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Outsourcing
by prashanth on May 31, 2006
Diebold, a provider of ATMs, E-voting technology, and security systems announced last week that they will take work it outsourced to Deloitte back in-house.Diebold needed to have direct control of its...
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Enterprise Software
by prashanth on May 31, 2006
At its annual customer confab this week, Informatica Corp. announced an ambitious foray into software-as-a-service (SaaS) data integration, touting a "strategic partnership" with salesforce....
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Enterprise Software
by prashanth on May 30, 2006
Recently SugarCRM announced that they had doubled thier commercial customer base in the last 6 months, attracting more than 600 paying customers since the first edition of its commercial open source c...
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General
by prashanth on May 30, 2006
MindTree Consulting, an international IT and R&D services company, became the first company in India to be assessed for IC Rating, through a process pioneered by Intellectual capital Sweden AB (I...
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Enterprise Software
by prashanth on May 30, 2006
Priced at $25 Per User Per Month, New AppExchange OEM Edition Enables Partners to Build, Sell and Deliver on-demand Applications Beyond Traditional CRM and Focus on Innovation, not Infrastructure Drea...
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General
by prashanth on May 30, 2006
IBM Leader in Application Development Software - Gartner
IBM recently announced that analyst firm Gartner, Inc. has ranked IBM as the worldwide market share leader in the application development and ...
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Enterprise Software
by prashanth on May 30, 2006
The vast quantities of data available today - on the Internet, in intranet environments and on desktops - are forcing companies to re-think how employees find, use and share vital business information...
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Enterprise Software
by prashanth on May 30, 2006
TBC Corporation is the largest vertically integrated marketer of tires for the automotive replacement market in the US. The Company's retail operations include Company-operated tire and automotive...
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Enterprise Software
by prashanth on May 30, 2006
BEA's "middleware" technology makes it easier for programmers to hook together software applications, databases, and Web servers. And it's under siege by IBM, Oracle, and Microsoft, ...
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Enterprise Software
by prashanth on May 26, 2006
In conjunction with Enterprise Strategies, AberdeenGroup recently released a Benchmark Report on how to gain more value from your enterprise applications. It looks at everything from SOA-enabled versi...
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Enterprise Software
by prashanth on May 26, 2006
Wipro Ltd. will acquire U.S. mechanical design firm Quantech Global Services LLC and its Indian subsidiary in an all cash deal, Wipro announced Monday.The acquisition will add mechanical design to the...
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Enterprise Software
by prashanth on May 26, 2006
Computerworld has an Executive Brief discussing how large organizations are struggling under the weight of diverse, overlapping, and inconsistent databases that hold their key information assets, and ...
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Enterprise Software
by prashanth on May 26, 2006
IBM rolled out a new tool today that links enterprise search capabilities to traditional business intelligence (BI) reporting and analysis of data in databases.
The IBM WebSphere Content Discovery f...
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CIO
by prashanth on May 26, 2006
Intel Corp. CIO John Johnson delivered a keynote address at Mobile & Wireless World in Orlando yesterday, offering up details about a five-year, $25 million initiative aimed at increasing mobility...
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Enterprise Software
by prashanth on May 21, 2006
sapphire'06 - Day3
Sapphire 2006 Day 3 got kicked off key note by Hasso Platter, The topic of his presentation was Software Design, with the core themes around innovation & design.
Few high...
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Enterprise Software
by prashanth on May 18, 2006
Niel from the SAPPHIRE06 bloggers corner has an excellent blog post summarizing the events , Check it out here.
Excerpts:
Two examples that have been priceless. First, at the official SAP press conf...
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Enterprise Software
by prashanth on May 17, 2006
Today on the agenda there was the Key note by Shai Aggasi, its was a pretty good one , below is a reproduction of the slide that was the Primary thread of his talk..
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Enterprise Software
by prashanth on May 17, 2006
SAP announced today its acquisition of Frictionless Commerce, SAP anticipates that the acquisition will be completed in July 2006. Headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Frictionless Commerce empl...
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Enterprise Software
by prashanth on May 17, 2006
Here goes the first post from SAPPHIRE'06, (These posts are just going to be a brief hit, But i am going to flesh them out more when i get time, now i running between one on ones and key notes, I ...
