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- Assessing the Role of IT in BPO Success: 2008 Market Study Update
- Business Process Outsourcing BPO is typically viewed - as the name implies - as a "Business" initiative. It is EquaTerra's position, however, that information technology IT, both as an organizational unit and a collective set of applications and systems, is a critical component of the success of any BPO effort....
- Tags: Business Process, Market Study, BPO, Information Technology, EquaTerra, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Outsourcing, It Services, Operational Planning, Strategy, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Management
- White papers 2008-03-17
- Don't Believe Every Market Study You Read
- It's not thatI am not pro-VoIP. If I wasn't, I wouldn't be here. But on days like today, when an IP "market study" crosses my desk that uses the general terms "were questioned" and "of the respondents,"I have some of my own questions about the methodology used.My problem with thistechniqueoccurs...
- Tags: market study
- Blog posts 2004-11-10
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- Scary study on how lack of IPOs is harming US economy
- The cart before the horse?With low skilled/educated labor and low negative savings rate, I don't think the ingredients for a fundamental rebound exist in the US. I guess Wall Street would like to continue to be able to fleece us, but hopefully, being taken once is enough for most investors....
- Tags: Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulatory compliance, Regulations, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, economic destruction, same policy, IPO, carbon tax, USSR, socialist
- Discussion threads 2009-11-06
- Scary study on how lack of IPOs is harming US economy
- A new study proposes sweeping changes in stock market regulations to help drive new IPOs and catch up with Asian markets... by Tom Foremski
- Tags: Stock, Stock Market, IPO, Investment, Financial Planning, Financial Services, Finance, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2009-11-06
- CEA study finds there are six types of digital photographers
- The Consumer Electronics Association CEA says that there are six categories of digital photographers in the consumer market today. Where do you fall? by Rachel King
- Tags: Consumer Electronics Association, Rachel King
- Blog posts 2009-11-04
- Obamicans rebranding NHIN-Connect as the Health Internet
- Hey look. A tech storyYou don't want me to write about policy so here's a tech story and we get...crickets. I guess the market is saying write more policy stories, isn't it? I'm sorry...... I'm still trying to figure out what an "Obamican" is.(But you get extra points for using...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Obamicans, Health Internet, tech story, health care
- Discussion threads 2009-11-02
- What's the hurry? You can still see Miami from the plane.
- Add another choiceHarry, you need to add another choice on your survey."If the climate [b]IS[/b] warming, it is part of a natural cycle and has very little to do with mankind's actions, and there is very little that we can do to affect it."another choice being added--Harry FullerFuller, why the...
- Tags: launch-pad, global warming
- Discussion threads 2009-10-31
- Windows 7 will shine in medicine
- not convinced by touchI have a touch phone & a tablet.Frankly, never use the tablet, use keyboarded machines instead, and hanker for a phone with buttons again and not a slide phone.If you want to try to look cool, I can understand having one, but really, they are pretty awkward...
- Tags: Tablets, Notebooks, Microsoft Windows, Startrek, Microsoft Windows 7, tablet, wireless
- Discussion threads 2009-10-23
- News to know: Bing-Twitter; Net Neutrality; eBay; VMWare; Nook; Win7
- 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. Larry Dignan: Microsoft lands Facebook, Twitter deals for Bing Sam Diaz: Tweets on Bing: Watch out for more noise,...
- Tags: Larry Dignan, Twitter Inc., Net Neutrality, VMware Inc., eBay Inc., Microsoft Windows 7, Software As A Service (SaaS), Podcasts, Microsoft Windows, Managed Hosting, Emerging Technologies, Internet, Operating Systems, Software, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-10-22
- New power management software targets "unused" servers
- 1E, the self-proclaimed market-share leader in power management software for client PCs with 4 million licenses deployed, is now targeting servers. 1E CEO Sumir Karayi figures, based on another independent study, that approximately 4.7 million of the servers in use today are wasting energy to the tune of about...
