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January 21, 2009 by Raj Sheelvant | 2 Comments
Software as a Service is not a ‘game-changer’ in the enterprise software market. According to Information Week, listed below are the 6 things that must happen for SaaS to gain widespread acceptance in 2009. Click here to read the entire article.
1) Get Commitment from Microsoft, Oracle and SAP: Although Salesforce.com, Google and other startups are [...]
October 17, 2008 by Raj Sheelvant | 3 Comments
Of more than 600 business technology execs who responded to the survey in July 2008, 40% said they had decreased their IT spending that quarter relative to their 2008 budgets according to the article How CIOs Are Setting IT Strategy Amid Economic Uncertainty.
While the market grabbed attention past couple of months, the underlying concern is [...]
October 8, 2008 by Raj Sheelvant | No Comments
As the global economy collapses, companies are bound to trim spending to improve the bottom line. Since information technology is bucketed as cost, senior executives inevitably will turn their attention to IT budgets for substantial contributions. Earnings miss by SAP (read article here) indicates that both Multinationals and SME (small and medium enterprises) are nervous [...]
August 11, 2008 by Raj Sheelvant | No Comments
Anything 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 [...]
July 31, 2008 by Raj Sheelvant | No Comments
SUV 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 [...]
July 22, 2008 by Raj Sheelvant | 2 Comments
Coca-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 emerging companies. [...]
July 20, 2008 by Raj Sheelvant | No Comments
In 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 [...]
July 18, 2008 by Raj Sheelvant | 1 Comment
Microsoft 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 [...]
May 27, 2008 by Raj Sheelvant | No Comments
Big 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 [...]
March 9, 2008 by Raj Sheelvant | No Comments
To 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.
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Raj Sheelvant has more than 15 years of varied experience in the field of Information Technology and is passionate about aligning IT with Business needs.
Raj strongly believes that IT can be leveraged to create, sustain and enable Business Strategy. This is a blog that demonstrates value added by IT to the Strategy
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