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- Sequoia bets on enterprise apps in the cloud
- Big-hitting VC firm Sequoia Capital has invested in SaaS pureplay integrator Appirio, making a bet that bringing cloud applications to the enterprise will prove to be a disruptive opportunity. by Phil Wainewright
- Tags: Google Inc., Google Apps, Professional Services, Sequoia Capital, Appirio, Cloud Computing, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
- SearchSOA.com names Nexaweb's Enterprise Web Suite 'Product of Year'
- Nexaweb Technologies, the application platform provider, just keeps piling on the accolades. Its latest achievement is the Product of the Year award for its Enterprise Web Suite from SearchSOA.com. The gold-status award for the Burlington, Mass. Company, came in the RIA /Composite Application Assembly category, and was...
- Tags: Web, Professional Services, Model-driven Architecture, Nexaweb Technologies, Model Driven Architecture, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Data Centers, Asset Management, Middleware, Ooa/Ood/Oop, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-04-09
- Oracle Accelerate for Professional Services: Business Services
- Acquiring and retaining customers, establishing consistent delivery processes, adhering to contractual terms, and developing and retaining qualified personnel are huge challenges in the business services industry. As enterprise software vendors have strengthened industry-specific capabilities, these companies have increasingly embraced commercially available enterprise solutions - often replacing patchworks of home-grown and...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Professional Services, Industry, Strategy, Management
- White papers 2007-11-01
- Document Creation and Assembly - Click-Through Demo (msi)
- This is a portable, interactive demo that closely simulates the UI and functionality of an actual solution. Installs to your Start menu and includes a presenter script. Scenario Summary: A document creation and assembly solution built on the Microsoft Office System can help law firms and other professional services organizations...
- Tags: Professional Services, Microsoft Corp., Creation
- Software downloads 2007-10-05
- Professional Services Company Targets Customer Needs With Flexible Training
- Information Management Group IMG provides training services for Microsoft Dynamics CRM business software. Because customer relationship management software is often customized to match a company's sales process, it is essential that students receive training that reflects these customizations. As a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner for Learning Solutions, IMG can tailor...
- Tags: Information Management, Professional Services, Microsoft Corp., Training, Information Management Group, Workforce Management, Enterprise Software, Human Resources, Software
- Case studies 2007-10-01
- SIs putting product onto AppExchange
- Microsoft partners wondering in the wake of last week's Worldwide Partner Conference how they'll adapt to the vendor's evolving 'Software plus Services' strategy may be enheartened by the experiences of some leading Saleforce.com partners. It seems that the SaaS model really does make it easier to create reusable code, which...
- Tags: Ecosystems, CRM, Business models
- Blog posts 2007-07-16
- Enabling Secure Collaboration for Professional Services Firms
- This paper describes the challenges that professional services firms experience around document collaboration and security, both within their own organizations and with client organizations. The focus of this paper is to provide information on and guidance for leveraging Microsoft technologies, both current and next generation, to help professional service firms...
- Tags: Collaboration, Professional Services, Microsoft Corp., Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2007-06-01
- The Vertical Professional Services Market Rates Importance of IP Telephony Features, Management and Applications
- This white paper presents the results of a ShoreTel-commissioned survey that was conducted by Computerworld Research in February 2007. The goal of the survey was to better understand the challenges of IP telephony as reported by IT influencers in the vertical professional services market (primarily in the architecture/engineering and consulting/accounting/...
- Tags: Phone, Telephony, Professional Services, IP Telephony, IP, ShoreTel, Survey, VOIP, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Networking
- White papers 2007-04-01
- Supporting the Talent Supply Chain with SAP for Professional Services
- As a professional services firm, your clients often base their decisions about engaging your company on a few select, talented individuals. Your ability to be a market leader therefore depends in large part on your ability to hire, retain, and develop the best and brightest employees. To learn how you...
- Tags: SAP AG, Professional Services, Talent
- White papers 2007-04-01
- Oracle Accelerate Solutions for Professional Services: Consulting Management Services
- Consulting Management Service companies are faced with the challenges of the changing landscape - customers are demanding fixed price contracts which imply higher project and delivery risk and pressure on margins. It is more important now than ever for a professional services organization to hold together all aspects of its...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Professional Services, Consulting, Outsourcing, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting
- White papers 2007-02-01
- Professional Services Firm Saves on Desktop Management With New Operating System
- Beca Group needed to reduce the cost of deploying and maintaining an ageing desktop operating system. The company also needed a more stable, secure desktop operating system for its many mobile employees. Beca Group is upgrading to the Windows Vista operating system to reduce the time IT staff spends deploying...