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Enterprise Software
by prashanth on May 15, 2006
Enterprise software Observer has an Interview with oracle's Anthony Lye on Siebel, Excerpts from the same:
Siebel really is the center piece both from a product perspective as well as a personnel...
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Enterprise Software
by prashanth on May 15, 2006
Business software maker SAP AG will unveil a module for its hosted CRM offering at its Sapphire customer event.SAP is targeting its CRM on-demand offering at work groups of a minimum 100 users, althou...
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Enterprise Software
by prashanth on May 15, 2006
IBM Corp. unveiled the first fruits of its Project Harmony initiative Thursday, announcing Notes and Workplace software that will tighten integration between the vendor's front-end collaboration p...
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Enterprise Software
by prashanth on May 15, 2006
IONA Technologies is supporting a new open source ESB (enterprise service bus) which will help companies integrate departmental applications for SOAs (service-oriented architectures) and Web services ...
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Enterprise Software
by prashanth on May 15, 2006
The desire to access mainframe data and business logic has inspired many grand tech initiatives, including client-server, XML, and SOA. It's fair to say that most big, mature SOA implementations h...
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Enterprise Software
by prashanth on May 11, 2006
Jeff Nolan, Who was a part of SAP Ventures (SAP's VC Company) & is now one of SAP's key strategists - He runs the Apollo Group, a strategy and communications organization with SAP.He is al...
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Enterprise Software
by prashanth on May 9, 2006
Panorama one of BI companies that grew on top of Microsofts SQL Server (BI) stack has recently announced plans to port its NovaView platform to SAP's Business Information Warehouse (BW). Once that...
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Enterprise Software
by prashanth on May 7, 2006
Last month Salesforce.com acquired Santa Monica, Calif.-based Sendia Corp., a maker of mobile technology, in a $15 million cash transaction. The acquisition is the first by Salesforce.com Inc., a San ...
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General
by prashanth on May 5, 2006
Siemens Communications Inc. today announced that it is expanding its leadership role in enterprise communications by providing development-friendly, business-focused communication applications across ...
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Enterprise Software
by prashanth on May 4, 2006
Deal Architect along with a set of several ex-Gartner, CMP & Ziff-Davis folks are involved in the development of a wide range of knowledge products to help buyers with their technology - software,...
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Enterprise Software
by prashanth on May 3, 2006
Pentaho BI Professional Edition Platform to be priced at $3,000 per CPU, plus an additional annual support fee of $1,000. Founded by BI veterans from IBM, Cognos, and Hyperion, Pentaho executives are ...
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Enterprise Software
by prashanth on May 3, 2006
"The first step in building a high performance organization is to make sure that you can trust your data," said John Schwarz, CEO of Business Objects. "A complete EIM approach will ensu...
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Enterprise Software
by prashanth on May 3, 2006
Hyperion Solutions Corp. last week sought to enhance its business performance management (BPM) portfolio by acquiring privately-held UpStream Software, a provider of data readiness and guided workflow...
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General
by prashanth on May 3, 2006
Microsoft Corp.'s long- awaited release of the upgrade to its flagship Windows operating system will likely be delayed again by at least three months, research group Gartner Inc. said Tuesday.The ...
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Enterprise Software
by prashanth on May 1, 2006
Several users at Information Builders Inc.'s Summit 2006 user conference here said yesterday that they are embracing the philosophy with new projects to quickly move BI reports and analysis out to...
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Security
by prashanth on May 1, 2006
Computerworld has an interview with General Motors CISO (chief information security officer), Eric Litt....His goal: present to the hackers his look at the problems large corporations face when dealin...
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Enterprise Software
by prashanth on May 1, 2006
kraft Foods Inc. a global leader in branded food and beverages, today announced a seven-year, $1.7 billion agreement to receive information technology services from Electronic Data Systems (EDS), a le...
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General
by prashanth on May 1, 2006
IBM plans to sell a lower-cost version of its z9 mainframe computer aimed at midsize businesses and emerging markets such as China.The System z9 Business Class mainframe will be priced from about $100...
