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Microsoft to cut 5,000 jobs

The official word on layoffs is out: Microsoft is going to cut 5,000 jobs over the next 18 months, 1,400 of them today, January 22. by Mary Jo Foley

Tags: Job, Headcount, Microsoft Corp., Recruitment & Selection, Financial Accounting, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Finance, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2009-01-22

Land Manager Consolidates Financial Software to Simplify Reporting, Reduce Headcount

Fred Rickert wondered why he lived on Maui when he spent all his time in the office. As Vice President of Finance and Treasurer for Maui Land & Pineapple Company, Rickert spent 12-hour days trying to get basic information out of older, highly customized financial systems. Before any more staff...

Tags: Accounting, Financial, Headcount, Microsoft Corp., Financial Accounting, Finance

Case studies 2008-06-20

Add another 1,000 to Microsoft's headcount

Microsoft is going to grow its headcount in China by 1,000, bringing the total of Microsoft China employees to 6,000, according to a new Reuters report. About 10 percent of the new hires will be doing research. The other 90 percent will be assigned to various product...

Tags: Headcount, Microsoft Corp., Hire, Research & Development, Sales Strategy, Outsourcing, Workforce Management, Manufacturing, Business Operations, Sales, It Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Human Resources, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2007-11-27

New hires, datacenter investments evident in Microsoft earnings

New hires, datacenter investments evident in Microsoft earningsMicrosoft is hiring.And I'd like to think that a significant portion of the increase is in the US, with the machinery.That would be good news.But I think the company was insensitive with this phrase: "an increase in salaries and benefits for existing...

Tags: Data centers, Investment, Financial accounting, Benefits, Microsoft Corp., headcount, stock, data center

Discussion threads 2007-07-19

New hires, datacenter investments evident in Microsoft earnings

Most of the reports of Microsoft's fiscal Q4 2007 and full year results are focusing on how the $1 billion one-time charge Microsoft took to offset Xbox hardware failures affected the company's bottom line.But there were lots of other meaty bits buried in the Microsoft balance sheets -- including the...

Tags: Xbox, Windows Live, Windows client, Web 2.0, Vista, Office 2007, Corporate strategy

Blog posts 2007-07-19

Is growing headcount by 40% really the best way to catch Google?

Is growing headcount by 40 percent really the best way to catch Google? The most interesting piece of information from Microsoft's Q1 FY 2007 earnings release, in my mind, was the loss posted by the company's Online Services Business unit. While the MSN business has...

Tags: headcount

Blog posts 2006-10-27

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Oracle consulting layoffs: but what's the number?

It looks like Oracle is on yet a onther round of headcount reduction. This time it's the consulting organization that's being hammered. Rumors are flying as to the numbers but of greater concern should be the impact on morale among those left and customers whose projects might be impacted. by...

Tags: Layoff, Oracle Corp., Consulting, Rumors, Outsourcing, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-11-15

SAP Q3: sales down, profit up

SAP's Q3 results demonstrate continuing softening in the enterprise software sales market. Revenues were down year on year by 31% to €525 million ($787 mill) from €763 million ($1.144 bn) in the same period 2008. Software and software related service revenues declined 3% or €57 million...

Tags: SAP AG, Sales Strategy, Tools & Techniques, Operational Accounting, Sales Force Management, Sales, Management, Finance, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-10-28

SaaS: Shelfware as a service?

Think the conclusions are a bit flawedI think we can all agree that SaaS saves operational expenses, increases agility and improves the user experience. I don't think the fact that Salesforce.com has been successful can be held against the category.The shelfware point is a bit more subtle. The...

Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), Managed hosting, cloud computing, software-as-a-service, shelfware

Discussion threads 2009-10-21

SaaS: Shelfware as a service?

Software as a service is portrayed to be the future of information technology, but it isn't quite the cure-all it's cracked up to be. Shelfware and lock-in may not save you a lot of money. That's the message from Gartner analyst Rob DeSisto. Here's...

Tags: Software-as-a-service, Shelfware, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-21

How did IT fall so far behind the tech curve?

