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Forrester expects IT spending trough in third quarter; U.S. tech spending to fall 5 percent in 2009

Forrester Research has revised its 2009 technology spending projections with expectations that U.S. IT spending will fall 5.1 percent in 2009 with global outlays to drop 11 percent. Forrester's revision is a cut from the 3.1 percent decline expected in its March report. Forrester analyst Andrew Bartels...

Tags: Gross Domestic Product, Business Investment, Information Technology, IT-spending, Forrester Research Inc., Strategy, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-06-30

Oracle Consulting's 8 Steps to Building a Business Case for Change

Business cases for IT enabled business transformation change must establish business and IT leadership alignment on the potential business value, cost, risk, timeline and, thus, priority, of the change. Business cases built on jointly accepted business performance improvement metrics and targets provide the basis for business investment decisions and provide...

Tags: Business Case, Business Investment, Oracle Consulting

White papers 2008-12-01

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CompanionLink Professional 2.0 for Pocket PC 2.0 (Mobile)

Power in your Pocket! CompanionLink Professional is the most powerful synchronization tool for people who use Pocket PC devices with ACT!, GoldMine and Lotus Notes. CompanionLink's detailed synchronization features make the most of your PDA investment, increasing both your productivity and business contact capabilities. If you are using multiple databases,...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Mobile, Mobile, GoldMine, ACT!, CompanionLink Software, CompanionLink Professional, Pocket PC, Microsoft Windows, PDAs, Handhelds, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows CE, Hardware, Software

Software downloads 2009-11-20

CompanionLink Express 2.0 for Pocket PC 2.0 (Mobile)

Power in your Pocket! CompanionLink Express quickly and easily synchronizes ACT!, GoldMine and Lotus Notes with any Windows Mobile-Pocket PC device. CompanionLink's detailed synchronization features make the most of your PDA investment, increasing both your productivity and business contact capabilities. CompanionLink offers more CRM features than any other synchronization tool...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Mobile, Mobile, ACT!, CompanionLink Software, Pocket PC, Microsoft Windows, PDAs, Handhelds, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows CE, Mobile Operating Systems, Hardware, Software

Software downloads 2009-11-20

ChromeOS says tear down this network regulation wall

Costs"What is holding back network capacity is politics."What's holding back network capacity is huge costs.Yep, very important to push the ISPs to free up the bits. They would love to continue selling bandwidth through an eyedropper at very high prices. They need a push.Oh, and Microsoft will not like this...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Network technology, ChromeOS, netbook, fiber

Discussion threads 2009-11-19

MySQL Workbench OSS 5.2.8b1 (Mac)

MySQL Workbench enables a DBA, developer, or data architect to visually design, generate, and manage all types of databases including Web, OLTP, and data warehouse databases. It includes everything a data modeler needs for creating complex ER models, and also delivers key features for performing difficult change management and documentation...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, MySQL, Database Design, OSS, MySQL Workbench, Databases, Open Source, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Software downloads 2009-11-18

I'm in a nanny state state of mind

Business can help ...if employees who smoke during the workday are not allowed "smoking breaks" to do so. Alternatively, if non-smoking employees demanded equal breaks with smokers, business might get the drift.Some businesses do helpThere are businesses that offer smoking cessation programs on their own dime, knowing the money they'll...

Tags: Taxes, Financial Planning, Free trade, Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, insurance, TFB, agony, smoker, tax

Discussion threads 2009-11-13

Epicor's implementation cost drive: what does it really mean?

Epicor's announcement Monday that it has created a shared benefits program for implementations looks like a step in the right direction for those of us that want to see lowered implementation costs. On the face of it, the offer is compelling. According to the press release:...

Tags: Epicor Software Corp., Customer, Benefits, Roi/Tco, Outsourcing, Human Resources, Finance, Managerial Accounting, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-11-11

Mac OS 10.6.2 breaks hackintoshes

Author's views please ...... does the ZDNET author of this post care to say:1. Whether the 'hack' in 'hackintosh' is morally acceptable and/or legal?2. Whether there is any merit in Psystar's case that OSX is tied to Apple hardware? i.e. the vendor makes it a condition of purchasing the OS...

Tags: Desktops, Linux, Operating systems, Apple Mac OS, Apple Inc., Mac OS 10.6.2, PC, Apple Macintosh

Discussion threads 2009-11-11

Which should a small business choose: Windows Home Server or Windows Server Foundation?

