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Staying on Top of Enterprise Extender: Proactive Monitoring, Management & Optimization

HPR totally supplanted SNA/APPN's traditional 'Intermediate session routing' functionality with three new, function-rich components. These three HPR routing components, in the context of EE, then rely upon UDP, a connectionless protocol often blocked by firewalls, for their end-to-end network transport. UDP, in its turn, uses IP, with all of its...

Tags: Optimization, Network, Monitoring, IP, UDP, Software Diversified Services, Networking

White papers 2009-01-01

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Salesforce.com fires back at Oracle in SaaS war

In recent quarters Oracle has been taking aim at Salesforce.com, noting that its Siebel On Demand was poaching customers. On Thursday it was Salesforce's turn to return fire. Following Salesforce's fiscal second quarter earnings, CEO Marc Benioff, as chatty as ever, took aim at his trash talking...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Software-as-a-service, Oracle Corp., Sales Force Management, Sales, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-08-21

Multilingual Reporting With IBM Cognos 8 BI

The multilingual capabilities of IBM Cognos 8 BI are essential for companies looking to reduce IT workload, lower the Total Cost of Ownership TCO for business intelligence software, and aggressively compete in the global marketplace. IBM Cognos 8 BI offers comprehensive, Web-based BI capabilities, extensive multilingual support, and Web services...

Tags: Cognos Inc., IBM Corp., Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Roi/Tco, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management, Finance, Managerial Accounting

White papers 2009-04-01

Who makes most rain from IBM-Amazon cloud deal? Oracle.

It just goes to show how perplexing the gathering cloud marketplace is that the punditry are hesitant to meaningfully analyze this important development. But Amazon -- with a history of bold and long-term bets -- and IBM -- with a history of making markets whether it's right...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., IBM Corp., Linux, Tools & Techniques, Enterprise Software, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Management, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2009-02-12

Enterprise software: A tour of the year ahead

Despite the recession 2009 is going to be a critical year for all of those key vendors that best describe their turf in acronyms--CRM, ERP, BPO and perhaps a relatively new one VRM. Those acronyms, which stand for customer relationship management, enterprise resource planning, business process outsourcing...

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, BPO, Business Operations, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), CRM, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Dennis Howlett, Enterprise Software, ERP, Financial, Financial Service, Information Technology, It Operations, Larry Dignan, Management, Marketing, Oracle Corp., Outsourcing, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Outsourcing Company, Paul Greenberg, Software, Strategy, VRM

Blog posts 2008-12-15

What Microsoft-Yahoo merger break-off means for enterprises

Now that Yahoo gets to remain a stand-alone company for a few more months, you may think that a battle royale between Microsoft and Google over the online advertising and social networking/communications services future has little bearing on enterprises. But you'd be wrong. Here are seven reasons...

Tags: Google Inc., Merger, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Enterprise, Channel Management, Smb/Sme, Hardware Upgrade, Sales Strategy, Marketing, Hardware, Sales, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2008-05-04

Will+open+source+be+a+victim+in+the+Dot+Bomb+2.0%3F

Will+open+source+be+a+victim+in+the+Dot+Bomb+2.0%3FInsightfulSometimes in your moments of doubt I agree with you. Though in this article you might have mentioned that "open source" companies have already flared and burnt out once before. Leaving a few hardy if minor survivors.(Minor as you indicated in this comment:But real profits have been tough...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Wi-Fi, dot-Bomb, open source, software

Discussion threads 2008-02-20

TETRA Technologies, Inc. Improves Performance With Successful, Enterprise-Wide System Upgrade

TETRA Technologies, Inc. is a geographically diversified oil and gas services company that provides niche products and services for well completion and late-life production enhancement and decommissioning. TETRA Technologies, wanted to upgrade enterprise resource planning software to improve performance and ensure scalability for the expanding enterprise and streamlines business processes...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Performance, J.D. Edwards & Co., TETRA Technologies Inc., Forecasting, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Supply Chain, Sales, Enterprise Software, Software, Business Operations

Case studies 2008-02-01

Sybase: The next big target for acquisition?

Sybase announced its financial results today, calling it the best quarter and year in the company's 23-year history. Total revenue topped $295 million for Q407 and the full year exceeded $1 billion, an increase of 17 percent over 2006. Full-year GAAP operating income increased 26...

Tags: Acquisition, Sybase Inc., Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2008-01-24

Sun acquires MySQL; Adds to its software stack

Updated: Sun Microsystems is taking the plunge into the database market with the purchase of open source database developer MySQL for $1 billion ($800 million in cash in exchange for all MySQL stock and assumption of approximately $200 million in options). With the move, announced Wednesday, Sun...

