looking t...
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Outsourcing
by prashanth on February 28, 2007
Francisco D'Souza, CEO,President Cognizant has an article up at sandhill with the same title, Below are some interesting excerpts from the same:
Looking at the future of technology services, it i...
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Enterprise Software
by prashanth on February 28, 2007
Marc Benioff hinted about it during the earnings call highlighted here, he refered to it - "Next Tuesday in New York City, we will announce our largest deal ever; a major customer expanding to 25...
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Enterprise Software
by prashanth on February 27, 2007
SAP's planned suite of hosted midmarket applications will be available in select markets later this year. The company will offer more details on pricing and functionality after the Cebit trade sho...
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Enterprise Software
by prashanth on February 27, 2007
IDC observes that successful implementations of business Performance management (BPM) solutions such as consolidation and budgeting also include a robust business intelligence (BI) strategy to integra...
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CIO
by prashanth on February 27, 2007
In a recent Forrester presentation on the Closing Gap between the CEO & CIO, there were some interesting slides, below are a couple of them:
First on the CEO's satisfaction levels with IT:
S...
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Enterprise Software
by prashanth on February 26, 2007
Revenue in the fourth quarter was $28.8 million and $110.4 million for the year, a 27% year-over-year increase. Recurring revenue was $17.7 million and $63.4 million for the year, a 38% year-over-year...
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Management
by prashanth on February 26, 2007
Excerpts from Mckinsey article titleld "Divide & Conquer: Rethinking IT Strategy"
Focusing exclusively on bottom-line costs, however, limits the top-line potential. By forgoing investm...
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Enterprise Software
by prashanth on February 26, 2007
In this blog we have previously discussed the Forrester Wave on Enterprise CRM Suite here, we covered the comments on mySAP here, Now below are the comments on Microsoft Dynamics:
Microsoft is trying...
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Enterprise Software
by prashanth on February 26, 2007
Lombardi Software that it will add a SaaS (software as a service) component dubbed Blueprint to its on-premises BPM suite highlights both the continuing growth of the hosted model and its limitations....
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General
by prashanth on February 23, 2007
Excerpts from AMI report on the topic:
Both ERP and CRM are increasingly becoming mainstream applications for U.S. medium businesses (MBs), according to AMI-Partners. Over one third of respondent MBs ...
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Enterprise Software
by prashanth on February 23, 2007
Forrester has a CRM Wave focussed on the mid market for Q1 2007, Below are excerpts from the same:The CRM midmarket is increasingly dominated by software-as-a-service (SaaS) options - including those ...
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Enterprise Software
by prashanth on February 22, 2007
SAP announced that it hired Peter Dunning, who was president of field operations at RightNow Technologies, for the job of executive VP of strategic industries. Dunning's hire fits right into SAP&#...
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Enterprise Software
by prashanth on February 22, 2007
During the Salesforce.com earnings call for Qtr ended 1/31/07, Mark Benioff made some interesting comments, below are some excerpts from the same:
Our fiscal 2007 ended with a bang and it is a sound t...
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Enterprise Software
by prashanth on February 21, 2007
In a move to strengthen its portfolio of analytic applications, SAP AG has agreed to acquire privately held pilot Software Inc., a maker of strategy management software in Mountain View, Calif. SAP in...
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Enterprise Software
by prashanth on February 21, 2007
As a part of Forresters Enterprise CRM report, they have a report highlighting mySAP CRM, below are some excerpts from the same:
mySAP CRM is particularly strong in sales, marketing, partner channel m...
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CIO
by prashanth on February 21, 2007
Mckinsey Quarterly has an interview with BP's CIO "John Leggate", below are some excerpts from the same:
The Quarterly: How do you identify new technologies?
John Leggate: We collaborate...
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Sponsored Posts
by Creative Weblogging on February 19, 2007
Are we looking for you? Red Herring announces a call for speaker to present at its 2007 East Coast Summit:
Red Herring is delighted to open the call for speakers for its East Coast Summit. Red Herrin...
