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Is SAP really done with 'scary upgrades' and 'sleepless night' projects?

SAP has a lot riding on this Business Suite 7 launch and it's pitching easier implementations, ROI in less than a year under certain conditions and an almost turnkey approach.  First, SAP says Business Suite 7--the company's new applications suite--is about analytics as well as enterprise planning....

Tags: SAP AG, Business Suite 7, Business Suite, Sales Strategy, Roi/Tco, Investment, Financial Accounting, Strategy, Sales, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-02-04

SAP CEO: We are not arrogant, we are the market leader

SAP CEO Henning Kagermanns Sapphire keynote see ZDNet coverage of the event didnt reveal any surprises. SAP is riding high after a good quarter and feeling confident in its ability to deliver on its ambitious strategy to establish enterprise SOA across its product line and enter the on demand application...

Tags: Software Infrastructure, SAP, Salesforce.com, SaaS, Oracle, NetSuite, IT Management, General, Enterprise 2.0

Blog posts 2007-04-25

Microsoft fills in its System Center roadmap

Microsoft fills in its System Center roadmapIs "Dynamic" the new "Live" which was the new ".Net"?"Microsoft's Dynamic Systems Initiative "First everything became .net. Then Live. The whole business suite is now Dynamic is the rest of the group going to follow?If so, I for one recommend they go ahead and...

Tags: .NET, Application servers, Microsoft .NET, RTM, Microsoft Corp., RC1, business suite

Discussion threads 2007-03-28

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Arguing About the Collaboration Toolkit: Cisco's Enterprise Collaboration Platform

In the aftermath of last week's San Francisco Enterprise 2.0 conference there's been some lively debate about what constitutes '2.0', including some great comments on my previous post. Meanwhile Cisco have literally just announced their Enterprise Collaboration Platform, which will be broad set...

Tags: Collaboration, Enterprise 2.0, Cisco Systems Inc., Tool, Productivity, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-11-08

Seven perfectly legal ways to get Windows 7 cheap (or even free)

RE: Seven perfectly legal ways to get Windows 7 cheap or even freeGreat post, Ed! Seeing how you outlined the cheapest way to get Microsoft Windows 7 there should be no reason why anyone would not want to upgrade now. Price is no longer an issue. This would be...

Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows 7, legal way, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-11-06

PCLReader 8.895 (Windows)

PCLReader Views & Converts PCL & Text into PDF, PDF/A, XPS, TIFF, BMP, PNG, PCX and ASCII Text. Once viewed, a PCL or Text file can be printed to any Windows printer driver. This is useful in when you have a non-LaserJet PCL printer and need to print a Mortgage...

Tags: Adobe PDF, Microsoft Windows, Page Technology Marketing, PCLReader 8.895, PCL, PageTech, PCLWorks, Printers, Hardware, Peripherals

Software downloads 2009-11-06

Printfolio 1.6.1 (Mac)

Printfolio is a suite of 5 BeLight Software programs (Business Card Composer, Labels & Addresses, Swift Publisher, Disc Cover and Image Tricks Pro), plus bonus app Art Text works in plugin mode. The suite will assist in creating various printing projects: business cards, CD/DVD art, flyers, brochures, newsletters, catalogs, envelopes,...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Plug-in, Printing, BeLight Software, Printfolio, Document Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting

Software downloads 2009-11-05

Andrew McAfee & Enterprise 2.0 conference

A very busy week in San Francisco at the inaugural West coast Enterprise 2.0 conference, which has proved very successful so far. I'll write a longer post after the conclusion Thursday, but for now here's a brief video discussion between myself and Andrew...

Tags: McAfee Inc., Enterprise 2.0, Conference, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-11-04

Microsoft chops prices of its hosted enterprise cloud offerings

Microsoft profit margins continuing the decline as the try to compete with companies from the next millennium.How does BPOS compare to GoogleAppsMS BPOS presents a pretty good mix of applications that small businesses need and can now afford. I'd like to know what the costs are for consulting, setup, and...

