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- Vendor Consolidation Delivers Valuable Business Outcomes White Paper
- Maintaining and managing a relationship with one vendor, any vendor takes time, effort, and resources. Many enterprises, however, maintain not one but numerous IT vendor relationships, a dozen, two dozen, even more. Multiply the cost of maintaining one vendor relationship across all the vendor relationships the enterprise maintains, and the...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Information Technology, Consolidation, Relationship, Vendor Consolidation, Strategy, Management
- White papers 2007-09-01
- SOA vendor consolidation ramps up
- SOA vendor consolidation ramps upAgree re heterogeneity but ...... in the short term SOA Software will sell separate product lines, with separate management consoles and policy definition frameworks. As I discuss here: http://www.mwdadvisors.com/blog/2006/05/soa-software-continues-its-acqusition.html,this could lead to concern from potential adopters who should look for a committed roadmap to rationalise these...
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, vendor consolidation, SOA
- Discussion threads 2006-05-08
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- Forrester: Credit crunch may freeze tech services projects
- Forrester Research in a report is confirming that the credit crunch is beginning to hit technology services firms. The extent of the damage is unclear, but IBM's lower-than-expected third quarter revenue its earnings are stronger than expected may indicate something worse is afoot. Forrester's...
- Tags: Service Provider, IBM Corp., Forrester Research Inc., Business Services, Financial Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Palin the reformer? In fact, a pattern of stonewalling and hiding
- The Associated Press takes a hard look at Sarah Palin's spotty – perhaps, hypocritical – record on open government and online transparency. She claims to be a reformer who will bring to Washington the government openness she says she established in Alaska. But the AP's review of her...
- Tags: Associated Press, Alaska, Sarah Palin, E-mail, Online Communications, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- Symantec Goes Into The Cloud With Email Filtering
- Symantec today announced its acquisition of MessageLabs, a 520-person UK-based email filtering and security vendor. Given the cost and hassles that information & knowledge management professionls IKM Pros have keeping email spam down to a dull roar and keeping viruses outside the firewall, this is a great move for Symantec....
- Tags: Symantec Corp., MessageLabs Ltd., E-mail, Online Communications, Ted Schadler
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- Windows Strata = Microsoft's layered cloud OS
- Windows Strata = Microsoft's layered cloud OSThe cloud providers fully support the platform the provide. On the otherhand, try to get help from MS for problems with your application hosted on Rackspace. It will be a LONG wait.And, end users have to pick their poison. No matter which platform they...
- Tags: Operating systems, Windows Strata, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, operating system
- Discussion threads 2008-10-08
- Forrester fuels the SAP maintenance price hike debate
- Forrester fuels the SAP maintenance price hike debateSAP MaintenanceSAP is a large company that feels they are bulletproof. They make their money on large accounts, and increasing maintenance is just a money grab in lue of increasing market share in SMB where thay have no clue how to penetrate.RE: Forrester...
- Tags: SAP AG, Forrester Research Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-10-08
- Forget the damn netbooks. Can âÂÂWindowsâ replace Windows?
- Forget the damn netbooks. Can âWindowsâ replace Windows?It's not about Windowsbut It's about pirated Windows. In my country, you will rarely see a person who willing to buy a genuine copy of Windowseven the rich people except it's coming with the PC they buy. So, if they couldn't afford a...
- Tags: Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Windows, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Linux
- Discussion threads 2008-10-07
- Capital, Capital. Wherefore art thou scarce capital?
- My Kingdom for Capital Expenditure Funding The current meltdown on Wall Street is definitely having an impact on the technology sector. This week's recent earnings forecast from SAP rather convincingly showed us that the capital markets will adversely impact technology sales. Capital for...
- Tags: Wall Street, Firm, Borrower, Pricing Strategy, Banking Relationship, Sales Strategy, Banking, Pricing, Sales Force Management, Roi/Tco, Sales, Financial Services, Marketing, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- Microsoft quietly halts sales of third-party activation offering
- Microsoft quietly halts sales of third-party activation offeringWhat now if you use MS SLPS?This is a very disconcerting time for software vendors. With a major recession on the way, they need all the help they can get to fight piracy and offer flexible revenue-generation options for their customers to stand...