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Enterprise Software
by prashanth on February 18, 2007
Microsoft has beefed up its Dynamics CRM with free analytics applications that borrow from its existing business intelligence (BI) tools. "This is a new set of tools and definitions on top of our...
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Management
by prashanth on February 18, 2007
The theme of IT Skills shortage is becoming a truly global one, in a recent IDC Teleconference titled "IDC Predictions:European Services, 2007" by Marianne Kolding & Mette Ahorlu, there ...
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Enterprise Software
by prashanth on February 14, 2007
Some time last year Gartner made a prediction "Software as a service (SaaS) represented approximately 5 percent of business software revenue in 2005 and by 2011, 25 percent of new business softwa...
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Enterprise Software
by prashanth on February 13, 2007
This rate of postponement and cancellation is largely a result of a CRM skill shortage -- of consultants and systems integrators in particular -- Gartner, in a recent report indicated.
SAP CRM Project...
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Offshoring
by prashanth on February 11, 2007
Who do you think is the most "Technology Oriented / technical" spokes person of the Indian IT Services Industry?
According to me the serious Need of the hour in the Indian IT Services indu...
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Enterprise Software
by prashanth on February 10, 2007
AMR has a report up titled "Indian Service Providers' ERP PracticesGrow Up", Below are some excerpts from the same:
Indian service providers' enterprise applications have grown drama...
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Enterprise Software
by prashanth on February 8, 2007
Forrester just release their "Forrester Wave" of Enterprise CRM Suites for Q1 of 2007. Below are some highlights from the same:
Oracle's Siebel CRM and SAP's mySAP CRM are the clear...
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CIO
by prashanth on February 7, 2007
Excerpts from an article at Mckinsey Quarterly:
Two trends in information technology will become increasingly important to CIOs in 2007: a migration to service-oriented architectures and the introduct...
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Security
by prashanth on February 6, 2007
While technology vendors and security analysts continue to endorse the notion that anti-virus software is increasingly becoming commoditized, sales of the IT systems defense tools will help drive $9.1...
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Outsourcing
by prashanth on February 6, 2007
London-based consumer products maker The Unilever Group is planning to turn over some of its IT infrastructure operations to Hewlett-Packard Co.
Unilever, which employs some 206,000 people worldwide, ...
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Outsourcing
by prashanth on February 5, 2007
In the recent TPI Apac call, it was indicated that India is one of the three biggest outsourcing markets, behind Australia and Japan (Graphic Attached from the TPI Presentation), given this background...
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Outsourcing
by prashanth on February 5, 2007
Baseline has a piece, on 1 year look at the GM Outsourcing deal : The new multi-vendor outsourcing deal is already helping to further slim GM's global I.T. costs. The automaker's new service p...
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Offshoring
by prashanth on February 5, 2007
In 2007, Russian Information Technology Outsourcing (ITO) market will grow by 40%-50%, says a study by neoIT - a management consulting firm. Russia is currently the third largest IT outsourcing supply...
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CIO
by prashanth on February 4, 2007
Found this article on Mckinsey Quarterly , of an interview with the Credit Suisse CIO Tom Sanzone. Below are excerpts from the interview:The Quarterly: What challenges and opportunities attracted you ...
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Enterprise Software
by prashanth on February 3, 2007
IDC blog has a post highlighting one of their predictions for 2007. Salesforce.com will be acquired in 2007. We believe the growing importance of online delivery of software and business services will...
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Offshoring
by prashanth on February 2, 2007
Information Week has some head count numbers for both IBM & Accenture in India and provides a comparison to Global/ US Workforce size:
IBM's Indian workforce now stands at 53,000, up from 39,0...
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Enterprise Software
by prashanth on February 2, 2007
Forrester recently has a case study highlighting Sugar CRM. For the uninitiated Sugar CRM is a commercial open source CRM product business, with all of the source code to the public but maintain a com...
