Systems Integration
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NEC Asia eyes bigger slice of services pie
News The company's expansion plans include growing headcount, as well as services revenue in Singapore from 10 percent to over 50 percent, says chief exec.
Tags: Services, Business Strategies & Functions, Infrastructure/architecture management, NEC Corp., India, Singapore, Southeast Asia, Hardware, CEO, Fujitsu Ltd.
Services with a 'green'
Insight Though slowed by the economic downturn, NEC Asia is focused on greening its IT and growing its services business, gunning for big contracts such as Singapore's SOE, says CEO Kiyofumi Kusaka.
Tags: Outsourcing, Infrastructure/architecture management, Business applications, Leadership, Personal Computers, Servers, NEC Corp., Security, Mobile, India
Shortage of skilled IT staff impacts rebound
News Without adequate skills, companies in the Asia-Pacific region cannot focus on innovation critical to sustain their businesses today, says analyst.
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, Programming languages, Business applications, Microsoft Corp., Philippines, IT Professional, Skill, Asia-Pacific, Malaysia, systems integration
Toshiba muscles into solar-energy business
News Company creates unit dedicated to building large-scale power plants using solar-photovoltaic panels.
Tags: Green IT, Notebooks and tablets, Consumer Technology, Sanyo Electric Co., Photovoltaics, Carbon Emission, Sharp Corp., rechargeable battery, natural gas, systems integration
IBM Australia hit US$2.9B in 2008
News Enterprise technology giant IBM's Australian unit saw record revenues of over US$2.94 billion in 2008, thanks to several large deals such as with Queensland Motorways.
Tags: Sales/revenue, IBM Corp., Outsourcing, Medicare, General Motors Corp., Australia, systems integration, financial, revenue, New Zealand
Outsourcing: Less money-saving, more time-saving
News Saving money through better business processes--not just cost-cutting--is a high priority for enterprises in the current climate, says Wipro executive.
Tags: IT outsourcing, Outsourcing, Wipro Technologies, Outsourcing, IT Budget, Outsourcing Company, ERP, Business Process, systems integration, billing
Philippine pensioners 'speak' to new system
News The system will let active and retired government workers access pensions and apply for state loans.
Tags: Biometrics, Knowledge management, Security, Mobile, Member, Philippines, Cell Phone, voice recognition, Social Security, phone
Four types of tech in demand during a downturn
News The economic downturn is not universally bad news for IT, according to consulting company Frost & Sullivan which says gloomy markets can actually mean good news for certain segments of the tech industry.
Tags: Virtualization, M&A, Information And Communication Technology, electronic billing, leasing, Frost & Sullivan, systems integration, information management, software-as-a-service, information technology
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
Gartner: Low-cost PCs to go big by 2012
News Research firm says 30 percent of mobile PCs will be priced below US$300 by 2012, with telcos finding new revenue streams in these systems.
Tags: Notebooks and tablets, Handhelds, 3G (Third Generation), Data services, Hardware, Mobile, Telecommunications, Cell Phone, Wireless, Gartner Inc.
Oracle buys integration challenge along with Sun
News Acquiring Sun gives Oracle powerful injection of new technology, but sales pitch of integrated hardware and software has fallen on deaf ears so far.
Tags: Software integration, IBM Corp., Integration, Database, server appliance, Cloud Computing, Sales, Sun Microsystems Inc., Server, software
India's Tata, NEC S'pore come together
News India's software and IT services provider Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) will explore the possibility of reselling and providing technical support for Japanese computing giant NEC's biometric security systems in Asean.
Asia to warm up to Cisco's data center plan?
News news analysis Cisco Systems' Unified Computing has impact on enterprise server market, but it will take time for networking giant to convince users, observers say.
Tags: Data centers, Servers, Virtualization, Infrastructure/architecture management, Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM Corp., Cisco Systems Inc., International Data Corp., Asia-Pacific, Storage
Japanese software maker joins open-source group
News Japanese software maker NEC Soft announced yesterday that it has joined Open Source Development Labs (OSDL). The company plans to participate in OSDL's Data Center Linux and Carrier Grade Linux initiatives as the Linux operating system catches on in Japan.
Short Take: Spike CyberWorks buys HK companies
News Australian digital services company Spike CyberWorks has acquired a substantial interest in Hong Kong-based SoftPub.com and Linux Centre (HK) Ltd.
