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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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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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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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 parts...
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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...
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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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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...
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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...
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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...
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Lawson Software recently announced Lawson Release 9, which includes Lawson's new technology layer, enhanced business applications, strengthened business intelligence capabilities and enhanced...
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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...
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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...
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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 expects...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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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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