Gartner Research: SaaS ERP Suites "Still Immature"
By Jeff Myhre, Chief Editor (8/25/2008)
Denise Ganly of Gartner Research has just published a report that will steer large businesses away from SaaS ERP suites. She point blank says, "Except for use in two-tier ERP deployments, large ... |
Salesforce.com is Acquiring InStranet for $31.5 Million
By Mitra Hooman (8/25/2008)
Salesforce.com is continuing its judicious acquisition strategy with the purchase of Chicago-based InStranet, a maker of call-center technology, for the price of $31.5 million in cash ... |
ERP Implementation Troubles Hit Levi Strauss
By Jeff Myhre, Chief Editor (8/7/2008)
This is a cautionary tale about the need to get an implementation right the first time. In its latest quarterly report to the SEC, clothing maker Levi Strauss reported a 98% decline in its net income ... |
Enterprise Resource Planning Market in GCC States to Hit $300 Million by Year-End 2009
By Mitra Hooman (8/7/2008)
Yet another sign that current oil prices are moving vast sums to the Middle East - the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software market in Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates (UAE), Kuwait ... |
Oracle and Salesforce.com Take Lead in iPhone Business Apps
By Mitra Hooman (7/14/2008)
The new and improved iPhone 3G hit the streets this week, and there were lines at a great many retail outlets. Among the big corporate software providers, Oracle and Salesforce.com seem to be the only ... |
IDC Report Says Business Intelligence Market Grew 12.1% Globally
By Jeff Myhre, Chief Editor (7/14/2008)
IDC has issues its "Worldwide Business Intelligence Tools 2007 Vendor Shares" which says the business intelligence tools market grew 12.1% worldwide in 2007 to reach ... |
Microsoft's "Select Plus Volume Licensing" Coming This Fall
By Jeff Myhre, Chief Editor (7/3/2008)
On July 1, Microsoft unveiled "Select Plus Volume Licensing," which Microsoft says is "designed for large organizations with multiple affiliates that want to purchase software licenses and devices at ... |
Global Business Intelligence Revenue up 13% -- Gartner
By Jeff Myhre, Chief Editor (6/26/2008)
Gartner, Inc. just put out "Market Share: Business Intelligence Platform Software, Worldwide, 2007". According to the report, worldwide business intelligence platform software revenue was ... |
Economic Stimulus Package Encourages Businesses to Invest
By Mitra Hooman (6/9/2008)
Everyone got their $600 tax rebate from Uncle Sam recently as part of the Economic Stimulus Act, but theres more to the Act than some gas money. For businesses, there are incentives to invest that few ... |
The Theory of Constraints in BI & CPM
By Mitra Hooman (6/5/2008)
A white paper released earlier in May from Hitachi Consulting offers a quick introduction to what the author calls "The Theory of Constraints" in Business Intelligence and Corporate Performance Management ... |
Magazine Revenues, Ad Pages Drop in 1Q 2008; Trade Shows, Digital Revenues Up
By Mitra Hooman (6/5/2008)
American Business Media has released first quarter 2008 figures for the 21 Business Information Network (BIN) categories that it tracks. ABM has found a decline of 5.3% in magazine revenues compared to ... |
Forrester Sees Blurring of Search and BI Boundary
By Mitra Hooman (5/15/2008)
Forrester Research has just come out with a new report called "Search + BI = Unified Information Access" that suggests the boundary between search and business intelligence is inevitably ... |
Cox Enterprise Buys Adify to Focus on Digital Future
By Mitra Hooman (5/1/2008)
Cox Enterprises has announced that its Cox TMI subsidiary is buying Adify, a technology and media company focused on vertical online advertising. The deal is expected to close before ... |
IDC Study Says US IT Execs Will Cut Spending to Consolidate in 2008
By Jeff Myhre, Chief Editor (5/1/2008)
IT research house IDC recently put together a survey of 27 CTOs and senior IT professionals in the US and asked them what their new project spending for 2008 looked like ... |
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