Ford Motor Company's ambitious effort to write new software for buying supplies. Begun in 2000, the goal of the project, code-named Everest, was to replace Ford's patchwork of internal...
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Came across this piece via Sadagopan, here are some excerpts from the same, With Siebel being purchased by Oracle, there is a huge vacuum in the CRM marketplace. In addition, on demand is allowing...
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by prashanth on January 23, 2006
IDC Blog has a post stating Product Innovation and Improving IT Are Rising As CEO Priorities in 2006, In December IDC asked over 200 line-of-business (LOB) executives to indicate which among a long...
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by prashanth on January 22, 2006
The monthly CIO Magazine Tech Poll released projections for IT spending in 2006, Results of the survey can be downloaded from here, Below are a few excerpts from the same. CIOs are now predicting...
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Randy Weston has a summary of AMR Research's Strategy 21 conference last week, The theme is "Dateline 2010: Divining the Future of Enterprise Software." Executives from SAP, Oracle,...
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by prashanth on January 22, 2006
Here is another set of resolutions as provided by Gartner for chief information officers (CIOs) and IT directors, on what they should make a priority over the next twelve months.Gartner urged IT...
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by prashanth on January 22, 2006
EDS Fellows highlight top 8 resolutions for a Happy IT in 2006, here is the list * Raising the level of abstraction in IT solutions -- Objects, commercial off the shelf (COTS), tactical outsourcing *...
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by prashanth on January 21, 2006
The IT services sector will need 150,000 employees while the BPO sector will need 350,000 trained personnel.According to the Mckinsey report 2005, "The country will need 2.3 million...
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Computer world has an article on BI, which is an output from a panel in an executive summit, Some Excerpts from the same: Panelists said they have used enterprise-level analysis of data with BI tools...
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IT Managers Journal has an interview with Mark Driver, a Gartner vice president and research director and the official host for the 2005 Open Source Summit. Some excerpts from the article: Driver made...
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by prashanth on January 20, 2006
IT has become a leading conveyor, sustainer, enhancer---and, often, destroyer---of brand identity and image., among the various roles of IT, this is one important & key role. The topic is covered...
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Looking to speed up its growth in 2006, Business Objects plans to expand its professional services group and develop more products tailored to specific vertical industries. To effect the changes, the...
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The Tuesday before Christmas, a software problem with one of Salesforce.com's database clusters caused the CRM service to be intermittently unreachable by some customers for six hours. That...
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by prashanth on January 17, 2006
More than 40% of organizations in Ireland will use some form of open source software in 2006, according to a wide-reaching study of 250 CIOs in Ireland regarding their IT and telecom expectations for...
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by prashanth on January 17, 2006
Gap Inc. has signed a 10-year, $1.1 billion IT outsourcing deal with IBM, the San Francisco-based clothing retailer said in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing today. Under the deal, IBM must...
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by prashanth on January 17, 2006
Rumor has it that IBM has approached the satyam's founder and chairman Ramalinga Raju, the newspaper(www.ft.com) reported, citing an unnamed executive close to the Indian IT Services company....
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by prashanth on January 12, 2006
ComputerWorld has a Whitepaper/Pdf available on Software as a Service, Its a good complination of interesting articles on Saas. Summary as provided by ComputerWorld - The more heavily organizations...
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Computer world carries an article on how Data centers face increased costs on account of utility costs. Below are excerpts from the article. In Connecticut, for instance, rates for commercial and...
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"The total cost of ownership is much lower than the traditional CRM software," Dresser says. "Also, we're not dependent on our IT department to fix stuff anymore, we didn't have...
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Amy Wohls Blog has a post of a few SaaS stories to check into. She has been interviewing companies and seeing demos for Codie award nominees in the area SaaS. Excerpts from the same: Planitax...
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by prashanth on January 02, 2006
Chief information officers of the Indian operations of multinational companies are increasingly managing software development and other IT work for their parent companies. The CIOs are taking on these...
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