Tags: MySQL, Sun Microsystems Inc., Wall Street, Open Source, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-01-16

Eight reasons SaaS will surge in 2008

Eight reasons SaaS will surge in 2008Thanks for this excellent post Phil !Thanks for this excellent post Phil.I agree that these important trends will no doubt shape how the SaaS applications and business services sector will evolve, including changes to how vendors will go to market, as well as how...

Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), software-as-a-service, IT Embracing SaaS

Discussion threads 2008-01-02

Oracle: Strong second quarter; Outlook in line; BEA book closed

Oracle on Thursday reported fiscal second quarter net income of $1.3 billion, or 25 cents a share, on revenue of $5.3 billion, up 28 percent from a year ago. Excluding charges, Oracle earned 31 cents a share to handily top Wall Street estimates. According to Thomson Financial Oracle was...

Tags: Revenue, Microsoft Outlook, BEA Systems Inc., Oracle Corp., Wall Street, Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2007-12-19

Commonwealth Bank CIO: Michael Harte - Transcript

ZDNet Australia: Welcome to the CIO Vision Series, where we have with us as our guest Michael Harte of Commonwealth Bank. Thank you Michael, for joining us today. What technologies are you particularly excited about? Harte: We’re a very diversified financial services group, and we cover...

Tags: Software, Bank, Financial, Information Technology, Banking, Customer, Business, Outsourcing, Technology, Tool, Productivity, Storage, Strategy, Hardware, Management, Andrew Mager

Blog posts 2007-10-30

RSA Access Manager Software Helps Investors Securely and Conveniently Access Online Financial Data

REFCO is a diversified financial services organization with operations in 14 countries and an extensive global institutional client base. As the parent company to more than 15 subsidiaries and affiliates, REFCO management determined that there was a need for consolidation of its web activities. After reviewing seven potential solutions, REFCO...

Tags: Software, RSA Security Inc., Microsoft Access, Financial, Investor, REFCO, Financial Accounting, Channel Management, Finance, Marketing

Case studies 2007-08-01

Managed Testing Service for a Stock Exchange Trading Platform

The company is one of the leading stock exchanges in the USA. As the most diversified financial marketplace, the company's advanced centralized specialist system offers trading in a basket of products which includes equities, Exchange Traded Funds ETFs and derivative products options and other complex financial instruments. Due to regulatory...

Tags: Financial, QA, Stock, AppLabs, Software Development, Financial Accounting, Software/Web Development, Finance

Case studies 2007-07-12

Borland Software Case Study: Raymond James Financial

Raymond James Financial is a Florida-based diversified holding company providing financial services to individuals, corporations and municipalities through its subsidiary companies. The company wanted centralized repository for all IT project documents and artifacts. The challenge was to better streamline and automate established project management process and enhance flexibility, integration and...

Tags: Borland Software Corp., Raymond James Financial Inc., Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Financial Planning, Strategy, Financial Services, It Operations, It service Management, Management, Finance

Case studies 2007-07-11

Which is the better investment, IBM or Microsoft?

Which is the better investment, IBM or Microsoft?Dana Nostradamus[i]"The day of reckoning is at hand."[/i]Really? What do think is going to happen?Did you compare Microsoft and IBM...... with stock splits discounted? If Microsoft doubles the number of shares and the price each falls from $60 to $35, the company...

Tags: IBM Corp., Microsoft Corp., open source

Discussion threads 2007-05-16

"Free" content, open access and ad-based business models place far greater demands on datacenters

File this one under unintended but substantial consequences. I'm at the annual Sybase TechWave user and analyst conference this week in Las Vegas, and something really jumped out at me from the testimony by a diversified panel of Sybase users during the keynote presentation today before 1,600 attendees. From...

Tags: Data centers, Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web 2.0, Portals, advertisement, data center

Blog posts 2006-08-07

PC manufacturers will increase ad spending by 11.7% in 2006

Schonfeld & Associates released its data on 2006 advertising spending by industry. Large, diversified food companies, expected to spend $28.3 bln in 2006, up 8.1% in ad growth. The pharmaceutical industry will increase spending over 10% in 2006 and exceed $21 bln. The industries of biotech and electromedical apparatus show...

Tags: advertisement, PC

Blog posts 2005-07-28

Was originally hyped business role downplayed in Gates' knighthood?

Today, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates was awarded honory knighthood by Britain's Queen Elizabeth II. Gates will be in rare company, joining the likes of Web founder Tim Berners-Lee, Hollywood icon Steven Spielberg, former New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani, entertainer Bob Hope and musician Bob Geldof. It's been more than...

Tags: Bill Gates

Blog posts 2005-03-02