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, digital-rights management, piracy, ISV, Microsoft Corp., sales
- Discussion threads 2008-10-07
- Forrester fuels the SAP maintenance price hike debate
- The last few days I've been exchanging email with R 'Ray' Wang, VP and principal analyst at Forrester about the kerfuffle over SAP's unilateral decision to apply a price hike to its maintenance and support fees. Ray specializes in the enterprise market and has special experience of SAP going back...
- Tags: Customer, SAP AG, Forrester Research Inc., Ray, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Investment, Business Structures, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- How a Mac Mini can beat a quad-core Vista behemoth (or how Apple can't write good software for Windows)
- How a Mac Mini can beat a quad-core Vista behemoth (or how Apple can't write good software for Windows)Adrian - why would Apple write good Windows software?Apple has historically had an edge with video editing / graphical design applications. Now, since they've moved to an Intel platform, any hardware advantages...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Digital music, Desktops, Digital media, Operating systems, software, Apple Inc., Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Windows, Vista behemoth, Apple Intel Mac Mini, Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple QuickTime, quad-core
- Discussion threads 2008-10-07
- Consumers might not be ready for netbooks, but we are
- Consumers might not be ready for netbooks, but we areand then in 2015...after a generation of high school leavers are very familiar with Linux and other FOSS apps, businesses will be able to start switching to Linux without the need to retrain new starters.Then in 2020 when this generation are...
- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Free Market, Linux, software
- Discussion threads 2008-10-07
- Dish Network DTVPal
- Dish Network DTVPalDTVPAL is junk, dish network a RIPOFF!!!DO NOT BUY THE DTVPAL! DISH NETWORK IS A RIPOFF! THEIR WARRANTY SERVICE DOESNOT EXIST! This company is dishonest and does not support their product.Their alleged warranty isn't worth the paper it's printed on.---After waiting months for the DTVpal, having one order...
- Tags: TV & Home Theater, Isaac Ferman, ERT, DTVPal, firmware, Dish Network, account number, Paul
- Discussion threads 2008-10-06
- Startups listen up: you've got a pricing problem
- Just about every new product coming to market is being offered as a service rather than packaged software. But pricing remains something of a mystery. A while back, I started a spreadsheet that plots price points for different saas accounting offerings. At the time I concluded that no-one has figured...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Small And Medium Enterprise, Web Application, Pricing Strategy, Phil Wainewright, Pricing, Smb/Sme, Marketing Research, Marketing, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- Linux laptops see 4x returns compared to Windows
- Linux laptops see 4x returns compared to WindowsProve itProve its fud,the article is from a vendor that sells linux laptops that did there own study. Thats would make what you said pure liesYou're the Mike Cox for linux.I also suspect that you don't even know linux that well.Message has been...
- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, laptop computer, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Linux laptop
- Discussion threads 2008-10-06
- Two Europeans indicted for US cyberattacks
- The indictments are part of the FBI's Operation Cyberslam, said to be the US's first successful investigation into a large-scale, commercially motivated denial-of-service attack Two Europeans, one of whom is English, have been indicted by a US federal grand jury in connection with a 2003 distributed denial-of-service attack that...
- Tags: FBI, Cyberattack, Distributed Denial Of Service, Attack, Operation Cyberslam, Gembe, Federal Government, Government, security, botnet, cybercrime, DOS, attacks, Matthew Broersma, ZDNet.co.uk
- News items 2008-10-06
- To ESped or not to ESped
- Our SIS now includes a fairly mature special education module. It's not perfect, but it's well-integrated with the rest of the SIS and gives teachers immediate and easy access to the accommodations they need to provide for students. From a teacher's perspective, it really rocks. ...
- Tags: Teacher, SiS, ESped, Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), Research & Development, Development Tools, Human Resources, Gender And Diversity, Business Operations, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-10-03
- Blood in the water and open source on the tracks
- Blood in the water and open source on the tracksConsolidationYou've noticed, then, that the number of banks has been decreasing. And that the survivors are able to make substantial profits.True of the software industry as well, as you imply. Smaller companies of value are likely to be bought...
- Tags: open source, Red Hat Inc., Sun Microsystems Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-10-03
- Salesforce.com: Worries emerge
- Salesforce.com: Worries emergeWhat does this mean for license holders?From the title someone is worried about Salesforce.com. Who should be worried??? If a company uses Salesforce applications and stores data on Salesforce, should they be worried?The questions above are legitimate questions to ask. I group Salesforce.com in with cloud computing companies...
- Tags: Sales force management, Salesforce.com Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-10-03
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