CompetitionThe $1000 Mac-Mini with Snow Leopard Server and no user-count limits may have inspired the outreach.That depends on your needs.WHS is a great solution for file sharing and/or client backups. It's backup feature is a strong selling point, IMO. It would be nice to see this extended to every version...

Tags: Backups, Servers, Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Windows Home Server, WHS, server, backup, small business, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-11-09

Microsoft cuts BPOS price to squeeze Lotus

Not for Smaller businessesA nice new angle to look at Microsoft's price cut. Microsoft is undoubtedly targeting the enterprise segment with BPOS, since in spite of the price cut, BPOS is complex and needs implementation support, and costs more from a total cost point of view. (Varguy reported a reseller...

Tags: Enterprise software, Microsoft Corp., IBM Corp., BPOS price

Discussion threads 2009-11-05

Enterprise 2.0 - the non-debate

If I'd paid the full whack $2,495 to attend the Enterprise 2.0 conference I'd be demanding at least a partial refund. It seems the 'Enterprise 2.0 - what a crock' debate was less than a damp squib and more like a feeble whimper. Here's the back story: ...

Tags: Enterprise 2.0, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-11-05

Net Neutrality: You own the Internet - make sure it becomes Law

how to get from there to herewhile net neutrality makes a lot of sense to most people, how can we make sure that it becomes law. Our open source government democracy is decidedly NOT neutral, and the same interests that would take away our rights on the internet, are the...

Tags: Net Neutrality, Internet, government

Discussion threads 2009-11-02

Challenging the economic downturn

HOW CAN BUSINESSES MAXIMISE CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT CRM TO CONTAIN COSTS AND IMPROVE SERVICES? This Vodafone white paper looks at how careful investment in CRM can underpin a strategy for protecting business and sustaining growth through the downturn

Tags: Vodafone Group Plc., CRM, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software

White papers 2009-11-01

In recession, VoIP makes strong case for cutting your home landline

Tempting, but I will passI've considered VoIP several times over the years, but it usually just takes a few phone calls with a friend or relative who is using VoIP before I change my mind! Not infrequently, the conversation becomes a warbling mess. Then there are times we...

Tags: Telephony, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, VoIP, phone, recession

Discussion threads 2009-10-30

Five reasons to deliver a virtual service, not a virtual server

What began as an interesting technological experiment has now become an opportunity for IT to shape its future, says Fortisphere's Lilac Berniker Commentary - As virtualization becomes an increasingly commonplace technology in the datacenter, the breadth of stakeholders in the virtual environment is growing. ...

Tags: Information Technology, Workload, Virtual Server, Server, Strategy, Management, virtualization, Lilac Berniker Fortisphere, Special to ZDNet, Lilac Berniker Fortisphere, Special to ZDNet

News items 2009-10-29

Manager's Checklist: Get the Support You Need to Succeed With ECM

An Enterprise Content Management ECM implementation is more than just a solution to inefficiency, a way to address unique business challenges, or a chance to get ahead of the competition. It's also a relationship between one and vendor's support team. Unless one has a highly skilled and underutilized IT support...

Tags: Enterprise Content Management, Optical Image Technology, Enterprise Content Management Implementation, Content Management, Enterprise Software, Software

White papers 2009-10-28

Will OpenSolaris survive Oracle?

We can only hope so! It would make a much better back end than what linux has to offer. Solaris has always been a solid performer and is a real UNIX, not some hacked up clone like linux. The best option for Oracle would be to ditch linux...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Linux, Sun Solaris, Oracle Corp., OpenSolaris, Open Solaris

Discussion threads 2009-10-27

The chief value of open source

Custom code solutions...It's great you can see the code, but for companies I disagree that is a "value".What SMB has the resources to comb through thousands of lines of code to assure reliability and security? Even if they do manage to find a bug, are they going to fork...

Tags: open source, software

Discussion threads 2009-10-26

MSFT versus GOOG - there's a big gap

Countering Google[i]At the current rate of Google?s revenue growth, 7 per cent, it would take it more than 3 years to reach Microsoft?s current quarterly revenue.[/i]The above is true if you assume MS will have no growth over the next 3 years. I don't think that will be the case....

Tags: Web browsers, Operational accounting, Strategy, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-10-23