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Enterprise Software
by prashanth on March 28, 2006
Optaros has an excellent white paper that compares the various open source content management systems on their site here. Executive Summary of the same:
The open source community has produced a number...
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Enterprise Software
by prashanth on March 28, 2006
The Cognos Go capability, which indexes all of the metadata in a report, will allow a non-technical user to dig out information embedded within a report. According to Dan Vesset, research director of ...
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CIO
by prashanth on March 28, 2006
Corporate users will increasingly combine traditional enterprise software with online capabilities to create composite applications, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates said today.....Looks like Bill Gates ...
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Outsourcing
by prashanth on March 27, 2006
Just came across this white paper at the Infosys site titled...Integrated offshore Outsourcing Solution...IT is quite an interesting white paper...more on it in posts to follow.
Excerpts:
As organi...
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Enterprise Software
by prashanth on March 26, 2006
With mobile devices market exploding, we still dont hear of business apps, other than Blackberry type email? In contrast, the end user market see a huge influx of applications and games.Here is an art...
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Management
by prashanth on March 24, 2006
Global IT spending Totaled about $1 trillion in 2005, and should grow by about $100 billion in 2006, IDC said.Global IT spending should grow by 6.3 percent in 2006, driven by software spending, but th...
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by prashanth on March 24, 2006
General Motors Corp. is turning to automation to improve its auto parts distribution system to dealers, ending practices that had made for a bumpy ride for its auto parts supply chain.
Today, GM part...
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Enterprise Software
by prashanth on March 24, 2006
The days of selling software through the traditional commercial model are numbered, as open source is becoming the paradigm of choice, said Greg Stein, chairman of the apache software foundation, at t...
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Data Storage
by prashanth on March 24, 2006
It's easy to see why Oracle is hungry to get a piece of the enterprise search pie: Sue Feldman, an analyst at IDC, estimates the 2005 market was about $900 million and is expected to grow by more ...
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Enterprise Software
by prashanth on March 22, 2006
Salesforce.com at the EclipseCon 2006 conference in Santa Clara, Calif., on Monday will announce it is joining the Eclipse Foundation, becoming the open source tools organization's first member fr...
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Enterprise Software
by prashanth on March 22, 2006
Oracle is making a major push into business intelligence (BI) software with three bundles of existing products, the vendor announced Wednesday. The company anticipates ramping up its BI software prese...
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Enterprise Software
by prashanth on March 22, 2006
San Diego-based Sony Online offers a number of popular Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games, or MMORPGs, including EverQuest, EverQuest 2, Star Wars galaxies and others.
They have "hu...
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Enterprise Software
by prashanth on March 18, 2006
Lawson Software recently announced Lawson Release 9, which includes Lawson's new technology layer, enhanced business applications, strengthened business intelligence capabilities and enhanced busi...
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Enterprise Software
by prashanth on March 18, 2006
Microsoft Corp. unveiled new business intelligence (BI) software yesterday that was designed to let midmarket companies use analytics and scorecards to study business data through various organization...
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Enterprise Software
by prashanth on March 18, 2006
Golden gate Capital has completed its $1 billion acquisition of Geac Computer Corp. Ltd. and plans to launch a new company next week called Extensity Inc. with Geac's financial applications and bu...
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CIO
by prashanth on March 17, 2006
"For an IT company, my budget is really lean," Vass said in an interview earlier this week. "It doesn't compare to Oracle or Dell or IBM or HP."- Sun CIO Bill Vass
Vass expect...
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Enterprise Software
by prashanth on March 16, 2006
Superoffice ASA, a developer of customer relationship management software for small and midsize businesses, decided to open its source code to a developer network that can build new applications and m...
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Enterprise Software
by prashanth on March 13, 2006
Information Builders recently unveiled a software tool developed with Google to help its business intelligence (BI) users access internal company data using the Google search engine.
Information Buil...
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Management
by prashanth on March 13, 2006
The merger on Thursday of American consultancy Darwin Partners Inc. with Suzoft, an offshore Chinese high-tech company, proves that the outsourcing business model is changing.The two companies have ag...
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General
by prashanth on March 12, 2006
Computer systems are becoming more complex and the labor costs to keep them online continue to rise. So it's no surprise that the race is on to create software geared at automating upkeep. Last Fr...
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Enterprise Software
by prashanth on March 9, 2006
Highlight at Cebit:
Security will be a major focus this week at the giant CeBIT show in Hannover, Germany. This year, the annual digital IT trade show will hone in on the multiple layers of security ...
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Enterprise Software
by prashanth on March 9, 2006
IBM Corp. and analytics software vendor Cognos Inc. have signed a new global strategic alliance around service-oriented architecture (SOA), the companies announced Tuesday. The relationship builds on ...
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Help Desk And Support
by prashanth on March 7, 2006
Management software vendor BMC Software is due to release a suite of products aimed at small to midsize businesses (SMBs). Known as IT Systems Management Express, BMC's suite brings together syste...
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Enterprise Software
by prashanth on March 7, 2006
Salesforce.com yesterday announced Unlimited Edition, a product line that will sit above Enterprise Edition.Unlike the Enterprise Edition which limits to 10 the number of custom applications -- a comb...
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Enterprise Software
by prashanth on March 7, 2006
Oracle has made a few open source acquisitionsand is rumored to be in talks on a few more ....Red Monk has a great post on the same...Excerpts below:
Before we get into the specifics of the individual...
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Management
by prashanth on March 6, 2006
Analog Devices, Inc., a global leader in high-performance signal processing solutions, today announced that it has realized a more than 40% reduction in the cost of operating its IT systems and proces...
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Management
by prashanth on March 6, 2006
Is it just me ....or do all of you think there has been a lot of buzz regarding Innovation particularly in the context of IT Services....It all around...Here are a few cases that i was able to dig out...
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by prashanth on March 6, 2006
IDC has a case study up on how Wipro Technologies assisted Midwest ISO in implementing a web services based SOA to enable this trading organization along with some other regional entities to manage th...
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CIO
by prashanth on March 6, 2006
"We need to create an environment where that information can live safely," said Frank Buytendijk, a research vice president at Gartner Inc., at the company's BI conference in London rece...
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Enterprise Software
by prashanth on March 6, 2006
The success of Linux and other open source projects has depended heavily on the support and investment of major IT companies, Oracle Chief Executive Officer Larry Ellison said, "Open source becom...
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by prashanth on March 3, 2006
Ben Trowbridge, CEO and Managing Partner of Alsbridge North America, stated, "The outsourcing landscape will change dramatically in 2006. Buyers and providers need to clearly think through the tr...
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Enterprise Software
by prashanth on March 3, 2006
The Business Mobile Applications portal, a new mobile application portal launched (at 3GSM) by Orange, is targeted at small and medium-size businesses (SMBs) and allows them to download programs such ...
