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- SAP Q3: sales down, profit up
- SAP's Q3 results demonstrate continuing softening in the enterprise software sales market. Revenues were down year on year by 31% to €525 million ($787 mill) from €763 million ($1.144 bn) in the same period 2008. Software and software related service revenues declined 3% or €57 million...
- Tags: SAP AG, Sales Strategy, Tools & Techniques, Operational Accounting, Sales Force Management, Sales, Management, Finance, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-10-28
- Finally! A Three-Cornered Consulting Service for Enterprise 2.0
- Managing Change is the Biggest Challenge for Enterprise 2.0 & Social MediaGreat post Paul- and agreed that congrats are in order. What is often missed in deploying new technologies or old standards is the degree to which it changes how people do their job, what their daily life looks like-...
- Tags: Customer relationship management (CRM), Leadership, Enterprise software, Dion, Managing Change, Enterprise 2.0, CRM
- Discussion threads 2009-10-21
- Here's why Apple is doing so well -- it's the top half, stupid
- Heh... this is going to be fun to watch...ntWhat???This sounds like a lot of BS.. Apple is overpriced and the mac lovers will pay whatever Apple charges. There is the summary of this article.There is a difference in purchasingthe best product, verses the "perceived" best product.I hear many of the...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Notebooks, Engineering, Blogging, Cyberthreats, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-10-21
- Nine out of 10 corporate PCs can run Windows 7 ... but that's not the whole story
- RE: Nine out of 10 corporate PCs can run Windows 7 ... but that's not the whole storyMost corporate PCs were not updated to Vista, because Vista didn't add any additional values; required more powerful hardware and had a very bad name from the start.Most companies will also not upgrade...
- Tags: Operating systems, Software Developement, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows XP, corporate PC, PC, Win7, whole story, operating system, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista
- Discussion threads 2009-10-19
- Two Views of the Software Market
- A Bridge Too Far? In a blogger briefing this week at SAP’s TechEd, SAP CTO, Vishal Sikka, drew a chart of the application software market and what new areas of technology are of interest to the firm. I’ve tried to reproduce his freehand drawing into the following...
- Tags: ERP, Vishal Sikka, S-curve, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Enterprise Software, Software, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2009-10-16
- Microsoft recovers 'most, if not all' Sidekick users' data
- I lost my contacts for a few days. Give me ONE HUNRED BILLION DOLLARS!!!Says with pinky raised to mouth.RE: Microsoft recovers 'most, if not all' Sidekick users' dataI don't feel sorry for anyone who owns a Sidekick and lost their data. It is moronic to purchase a device that...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-10-15
- T-Mobile turns Sidekick data disaster into a PR mess
- This wasn't cloud computingThis wouldn't have happened with cloud computing. In a cloud architecture users wouldn't have even realized any disruption. They would have automatically been distributed among other non failed geo dispursed instances while the failed instance was automatically restarted on other hardware and restored from replicated data...
- Tags: Virtualization, PDC, cloud computing, SideKick, T-Mobile, public relations
- Discussion threads 2009-10-13
- Driving Enterprise Software Financial & Business Value
- While my day job is very much designing social business design with my colleagues at the Dachis Group, today we're announcing a loose federation of experts we've named 'enterprise advocates'. The intent, as outlined on the site, is to be advocates for the...
- Tags: Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-10-06
- Can Apple make a Tablet PC "cool"?
- Re:Can Apple make a Tablet PC "cool"?My company is deeply involved in the production of visual materials for the scientific, technical and medical post-secondary education marketplace and they are just dying for a tool such as this for use in the classroom. With a solid customer base here, Apple can...
- Tags: Tablets, Notebooks, Keyboards, PC, tablet, Apple Inc., keyboard, tablet PC
- Discussion threads 2009-10-05
- Students vs. Google Apps vs. Office Web Apps
- Buyer bewareBefore people get too excited about Office Web Apps, they need to remember that:- Google's strength comes from its ability to create quality, innovative products, based on open standards. Google has even established the "Data Liberation Front" (http://www.dataliberation.org/), to make it easy to migrate user data in & out...
