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- Offshoring: India still No. 1
- Bangalore remains on top as the global outsourcing leader but with prices on the rise in India, locations like Beijing and Auckland are catching up fast. Bangalore has retained its position as the ideal global delivery location for businesses, according to a new report from IDC. The...
- Tags: India, City, Beijing, International Data Corp., Delivery Location, Government, Vertical Industries, Outsourcing, Pricing, Enterprise Software, Software, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Marketing, offshoring, China, Vivian Yeo, ZDNet Asia
- News items 2008-06-27
- Interview: HP information management maven Rod Walker describes how BI empowers business leaders to innovate
- In health care, customer retention, energy and oil management, and for global risk reduction and compliance, BI is offering some of the best payoffs from IT and datacenter investments, says Rod Walker, vice president for information management at HP's Consulting and Integration group. by Dana Gardner
- Tags: Information Management, Hewlett-Packard Co., Leader, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Podcasts, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management, Internet, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-06-20
- Xohm WiMAX service to launch in Baltimore in September 08
- We have been hearing about the on and off story of Sprint, Clearwire, and Xohm for quite some time now and I pretty much had given up hope of really seeing any commercial release of WiMAX with 4G right around the corner. According to Sprint CTO Barry West, Xohm will...
- Tags: Sprint Xohm, WiMAX, Pricing, Modems, Wireless, Wi-Fi, Marketing Research, Marketing, Hardware, Components, Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2008-06-18
- Don't buy a Canon EOS Rebel XSi or XTi for Father's Day--wait for the Rebel XS
- I was just trying to decide whether to include the Canon EOS Rebel XTi or XSi in a post on DSLRs to get for your dad or grad when today's Canon EOS Rebel XS announcement knocked both off the list. That's not to say that...
- Tags: DSLR, Pricing Strategy, Canon Inc., XS, See Lori Grunin, Pricing, Marketing Research, Marketing, Janice Chen
- Blog posts 2008-06-10
- AT&T is the big winner with the iPhone 3G announcement
- I know readers are probably a bit tired of all the iPhone news so I will try to make this my last post about it for at least the rest of this week. If we take the Apple announcement price at face value, US$199 and US$299, the iPhone looks like...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, AT&T Corp., 3G, Smart Phones, Cellular Phones, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Pricing, Marketing Research, Handhelds, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Marketing, Hardware, Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2008-06-10
- Scaling the cloud, deflating the price of software
- After a week of intensive usage last December getting his company's application to run against Amazon's SimpleDB cloud database, DreamFactory founder and CTO Bill Appleton wondered how big a bill he'd run up. To his amazement, what had seemed like a week's heavy usage had cost just a few cents....
- Tags: Software, Database, On-demand, Amazon.com Inc., Pricing Strategy, DreamFactory, Bill Appleton, Pricing, Cloud Computing, Marketing Research, Marketing, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-06-05
- Sharing your login is a criminal offence
- It looks like security-as-a-service is going to be one of the themes I cover here next week, and meanwhile I'm mulling a new post about SaaS and software pricing. So it seemed like a good moment to relay a comment that I heard from one of the panelists speaking back...
- Tags: Software, Commoditization, Pricing Strategy, Software As A Service (SaaS), Pricing, Tools & Techniques, Marketing Research, Emerging Technologies, Marketing, Management, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-05-30
- Google App Engine pricing a disappointment
- At the same time they officially announced that Google App Engine is opening up to the public, Google has finally shared it's pricing strategy for the service. Google hasn't charged anybody anything to use the service while it's in preview mode. Even if the number and popularity of...
- Tags: Google Inc., Bandwidth, Storage, Pricing Strategy, Pricing, Marketing, Garett Rogers
- Blog posts 2008-05-29
- Google's mission: Extend the browser
- Google Gears launched a year ago and the search giant is ditching its moniker to reinforce that Gears is an open source project. So far so good, MySpace has used Gears to launch search and sort mail messages. The overall theme: Google is trying to extend the browser. ...
- Tags: Google Inc., Google Gears, Google Earth, Web Browser, MySpace, Pricing Detail, Web Browsers, Pricing, Channel Management, Marketing Research, Internet, Marketing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-28
- Options Straddle/Strangle Calculator (exe)
- This Options Calculator is a tool to calculate or simulate your possible profit/loss in Straddle and Strangle (in options-trading strategies). Features: a graphical output of your Risk/Profit-Profile; dynamic presentation of loss/profit at each part of the graph; calculates break-even points; calculates maximal loss risk; provides help by pricing the options...
