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Highlights from AMD's Financial Analyst Day 11/13

Some highlights from AMD's Financial Analyst Day. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Tags: Financial Analyst, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Notebooks, Corporate Governance, Virtualization, Desktops, Processors, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Semiconductors, Components

Blog posts 2008-11-13

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Chatting (Not Chattering) About Salesforce - Part I

(NOTE BEFORE I START: This is one really long post. So rather than post it in all its glory in a single file or post it here over two days, I'm trying something new. I'm posting the first half here. And the second half on PGreenblog.  Let's see how that...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Customer Service, Twitter Inc., Sales Force, Customer, CRM, Integration, Force.com, Service Cloud 2, Sales Force Management, Sales Strategy, Sales, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-11-23

The role of data governance in the enterprise

According to analyst reports, the volume of enterprise data doubles every 18 months - and a lot information is inaccurate, duplicated or out-of-date and needs to be managed. Commentary - Every corporate decision and operation relies on the quality of the organization?s underlying data. ...

Tags: Data Quality, Data Governance, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, data management, Navin Sharma Pitney Bowes Business Insight, Special to ZDNet News, Navin Sharma Pitney Bowes Business Insight, Special to ZDNet News

News items 2009-11-12

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

Facebook users targeted by Zeus banking Trojan

Users of the popular social network are being tricked into revealing their passwords and downloading a Trojan that steals financial data. Here's how... On the heels of one fake Facebook e-mail scam, a researcher warned on Wednesday of another such campaign in which users of the popular social network...

Tags: Facebook, Banking, Trojan Horse, E-mail, Spyware, Phishing, Social Networking, Viruses And Worms, Security, Online Communications, Spam And Phishing, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, trojan, malware, scam, Adware & Malware, Elinor Mills CNET News

News items 2009-10-29

Gartner in the dock over Magic Quadrant

Friday October 23rd will see Gartner argue a motion to dismiss a complaint by ZL Technologies Inc about the famed Gartner Magic Quadrant. According to court papers, Gartner will argue to dismiss based on First Amendment rights citing that the Magic Quadrant is not meant to represent statements of fact...

Tags: Quadrant, Analyst, Vendor, Gartner Inc., Vinnie, MQ, Blogging, Operational Accounting, Marketing Research, Internet, Finance, Marketing, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-10-20

Live Webcast: Are your PCs ready for Windows 7?

Many companies will begin migrating to Windows 7 in 2010. Yet some companies have slowed their PC refresh rate during the last year, leaving them with an older PC fleet. Intel and Lenovo experts will review the true costs of older PCs on the bottom line and why...

Tags: Webcast, PC, Lenovo Group Ltd., Intel Corp., Microsoft Windows 7, Desktops, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware

Webcasts 2009-10-20

Apple Q4 '09 earnings result - Most profitable quarter ever

moron servicemoron service, where are you?Ghost of PsystarSee? ... it just goes to show ya! If Apple doesn't get their act together and start licensing their operating system for Mac clones, there's no hope for them. How long can they expect to keep a drowning company afloat selling...

Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows NT, Desktops, Apple Inc., big word

Discussion threads 2009-10-19

Apple's September quarter: Expect Mac unit upside

Recent signs of PC market strength are likely to translate into a happy September quarter for Apple courtesy of Mac sales. Gartner and IDC reported that the third quarter was better-than-expected for PC sales and that bodes well for Apple. Meanwhile, NPD data is also looking good...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Analyst, Apple Inc., Desktops, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-19

Intel is ready for your fourth quarter business: Will you show up?

Intel spent a lot of time talking about inventories on its fiscal third quarter conference call. The industry is stocking up on Intel chips ahead of server refreshes and the launch of Windows 7. The nagging worry for many analysts: Will businesses and consumers show up to drive the upgrade...

Tags: PC, Inventory, Intel Corp., Microsoft Windows 7, Desktops, Servers, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-14

Seven ways companies go wrong with SOA

Remember, SOA is a journey, not a quick overnight fix. It's a transformative process that your organization will follow for the long run. A few years back, I put together a list of where companies appeared to be steering in the wrong direction in terms of...

