There is a lot of talk about Talent shortage and rising wages in the context of India and Offshoring. In the 2006 Global Outsourcing Guide, it was indicated that India currently holds 80% to 90% of...

Accenture received the highest customer satisfaction rating for supply chain management services in a recent report published by Forrester, a leading independent research firm. The report,...

Accenture plans to invest $450 million over the next three years to accelerate the growth of its service-oriented architecture (SOA) capabilities. The effort, aimed at helping companies realize the...

Hewlett-Packard Co. said recently that it has reached an agreement to acquire Mercury Interactive Corp., an IT management software and services firm, in a deal worth approximately $4.5 billion. HP...

An alliance of leading software vendors Wednesday announced progress on specifications to define a language-neutral programming model for application development within SOA (service-oriented...

SugarCRM said recently it plans to release Sugar 4.5, the first version of its CRM (customer relationship management) software to fully support Microsoft server products, on Aug. 15 during the...

SAP is updating its software maintenance application designed to help administrators manage upgrades, patches, and other changes to the company's software.Along with the changes to the...

Online software demonstrations are a very effective way to show customers how to use a product's features and functionality. futureLab, a Swiss company, discovered the power of online software...

In a recent whitepaper of Ovum sponsered by Oracle titled "Customers Depend on Oracle Real Application Clusters for High Availability and Scalability" discusses the dynamics between two...

Business software vendor SAP plans to intensify its efforts to win over users of rival applications from Oracle Corp., an SAP executive said recently. SAP intends to release the second version of its...

For a long time i have been meaning to write about Newsgators Enterprise RSS platform, in fact Todd Berkowitz from their marketing department took me through a demo a couple of months back, but...

Some time back we saw a case study of a WIKI being used in the Enterprise check out link here, now Software developer Six Apart Ltd. introduced a blogging product in the U.S. designed for enterprise...

Salesforce.com Inc. officially unveiled the 20th generation of its hosted customer relationship management software yesterday, also announced a connector integrating its CRM software-as-a-service...

A post on the ZDNet SOA Blog , discusses a study done by the Aberdeen group of 120 "best in class" companies/organisations who are well along in SOA. The study calculates, that these...

Forrester recently named BEA an enterprise service bus market leader in its recent report entitled, "The Enterprise Service Bus: The Forrester Wave™ Product Evaluation, Q2 2006." BEA was...

Paul Murphy , Has an post titled CIO Taxonomy, and goes on to list according to him what the most common seterotypes of CIO's are, excerpts of the same: 1. Bluffer. Bluffing is the easiest and...

The extent of changes happening in application architecture should not be underestimated, as they are gradual and sometimes unintentional, said Gartner. Their analysts have identified application...

Through the Computerworlds whitepaper repository, i came across this whitepaper by IDG, titled Thinking Outside the Box: Architecting for Agility. Here is a summary/description of the whitepaper: A...

Corratech an open source software services and consulting firm, providing custom software development, best practice consulting, implementation and deployment services, as well as post implementation...

NASSCOM, the premier trade body and 'voice' of the IT software and service industry in India, recently released the rankings of Top 20 IT Software and Service exporters in India. Here is the...

Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein (DrKW) is the international investment banking arm of Dresdner Bank. Based in Europe, but with a global reach (London/Franfurt/Tokyo/Singapore/Hong Kong etc), DrKW...

EDS has moved to complete the acquisition of a majority stake in MphasiS BFL Limited, one of the fastest growing India-based IT services providers. This transaction is expected to be completed by the...

EDS announced recently a six-year, $700 million agreement to integrate the communications infrastructure for recently acquired MBNA Corporation into Bank of America's state-of-the-art voice and...

July 03rd was the 44th anniversary of Electronic Data Systems Corp. (EDS). It was founded by H. Ross Perot. Together, he and the people of EDS created the information technology (IT) outsourcing...

SAP announced on June 29th that the company has expanded its worldwide leadership as the number one enterprise software vendor, based on market share numbers. Gartner Dataquest, a division of Gartner,...

Cognizant a leading provider of IT services, today announced that the Company has been ranked the 21 st largest healthcare IT provider by Healthcare Informatics magazine in their 13 th annual survey...

IT Leadership academy recently conducted a survey of 300-plus first-level IT executives (those who report to the CIO), second-level executives (who report to the first level) and third-level...

Business Objects preliminary results for the second quarter are "disappointing and below our expectations," Chief Executive Officer John Schwartz said on Thursday. The business intelligence...

Oracle recently made an announcement that in 2006 585 Companies choose Oracle Apps over SAP, Excerpts from the press release: In an effort to simplify information management and business process...

I dont think many people would have thought of Governance , Risk Management & Compliance as a competitive advantage, but that is exactly what SAP says its trying to make it. In my last post i...

Looks like MS is making sure they cover both the front & the backend of the BI solution space, First the release of SQL 2005,which has a formidable BI stack and thier intelligence front-end tools...

Infoworld has an interview with the CEO of Black Duck Software, Douglas Levin, a former Microsoft executive, About the Company and issues pertaining to intellectual property and open source. Excerpts...

Infosys whitepaper, highlights a solution designed by them to improve the retail channel execution of new product launches, by providing the CPG companies with visibility in the last mile of the...

A post at the Sandhill.com blog by Chris Perrine refers to thier study of Asian SaaS Market, here are some excerpts from the post. The Asian SaaS market is a particularly dynamic, promising and...

After SAPPHIRE06 , i have always wanted to spend sometime better understanding the GRC (Governance, Risk-Management & Compliance) Model of SAP, As during SAPPHIRE06 the keynote speakers made it...