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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 ad...
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Enterprise Software
by prashanth on November 30, 2006
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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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:
"W...
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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 acc...
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Enterprise Software
by prashanth on November 29, 2006
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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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 30 ...
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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 satiate...
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Enterprise Software
by prashanth on November 28, 2006
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 ownersh...
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Integration Software
by prashanth on November 28, 2006
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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Offshoring
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 pro...
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Enterprise Software
by prashanth on November 27, 2006
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 Instan...
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General
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 solut...
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Outsourcing
by prashanth on November 27, 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 contrac...
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Management
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 - red...
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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 exis...
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Enterprise Software
by prashanth on November 25, 2006
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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Enterprise Software
by prashanth on November 25, 2006
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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Outsourcing
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 s...
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Integration Software
by prashanth on November 24, 2006
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 cos...
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Management
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 populatio...
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Enterprise Software
by prashanth on November 22, 2006
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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Management
by prashanth on November 22, 2006
Architects will be the glue that binds IT to business strategy, and service-oriented architecture (SOA) is one example of the "new wave" of IT delivering business value by cutting operationa...
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Enterprise Software
by prashanth on November 22, 2006
In keynote address at Convergence 2006 EMEA speech Gates also outlined the vision for Microsoft Dynamics in the "Live" era that takes business productivity to the next level by deeply integr...
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Management
by prashanth on November 22, 2006
Found an article on the SAP site which talks about SME's and specifically their interest in SME's. Below are excerpts from the same:
On-demand software applications are in growing demand by sm...
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Enterprise Software
by prashanth on November 21, 2006
office Accounting Express 2007, an updated version of Office Small Business Accounting 2006, will be available here for free, said Rajat Taneja, a Microsoft general manager for small business applicat...
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Management
by prashanth on November 20, 2006
Midmarket applications vendor Infor Global Solutions continues to buy out its peers to become a US$3 billion business within a year.With Infor's most recent purchases of SSA Global, Extensity and ...
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Management
by prashanth on November 20, 2006
Phil Wainewright has a post up covering the SIIA OnDemand Summit, Below are some excerpts from the same:
Abhijit Dubey of McKinsey revealed that a new survey by his organization has found that the pro...
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Enterprise Software
by prashanth on November 20, 2006
The Global SME unit will launch in January with Hans-Peter Klaey at the helm. Klaey, had previously helped establish SAP's EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) operations and, since 2002, and has...
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Enterprise Software
by prashanth on November 20, 2006
A SaaS delivered ERP system founded by PeopleSoft founder Dave Duffield and his friends.Focussed on themidmarket (1000 to 5000 employees or between 200m$ to 1B$) in North America.
AMR has an article i...
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Outsourcing
by prashanth on November 19, 2006
Here is an interesting note that i found in the interview of HCL's Shiv Nadar on the IT Services industry
"Consider the mental baggage that IT companies have today. Each quarter, Indian IT f...
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Enterprise Software
by prashanth on November 17, 2006
Annrai the CEO of Cape Clear has a post up highlighting that SOA needs to be looked at from a business user perspective and not only from a technically point of view to avoid it from going down the ro...
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Management
by prashanth on November 15, 2006
Following up on the series, here is trend 1:
Increasing costs in India
Close to 50% of cost of most Indian IT Services companies are their people, talent cost have been on the raise for some time now....
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General
by prashanth on November 15, 2006
Zoho-ians, do you think it will be possible to use your application environement (writer/creator etc etc) as the front end and use Amazon S3 or similar option as the backend (data repository)?
Your th...
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Management
by prashanth on November 13, 2006
Have been thinking about the Indian IT Services industry in general, So i thought i will put down a post listing some facts of the industry and and trends that are impacting the industry.
First is a ...
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Management
by prashanth on November 9, 2006
Nasscom and IDC have published a report discussing the current size and future potential and direction of India as IT Services and ITES-BPO market.The key output of the study seems to be the unearthin...
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Events
by prashanth on November 8, 2006
As a part of the SDN Day yesterday Craig had also organized a panel discussion on the the "Innovation & Technology" centered around comparisons between silicon Valley of the West and Sil...
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Enterprise Software
by prashanth on November 8, 2006
Here is an excerpt form the Bangalore Teched press release :
A Growing Commitment to IndiaSAP has located one of its SAP TechEd conferences in India in recognition of the country's rapidly growing...
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Events
by prashanth on November 7, 2006
I am sitting in a session with the same title run by Hyther from ZOHO ( SaaS delivered Office Application)...Some points from the discussionCollaboration is the key in Web 2.0 World
Enterprise Applica...
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Events
by prashanth on November 7, 2006
Well thanks to Craig i am at SDN Day Bangalore....well Mark Yolton is doing his presentation as i type this in, in between his presentation he throws up quotes on SDN and BPX from .....you guessed it....
