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- Software Consultancy Improves Development Lifecycle and Predictability
- Info Support provides tools and expertise to improve software development. The Info Support software factory, called Endeavour, helps enterprise development teams accelerate software development and better manage the software development life cycle. Although Endeavour is widely deployed, Info Support nevertheless wanted to improve customer experience and enable IT departments to...
- Tags: Software, Microsoft Visual Studio, Software Consultancy, Software Development, Tools & Techniques, Microsoft Development Tools, Development Tools, Software/Web Development, Management
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- SharePoint Statistics: The Real Reason Behind SharePoint's Price Tag
- What would you say is the most expensive part of a SharePoint deployment? A recent study by InfoTrends, a consultancy, identified where the money is being spent on SharePoint and where it's not. The results may surprise you. So I was speaking the other day...
- Tags: Microsoft SharePoint, Content Management, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Dave Greenfield
- Blog posts 2009-10-14
- Windows SMB2 exploit now public; Expect in-the-wild attacks soon
- Another "researcher" makes a name for himself.So, just why was it necessary for for this Bozo to actually "create and release the code" for the exploit? Let me guess. His company makes money by hyping up the level of fear. See their web page where they say...
- Tags: Firewalls, SECURITY, Network security, Patches, Microsoft Windows, Windows SMB2, attack, firewall, antivirus
- Discussion threads 2009-09-29
- Spigit Curbs Sharepoint Waste
- How many Sharepoint sites did your company start in the past year? Now, how many are actively being used? If you're organization is like many, Sharepoint adoption isn't the same as Sharepoint usage. In a new study by Infotrends Inc. a market consultancy, researchers found that...
- Tags: Microsoft SharePoint, Spigit, SAAS Software, Spigit Software, Content Management, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Dave Greenfield
- Blog posts 2009-09-17
- ISV Reduces Sales and Deployment Cycle From Months to Five Minutes With Web-Based Service
- Octave wanted to deliver its retail accounting and sales solution as an online service. It partnered with YouSAAS - a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner specialising in technical and marketing consultancy for Independent Software Vendors ISVs - to fully automate provisioning and deployment. Following the transition, the delivery cycle decreased from...
- Tags: Web, ISV, Microsoft Corp., Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales
- Case studies 2009-09-01
- 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
- A buy side response to the enterprise buyer's Bill of Rights (and a partial solution)
- My first post of today pointed towards an all too familiar enterprise project 'fail' and the documented experiences of one project person trying to reach completion on a now two year implementation. Coincidentally (I didn't know this was in the pipe), Mike Krigsman provides a critique of Forrester's Enterprise Software...
- Tags: Consultant, SAP AG, Bill, Principle Reason, Enterprise Software, Software, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-07-13
- Software Consultancy Helps London Borough Improve Citizen Service
- Asidua delivers world-class integration, software, and consultancy services to government and corporate clients worldwide. The Microsoft Gold Certified Partner specializes in Application and Data Integration ADI, and focuses on helping clients improve both their business bottom line and their service to customers. Asidua was hired by the London Borough of...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Service, Asidua, Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, Government, Operational Planning, Tools & Techniques, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Business Operations, Management, Enterprise Software, Software
- Case studies 2009-06-26
- Marketing Consultancy Reaps Rewards From Genuine Software
- Dynamic, Creative & Resourceful Marketing DCR Marketing is a marketing management and fulfilment agency based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. DCR Marketing wanted to ensure that it met copyright laws by acquiring licensed software, as well as improving productivity and work processes by deploying a comprehensive office productivity suite. DCR Marketing...
- Tags: Software, Microsoft Corp., File-sharing, Marketing Consultancy, Tools & Techniques, Marketing Research, Peer To Peer (P2P), Management, Marketing, Internet
- Case studies 2009-06-15
- The CIO is dead (long live the CIO)
- TechRepublic's Patrick Gray takes on the changing role of the CIO, writing that a C-level position for IT will no longer be warranted unless it evolves beyond the operational, shared-service mentality. You can find more posts like this on TechRepublic's IT Leadership blog. With the...
