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- Weak US dollar starts to drive up mobile software prices
- I am working on a full review of the excellent SoftMaker Office 2008 for Pocket PC and just received a note from the company that has an effect on pricing for U.S. buyers. Due to the fact that SoftMaker is a German company dealing in Euros, the significant loss in...
- Tags: U.S., Mobile, Reduction, Pricing Strategy, SoftMaker Office 2008, Pocket PC, Pricing, Marketing Research, Advertising & Promotion, Operating Systems, Handhelds, Hardware, Marketing, Software, Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- PaaS embraces client access licensing
- Platform-as-a-service is going through a similar rite of passage as conventional software did when it met the Web in the late 1990s - trying to work out the fairest way to license occasional users. by Phil Wainewright
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, Enterprise Software, PaaS, Extranet, Coghead, Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Business Services, Pricing, Emerging Technologies, Marketing, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- The evolution of search over traditional BI
- Today's business intelligence tools are great at tracking tradional numbers but fail to quench business's thirst for more information says Commentary--A recent Gartner report predicts that IT’s involvement in business intelligence BI will diminish in time as business users adopt new technologies to quench...
- Tags: Payment, Data, Analyst, Information, Pricing, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management, business intelligence, search, Sid Probstein, Attivio
- News items 2008-07-22
- Smart grid players extend their influence beyond the pilot phase
- When it comes to real market potential in the green tech space, smart grid-related technology is right up there. In any given week, I could post a half-dozen blogs about developments in this world. Echelon, in particular, has had a very busy summer, inking a new deal in Denmark, expanding...
- Tags: Echelon, Project Deployment, Pricing, Telecom & Utilities, Marketing Research, Marketing, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
- SAP to shut down TomorrowNow; Oracle gets its sacrifice
- SAP's purchase of TomorrowNow in 2005 sounded like a great idea: Undercut Oracle on support and squeeze your biggest rival. And then came Oracle's lawsuit. SAP said Monday that it will wind down the operations of TomorrowNow, which provided third party support for Oracle applications. In a...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., SAP AG, TomorrowNow, Pricing, Marketing Research, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
- CIOs getting better prices, see flat second half spending
- A Citi Investment Research survey of 200 CIOs finds a cautious outlook for technology spending that's roughly flat in the second half compared to a year ago. Under the surface, however, there are some interesting crosscurrents and IT buyers are getting better pricing. The survey released last...
- Tags: CIO, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Outsourcing, Operational Planning, Server Consolidation, Pricing, Marketing Research, It Services, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Servers, Hardware, Marketing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-14
- Oracle joins iPhone mania
- Last night, Oracle released Business Indicators on iTunes. It is a free client for the iPhone that provides top level information from business intelligence applications. Oracle is trying to appeal to a broad range of business users and claims the following examples: "Contact center ...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Oracle Corp., Pricing, Taxes, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Free Trade, Monitors & Displays, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Financial Planning, Finance, Software, Data Management, Management, Hardware, Components, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-07-11
- Analyst: 35% of iPhone 3G buyers will get it for $199
- The pricing of the next generation iPhone may be a point of confusion on Friday and Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster expects only 35 percent of buyers will get the $199 price. As a result, initial sales of the iPhone 3G may be diluted. See all incoming iPhone posts...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, AT&T Corp., 3G, Sales Strategy, Cellular Phones, Pricing, Marketing Research, Advertising & Promotion, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Sales, Marketing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-10
- Canon USA announces EOS Rebel XS 10-megapixel dSLR pricing
- Canon USA has finally announced U.S. pricing and availability for the long-rumored Canon EOS Rebel XS, its new entry-level dSLR which Canon officially announced in Japan on June 10. The 10-megapixel Rebel XS available in black or silver will ship in August and is available only in a kit version...
- Tags: DSLR, Pricing Strategy, Canon USA Inc., Canon Inc., DP Review, Pricing, Marketing Research, Marketing, Janice Chen
- Blog posts 2008-07-09
- Microsoft to sell hosted service subscriptions for $3 a month
- For Microsoft resellers that had been fearing Microsoft would drop the bottom out of the hosted-services business with its Microsoft Online services offerings, their nightmares were realized on July 8. Microsoft is planning to sell Microsoft-hosted Exchange and SharePoint for $3 per user per month. by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Pricing, Marketing Research, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-07-08
- Offshoring: India still No. 1
- Bangalore remains on top as the global outsourcing leader but with prices on the rise in India, locations like Beijing and Auckland are catching up fast. Bangalore has retained its position as the ideal global delivery location for businesses, according to a new report from IDC. The...