Okay, butThey also go out and buy their own servers with some hidden budget line, then try to foist maintenance off on the CIO. And then we try to integrate the data - and the data isn't theirs, it's critical to the health, even survival, of the enterprise.Yes, we...

Tags: Strategy, Virtualization, cloud computing, Regulatory compliance, Marketing Guy, information technology

Discussion threads 2009-10-19

Two Views of the Software Market

A Bridge Too Far? In a blogger briefing this week at SAP’s TechEd, SAP CTO, Vishal Sikka, drew a chart of the application software market and what new areas of technology are of interest to the firm. I’ve tried to reproduce his freehand drawing into the following...

Tags: ERP, Vishal Sikka, S-curve, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Enterprise Software, Software, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-10-16

Delsea Regional School District Refreshes Client Systems Four Times Faster With Solutions From Dell and Symantec

With 1,300 endpoints distributed across nine buildings, Delsea Regional School District's IT staff spent a lot of time driving between sites and visiting machines. Summer client hardware refreshes took three months to complete. Delsea implemented Altiris Management Suite for Dell Clients to allow its staff of three people to manage...

Tags: Symantec Corp., Dell Computer Corp., School District, Client Systems, Summer Client Hardware

Case studies 2009-10-01

RightNow acquires social networking company HiveLive

RightNow on Tuesday said it will acquire HiveLive, an enterprise social networking company, for about $6 million in cash. In a statement, RightNow, which provides customer relationship management software as a service, said it plans to add HiveLive's technology to its platform. The move is the latest...

Tags: Social Networking, RightNow Technologies, HiveLive, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), GAAP, Networking, Enterprise Software, Emerging Technologies, Software, Financial Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-09-08

The Math Behind Accenture’s Restructuring

Will more cuts come? Thursday, Accenture announced that they were going to reduce their senior executive ranks by about 7%. The company stated: Approximately $128 million of the charge is for severance and related costs of workforce actions, primarily at the senior-executive level, which...

Tags: Accenture Ltd., Restructuring, Senior Executive, Executive, $119mm, Workforce Management, Recruitment & Selection, Payroll Solutions, Real Estate, Outsourcing, Human Resources, Business Operations, It Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-08-26

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

Microsoft sheds 2,000-employee ad agency in $530 million deal

I think they mention Word just as an exampleI wouldn't cite Word as a propietary format that doesn't allow being searched - My take is that, even though it is propietary, it is well known and can be read by 3rd parties... The issue seems that in the future programs...

Tags: Workforce management, advertisement, layoff, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Word, job

Discussion threads 2009-08-10

Microsoft sheds 2,000-employee ad agency in $530 million deal

The rumors of the past few weeks were true: Microsoft has sold Razorfish -- the digital ad agency it purchased when it bought its parent company aQuantive in 2007 -- to Publicis Groupe for $530 million. For those keeping track of employee-headcount totals at home, that means Microsoft is shedding...

Tags: Advertising Agency, Advertisement, Razorfish, Microsoft Corp., Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2009-08-10

Mobile Telephone Networks Automates Distribution Warehouse to Cope With Higher Volumes

Mobile Telephone Networks wanted to automate warehouse management processes to handle sales volumes that are increasing at a rate of 20% to 30% per annum and ensure the company's network of retailers and dealers are able to satisfy customer demand for new cell phone handsets. The challenge was to reduce...

Tags: Mobile-phone, Oracle Corp., Mobile, Network, Telephone Network, Mobile Telephone Networks, Telecom & Utilities, Sales Strategy, Telecommunications, Cellular Phones, Sales, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Case studies 2009-08-01

SAP revenues slump, in line with analyst expectations, bottom line up

SAP has revealed its Q2 2009 numbers and as widely predicted, top line software revenues are off 40%, down from €898 million in 2008 to €543 million this time around. Software services, support and maintenance was also off, 5% from €2,061 million to €1,953 million. That left total revenues down...

Tags: Revenue, SAP AG, Operational Accounting, Finance, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-07-29