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Cloud has huge potential in India's SMBs
News India's large number of small and midsize businesses and platform's low cost, high operational efficiency and scalability will drive cloud use there, say Nasscom members.
Tags: Cloud computing, Software-as-a-service (SaaS), Enterprise resource planning (ERP), Software, Computing, India, CRM, Small And Medium Business, ERP, Cloud computing
The Sun that shines under IT
Insight Sun Microsystems CIO Bob Worrall counts down to the first phase of its new ERP project and shares what he believes the IT organization of the future will look like.
Tags: IT Management, Enterprise resource planning (ERP)
IBM opens Shanghai IT center
News Center offers IT services for software development and supports business application packages from Oracle, SAP.
Tags: Customer support, Business applications, Support
NetSuite adds cloud product range for coders
News The online application company will expand its range with the addition of cloud-based developer software.
Tags: Cloud computing, NetSuite Inc., CRM, Zach Nelson, SuiteCloud, software company, ERP, Business Process, business application, Cloud computing
SAP unveils Business Suite 7
News Global software giant announces release of Business Suite 7 overnight, including updates to all business applications available with the suite.
Tags: Customer resource management (CRM), Enterprise resource planning (ERP), Sales force automation, Supply chain management (SCM), Wipro Technologies, Atos, SAP AG, CRM, Electronic Data Systems Corp., ERP
Dell acquires Allin's Microsoft IT consulting business
News Deal, valued at US$12 million, aims to bolster Dell's consulting, such as in designing and implementing scalable networks and application architectures.
Tags: Services, Acquisitions, Allin Corp., Microsoft Corp., Business Process, business application, Consulting, News.com, Dell Computer Corp., collaboration
Ballmer, IBM reportedly surprised by Oracle-Sun deal
News Speaking to reporters in Moscow, Microsoft's CEO said he'll have to ponder this one. Also, a source says that IBM was still interested in Sun and was blindsided by Oracle.
Tags: Acquisitions, Java, Microsoft Corp., IBM Corp., Steve Ballmer, business application, Sun Microsystems Inc., CEO, Oracle Corp., partnership
Cisco taps next-gen networks for the cloud
News The networking company has announced its Unified Service Delivery package, a more efficient platform aimed at cloud services providers.
Tags: Virtualization, Cisco Systems Inc., IP, business application, IP network, networking company, network, data center, service provider
Fusion-io touts 'fastest' solid-state drive
News Fusion-io announces the ioDrive Duo, which the company claims is the fastest to date.
Tags: Storage, Steve Wozniak, Chief Scientist, PCI Express, Chip, business application, PCI, Fusion-io, Bandwidth, co-founder
Forrester foresees future of tech as 'IT everywhere'
News The evolution of existing trends, rather the advent of revolutionary tech, will shape enterprise IT in the coming years, says the company.
Tags: RFID, Business applications, Web 2.0, Mobile/Wireless, Forrester Research Inc., Technology, Mobile, SOA, business application, social networking
Cutting data center costs main driver for virtualization
News IDC research claims 90 percent of European companies that have adopted virtualization have done so to cut data center costs.
Tags: Virtualization, Business applications, Software, Data centers, Budgeting/cost control, Cost control, International Data Corp., business application, Environment, performance
Report: Technology failing to meet business expectations
News Technology teams are failing to meet around a quarter of service level agreements (SLAs) made with other business departments in their organization, according to a Forrester Consulting study.
Tags: Service level management, business application, SLA, Customer Satisfaction, Tech Team, performance, London, Silicon.com, revenue, information technology
Firms don't want SaaS as core platform
News Kraft Foods and Telkom Indonesia say software-as-a-service model does not address their needs for an integrated software architecture and a platform that supports core business applications.
Tags: Software-as-a-service (SaaS), Customer resource management (CRM), Enterprise resource planning (ERP), Sales force automation, Supply chain management (SCM), SAP AG, CRM, Kraft Foods Inc., On-demand, business application
Building the perfect Windows Mobile business application
Blogs If you're developing a Windows Mobile application for business, you need to consider the following: -- Can your mobil...
IBM, Keane build services for Java apps
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