- Tags: Desktop Management, Operating System, Professional Services, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Beca Group, Microsoft Windows, Desktops, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Software, Hardware
- Case studies 2006-11-07
- South Plains College Relies on Dell Professional Services Expertise to Implement Multi-Campus Network Access and Messaging Solution
- South Plains College SPC serves fifteen counties in the High Plains region of West Texas with an average enrollment of more than 9,000 college-credit students and more than 5,000 continuing education students. The Information Technology team at South Plains College wanted to facilitate collaboration between staff, faculty and students with...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Microsoft Access, Network, Professional Services, Messaging, South Plains College, E-mail, Online Communications
- Case studies 2006-11-01
- Good Technology Professional Services Aids Russell Investment Group With Unique Challenges for Seamless Switch From iAnywhere's OneBridge to Good Mobile Messaging
- Russell Investment Group, a global leader in multi-manager investing, offers a full range of investment services to retirement plans, foundations, endowments, and investment plans of all types. Russell Investment Group wanted to seamlessly replace iAnywhere's OneBridge with Good Mobile Messaging on over 500 Palm Treo smartphones worldwide with little or...
- Tags: Mobile Messaging, Good Technology Inc., Mobile, iAnywhere Solutions Inc., Professional Services, Investment, Palm Treo, Smart Phones, Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware
- Case studies 2006-10-24
- Optimize Service Delivery: Leveraging People and Projects to Drive Strategic Value
- Service delivery organizations, whether IT, R&D, or professional services organizations, are under increased pressure to reduce costs, meet new business challenges head-on, and maintain their flexibility and capabilities in the face of challenging business environment. A solution that focuses on automating the key business processes that surround service delivery fundamentally...
- Tags: Information Technology, Professional Services, Primavera Systems Inc., Time Management, Productivity
- White papers 2006-07-17
- Taking Control of Your Business: Growing Profitably in the Professional Services Market
- Nowadays professional services climate is unforgiving. Margins are down, customer expectations up. In this environment, a professional services organization must keep a tight rein on all aspects of its business. How can a professional services firm grow profitably while providing clients with the higher-quality service and rock-bottom project pricing they...
- Tags: Professional Services
- White papers 2006-07-01
- Digi Professional Services for Embedded Hardware and Software Development
- The challenges of embedded device development have grown over the last few decades. In the past, it was typical to use 8- or 16-bit microcontrollers to create the functionality of an embedded device. These systems typically were programmed in Assembly and C, and used either no embedded operating system, or...
- Tags: Software, Professional Services, Digi International, Hardware, Software Development, C/C++, Programming Languages, Development Tools, Software/Web Development
- White papers 2006-06-01
- SI trends point to unintended consequences for stack decisions
- CBR Online registration required reports today on the revenue performance of the world's 50 largest systems integrator SI and professional IT services vendors. The report makes for interesting reading, and reinforces the trends toward smaller, nimbler, off-shore concerns bulking up business at the expense of the largest U.S. and European...
- Tags: professional services
- Blog posts 2006-04-24
- The Path to Realization: Predictive Service Execution for Professional Services Firms
- Oracle applications for the Professional Services industry enable firms to deliver consistent and timely services while maximizing cash flow, engagement profitability, and customer satisfaction. The applications are built on the three pillars of realization and are integrated to provide a secure, single version of the "Truth", the right information, when...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Professional Services, Industry, Realization
- White papers 2006-01-01
- Professional services to become the biggest consumer of storage and servers
- IDC expects the US professional services industry to surpass the discrete manufacturing sector as the largest overall consumer of storage and server technology by 2009, both in terms of dollars spent and spending growth rate. As a whole, the US server market is estimated to reach $23.9 bln by 2009,...
- Tags: Professional Service, storage, server, professional services
- Blog posts 2005-08-30
- Grid Computing Looking Forward
- Once reserved for the scientific and technical communities where it was developed and proven, grid computing - and the new capabilities it enables - is moving full-speed into the enterprise. This potential-filled area of computing is being explored by Intel Solution Services, Intel's worldwide professional services organization that helps companies...
- Tags: Professional Services, Grid Computing, Intel Corp., Utility Computing, It Management, Network Technology, It service Management, Networking
- White papers 2005-06-01
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