Consider the source has a post up discussing TPI's Q1 findings,
We said that the first quarter saw a dramatic decline in the number and value of larger commercial outsourcing signings, compared s...
"Top line" findings from this year's sourcing and vendor relationship presentations at Spring Symposium/ITxpo include:
Sourcing decisions are no longer - and no longer should be - driven...
Key take-aways from the business intelligence and information management track at the the Gartner IT Expo include:
Business intelligence competency center (BICC) - Gartner estimates that 33...
According to a report from PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC) majority of senior executives -- 87% -- think IT outsourcing delivers on the business benefits projected in their original plan. Even more, ...
Here are some thoughts of Sanjiv Gossain, UK managing director of Cognizant,
The role of information technology in a business has changed rapidly in the past five years. Since its conception, the pri...
Excerpts from a an interview with Howard Dressner, CSO of Hyperion, strangely no questions around the Oracle acquisition and changes caused by it, i still have my set of pending questions here, would ...
With the increased M&A activity in the CPM/BI space, we are going to see a lot of action in this area, SAP has worked it into their office of the CFO offering and their GRC solution set. Below are...
A keynonte that i did want to catch was the now famous blackboard key note by Hasso Platnner, today i went to the Sapphire Atlanta Online and got the slide deck and saw webcast.
From the slide deck b...
Saturday afternoon, In between meeting , Yes i am working today .....i was just looking through the transcript of the salesforce.com earnings call, i found quite a few interesting statements, below ar...
At Sapphire Vienna, a couple of us bloggers got to spend sometime with Doug Merritt, He is now one of the SAP corporate officers, who is responsible for the development of software for the business u...
TechSmith has heard the call of Vista lovers and announces its SnagIt software is now available for users of Microsoft Visual Studio Team System:
TechSmith Corp., the world's leading provider of ...
I came across the slides from a recent presentation at the deutsche bank Technology Conference by the COO of Infosys - Gopalakrishnan (Krish - Soon to be CEO)
Below are two slides from the slide ...
Salesforce.com has paired with Cognizant in a consulting and regional alliance that may enhance their ability to further penetrate into SMB and larger organizations. As part of the alliance, Cognizant...
"After the hype of A1S comes the search for truth: and the truth is that SAP has been dragged towards SaaS kicking and screaming, because it is alien to its way of working to value the collaborat...
Towards the end of the event I decided to attend a presentation on On Demand crm solution of SAP, the one comment that stuck me as odd, went something like this "On Demand is good for the simple ...
I am pretty much the last man standing in the bloggers corner, but today I got to attend the key note by Geoffrey Moore on "Business Network Transformation" was quite interesting. Which I wi...
Here is a slide with the SME Portfolio:
SAP Business One - 10 users
SAP A1S - Around 50 Users
SAP All-in-one - Around 100 users
(i might be a little off in terms of the number of users, but its there ...
We had a great day at sapphire, Vienna ...a few of us bloggers got to meet up with Henning Kagermann, it was a pretty interesting session, goes to show the kind of access that...
Henning Kagermann keynote had a few interesting nuggets otherwise it was a a little bit of the old wine in new bottle in this first post let me just highlight on a few key themes h...
Well i finally did manage to make it Vienna, yesterday morning. Spent the afternoon walking around with Bruno, David & Charlie. Some really interesting discussions, I am sure the a lot of them are...
A report made available at the Software 2007 site is titled "State of the Software industry" it seems to be a joint study of Mckinsey and the Sandhill group. The full report is available her...
IDC's thoughts on the Hyperion Oracle Merger in their report titled "A Focus on Intel ligence: Oracle ' s Renewed BI Strategy"
Dear Hyperion Customer - Protect, Extend, EvolveIn a le...
While thinking about this acquisition a lot of questions came up, for which i am trying to find answers in the blogosphere, as part of that effort i am positing some of the questions here to see ...
At the Sapphire in Atlanta Jeff Raikes, president of Microsoft's Business Division, joined Leo Apotheker, deputy CEO of SAP, to share the extended product roadmap for Duet software, a solution tha...
Regular readers(if there are any :)) would already be familiar with SAP's blogger relationship program,as a part of which we covered the sapphire and TechEd events last year.
This years calen...
First post in this series was on the views of Wipro, now here its from Hexaware,
Hexaware Technologies is on an expansion mode. Vice-chairman and CEO, Rusi Brij, said that the acquisition would be in ...
There is a lot of M&A talk in the IT Services business, so i thought to put in a set of posts to cover the topics. First lets start with Wipro's thoughts on the topic:
"We are looking at ...
SAP's acquisition of Outlooksoft found mention in an Forrester Report from March, I was just reading the Forrester report titled "Hyperion Acquisition Boosts Oracle's Position In Business...
IBM is offering users of its no-cost DB2 Express-C data server a new paid-support option.
This announcement makes IBM the first company of the three largest database players to offer an annual suppor...
Sometime last month we had a post of the findings in an AT Kearney Survery, which highlighted that the Cost Arbitrage between the US and offshore countries like India would be around atleast of the ne...
Yesterday SAP announced its intention to acquire OutlookSoft Corporation, a privately held provider of integrated planning, budgeting, forecasting and consolidation software.
OutlookSoft was founded i...
Key takeaways from Cognizants Q1 Earnings call:
In the first quarter, we exceeded our internal forecast, generating $460.3 million in revenue, which represents an increase of 61% from the first quarte...
There has been a lot of talk of a possible slowdown in the IT Sector, below are some thoughts on the topic:
Announcing the fourth quarter results, Wipro Chairman Azim Premji and Satyam Chairman Ramali...
Forrester has a report titled "The Forrester wave: North American Outsourcing Applications - Q1 2007" we had covered this report in this post about a month ago, recently i came acr...
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