Paul Murphy and his contrarian, plain-spoken ways are at it again, this time pointing out that vendor-written contracts and EULAs have no clothes. Or at least, nothing that will fit the buyer....

Couple of new resources on the subject of getting up to speed and appropriately managing IT projects today, so I thought I would throw up a quick article with some links. First, from Information...

Just wanted to throw up a quick link to Nick Malik's recent post on MSDN on the benefits and pitfalls of IT involvement in business process management functions. I think he's dead-on in his...

And I have to admit I was hoping for more detail on that most important of matters when I started in on this CIO magazine article on the pitfalls of making strategy stick. But it's worth a quick...

So what about the folks on the other side of the wire from you, the CIO, and your loyal army of IT staff? How do they feel about all this stuff that we are talking about all the time,......

Infoworld has an article highlighting a report by Nucleus Research, below are excerpts from the same: In a study entitled "Benchmarking: Service-Oriented Architecture," Nucleus Research and...

EDS' Senior Executive Vice President of Applications Services, Charlie Feld, spoke at the JPMorgan 35th Annual Technology Conference, Below are some excerpts from the transcript. Demand for IT...

AMR Research's most recent survey showed 46% of companies are considering or implementing their first service-oriented architecture (SOA) project within the next two years. (Dated starting of...

CIO Magazine Tech Poll results as highlighted by Computerworld: IT spending projections declined in March, as CIOs predicted spending increases of 5.1% for the next 12 months, down from 5.8% in...

Sean Sweeney of Forrester has a report with the same title, below are some interesting excerpts from the same: Consulting rates in 2007 have increased slightly compared with 2006 because of demand in...

There has been a lot of talk about talent shortage in India, during the investor presentation of Wipro they covered a section on talent management here are some excerpts: Source: 1 Prashanth Rai......

IBM recently announced the findings of a new study which concludes that in order for multinational companies to succeed in China they will need to develop strategies that focus more on China's...

Morrisons is to invest £110m over the next three years to improve its IT infrastructure - but don't expect any radical changes from the supermarket chain. Mark Bolland, chief executive officer...

EDS today announced it has reached a definitive agreement to acquire RelQ Software Private Ltd., a privately owned Bangalore, India-based software testing company. Over time, RelQ will be fully...

Excerpts from Mckinsey article titleld "Divide & Conquer: Rethinking IT Strategy" Focusing exclusively on bottom-line costs, however, limits the top-line potential. By forgoing...

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...

For sometime now we havent had this discussion and than recently i saw this report from Frost & Sullivan, titled "Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of Windows 2003 versus Linux in Indian...

No I really haven't lost it, this is what occurred to me after reading Irving Wladawsky-Berger's blog post yesterday, this is just an initial brain dump of thoughts will flesh it out in posts...

Implementing technology to help their companies become more streamlined and easier to do business with is the No. 1 business priority for 1400 CIO's worldwide surveyed by Gartner. To help...

Continuing on the posts on IT Spending, Came across another report by Alinean ( Hat tip Sadagopan) which has a report covering the topic, below are excerpts from the same: Analysis based on study of...

Below are excerpts on the IT Scenario in 2007 based on a newsletter from Forrester: 1. Growth in European IT spending is starting to match or exceed US IT spending - European IT spending will grow by...

Phil Waineright is doing a series on the trends he is expecting in the SAAS space in this year (2007), first two parts of the series are on reaching out to offline users & Composition instead of...

"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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

Today i got a mail from Arvind of Zoho...On an update they made, I strongly beleive that all the 3 updates are WINNERS, and will increase my usage by leaps and bounds...and definitely will increase...

James from Redmonk is at the IBM annual analyst conference and has post up on Steve Mill's (Group GM IBM Software) presentation check it out . Below is an excerpt that i found interesting:...

Attrition & People are the greatest concern for IT Services firms, just read the article on Wipro's revised approach - People Pulse , the people tracker colour-codes every Wipro employee -...

Tekrati is carrying a summary of a report on Global Developer Population and Demographics Report by Evans Data Corporation. Some interesting excerpts: The projected global software developer...

Architects will be the glue that binds IT to business strategy, and service-oriented architecture (SOA) is one example of the "new wave" of IT delivering business value by cutting...

Found an article on the SAP site which talks about SME's and specifically their interest in SME's. Below are excerpts from the same: On-demand software applications are in growing demand by...

Midmarket applications vendor Infor Global Solutions continues to buy out its peers to become a US$3 billion business within a year.With Infor's most recent purchases of SSA Global, Extensity and...

Phil Wainewright has a post up covering the SIIA OnDemand Summit, Below are some excerpts from the same: Abhijit Dubey of McKinsey revealed that a new survey by his organization has found that the...

Following up on the series, here is trend 1: Increasing costs in India Close to 50% of cost of most Indian IT Services companies are their people, talent cost have been on the raise for some time now....

Have been thinking about the Indian IT Services industry in general, So i thought i will put down a post listing some facts of the industry and and trends that are impacting the industry. First is a...

Nasscom and IDC have published a report discussing the current size and future potential and direction of India as IT Services and ITES-BPO market.The key output of the study seems to be the...

I was reading the first chapter of the Bangalore TIGER, The book by author Steve Hamm examines the rise of India as a destabilizing force in the $650 billion worldwide tech services industry. He...

IBM is endevouring to solve the biggest problem of them all, communication between IT & business, they seem to have in place a software technology, "Dot2Dot," that was created at...

2006-Capgemini, one of the world's foremost providers of Consulting, Technology and Outsourcing services, and Kanbay International, a global IT services firm focused on the financial services...

Baseline has an article up higlighting IT Salaries for the next year, Excerpts from this: Starting salaries for IT pros are expected to increase an average of 2.8 percent in 2007 over 2006, and more...

Jeff Wacker a EDS fellow has a post up on thier blog on the future IT, below are some excerpts from the same: Faster Exponential ITFlattening WorldUbiquitous EdgePredictabilityFrom Push to PullA...

Silicon.com has an article highlighting British Airways move towards LEAN Tech, a concepts which seems to be gaining ground these days. Below are excerpts from the article: British Airways (BA) is...

Following up on the earlier set of Service Product offering, as indicated during the initial announcement - highlighted in the post here, now IBM Middleware Services & IBM Storage and Data...

In December of last year i wrote a post highlighting the Nasscom & Mckinsey report it indicated clear diconnect between the demand & supply in the talent market, Here is an quote from the same...

Came across a couple of posts by Joe McKendrick's on SOA and reusability and he has an interesting conversation with a couple of other blogger's specifcially David Chappel and Harry...