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The Future of Application Outsourcing: Making the Move From Tactical to Strategic

Application outsourcing has come a long way since the Y2K projects of the 1990s. As marketplaces expanded to global proportions - and competition followed - application outsourcing has filled an ongoing need for cost-effectiveness by providing development and maintenance resources at price points that organizations could not reach locally or...

Tags: IBM Corp., Application Outsourcing, Managed Hosting, Y2K, Outsourcing, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting

White papers 2008-07-01

Tech earnings: So far so good

A trio of technology companies reported earnings and provided a rough sketch of industry conditions. Here's a quick survey of the landscape. Overall, the results weren't bad--with the exception of Tibco, which turned in a poor quarter. Combined with earnings from the likes of Oracle and Red Hat...

Tags: Revenue, TIBCO Software Inc., Cognos Inc., Accenture Ltd., Outsourcing, Earnings, Wall, Application Outsourcing, Financial Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2007-09-28

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No more servers? Rackspace says IT workers are tired of them

And, as servers move to the cloud, fewer and fewer will be Windows servers.When you deploy thousands, you can pay millions in licensing for Windows, and, then Windows is less stable and less secure.RE: No more servers? Rackspace says IT workers are tired of themI wonder how well those outsourced...

Tags: Servers, server, information technology, Rackspace

Discussion threads 2009-11-10

Enterprises saving $26 million per project with open source

Using Only COCOMO Seriously FlawedIt assumes that every component would be developed from scratch for every project instead of being commercially licensed or re-used from another in-house project.A MySQL license purchased from Sun is much less expensive than recreating MySQL.Wow that's such total crap I'd be amazed if anyone believed...

Tags: Linux, open source

Discussion threads 2009-11-10

Dell finalizes $3.9 billion offer for Perot

The takeover of Perot has created a new business arm called Dell Services, which will provide IT services to customers, and extend Dell's reach into technology hosting, consulting, and application outsourcing, among other segments. Dell announced on Tuesday that it has completed its $3.9bn offer to buy technology...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Perot Systems Corp., Outsourcing, It Services, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Dell, Perot, Lance Whitney CNET News

News items 2009-11-04

Outsourcing picks up for smaller enterprises

The outsourcing market has traditionally been perceived as something only the larger enterprises entertain. Research from Computer Economics suggests that as the large enterprise business has become tougher, the outsourcing companies are getting better at reaching the smaller and mid-sized market. The reports...

Tags: Application Development, Information Technology, Outsource, Service Provider, IT Organization, Outsourcing, Managed Hosting, Software Development, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Software/Web Development, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-09-30

Dell and Perot: What this means

Look at more than the upside to any acquisition Dell and Perot are getting married. This acquisition puts approximately 23,000 Perot services employees in with Dell. (see Larry Dignan's detailed post on the transaction ) (here's an InfoWorld post, too) From the macro view,...

Tags: Acquisition, Dell Computer Corp., Perot, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-09-21

The ultimate guide to scareware protection

Throughout the last two years, scareware fake security software, quickly emerged as the single most profitable monetization strategy for cybercriminals to take advantage of. Due to the aggressive advertising practices applied by the cybercrime gangs, thousands of users fall victim to the scam on a daily...

Tags: Search Engine Optimization, Web, Search Engine, Antivirus, Malware, Social Engineering, Security Software, Search, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Marketing Research, Marketing, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2009-09-13

AMD's Charlie Boswell: With cloud computing, 'follow the money' [interview]

Andrew, thanks for doing a real interviewThese days, when most bloggers just link to a PR wire story for their source, ZDNet surprises us with an actual interview. An interesting interview to boot! There is still hope for online journalism. Thanks Andrew.RE: AMD's Charlie Boswell: With cloud computing, 'follow the...

Tags: Data centers, Virtualization, INTERNET, cloud computing, Advanced Micro Devices Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-09-11

India outsourcing workers stressed to the limit

This applies to America as well"Workers are suffering from obesity, sleep disorders, depression and broken relationships - problems which can lead to more serious conditions such as diabetes or heart disease. In a country where a public healthcare system is virtually non-existent, overworked outsourcing employees could present a health crisis...

Tags: Managed hosting, Benefits, outsourcing, outsource, health care, job, information technology, worker

Discussion threads 2009-08-26

It’s official: SaaS is now mainstream

It must be mainstream if Unisys and IBM are blessing it Lately, I’ve done a couple of briefings with some large, serious, mainstream firms who have whispered their SaaS software as a service plans to me. Let’s start with Unisys. Unisys is a...