- Tags: CIO, Role, Information Technology, Technology, Service, C-level, Strategy, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-06-03
- Financial Services Consultancy Boosts Bottom Line Using Software Integration
- The Goetzman Group provides financial and accounting consulting services. The Woodland Hills, California - based firm sought to increase efficiencies, boost market outreach, and reduce IT costs. The Goetzman Group, a financial and accounting consultancy, used the software integration in Microsoft Office Small Business 2007 to help automate the core...
- Tags: Software, Accounting, Financial Service, Accounts Receivable, Microsoft Corp., IT Cost, Integration, Goetzman Group, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Finance
- Case studies 2009-06-01
- IBM's Devil's Triangle: An enterprise software soap opera
- IBM's Devil's Triangle: An enterprise software soap operaWhere's the architect?Who is the person that modeled the today and future capacity - and thought that 256Gb tables were adequate? Obviously in 2006 the tables were not this big and things ran fine until 2008 when the tables started exceeding this threshold.Nothing...
- Tags: IBM Corp., Triangle, enterprise software
- Discussion threads 2009-05-30
- Forrester's U.S. IT spending forecast cut: Will 2010 show a rebound?
- Forrester Research is now projecting 2009 IT spending to fall 3.1 percent, compared to the 1.6 percent decline the research firm had projected. Forrester Research---along with Gartner---is the latest to cut its projections for 2009 following bleak fourth and first quarters see full report. In many respects,...
- Tags: Information Technology, Forrester Research Inc., Strategy, Operational Planning, Operational Accounting, Management, Business Operations, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-04-01
- Cisco launches bid to capture the data center
- Cisco Systems has just launched what it considers a "critical step" in its Data Center 3.0 strategy, promising an ecosystem of partners which include chipmaker Intel, tech consultancy Accenture, virtualization software provider VMWare, Microsoft, the labs unit of enterprise software firm SAP, storage maker EMC and...
- Tags: Data Center, Cisco Systems Inc., Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2009-03-16
- SOA adoption trends -- what the data tells us
- In response to a recent post that talked about corporate success rates with SOA, a reader issued a challenge to show the numbers behind SOA adoption. So, here is a summary of significant surveys -- a recap from previous posts -- on SOA adoption that have been conducted over the...
- Tags: SOA, Survey, Loraine, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2009-03-12
- Weasels in the Woodwork
- Dennis Howlett makes some terrific points in comparing the new Jive Software 'Social Business Software' that refreshes the Clearspace 2.5 product line today with existing enterprise incumbents. Dennis and his cohorts in the enterprise irregulars have seen a few laps of the enterprise software game...
- Tags: Sony Corp., Middle Management, Dennis Howlett, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-03-10
- The deed is done: now are you better off?
- The deed is done: now are you better off?Please detail these "PC security style attacks".[i]The only downside is that now you?re a little more susceptible to both external PC security style attack and internal Wintel monomania attacks - but hey, for you, neither is a big deal.[/i]IME security issues are...
- Tags: SECURITY, Operating systems, Wintel, attack
- Discussion threads 2009-03-05
- University Hospital Standardises IT Environment and Saves Over 38% on Hardware Purchases
- The University Hospital Gottingen wanted to partner with a solution provider to drive down costs and integrate third-party software faster. Dell provided a deployment solution that includes Custom Factory Integration CFI and Dell ProSupport for IT with its Dell OptiPlex and Dell Latitude range of desktops and notebooks. Dell provided...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Hospital, Notebooks, Desktops, Strategy, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Management
- Case studies 2009-03-01
- Web Agency Grows Revenue 30 Percent With Software-Plus-Services
- Since 2000, WebXY has been creating Web sites for small and medium-size businesses. Most of WebXY's customers want a low-cost Web site that does not require additional on-premises IT investments. Others want e-commerce capabilities, or on-site order management software, or the ability to integrate online sales with back-office financial systems....
- Tags: Revenue, Web, Order Management, Web Agency, WebXY
- Case studies 2009-02-19
- Learning from Walmart
- Learning from WalmartTelxonIt's interesting that this technology still gets mentioned by name. We worked with Telxon units at a small IT software development company I worked at in the mid to late-1990s, developing client/server solutions for Fortune 500 companies. What we worked with was handheld computing form factors. We ran...
- Tags: Handhelds, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Telxons, free trade
- Discussion threads 2009-02-12
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