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Zoho.....Has a winner Title: Zoho.....Has a winner
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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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SaaS in the Asian Context by Springboard Research Title: SaaS in the Asian Context by Springboard Research
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Filed in archive 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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IBM an ERP Company - Redmonk Title: IBM an ERP Company - Redmonk
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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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Outsourcing needs Counterintutive thinking Title: Outsourcing needs Counterintutive thinking
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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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QAD & Infor VS Oracle & SAP Title: QAD & Infor VS Oracle & SAP
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Filed in archive 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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TCS Growth Plan - 4 Billion in 2007...10Billion in 2010 Title: TCS Growth Plan - 4 Billion in 2007...10Billion in 2010
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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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Bangalore tiger still on the prowl Title: Bangalore tiger still on the prowl
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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 - QAD Customers Enjoy greater business performance gains... Title: Aberdeen Group - QAD Customers Enjoy greater business performance gains...
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Filed in archive 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...

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Salesforce.com - Backend Integration tools Title: Salesforce.com - Backend Integration tools
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Filed in archive Integration Software by prashanth on November 27, 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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TCS's Science to Software transformation program Title: TCS's Science to Software transformation program
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Filed in archive 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...

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Instant CRM for India - Theikos & Salesforce.com Title: Instant CRM for India - Theikos & Salesforce.com
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Filed in archive 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...

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SaaSy RSS Aggregator Title: SaaSy RSS Aggregator
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Filed in archive 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...

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IT Services - Global Down / Local Up - 3rd QTR Title: IT Services - Global Down / Local Up - 3rd QTR
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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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Wipro's Apporach to Attrition Title: Wipro's Apporach to Attrition
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Filed in archive 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 -...

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TCS ups the prices Title: TCS ups the prices
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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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Pentaho, Strategic Alliance with Satyam Title: Pentaho, Strategic Alliance with Satyam
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Filed in archive 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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Virtual Machine Software Market Growth = 67% - IDC Title: Virtual Machine Software Market Growth = 67% - IDC
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Filed in archive 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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Tenet Healthcare Outsources to Perot Title: Tenet Healthcare Outsources to Perot
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Filed in archive 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...

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Cost cuts with SOA Software - Lufthansa's CIO Title: Cost cuts with SOA Software - Lufthansa's CIO
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Filed in archive 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...

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17 Million Developers by 2009 - Evans Data Corp Title: 17 Million Developers by 2009 - Evans Data Corp
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Filed in archive 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...

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Microsoft Dynamics Along with Vista / Office 2007 Title: Microsoft Dynamics Along with Vista / Office 2007
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Filed in archive 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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SOA driven IT Recruitment Title: SOA driven IT Recruitment
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Filed in archive 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...

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Microsoft Dynamics Live Title: Microsoft Dynamics Live
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Filed in archive 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...

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SME IT Priorities Revealed - OnDemand Title: SME IT Priorities Revealed - OnDemand
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Filed in archive 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...

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Free Small business software by Microsoft Title: Free Small business software by Microsoft
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Filed in archive 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...

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Infor Global Solutions - Growing Gaint Title: Infor Global Solutions - Growing Gaint
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Filed in archive 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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SaaS Adoption plans ....Growing Title: SaaS Adoption plans ....Growing
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Filed in archive 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...

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SAP sets up SME foccussed unit. - Global SME Title: SAP sets up SME foccussed unit. - Global SME
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Filed in archive 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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Workday Title: Workday
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Filed in archive 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...

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Shiv Nadar on the current state of IT Services firms - K@W Title: Shiv Nadar on the current state of IT Services firms - K@W
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Filed in archive 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...

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SOA is your New Business Application - Cape Clear Title: SOA is your New Business Application - Cape Clear
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Filed in archive 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...

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Indian IT Services Industry - On going Analysis - Trend 1 ( Increased Cost In India) Title: Indian IT Services Industry - On going Analysis - Trend 1 ( Increased Cost In India)
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Filed in archive Management by prashanth on November 14, 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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Note to Zoho Title: Note to Zoho
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Filed in archive General by prashanth on November 14, 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...

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Indian IT Services Industry - Ongoing Analysis - OVERVIEW Title: Indian IT Services Industry - Ongoing Analysis - OVERVIEW
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Filed in archive 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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India as a market for IT / ITES Title: India as a market for IT / ITES
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Filed in archive Management by prashanth on November 09, 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...

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SDN Day Panel Discussion Title: SDN Day Panel Discussion
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Filed in archive Events by prashanth on November 08, 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...

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SAP Commitment India Title: SAP Commitment India
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Filed in archive Enterprise Software by prashanth on November 08, 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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SAP Meets Web 2.0 - SDN Day Bangaluroo! Title: SAP Meets Web 2.0 - SDN Day Bangaluroo!
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Filed in archive Events by prashanth on November 07, 2006

I am sitting in a session with the same title run by Hyther from ZOHO ( SaaS delivered Office Application)...Some points from the discussion Collaboration is the key in Web 2.0 WorldEnterprise...

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SDN Day - Bangalore - Kicks Off Title: SDN Day - Bangalore - Kicks Off
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Filed in archive Events by prashanth on November 07, 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...

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