Tags: Software-as-a-service, CIO, Unisys Corp., Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-07-07

CODA and Corefino ink cloud accounting partnership

CODA, which has developed an on-demand financial application built on the Force.com platform has inked a partnership deal with Corefino, the Sunnyvale CA. based accounting outsourcer. Dubbed Corefino2go, the service sees CODA providing the technology requirements for Corefino's people, place and platform offering. Karen Watts, Corefino's CEO...

Tags: Business Process, Accounting, Partnership, Financial, CFO, Corefino, CODA, Business Structures, Operational Planning, Financial Accounting, Finance, Business Operations, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-06-25

News to know: Steve Jobs; iPhone 3GS; Google Voice; RIAA victory; FCC

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Sam Diaz: Jobs recovering from liver transplant; re-ignites debate over privacy rights Andrew Nusca: WSJ: Jobs had...

Tags: FCC, Apple iPhone, Steve Jobs, Google Inc., Voice, RIAA, Apple iPhone 3G, Sam Diaz, Digital Cameras, Digital Photography, Federal Government, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Government

Blog posts 2009-06-22

The Internet devalues everything it touches . . .

Ever since I first heard about the Internet and then saw its incredible development and application across industries, I've been on the look out for the economic effects of this powerful platform technology. The specific economic influence I've been looking for is a strong deflationary trend. That's when we will...

Tags: Software, Craigslist, Advertisement, Technology, IBDT, Internet, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2009-06-20

Cloud computing and open source face-off

Cloud computing remains one of the big topics in software this year despite considerable and ongoing concerns over lock-in, lack of control, and security. The siren song of ease-of-development, reduced costs, highly elastic scalability, and next-generation architectures has many in IT and in the Web community carefully weighing the...

Tags: Cloud, Cloud Computing, Open Source, Virtualization, Hardware, Dion Hinchcliffe

Blog posts 2009-06-14

Ten HBIs (half baked ideas) on SOA-cloud convergence

Is SOA becoming the cloud? What impact will SOA's cloud formations have on the business? What are the roles of Enterprise 2.0 and virtualization? I just wrapped up the keynote address for ebizQ's latest Cloud QCamp, exploring the growing convergence of SOA with cloud computing, Enterprise 2.0...

Tags: SOA, Enterprise 2.0, Convergence, WOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-06-03

Telecom Calls on Consulting Expertise to Drive New Efforts, Saves Customers 10%

Swisscom is the leading telecommunications company in Switzerland. The company has more than 20,000 employees and an IT environment with over 6,000 servers, providing both internal and external services. Swisscom wanted to ensure that it got the most out of its IT investment and that it could deliver new, more...

Tags: Customers Ltd., Business Productivity, Swisscom AG, Information Technology, Microsoft Corp., Consulting, Strategic Planning, Telephony, Collaboration, Recruitment & Selection, Strategy, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Management, Networking, Human Resources, Workforce Management

Case studies 2009-06-01

Outsourced Wizard Development for High-End Solutions' Provider

The Client is a Massachusetts-based provider of high-end Internet solutions, including E-Commerce, Customer Retention Management, Web Business Development, and Content Management. In 2005 The Client was targeted at building an impressive roster of clients, from small start-ups to multi-billion dollar companies. One of the key strategies was to introduce an...

Tags: Web, Application Development, Outsource, Client, Software Development, Channel Management, Web Technology, Development Tools, Outsourcing, Middleware, Software/Web Development, Marketing, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Enterprise Software, Software

Case studies 2009-05-21

Offshore Outsourcing Helps PDA Development Company Better Meet Its Client's Needs

The Client is a UK-based company that provides a broad portfolio of business and technology solutions enabling clients to improve their business performance. One of The Client's clients further referred to as End Client is one of the UK's largest handlers of fresh produce that sources over 100 products from...

Tags: Offshore Outsourcing, Client, U.K., PDAs, Outsourcing, Food & Beverage, Handhelds, Hardware, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Manufacturing

Case studies 2009-05-19

Leveraging cloud computing for new business enablement

Leveraging cloud computing for new business enablementVariability?Variability... how much is enough to justify moving into the cloud?EVERY business application system out there has some level of variability. How much is "enough"? Is a nightly batch job that consumes CPU for 2 hours enough? Is month end activity enough? What...

Tags: Virtualization, variability, cloud computing, business enablement

Discussion threads 2009-05-11