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- SAP: Business drop was 'sudden and unexpected'; Credit crunch hurt IT financing
- SAP said Monday its business fell off in September as the company warned that its third quarter wouldn't meet its previous targets as a broad swath of customers delayed information technology projects. In contrast to SAP's upbeat outlook in July, the company in a statement said it...
- Tags: Software, Revenue, Information Technology, Financing, SAP AG, Tools & Techniques, Operational Accounting, Financial Accounting, Strategy, Management, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- Agresso's answer to ERP addiction
- Earlier today I took a briefing from Agresso. Up front I'll say that I have something of a soft spot for this company. Some years back I did some very early formative work on what is now their BLINC Businesses Living In Change schtik and was...
- Tags: ERP Vendor, Oracle Corp., ERP, Agresso, Aggresso, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Enterprise Software, Software, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-10-01
- Oracle CRM: spot the disconnect
- Oracle CRM: spot the disconnectOracle's 10Q and CRMSome more color from the 10Q:On Demand revenue growth was positively affected by foreign currency rate fluctuations of 4 percentage points in the first quarter of fiscal 2009. Excluding the effect of currency rate fluctuations, On Demand revenues increased in the first quarter...
- Tags: Customer relationship management (CRM), Advertising & Promotion, Anthony, Oracle Corp., Demand revenue, CRM, Oracle CRM, currency rate fluctuation
- Discussion threads 2008-09-25
- The services game: Will you trust a tech company to solve your business problems?
- The services game: Will you trust a tech company to solve your business problems?Trust IBM!?Having witnessed first hand PWC's work on implementing SAP, and IBM's capabilities as an IT outsourcing expert, the trust is gone.Not a new concept, and not isolated to IBMThe concept of providing business services that fall...
- Tags: Outsourcing, services game, business problem, tech company, IBM Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-09-22
- Oracle's first quarter allays worries
- Oracle reported first quarter earnings that topped expectations as new software licenses were in line with estimates. Revenue, however, was light. In a statement Thursday, Oracle said it reported earnings of $1.1 billion, or 21 cents a share preview. Excluding charges, Oracle reported earnings of $1.5 billion,...
- Tags: Software, Revenue, Oracle Corp., Software License, Earnings, Software License Revenue, Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-09-18
- Adobe allays worries; Sets up for CS4 launch
- Adobe's third quarter earnings handily topped Wall Street estimates and the company projected fourth quarter results that are in line to better than what analysts were expecting. Adobe on Tuesday reported third quarter earnings of $191.6 million, or 35 cents a share, on revenue of $887.3 million,...
- Tags: Revenue, Adobe Systems Inc., Earnings, Operational Accounting, Financial Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-09-16
- Dell: Turnaround interruptus as share grab hurts net, margins
- Dell's second quarter earnings fell short of projections, but revenue was well ahead of targets. Translation: Dell is gaining share at the expense of its bottom line as price competition heats up. Dell reported fiscal second quarter earnings of 31 cents a share on revenue of $16.4...
- Tags: Revenue, Dell Computer Corp., Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-28
- HP closes EDS purchase; Outlines services exec line-up
- HP on Tuesday said it completed its $13.9 billion acquisition of EDS and announced its management team for its services unit. With the EDS purchase, HP's services business will have annual revenue of more than $38 billion and 210,000 employees. Now the integration begins. HP CEO Mark...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Electronic Data Systems Corp., Senior Vice President, Outsourcing, Data Centers, Strategy, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-26
- Salesforce quarter on target
- Salesforce.com reported fiscal second quarter earnings that were on target with Wall Street estimates. The company on Wednesday reported second quarter earnings statement of $9.99 million, or 8 cents a share, on revenue of $263 million, up 49 percent from a year ago. According to Thomson Reuters...
- Tags: Revenue, Salesforce.com Inc., InStranet Inc., Earnings, Sales Force Management, Financial Accounting, Sales, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-20
- HP delivers strong third quarter fueled by blades, international, notebooks
- HP on Tuesday reported fiscal third quarter earnings of $2 billion, or 80 cents a share, on revenue of $28 billion, up 10 percent from a year ago. Excluding items, HP reported earnings of 86 cents a share, 3 cents ahead of Wall Street estimates. Revenue also...
