Cloud Computing - Game Changing Technology?
No commentsAnything as a Service (XaaX) is potentially game-changing technology that could reshape IT according to the CIO Insight article ‘Cloud Computing: Anything as a Service’. Amazon, Google and Salesforce.com have the most mature offerings. Other companies like IBM, AT&T, and Verizon are jumping on the ‘cloud’ bandwagon. Will it attract large number of customers?
I think […]
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Testing GM’s IT Strategy
No commentsSUV and pickup sales have been plunging in the US due to rising gas price. GM, a major player in the SUV and Trucks market, is planning of changing manufacturing capability from building big gas guzzlers to building small cars. Ability to adapt to changing customer need due to this new reality (high […]
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Emerging Role of IT in the Marketing Strategy of Coco-Cola
No commentsCoco-Cola has been a leader in non-alcoholic beverage industry and has dominated that market over the past century. But due to globalization, the beverage market has become more volatile, where fickle customers constantly switch drinks. Global beverage market is also getting fragmented at a faster pace with new products being introduced by the […]
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Future of Enterprise Application
No commentsIn an interview with published in Khowledge@Wharton, Bill McDermott CEO of SAP Americas talks about the future of Enterprise Application (you have to sign up to read the article). You can watch the entire interview below. But here are some of the experts from the interview. (Also read my previous blog Future of […]
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Microsoft’s ‘Cloud’ Strategy
1 comment so farMicrosoft announced its “Oslo” strategy last year as part of an overall service oriented architecture (SOA) initiative, but Oslo is about much more than SOA. It is Microsoft’s core modeling technology that will help take Microsoft deep into the cloud. This, according to eWeek’s article Oslo: Road to Microsoft’s Cloud.
Article quotes Steven Martin, senior […]
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Is SaaS Unstoppable?
No commentsBig businesses may have reached the tipping point in their acceptance of Software as a Service (SaaS) and large companies are moving beyond the early adapter stage, according to information week article SaaS Market Heats Up. Also, Salesforce.com reported net income of $9.56 million (50% Revenue Growth) on revenues of $247.6 million in the […]
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Future of Enterprise Software
No commentsTo help maximize ROI for the Enterprise Applications for the CIOs Forester in a report titled Enterprise Software in 2017 tries to look into the crystal ball to predict the future of Enterprise Application (EA). Also, read concise overview of that report in the article by Enterprise Systems titled Enterprise Software Future profiled in Report.
Using […]
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PaaS: Platform in the Cloud?
2 comments so farMark Banioff CEO of Salesforce.com, the company that created whole new market segment share for On-Demand delivery model, in an interview with eWeek titled “Platform in the Clouds” talks about the future of Saleforce.com’s On–Demand delivery model. The company is now moving on to logical next step: enabling firms to move their entire IT infrastructure […]
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Total Cost of Ownership for Business Intelligence Application
2 comments so farThe cost for implementing the BI tools is rising and therefore the CIO and other business managers are becoming aware of new licensing and implementation costs. There are several options. The BI tools are rolled up into the Enterprise applications. Some vendors provide stand alone BI tools. Then there is Open Source BI application. Both […]
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Enterprise Application and Firm’s Core Competency
No commentsWhen an organization evaluates several Enterprise Application (EA) Vendors and zeros in on a suite, they will begin to notice that all the elements of their firm’s ‘value chain’ cannot be mapped to the business process modules provided by that EA. What it mean is that the EA Suite cannot be used ‘as is’ for […]
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