Tags: cloud computing, Groupware, Collaboration, MS BPOS, Google Apps, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-11-02

Microsoft chops prices of its hosted enterprise cloud offerings

Microsoft is cutting prices of its Microsoft-hosted Exchange, as well as its suite of business services (known as the Business Productivity Online Suite, or BPOS), and is refunding the difference to existing hosting customers. by Mary Jo Foley

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Strategic Planning, Collaboration, Strategy, Management, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2009-11-02

Figuring the value of software

Phil Wainewright's discussion about the cost of running highly scalable SaaS applications like SuccessFactors comes at the right time. He says: Speaking in the opening keynote of SIIA OnDemand in San Jose this morning, SuccessFactors CEO Lars Dalgaard let slip a statistic that set several...

Tags: Software, Software-as-a-service, SuccessFactors Inc., SAP AG, Phil Wainewright, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-11-02

News to know: Microsoft store; Domain names; Blackberry Storm2; VoIP; Android

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.: Robin Harris: A visit to Microsoft's first store Zack Whittaker: Web addresses to extend to non-English languages...

Tags: Data Center, Dana Blankenhorn, Mary Jo Foley, RIM BlackBerry, Microsoft Corp., Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Domain Name, Sam Diaz, Data Centers, Sales Strategy, Telephony, VOIP, Storage, Telecommunications, Hardware, Data Management, Sales, Networking

Blog posts 2009-11-02

McAfee vs. Symantec: Dueling in consumer and enterprise

Worked for SYMC - products inadequately testedWe rearchitected stuff as it was going out the door. That experience was one more reason I eventually switched to Mac.Working for SYMCYou should have stuck around...Then you could have said to have been part of improving of the process . Just compare Norton...

Tags: SECURITY, Norton 2010, McAfee Inc., Norton Co., Symantec Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-10-30

IBM aims to connect corporate mashups and business intelligence

IBM on Tuesday launched a mashup service for its Cognos 8 business intelligence suite. The offering, dubbed IBM Cognos 8 Mashup Service, is an application programming interface API that can expose content from Cognos 8 as a Web service. That corporate data can then be used in...

Tags: Business Intelligence, IBM Corp., Mashup, Mashup Center, Collaboration, Enterprise Software, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-27

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

What Windows7 could mean for Linux

Success becomes a problemIf Win7 is as trouble-free as advertised, then there will be a mass-migration to it. This will make M$ great money in the short term. But once customers are there, they are less likely to EVER upgrade again! They are "happy" with XP now - save for...

Tags: SOAP, Content management, Groupware, Collaboration, Azure, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Silverlight, Microsoft SharePoint, Windows Communication Foundation, Microsofts, Linux

Discussion threads 2009-10-24

Google's Schmidt: Mimicking Office completely not 'a good use of our time'

Commonsense! Please get rid of MS Office!Please do NOT copy anything MS Office has leavethis lethargic conglomeration of software vendorsMS purchased and created the 2G office suitethat is full of security holes.I hope they go their own route and NO one needsa office suite that cost $400+$700 for a companyseat...

Tags: Microsoft Office, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-10-22

Cacidi Extreme Suite CS4 (Mac)

Cacidi Extreme CS4 is the most advanced and yet easy to use standard software available for automating graphic design. Whether you produce catalogs, brochures, pricelists, business cards, or other single or multipage documents containing text, image and barcode content, Cacidi Extreme CS4 optimizes your production by bringing down tedious and...

Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Apple Macintosh, Production, Brochure, Cacidi Systems, Cacidi Extreme CS4, StepÃ??n Repeat Method, AutoCalc Method, Desktop Publishing, Storage, Databases, Software, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Data Management

Software downloads 2009-10-22

Is the IBM Client for Smart Work an alternative to 7 for schools?

Thoughts"IBM and Canonical, though, are asking if that upgrade path really needs to involve Windows at all."Umm - dare I ask why large industries are allowed to influence education?"Why migrate to Windows, though, when your client machines can run Ubuntu "Because I don't need to deal with any migration headaches...

Tags: Operating systems, operating system, IBM Corp., Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-10-21