- Tags: Software, Power Management, Data Center, 1E Ltd., Data Centers, Servers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-10-19
- Gartner: Windows 7 is 'all but inevitable'
- Completely Disagree with Gartner's Recommendations...I would be skipping Vista at this point, and aborting all Vista deployment plans. Why? Simple...Any IT staff that is deploying Vista en mass to their enterprises bought it with Volume Licensing, which means they probably bought it with Software Assurance... better to use those support...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), gartner, Microsoft Windows Vista, Win 7, Microsoft Windows 7, Gartner Inc., Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2009-10-13
- SMART Selling in the SaaS world
- What we all could learn from Sonar6 Post #3 from the HR Technology show SaaS software as a service is supposed to cost less. At least that’s what all the vendors tell me. It’s also supposed to be easier to use and easier to...
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, Katherine Jones, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Sales Strategy, Emerging Technologies, Sales, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2009-10-09
- A single national market for health care
- health care should wait untill we get rid of the liberals in the governmentonce the Democrats are no longer in power we could start talking about some real healthcare reform based on tax credits and tort reform.Socialist ideeas like single payer or public option are a non starter.Heaven forbid, a...
- Tags: Vertical industries, HEALTHCARE, Benefits, Healthcare reform, health care
- Discussion threads 2009-10-07
- Teens are generation Apple as iPod, iPhone dominance reigns
- Look at fall 2007Two years ago, 13% said they planned to buy a Zune. And, almost none of them did.Apple owns this market in the USA and will until the category of MP3 player is no longer relevant.I wonder how many teens plan to buy a Windows Mobile 6.5 phone?Big...
- Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Media players, Microsoft Windows 7, Operating systems, Apple Inc., MP3, MP3 player, iPod iPhone dominance reign, dominance reign, Microsoft Windows, Apple iPod
- Discussion threads 2009-10-07
- Five reasons Google Android smartphones will beat iPhone, BlackBerry, WinMo
- Ultimately, the market decides. ntnt = no textI'm not surprisedAndroid has the right formula going forward. I think Blackberry will outsell winmo, though. I'm seeing more traction in RIM's direction in developing countries. Blackberry handsets are beginning to filter down to the everyday working class, thanks to the introduction of...
- Tags: Smart phones, Mobile operating systems, Handhelds, Cellular phones, Google Inc., Apple iPhone, RIM BlackBerry, Google Android, Apple Inc., smart phone
- Discussion threads 2009-10-06
- Study: 67% of Mac users would install, try Windows 7 if it was free
- Marketing failureThe irony of course is that changes introduced in Vista mean that anyone could try it free for 4 months.I'm pretty sure that Windows users would also try OSX on the same basis. (Indeed some are helping themselves!)I might try Win 7 for free, but not on my Mac.I'd...
- Tags: Desktops, Linux, Operating systems, Apple Macintosh, MAC USERS, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 7, Win7, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-10-06
- Outsourcing picks up for smaller enterprises
- The outsourcing market has traditionally been perceived as something only the larger enterprises entertain. Research from Computer Economics suggests that as the large enterprise business has become tougher, the outsourcing companies are getting better at reaching the smaller and mid-sized market. The reports...
- Tags: Application Development, Information Technology, Outsource, Service Provider, IT Organization, Outsourcing, Managed Hosting, Software Development, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Software/Web Development, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-09-30
- Research: Small DIY botnets prevalent in enterprise networks
- Does the size of a botnet really matter? It's all a matter of perspective. Contrary to the “common wisdom†that based on their size, big botnets are theoretically capable of infiltrating a huge percentage of enterprise networks, a recently presented study entitled "My Bots Are Not Yours!...
- Tags: Enterprise Network, Espionage, Cyberthreats, Spam, Robots, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Emerging Technologies, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-09-29
- Is the enterprise market tipping towards SaaS?
- Ray Wang's informative scorecard for SaaS vendor revenues versus the on-premise vendors is worth deeper study. Even the so-called specialist minnows in the SaaS space are doing well in comparison to more established names in the broader ERP space. by Dennis Howlett
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, Ray Wang, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-09-29
- Get with the times: Keyboards are outdated
- You're right... but who decides?I have been using computers since the days of the 286, when I was in school and learning to program. It was still the days of DOS and I had just upgraded to a 386DX-25 with a full 16 MB of memory ( I was a...
- Tags: Keyboards, keyboard
- Discussion threads 2009-09-25
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