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Systems Integrator Improves Efficiency and Cuts Annual Costs by More Than $230,000

Wortell, a systems integrator in the Netherlands, wanted to ease IT management and reduce data center costs. To simplify administration, Wortell standardized on Windows Server 2008 R2 with Hyper-V technology. As a result, Wortell has improved productivity for all employees and reduced energy consumption in its data center by 85...

Tags: Data Center, Systems Integrator, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management

Case studies 2009-10-01

Real Estate Developer Gains Strategic Asset From Combination of Systems Integrator, ISV

Leading commercial real estate developer Majestic Realty Co. wanted to turn its Microsoft-based technology into a strategic asset. As is often the case, no single vendor offered the solution Majestic needed. The company turned to a partnership of two vendors brought together by Microsoft as part of the software company's...

Tags: Asset, Developer, Systems Integrator, Commercial Real Estate, Microsoft Corp., Real Estate, Asset Management, Financial Services, Business Operations, Operational Planning

Case studies 2009-03-01

Systems integrators: The model has to change

Systems integrators: The model has to changeDownside for whom?The following quote appears to indicate that how the business works will have to change in order to save as much as possible on software implementation:If you take away the customization ERP upgrades look much easier. SAP has acknowledged as much. Allerton...

Tags: Enterprise resource planning (ERP), systems integrator, s/w company, SAP AG

Discussion threads 2009-02-05

Systems integrators: The model has to change

SAP's launch of Business Suite 7 raised a few interesting questions for systems integrators--Accenture, PriceWaterhouse, IBM. What happens if SAP's easy upgrade pitch actually turns out to be reality? And if so why would you need a systems integrator?  Now I take SAP's pitch with a heavy...

Tags: Consultant, Roche Holding AG, Systems Integrator, SAP AG, ERP, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Enterprise Software, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-02-05

Unisys Takes Its Own Authentication Medicine

Unisys is a large and diversified systems integrator with operations worldwide. In recent years, the firm has seen its global workforce become increasingly mobile. At the same time, techniques to defeat passwords have become more sophisticated, eroding the security that passwords once provided. Moreover, as a security systems integrator, Unisys...

Tags: Systems Integrator, Unisys Corp., Authentication, Forrester Research Inc., Smart Cards, Authentication/Encryption, Digital Security, Security

Case studies 2008-10-21

Will Wall Street Hurt SIs and Outsourcers?

Importance of Financial Services to the Consulting & Outsourcing Industry While consultants and systems integrators have some enviable margins, these firms don’t always make huge profits as they employ expensive resources who aren’t always chargeable. In fact, these firms can be quite vulnerable to minor economic swings...

Tags: Revenue, Consultant, Systems Integrator, Information Technology, Outsourcing Company, Firm, SiS, Outsourcing, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Financial Planning, Strategy, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Finance, Management, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2008-09-22

Systems Integrator Increases Network Control and Improves System Health

KocSistem is the systems integrator for Koc Holding, the largest corporation in Turkey, with holdings in a range of industries. In preparation for enterprisewide deployment, KocSistem tested Windows Server 2008 within its own organization. That testing showed increased administrative control of branch office servers, improved network security compliance, increased uptime,...

Tags: Network, Systems Integrator, Compliance, Health Care, KocSistem, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Networking, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software

Case studies 2008-02-01

Consulting and SI 2.0: Mining the Sea Change in Software

Fellow blogger Phil Wainewright attended the SIIA Software Industry Information Assocation conference this month. Phil writes:Speaking on a panel at todays SIIA OnDemand Summit in San Jose, Abhijit Dubey of McKinsey revealed that a new survey by his organization has found that the proportion of CIOs considering adopting SaaS...

Tags: consulting, Saas, Bluewolf Consulting, Uncategorized

Blog posts 2006-11-30

Additional Resources

Kolodner move boosts open source health IT

System Integrators view of VistADana, get in touch with this system integrator: www.nitconnect.net Ask to speak to the CEO Lior Blik who is very technical. Have him tell you his experiences with integrating Medsphere's VistA with hospital systems, both local and remote.I will try to do thatThanks for...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), open source

Discussion threads 2009-10-16

Customer Intimacy wins in SAP SI's and Channel Partners

Yesterday, several bloggers at the SAP TechEd conference in Phoenix had an opportunity to speak with Zia Yusuf, EVP, Global Ecosystem & Partner Group of SAP. I asked Zia what characteristics typify the best SAP partners. He rattled off five qualities that the best systems integrators and...

