Hyperion recently announced support for Google OneBox for Enterprise, a feature of the Google Search Appliance. The new solution goes beyond the search integration offered by other Business...

According to several users here at the Computerworld BI Perspectives conference, Hammering out data governance policies and garnering executive buy-in are two of the thorniest issues when companies...

The SAS Warranty Analysis solution has allowed Shanghai GM to reduce the warranty analysis cycle time by 70 percent within the first six months and to substantially cut warranty costs - the main...

ComputerWorld has an aritcle highlight the endevour by IBM to put in place a catalog of known problems with software and systems to help applications fix themselves automatically, on this initiative...

SAP today announced that it has hired Uwe Herold as its new chief information officer.As of October 1, 2006, Herold will be based in Walldorf, Germany, where he joins the Board area Human Resources,...

BEA introduced SOA 360, a unified Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), it spans three BEA product families Tuxedo, WebLogic and AquaLogic and is built on the company's native SOA microService...

At the SAP Teched, An announcement made was that SAP is evolving the product release map for mySAP 2005, indicating that mySAP 2005 will be the cornerstone of thier strategy moving forward. Delivering...

Aberdeen group has a report titled "Workforce Analytics-2006 Benchmark Report", below are some thoughts on the points in the same. The topic might be of great interest to companies world...

"Service Product Approach" seems to be the core Mantra. Here are some excerpts from the ITWorld article: IBM is due to begin rolling out the first two of what it terms "service...

I came across an Oracle whitepaper with the same title as the post, Doing a quick summary of some of the sections: Primary SOA value patterns identified are:- SOA-based Integration- Modern, Composite...

AMI Partners has a report titled "2005-2006 India Small Business Market Overview and Comprehensive Market Opportunity Assessment" & "2005-2006 India Medium Business Market Overview...

Gartner report has a report with the same title, Below are some excerpts from the same: The next three years will be lean for vendors selling integrated software applications, especially those...

At the Tekrati site, i came across the report by IDC on thhe BI Market, below are some of the comments from the same: According to a recent IDC study, information access applications will drive growth...

HP is opening additional competency centers around the world to help customers looking to implement service-oriented architectures.The SOA centers-in Bangalore, India, Singapore and Cupertino,...

Infoworld has an Interview with Howard Dresner the Chief Strategy Officer of Hyperion. Belwo are some excerpts from the interview: IDGNS: What's held up BI adoption? Dresner: It's typically...

Gartner has a case study up on how AXA Financial one of the largest U.S. financial services providers (FSPs) used Business Intelligence technologies to help focus its sales force, it basically...

Baseline has an article discussing the survey released by the Society for Information Management on Sept. 18. Key Highlights: 51.8 percent of those surveyed said 2007 IT budgets would be higher than...

Pentaho - creator of the world's most popular open source business intelligence (BI) suite, today announced that it has acquired the Weka open source data mining project developed by the...

Cognizant is a leading provider of IT services As the fastest-growing global IT services company on this year's list, Cognizant ranked #31 overall and was one of only two companies to be named a...

Netezza, the global data warehouse appliance leader (refered in an earlier post here), recently announced it has been positioned in the Visionary quadrant of the Magic Quadrant for Data Warehouse...

In another report by IDC focussed on Business Analytics Applications there are some further interesting insights: Early quantitative surveys lend credence to strong interest in, awareness of, and...

Primary trends in the analytics market (By IDC)that are driving the technical requirements of software platforms to support decision making include: Growth in the number of end users:# Internal access...

EDS today announced that it received a rating of "strong positive" for its Data Center Outsourcing in the July 26, 2006, Gartner MarketScope for Data Center Outsourcing, North America, 2006...

Information Week has an article on ADP and the work they have done with SOA, SOA helps ADP deliver new services to customers, but the development process can be complicated and fraught with problems....

HCL Technologies, one of India's leading global IT Services company, announced recently its vision for Transformational Strategy and Services with the introduction of 'Enterprise...

Was reading a Gartner report on Microsoft Dynamics CRM available at the Microsoft site, Please find below excerpts from the same: Microsoft Dynamics CRM v.3.0 has caused a significant increase in...

"Our results suggest that inventory turnover improves and overall profitability increases when firms use these IT-based systems," said Vernon Richardson, professor of accounting in the Sam...

General Electric has selected Indian outsourcing company HCL Technologies to set up and operate GE's development centers in India and China. HCL, of Noida, near Delhi, will set up and operate the...

Last month IBM announced that IDC has ranked IBM Websphere Portal as the number one portal software based on software license and maintenance revenue. According to IDC, IBM led the worldwide...

Reinforcing the company's strategy around open source business models, IBM today announced new software and resources to help customers leverage their investments in open source development tools...

Accessed has The Forrester Wave: Enterprise Service Bus, Q2 2006, By Ken Vollmer and Mike Gilpin, at Zdnet Whitepapers (via Cape Clear). Below are some excerpts from the same: Forrester's...

Wipro was doing the acquisition round till recently now another Indian IT Services major has joined the acquisition band wagon...Cognizant recently announced the acquisition of AimNet Solutions a...

Joe Mckendrick has a post summarizing an article by AMR Analyst - Brue Richardson titled "ERP Doomsday Scenario: Death by SOA?" which predicts ""rapid adoption of SOA will lead to...

On the I-Flex site you can access the Gartner report with a similar title which focusses on Banking organisations looking at upgrading thier IT Architectures to meet the demanding needs of the...

When it comes to SOA/Web services, striking the right balance between what business units need and what IT departments deliver is difficult. According to an InformationWeek Research Web survey of 273...

In continuation with the yesterdays post, i came across a couple of interesting article's / post, Think Flat blog followed up with another post on India, China Outsourcing and Fortune has an...

Gartner report "Competition Intensifies Between Fast-Growing and Large IT Providers for Financial Service Engagements," (published July 27, 2006 and written by Gartner analyst Susan...