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

Blog posts 2009-09-30

Data governance and IBM System z - Your key to business optimization

The pressure's on and it's staying on. How well you manage your data and deliver it can make the difference between business success or failure. The usage, sharing and processing of electronic data continues to rapidly increase, yet many corporations still complain about being data rich but information poor....

Tags: Webcast, Optimization, IBM Corp., Data Governance, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Strategy, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Management

Webcasts 2009-09-29

Will the Palm Pre come to Verizon? Analysts debate

Do any of you realize that analysts get paid to GUESS about things?So here we have a bunch of idiot analysts GUESSING what might, or might not, happen regarding Verizon and the Palm Pre. Give me a break.It's like the report I heard in Bloomberg TV the other morning. The...

Tags: Smart phones, Cellular phones, Handhelds, Federal government, WebOS, Verizon Communications Inc., Pre, Palm Inc., Palm Pre, phone

Discussion threads 2009-09-25

RIM signals price war potential; Fallout could be substantial

Thesis-changing?Potential MBAs racing to their pcs to start re-writes?RE: RIM signals price war potential; Fallout could be substantialWant to see consumers really scoop up smart phones? Have the carriers charge $5.00 a month for data plans... Some consumers don't see the value in paying $30 a month for mobile...

Tags: Keyboards, E-mail, Smart phones, Handhelds, Research In Motion Ltd.

Discussion threads 2009-09-25

Adobe to acquire Omniture; CEO calls move a 'game-changer'

Adobe Systems said Tuesday that it will acquire Omniture, which offers Web analytics, measurement and optimization technologies, in a cash deal that's valued at about $1.8 billion, or $21.50 per share of Omniture. That adds up to a premium of about 45 percent over Omniture's average closing price over the...

Tags: Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-09-15

Citizens Financial sued for insufficient E-Banking security

Blaming the state for not maintaining your carThis sounds to me like blaming the state highway department for not making roads safer while ignoring the bald tires on your car.Or suing the manufacturer of the locks on your house because you "accidentally" left copies of your keys all over town...

Tags: Financial services, financial, bank, electronic banking, Citizens LLC

Discussion threads 2009-09-11

McKinsey's 'Business and Web 2.0' Report and the new Consulting Landscape

McKinsey, the venerable management consulting company, has produced their second piece of 'Web 2.0 in business' research this year. This is arguably a sign of the rapid maturation of the 2.0 technology and associated (and I'd argue more important) change management sector: the pricey consulting company...

Tags: Web, McKinsey & Co., Consulting, Web 2.0, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-09-02

HP's July quarter expected to be mixed bag

Hewlett-Packard is expected to report a solid fiscal third quarter, but worries have analysts questioning whether the company is ultimately about growth or an "IT superstore" that will live and die by cost cutting. HP on Tuesday is expected to report third quarter earnings of 90 cents...

Tags: Revenue, Hewlett-Packard Co., Analyst, Printing, Cihra, Printers, Document Management, Operational Accounting, Hardware, Peripherals, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-08-18

Gartner financial apps MarketScope

Earlier today I saw Oracle crowing about getting a top slot in Gartner's Marketscope for financial applications. They weren't the only ones. SAP took a similar top slot. But then all the others Gartner looked at: Epicor, Lawson, Microsoft, Exact, Infor, Sage and Unit 4 Agresso scored 'positive.' Odd you...

Tags: PeopleSoft Inc., Oracle Corp., Financial, On-demand, Gartner Inc., Sage, KashFlow, Managed Hosting, Smb/Sme, Cloud Computing, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-08-17

When Consultancies Feel the Pain of Recession

Phil Fersht, an AMR analyst and blogger, wrote yesterday about the bad year that major outsourcing consultancy TPI is having. He went further and checked with other consultancies about how they are doing. In short, he found that some firms were doing more outsourcing consulting and some less. But, he...

Tags: Recession, Consultancy, Phil Fersht, Managed Hosting, Outsourcing, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-08-13