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eProject and Conteck Americas/IMR: Conteck Americas Rapidly Increases User Seats to Accomodate Client Demand

Conteck Americas/IMR is a rapidly growing consulting firm, consistently bidding on projects for its clients in the manufacturing, food and beverage, automotive and construction industries. The company was in need of a single, unified platform that would manage tasks and projects for the work at hand, while at the same...

Tags: eProject Inc., Conteck Americas/IMR, Microsoft Project, Food & Beverage, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Manufacturing

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Facebook wins $873 million judgement against spammer

Facebook wins $873 million judgement against spammerwhat a moronquit get ride of the moronRE: Facebook wins $873 million judgement against spammerMore! More! We need lost more of this kind of thing! Why isn't the news media picking up on any of this? We need to add pressure...

Tags: Cyberthreats, MESSAGE-ID, spam, Facebook, judgement, spammer, e-mail

Discussion threads 2008-11-24

Cost cutting pays off for Dell; IT spending, demand 'challenging'

Updated: Dell's third quarter was a mixed bag. Revenue was down amid weak demand, but earnings were better than expected by a wide margin. The outlook was "challenging" as expected. The company reported third quarter earnings of $727 million, or 37 cents a share, on revenue of...

Tags: Revenue, Dell Computer Corp., IT-spending, Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-11-20

SAP Trimming Head Count, "Can't Rule Out" Layoffs

Since the world's economic crisis began in September, SAP AG has adopted a "we do not hire, we do not replace" employment policy. The early results are in. And when you exclude acquisitions (see Business Objects, January 2008), there is one area of the world where...

Tags: Layoff, SAP AG, Mergers & Acquisitions, Workforce Management, Corporate Law, Investment, Finance, Human Resources, Business Operations, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-11-18

Yahoo: Pondering Yang's replacement; The next move

Now that Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang is out, the handicapping begins. Who will be Yang's replacement and what will that choice reveal about Yahoo's future? The story line Techmeme revolving around Yang's departure is familiar. Yang took over the company at the second worst time in Yahoo's...

Tags: Jerry Yang, Yahoo! Inc., CEO, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Governance, Internet, Strategy, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-11-18

Live Webcast: HP Server Virtualization is More than Failover: Managing Virtualization with Insight Dynamics-VSE

Virtualization is an approach to pooling and sharing IT resources so supply meets business demand. When talking to customers about virtualization and business outcomes, the conversations often turn to failover and the business context is lost. The questions faced center around how and where to move a server--when it fails....

Tags: HP Server, Hewlett-Packard Co., Webcast, Failover, Server, Server Virtualization, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage

Webcasts 2008-10-30

Symantec cuts outlook amid 'pause' in IT spending

Symantec sees tough sledding ahead as the company cut its fiscal third quarter outlook. "Like many other companies we saw a pause in IT spending the last week of the quarter," said CEO John Thompson on a conference call. The security software vendor said Wednesday that its...

Tags: Revenue, Symantec Corp., IT-spending, Operational Accounting, Security, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-10-29

Gartner rates offshore outsourcing hot spots

Gartner on Thursday walked IT folks through its global sourcing--also known as offshore outsourcing--methodology in a spiel that was part informative and part subtle hint that the consulting and research firm offers these services. Much of analyst Frances Karamouzis' talk at the Gartner Symposium ITxpo focused on...

Tags: Offshore Outsourcing, Gartner Inc., Outsourcing, Financial Services, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-10-16

A quick note on Columbus Day

It's Columbus Day here in the States, so quite a few of us are off. I'm going to consider it a holiday and take the day off from blogging. I do have an interview with Joe Hartley, Sun's VP of Global Education and Healthcare, today, so check back...

Tags: Holiday, Sun Microsystems Inc., Thin Clients, Virtualization, Blogging, Cloud Computing, Vertical Industries, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Benefits, Hardware, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software, Storage, Human Resources, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-10-12

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