Filed in archive Management
by prashanth on November 30, 2006
Today i got a mail from Arvind of Zoho...On an update they made, I strongly beleive that all the 3 updates are WINNERS, and will increase my usage by leaps and bounds...and definitely will increase...
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Springboard Reseach has recently publised a report titled "The Software as a Service Market in Asia Pacific, 2005 to 2008: Executive Overview". Its a report that as the name suggests covers...
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Filed in archive Management
by prashanth on November 30, 2006
James from Redmonk is at the IBM annual analyst conference and has post up on Steve Mill's (Group GM IBM Software) presentation check it out . Below is an excerpt that i found interesting:...
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Filed in archive Outsourcing
by prashanth on November 29, 2006
Michael E. Nemeth a VP at Cognizant has published an executive white paper, on outsourcing ....drawing parallel with Flying lessons and explaining how intution about these areas is not necessarily...
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Firms seeking to consolidate or replace enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems often look to SAP or Oracle, but two somewhat lesser known ERP vendors -- Infor Global Solutions and QAD Inc. -- are...
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Filed in archive Offshoring
by prashanth on November 28, 2006
"We have a target to achieve $4 billion in revenue by the end of this fiscal growing at 30 per cent and for the last five years we have been growing at a compounded annual growth rate of over...
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Filed in archive Offshoring
by prashanth on November 28, 2006
In an interview with Economic times, Wipro's Premji has some interesting points to make, below are some highlights: Acqusitions: After around 9 of them, looks like the Bangalore tiger isnt...
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Aberdeen Group's recent assessment of five major ERP software suites found that QAD's customers outperform the others in vital areas of business impact that contribute to total cost of...
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According to a Forrester presentation / survey "Integration issues are the largest barrier to SaaS Adoption". Looks like salesforce.com is try to plug this very problem with the announcement...
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by prashanth on November 27, 2006
On the heals of the recent announcement of Wipro during thier earnings call to open up to pure science graduates, we now have TCS with a program titled 'science-to-software' transformation...
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Today as i was doing my morning browse i came across this announcement "Salesforce, Theikos Launch On-Demand CRM - Instant CRM". Theikos in partnership with Salesforce.com as offering...
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by prashanth on November 27, 2006
Well Newsgator came out with an Enterprise Aggregator , They will be soon releasing NewsGator Enterprise On-Demand (NGEOD). With no installed software, and all the benefits of the enterprise RSS...
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Filed in archive Outsourcing
by prashanth on November 26, 2006
Outsourcing research firm TPI says that the total global outsourcing revenues have declined for the third quarter of '06. Global majors seem to be going for shorter duration of outsourcing...
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by prashanth on November 26, 2006
Attrition & People are the greatest concern for IT Services firms, just read the article on Wipro's revised approach - People Pulse , the people tracker colour-codes every Wipro employee -...
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Filed in archive Outsourcing
by prashanth on November 25, 2006
Today i was reading the article on TCS increasing its billing rates by 3-5% on renewal contracts & 5-10% in new contracts."If there is an opportunity to increase the billing rates in the...
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Gartner has positioned Satyam in the Visionaries quadrant in the Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Implementation Services and Satyam currently employs more than 2,000 business intelligence and...
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IDC study, titled "Worldwide Virtual Machine Software 2005 Vendor Shares" is summarized at Tekrati, Some excerpts: The worldwide virtual machine software (VMS) market grew to $560 million in...
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by prashanth on November 24, 2006
Tenet Healthcare Corp., a large operators of hospitals and outpatient facilities, has signed a sweeping, 10-year IT services deal with Perot Systems Under the contract, Perot will manage information...
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Lufthansa CIO Christop Ganswindt is confident that the "small double digit" millions of dollars investment that Lufthansa is making in the (SOA)set-up will help it cut future development...
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by prashanth on November 24, 2006
Tekrati is carrying a summary of a report on Global Developer Population and Demographics Report by Evans Data Corporation. Some interesting excerpts: The projected global software developer...
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Microsoft will release a new version of its Dynamics CRM (customer relationship management) software with functions that mesh with its forthcoming Vista OS and Office 2007 software. The company's...
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