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China biz software sector to be Asia's largest
News Country's enterprise software market is projected to expand at annual growth rate of 18 percent to reach US$9.4 billion in 2012, new study reports.
Tags: Business applications, IT budgeting, Security, SCM, China, software-as-a-service, supply chain, enterprise software, software project, IT budgeting
RFID privacy code useful in Asia
News Industry watchers welcome privacy assessments and greater transparency, but warn that costs of adhering to guidelines may be passed on to consumers.
Tags: RFID, Privacy, Security Management, Security implementation/standards, Security, Asia, RFID Tag, European Union, Privacy, Singapore
S'pore supply chain firm delivers on innovation
Insight Business intelligence tools need reinvention and a slower economy could be the best time to try new things, says YCH Group's CIO James Loo.
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, Data warehousing/business intelligence, Business applications, Leadership, RFID, Database, Innovation, SCM, CIO, business intelligence
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
Sara Lee, IBM sign outsourcing deal
News Stretching seven years, contract will see IBM's Philippine delivery center as one of the locations tasked to support finance and accounting services for Sara Lee.
Tags: IT outsourcing, Outsourcing, Sara Lee Corp., IBM Corp., Outsourcing, Business Process, Back-office, SCM, Procurement, supply chain
Visibility lacking in supply chain
News Lack of insight into systems data is the greatest challenge facing organizations in the supply chain, yet many are not correcting this, study finds.
Tags: Supply chain, Supply chain integration, IBM Corp., Risk Management, Asia, Survey, Asia-Pacific, supply chain management leader, SCM, Supply chain
TCS looks to needs of SMBs
News With its IT-as-a-service offering being piloted in India, the company aims to provide smaller firms with applications as well as managed IT and telecom services.
Tags: Software-as-a-service (SaaS), Services, Business, Tata Consultancy Services Ltd., IT Services, Telecommunications, Outsourcing Company, Small And Medium Business, SCM, knowledge management
S'pore developers create open source buzz
News Local developers helping to grow Singapore's interest and expertise in open source technology, with mobile realm particularly hot, say user groups.
Tags: Open source, Linux, CRM, Singapore, Developer, Cloud Computing, e-mail, Google Android, Python, Linux
End of the road for SCM vendors?
Insight Could the death knell sound soon for pure-play SCM vendors--the likes of i2 and Adexa--as ERP giants SAP and Oracle expand their portfolios?
Tags: Business applications
The secret to creating 'pretty' code
Insight Perforce chief technology officer Christopher Seiwald maintains that software code should be more than simply functional.
Tags: Business applications, Protocols and platforms, Software Configuration Management, Configuration Management, software, IDE, core competency, asset, application development, chipset
Stay informed with these SCM resources
Insight As IT’s involvement in SCM issues and implementation increases, tech leaders and staff need solid resources from which to get the latest industry information. Here’s the lowdown on three SCM Web sites, two built by professional organizations that offer general information on SCM, and a portal site that focuses on SCM from an IT professional’s point of view.
Asian companies prefer to outsource SCM
News A new study indicates that more business leaders in Asia have turned to outsourcing their supply chain management, compared to those in the United States and Europe.
Tags: IT outsourcing, Supply chain, Outsourcing
Oracle: e-way for M'sian car makers to survive
News When the Asean Free Trade Agreement (AFTA) comes into effect in 2005, forcing Malaysia to open its markets to foreign competitors, the Malaysian automative industry will need to adopt e-business aggressively to survive the onslaught.
Use statistical protection to deliver multi-layered e-mail security
Insight Despite the pervasiveness and popularity of this e-mail, it continues to have crippling vulnerabilities and remain the number one choice for exploit among hackers and virus writers.
Buy, then build, supply chain experts urge Asian firms
News Commercial supply chain management (SCM) solutions are a better bet than many in-house systems which may not be robust enough to cope with customer demands, SCM vendors say.