- Tags: Revenue, Notebook, Hewlett-Packard Co., Blade, Operating Profit, Earnings, Operational Accounting, Sales Strategy, Finance, Sales, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-19
- EDS shareholders approve HP deal; EDS shoots down layoff rumors
- Updated throughout: EDS said Thursday that shareholders have approved the HP acquisition of the IT services company. Internally, rumors about impending layoffs at EDS are surfacing, but a company spokesman called the rumors "completely factually incorrect." According to a statement, 98.8 percent of EDS common stock was...
- Tags: Shareholder, Layoff, Hewlett-Packard Co., Electronic Data Systems Corp., Workforce Management, Financial Accounting, Human Resources, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-31
- SAP: Revenue growth strong, margins projected up
- SAP on Tuesday reported second quarter net income that was down 9 percent from a year ago due primarily to merger integration costs, but revenue surged 18 percent. The company said it will hit the high end of its 2008 revenue targets. The enterprise application giant reported...
- Tags: Software, Revenue, Euro, SAP AG, Operational Accounting, Tools & Techniques, Finance, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-29
- Apple's Mac shipments surge; Lowballs on outlook; Jobs health worries
- Updated: Apple on Monday reported fiscal third quarter earnings of $1.07 billion, or $1.19 a share, on revenue of $7.46 billion, well ahead of Wall Street estimates as Mac sales continued to surge. However, Apple lowered its outlook and failed to allay concerns about CEO Steve Jobs' health. ...
- Tags: Revenue, Apple iPhone, Job, Apple Macintosh, Health Care, Apple Inc., Steve, Operational Accounting, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Finance, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
- California greenlights two renewable energy development projects
- Southern California Edison has received the thumbs-up from the California Public Utilities Commission to contract to buy clean energy from two new alternative energy projects. The first, the Granite Wind development in San Bernardino County, will see the construction of a 41-megawatt wind farm slated to come...
- Tags: Renewable Energy, California, Photovoltaics, Manufacturing, Telecom & Utilities, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-07-20
- SAP 'Mittelstand' customers upset at new maintenance charges
- Following on from yesterday's announcement of a hike in SAP maintenance charges, the German title Computerwoche implies that the powerful 'Mittelstand' group in the German SAP user group are far from happy. Under the title: "Higher maintenance costs upset SAP customers ," Computerwoche interviewed Gunther Rheinhart, executive member of the...
- Tags: Customer, SAP AG, Mittelstand, Gunther Rheinhart, Auto-renew, Software As A Service (SaaS), Workforce Management, Outsourcing, Emerging Technologies, Human Resources, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-07-17
- America's blocked labor policies
- America's blocked labor policiesAll of our restrictions help Canada though. Companies, including MS are nowsetting up shop in Canada to get around US restrictions. Also, India and others will benefit, as more people stay home. Not sure what the solution is, but we only hurt ourselves with the restrictions.RE: America's...
- Tags: H-1B, Recruitment & Selection, visa, blocked labor policy, labor policy, job, H1B
- Discussion threads 2008-06-25
- Adobe ups outlook; Creative Suite chugs along
- Adobe's second quarter results and third quarter outlook were better than expected. After the market closed Monday, Adobe reported net income of $214.9 million, or 40 cents a share, on revenue of $886.9 million. Excluding charges and other items, Adobe's earnings were 50 cents a share, 4...
- Tags: Revenue, Adobe Systems Inc., Adobe Creative Suite, Operational Accounting, Sales Strategy, Finance, Sales, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-06-16
- Nufarm Americas Integrates Operating Procedures and Reduces Inventory Costs by US$5 Million
- Nufarm Americas wanted to establish a solid and scalable IT infrastructure in a common platform to support the company's growth in the region and centralize accounting and financial information to consolidate operations among branches in the region. The challenge was to standardize processes to improve business practices throughout the organization...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Financial, Nufarm Americas, Financial Accounting, Finance
- Case studies 2008-06-01
- Top programs for product placement on broadcast TV in Q1 2008
- Program Network Total # Occurrences The Biggest Loser NBC 3,977 American Idol FOX 3,291 The Apprentice NBC 1,646 Deal Or No Deal NBC 1,603 Extreme Makeover Home Edition ABC 1,011 Big Brother 9 CBS 1,011...
- Tags: NBC, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Networking, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, NB
- Blog posts 2008-05-27
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