- Tags: Option, Options-Calculator, Pricing, Productivity, Marketing Research, Strategy, Marketing, Management
- Software downloads 2008-05-20
- HBO programming comes to iTunes
- Well, that didn't take long. After some rumors of an Apple/HBO tie up yesterday, Apple today announced that HBO content will be available for download today. This is great news because two of my favorite shows are Flight of the Conchords and The Wire. (I've been resisting...
- Tags: Apple Inc., Apple iTunes, Programming, Pricing, TVs, Digital Music, Marketing Research, Development Tools, Digital Media, Tv & Home Theater, Marketing, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Consumer Electronics, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- Microsoft to raise Windows Small Business Server price 80 percent
- When Microsoft starts shipping its Windows Small Business Server 2008 product later this year, its price will be substantially higher -- as much as 80 percent -- than the current version of Small Business Server. Surprisingly, some testers and at least one market researcher don't seem fazed...
- Tags: U.S., Microsoft Windows Small Business Server, Product, Microsoft Corp., Pricing Strategy, CAL, Microsoft Windows, Pricing, Marketing Research, Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Marketing, Hardware, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- Olympus E-520 dSLR debuts
- Cue "The Price is Right" music -- Olympus E-520 dSLR, come on down! In today's news, Olympus announced their E-520 this morning, the replacement for the E-510. Notable improvements in the new body include sensor-shift stabilization (including an updated system with a mode that...
- Tags: Body, Olympus Corp., ISO, Iso standards, Process Improvement, Pricing, Quality, Business Operations, Marketing, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- Informatica is on the block say senior sources
- I have heard from two senior sources in the software industry that Informatica [INFA] is on the block and it has approached Oracle [ORCL]. I don't know what the possible acquisition price would be or any further details. Informatica's share price closed at $16.45 on Friday May 9. It's...
- Tags: Informatica, Oracle Corp., Pricing, Tools & Techniques, Business Intelligence, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Management, Software, Data Management, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2008-05-11
- Interview: IBM Cognos chief Rob Ashe
- Rob Ashe, general manager of IBM's business intelligence and performance management unit, has had a busy year. He sold his company, Cognos, to IBM for $5 billion and has stayed on as a member of IBM's leadership team. Ashe's role day to day hasn't changed too much....
- Tags: Cognos Inc., Software-as-a-service, IBM Corp., Pricing, Tools & Techniques, Business Intelligence, Software As A Service (SaaS), Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Management, Software, Data Management, Emerging Technologies, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-07
- Tibco Software And Silicon Valley. . .
- I rarely get to write about Tibco Software, one of the oldest Silicon Valley companies, and one of my favorite companies. The reason I rarely write about Tibco is that Tibco has been my most loyal supporter and sponsor for what I've been doing the last three plus years, publishing...
- Tags: TIBCO Software Inc., Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Financial Accounting, Pricing, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Web Services, Software, Finance, Marketing, Management, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2008-05-01
- Janssen-Cilag SpA Advances Business Strategy With Flexible Business Intelligence Solution
- Janssen-Cilag wanted to expand business intelligence capabilities to support business strategies and integrate multiple company functions in a single system, including sales and marketing, credit collection, medical direction, and product managers - ensuring that each function has a customized vision of the company's data resources. The challenge was to integrate...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Business Strategy, Company Function, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Sales Strategy, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management, Sales
- Case studies 2008-05-01
- Biocel Paskov Enhances Revenues With Improved Business Intelligence Reporting
- Biocel Paskov is a leading Czech processor of wood and one of the top European producers of sulphite pulp. Biocel Paskov wanted to provide managers with live intelligence about incoming wood chips shipments, including information on volumes, quality, and prices and implement a system to generate reports and simplify their...
- Tags: Revenue, Oracle Corp., Single Sign-on, Biocel Paskov, Pricing, Authentication/Encryption, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Security, Software, Data Management, Management
- Case studies 2008-05-01
- How PaaS pulls software pricing down
- Platform-as-a-service startup Bungee Labs this week released a new utility pricing model that really starts to put the spotlight on the pricing charged by established software-as-a-service providers. Bungee also announced what it calls 'federated hosting', which gives customers the choice of where to host their Bungee-developed applications; with Bungee in...
- Tags: Software, Salesforce.com Inc., Application, PaaS, Pricing Strategy, Pricing, Sales Force Management, Marketing Research, Marketing, Sales, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-04-25
- Adopting Agile Development, Part 2: Understanding the Different Facets
- Part 1 of the agile development series introduced agile processes, the benefits of using them, and the requirements placed on the organization that uses them. This paper discusses how different types of organizations, such as start-ups, product companies, and small and large organizations, adapt to agile development. One will also...
- Tags: Organization, IBM Corp., Pricing, Marketing Research, Benefits, Marketing, Human Resources
- White papers 2008-04-22
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