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Market Perturbations
by prashanth on November 23, 2005
SAP AG, a Germany-based business-software giant, announced that it has agreed to acquire Khimetrics Inc., an Arizona-based provider of software for retailers, for an undisclosed sum.
Khimetrics make...
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CIO
by prashanth on November 23, 2005
While reviewing my technorati search feed, an interesting post came to my notice titled "What is a Chief Information Officer?".
"The CIO assures we have the information we need to run ...
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Enterprise Software
by prashanth on November 23, 2005
One of the key road blocks for wider Open Source acceptance is the lack of / the need for better understanding of licenses. Here is a link to Greg Vetters paper on open source licenses, titled "&...
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General
by prashanth on November 22, 2005
Murgan Pal, The CTO of spike source has an entry in the Oriely Blog on an suggested apporach for Software vendors to migrate to the open source model.
Some interesting excerpts from the article:
As ...
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Enterprise Software
by prashanth on November 20, 2005
Companies are increasingly looking to tie traditional CRM systems to analytical tools to retain and boost the value of customers, according to users at SAS Institute Inc.'s BetterManagement Live W...
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Networking
by prashanth on November 20, 2005
The global mobile workforce is expected to grow by more than 20% in the next four years, with 878 million mobile workers toiling away on laptops, handhelds and cell phones by 2009, according to a rece...
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Outsourcing
by prashanth on November 20, 2005
HCL Technologies Ltd. (HCL) announced Thursday that it has signed a five-year agreement with Autodesk to provide offshore application and datacenter services. The deal is worth about $50 million, acco...
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SaaS
by prashanth on November 20, 2005
Computer World has a special report on Outsourcing, Here are some data points specificall on ASPs.
Almost 1/3rd of US Companies currently use an ASP, And further 22% indicated that they will in the in...
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Security
by prashanth on November 20, 2005
In March, ETrade Financial Corp. became the first major financial services company in the country to launch a two-factor authentication service to protect customers from online fraud and identity thef...
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Enterprise Software
by prashanth on November 20, 2005
IT Analysis has an interesting article titled "Will IBM buy BI". The article highlight how IBM has been quietly building up its portfolio of capabilities within the business intelligence are...
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Enterprise Software
by prashanth on November 19, 2005
TCS SummIT 2005 Survey Asserts Value of IT Services Beyond Traditional Cost Savings, according to a recent survey of North American-based senior IT executives conducted by Tata Consultancy Services, ...
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Enterprise Software
by prashanth on November 16, 2005
Was just reviewing this Forrester Report available here, Which is a scorecard for Indian SAP Service providers:
Some interesting Excerpts:
Wipro, a tier one Indian vendor, is a strong choice for end...
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Enterprise Software
by prashanth on November 16, 2005
"Approximately 65% of Sleepycat's revenue is from licensing, with the remaining 35% from services (support, training and consulting), which is similar to many proprietary software companies, ...
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by prashanth on November 12, 2005
Windows live's progress needs to be tracked closely given the now very famous Bill Gates email and Ray Ozzie Memo, Available here.
HTML Format of Bill Gates Email
Word Document of the MemoPrashan...
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Enterprise Software
by prashanth on November 12, 2005
Microsoft opened up the beta for Office Live, where they hope to tackle the market of the 1-10 employees segment, a very interesting move.
I registered for the beta here, and can't wait to try it...
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Security
by prashanth on November 10, 2005
Microsoft is getting really serious with security for consumers. They released yesterday the beta for their Windows Live Safety Center service, an offering that will compete with with the big players ...
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Security
by prashanth on November 3, 2005
Criterias to select the engine technologyThe antivirus world is littered with preconceptions, misinterpretations and marketing fluff which can make it hard when navigating this product segment. There ...
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