Tags: Customer, SAP AG, Firm, Channel Partner, Business Services, Strategy, Supply Chain, Product Development, Management, Business Operations, Research & Development, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-10-14

Should Apple buy Sonos?

I hope notI want Steve Jobs controlling all my consumer electronics gear EVEN LESS than I want Bill Gates controlling all my computers!Sure, I'd like much more creativity and interconnectedness in the CE world, but not that the cost to be exacted by ol' Steve.No to SonosApple already has products...

Tags: Investment, Apple Inc., Sonos

Discussion threads 2009-09-21

IBM, Consert disclose initial data from smart grid trial in North Carolina

IBM and systems integrator Consert tout potential energy savings of 40 percent per household from smart metering project. by Heather Clancy

Tags: IBM Corp., Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-09-21

IBM opens up systems framework for energy companies

IBM has designs on utility companies and other players in the smart grid and renewable energy world that are trying to see the big picture. The company is introducing a framework called the IBM Solution Architecture for Energy and Utilities Framework SAFE, which acts as an integration...

Tags: Utility Company, Industry, Energy Company, IBM Corp., Telecom & Utilities, Broadband Over Power Line, GIS, Strategy, Telecommunications, Broadband Internet, Software, Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-09-16

The Math Behind Accenture’s Restructuring

Will more cuts come? Thursday, Accenture announced that they were going to reduce their senior executive ranks by about 7%. The company stated: Approximately $128 million of the charge is for severance and related costs of workforce actions, primarily at the senior-executive level, which...

Tags: Accenture Ltd., Restructuring, Senior Executive, Executive, $119mm, Workforce Management, Recruitment & Selection, Payroll Solutions, Real Estate, Outsourcing, Human Resources, Business Operations, It Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-08-26

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

To the Moon: The Integrators

The historic Apollo 11 mission in July of 1969 culminated in the first manned moon landing. While many of the proud Americans who were involved in that project are no longer with us 40 years later, the technologies they built still live on, will be further refined, and will return...

Tags: Spacecraft, NASA, Mission, Computer, IBM Corp., UNIVAC, Productivity, Mainframes, Servers, Hardware, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-07-13

It’s official: SaaS is now mainstream

It must be mainstream if Unisys and IBM are blessing it Lately, I’ve done a couple of briefings with some large, serious, mainstream firms who have whispered their SaaS software as a service plans to me. Let’s start with Unisys. Unisys is a...

Tags: Software-as-a-service, CIO, Unisys Corp., Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-07-07

CLEAR: Your data will be properly disposed of

The defunct CLEAR service is attempting to re-assure its former customers that their biometric data will not be divulged or misused. The defunct registered traveler service CLEAR see previous post has recently sent out the following communication to its former subscribers,...

Tags: Clear, E-mail, Security, Online Communications, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-06-26

Some like it cool: HP/EDS fellow shares data center best practices

I spoke last week with Ed Kettler, a fellow for Hewlett-Packard who comes to the company via HP's acquisition of systems integrator EDS. Kettler has been involved with two major data center overhauls that EDS undertook before it became part of HP, including the retrofit of a facility in Wynyard,...

Tags: Data Center, Hewlett-Packard Co., Electronic Data Systems Corp., Best Practice, Kettler, Tulsa, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-06-18

Apple Faithful: Arrogance Is Not a Virtue, and Why I Will Never Buy a Mac

I've often been asked why I don't own a Mac. The answer is simple, and yet complex, and requires a trip down memory lane artwork by Spidermonkey David Morgenstern’s column last week about Psystar’s imminent demise and his accompanying “Good Riddance�...

Tags: Software, Steve Jobs, Apple Macintosh, PC, Apple Inc., Next Computer, Canon Inc., Fanboy Template Let, Andrew, NeXTStep, Desktops, Hardware, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-06-02