- Tags: cloud computing, Google Inc., Office Web Apps, Office Web, Web application, Microsoft Office, Google Apps, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-09-22
- Dell and Perot: What this means
- Look at more than the upside to any acquisition Dell and Perot are getting married. This acquisition puts approximately 23,000 Perot services employees in with Dell. (see Larry Dignan's detailed post on the transaction ) (here's an InfoWorld post, too) From the macro view,...
- Tags: Acquisition, Dell Computer Corp., Perot, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2009-09-21
- Office 2010 for students excludes Office Web Apps
- I have to defend Microsoft hereThey have chosen to play in the price game so that's what you get: a price.You don't get a Rolls-Royce for the price of a Ford Ka now do you?MS has enormous investment costs to recover here. I'm no MS lover but their stock...
- Tags: cloud computing, Web application, Office Web Apps, Office Web, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office
- Discussion threads 2009-09-17
- Siemens cans SAP support
- Rumors have been circulating for weeks that Siemens plans to ditch SAP for its ERP support. The story goes that Siemens had become fatigued with the situation. A recent heavy hint should have come from Siemens signing off a massive deal with SuccessFactors. A report in...
- Tags: Siemens AG, Customer, SAP AG, Ray Wang, Enterprise Software, Software, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-09-12
- What the EU delay means for Oracle, Sun and us
- My Guess, as requested.Insofar as the EU seems to be tardy in the extreme when investigating monopoly considerations (e.g. why have they waited 10 years to tackle M$ about bundling Internet Explorer with Windows?) I would agree with you completely. Why didn't they start proceedings in a timely fashion to...
- Tags: Strategy, Backblaze, Oracle Corp., Microsoft Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-09-03
- News to know: Snow Leopard; YouTube; VMWorld; Google Books
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Ryan Naraine: Snow Leopard ships with vulnerable Flash Player Sam Diaz: Report: EC considering delay of Sun-Oracle over...
- Tags: Google Inc., Andrew Nusca, YouTube Inc., Microsoft Corp., Matthew Miller, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows 7, Desktop Virtualization, Desktops, Data Centers, Virtualization, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Hardware, Storage, Data Management
- Blog posts 2009-09-03
- Is the new Canon EOS 7D a Nikon D300s killer?
- Missed a couple of thingsThe 7D also uses SDHC CF cards. Those appear to be required for the maximum burst rate. And according to the posted spec, HD video works not only at 30FPS, but also at 24 and 29.97. I want one.RE: Is the new Canon...
- Tags: sensor, Canon Inc., pixel, Nikon Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-09-02
- USB 'SuperSpeed' 3.0 logos to appear on certified devices
- In 3 Years, Apple Will Take Credit For ItOne of my FanBoy friends, who died a couple years ago, swore that Apple invented the USB. Not really any different than Apple's commercial advertising now.Oh well, give me more speed, no matter what !Sweet...been waiting for USB 3.0 to hit the...
- Tags: USB, USB 3.0, SuperSpeed
- Discussion threads 2009-09-02
- Directory: 100 technology experts on Twitter
- a few things missing from your listnice list, a little heavy on the zdnet side though (gee, color me surprised). but what the heck is that jr rafael/raphael dude doing on there? have you seen his police record?missing from your list: @eSarcasm geek humor gone wild. fyi, here's a better...
- Tags: Twitter Inc., technology expert
- Discussion threads 2009-08-17
- Enterprise software sales and Social CRM
- I had planned to riff on the emerging discussion around Ross Mayfield's Social CRM iceberg and social software post but Paul Greenberg has done a great job of bringing that together. He's the CRM subject matter expert among the Irregulars so it's his play. Even so, the...
- Tags: Subject Matter Expert, Customer, Sales, CRM, Public Relations, Marketing Research, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Software, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-08-12
- News to know: Clearwire; Google Caffeine; innovation; Office and Nokia; VMWare; Windows 7
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: Clearwire bets on fourth quarter WiMax tipping point Garett Rogers: Google to Caffeinate search results ...
- Tags: Innovation, Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Google Android, Nokia Corp., Clearwire Corp., Andrew Nusca, Mary Jo Foley, Microsoft Windows, VMware Inc., Matthew Miller, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows 7, Mobile Operating Systems, Data Centers, Smart Phones, Virtualization, Microsoft Office, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Office Suites, Software
- Blog posts 2009-08-12
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