- Tags: India, City, Beijing, International Data Corp., Delivery Location, Government, Vertical Industries, Outsourcing, Pricing, Enterprise Software, Software, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Marketing, offshoring, China, Vivian Yeo, ZDNet Asia
- News items 2008-06-27
- Interview: HP information management maven Rod Walker describes how BI empowers business leaders to innovate
- In health care, customer retention, energy and oil management, and for global risk reduction and compliance, BI is offering some of the best payoffs from IT and datacenter investments, says Rod Walker, vice president for information management at HP's Consulting and Integration group. by Dana Gardner
- Tags: Information Management, Hewlett-Packard Co., Leader, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Podcasts, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management, Internet, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-06-20
- Xohm WiMAX service to launch in Baltimore in September 08
- We have been hearing about the on and off story of Sprint, Clearwire, and Xohm for quite some time now and I pretty much had given up hope of really seeing any commercial release of WiMAX with 4G right around the corner. According to Sprint CTO Barry West, Xohm will...
- Tags: Sprint Xohm, WiMAX, Pricing, Modems, Wireless, Wi-Fi, Marketing Research, Marketing, Hardware, Components, Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2008-06-18
- Don't buy a Canon EOS Rebel XSi or XTi for Father's Day--wait for the Rebel XS
- I was just trying to decide whether to include the Canon EOS Rebel XTi or XSi in a post on DSLRs to get for your dad or grad when today's Canon EOS Rebel XS announcement knocked both off the list. That's not to say that...
- Tags: DSLR, Pricing Strategy, Canon Inc., XS, See Lori Grunin, Pricing, Marketing Research, Marketing, Janice Chen
- Blog posts 2008-06-10
- AT&T is the big winner with the iPhone 3G announcement
- I know readers are probably a bit tired of all the iPhone news so I will try to make this my last post about it for at least the rest of this week. If we take the Apple announcement price at face value, US$199 and US$299, the iPhone looks like...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, AT&T Corp., 3G, Smart Phones, Cellular Phones, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Pricing, Marketing Research, Handhelds, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Marketing, Hardware, Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2008-06-10
- Scaling the cloud, deflating the price of software
- After a week of intensive usage last December getting his company's application to run against Amazon's SimpleDB cloud database, DreamFactory founder and CTO Bill Appleton wondered how big a bill he'd run up. To his amazement, what had seemed like a week's heavy usage had cost just a few cents....
- Tags: Software, Database, On-demand, Amazon.com Inc., Pricing Strategy, DreamFactory, Bill Appleton, Pricing, Cloud Computing, Marketing Research, Marketing, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-06-05
- Sharing your login is a criminal offence
- It looks like security-as-a-service is going to be one of the themes I cover here next week, and meanwhile I'm mulling a new post about SaaS and software pricing. So it seemed like a good moment to relay a comment that I heard from one of the panelists speaking back...
- Tags: Software, Commoditization, Pricing Strategy, Software As A Service (SaaS), Pricing, Tools & Techniques, Marketing Research, Emerging Technologies, Marketing, Management, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-05-30
- Google App Engine pricing a disappointment
- At the same time they officially announced that Google App Engine is opening up to the public, Google has finally shared it's pricing strategy for the service. Google hasn't charged anybody anything to use the service while it's in preview mode. Even if the number and popularity of...
- Tags: Google Inc., Bandwidth, Storage, Pricing Strategy, Pricing, Marketing, Garett Rogers
- Blog posts 2008-05-29
- Google's mission: Extend the browser
- Google Gears launched a year ago and the search giant is ditching its moniker to reinforce that Gears is an open source project. So far so good, MySpace has used Gears to launch search and sort mail messages. The overall theme: Google is trying to extend the browser. ...
- Tags: Google Inc., Google Gears, Google Earth, Web Browser, MySpace, Pricing Detail, Web Browsers, Pricing, Channel Management, Marketing Research, Internet, Marketing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-28
- Options Straddle/Strangle Calculator (exe)
- This Options Calculator is a tool to calculate or simulate your possible profit/loss in Straddle and Strangle (in options-trading strategies). Features: a graphical output of your Risk/Profit-Profile; dynamic presentation of loss/profit at each part of the graph; calculates break-even points; calculates maximal loss risk; provides help by pricing the options...
- Tags: Option, Options-Calculator, Pricing, Productivity, Marketing Research, Strategy, Marketing, Management
- Software downloads 2008-05-20
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