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- Epicor Perspectives: the analyst view
- A thousand customers and 1,500 total attendees may be 20% down on past years but represents a good effort by Epicor to get the faithful out to hear the latest and greatest when compared with other vendor led events where attendance has been down 30-40%. ...
- Blog posts 2009-11-10
- Sun cuts 3,000 jobs as Oracle takeover twists in regulator limbo
- Oracle hasn't completed its Sun Microsystems acquisition yet, but the restructuring is already underway. In a regulatory filing, Sun said Tuesday that it will lay off 3,000 workers across the globe. The company added that it had to restructure as it waits for Oracle's purchase of the...
- Blog posts 2009-10-20
- Salesforce.com and CODA hook up
- Salesforce.com and CODA (via its parent Unit 4 Agresso) are hooking up to create FinancialForce.com. While financial details of the arrangement were not revealed, Salesforce.com is a minority stakeholder in the new company. From the blurbs: The CODA 2go team and products have transferred to FinancialForce.com, which will...
- Blog posts 2009-09-30
- Dell: Perot Systems purchase an 'anchor' acquisition; More deals likely
- Perot PurchaseIt's a brilliant move on two fronts: Service to sell more hardware and subjugation replace HP and IBM with Dell hardware and SANS.Dell once again proves why they outsell HP and IBM 2-to-1 in many market spaces....RE: Dell: Perot Systems purchase an 'anchor' acquisition; More deals likelyPretty good deal...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-21
- Blackberry vs. iPhone smackdown
- Smackdown I think that BB users will always be BB users and iPhone users are dedicated to their sets. I have seen more of my acquaintances switch from non-smart phones to iPhone than to BB, but that is anecdotal evidence and meaningless.I don't think RIM has to worry about their...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-01
- SAP: Is the worst over?
- Analysts have been tripping over themselves trying to call the trough of demand for SAP applications. SAP detailed quote has been upgraded twice in two days. Bank of America-Merrill Lynch upgraded SAP to buy from neutral on Thursday given "the low expectation level." Simply put, business isn't...
- Blog posts 2009-07-09
- HP tackles a variety of current IT challenges and advances in free three-day 'virtual conference'
- Given the current economic downturn and tightening budgets, frugal is good and free is better. Hewlett-Packard HP is addressing the new IT value era with a series of complimentary international virtual events that will give IT professionals online access to briefings on business and technology trends from HP executives and...
- Blog posts 2009-06-03
- In search of SAP Business ByDesign
- Mike Krigsman has a post that seeks to put ByDesign into a hopeful light. Based on his conversations I'm not surprised he came away with a glowing customer report. Customers I've spoken with have been rightfully delighted with what SAP is offering and the roadmap they're presenting. As...
- Blog posts 2009-05-18
- Sapphire 09 Live: Smart business plans, moral benchmarks
- SAP is always a bit of a conundrum to me. They have extraordinarily talented people, an incredibly deep product portfolio that they are always extending, more often than not make good acquisitions that take some time but work out all in all, and seem to be actually dedicated to transforming...
- Blog posts 2009-05-13
- Skype’s Giving Away Skype Credits
- Skype for Business is now running a competition for the best Skype for Business story. Three prizes will be awarded per region - EMEA, the Americas and Asia-Pacific. The prizes are as follows: First: Wins a Skype for Business consultancy service with a Skype for...
- Blog posts 2009-05-05
- SAP software revenues plummet, announces new deal on maintenance
- SAP has announced its Q1 results. total revenue was €2,397 million compared to €2,460 in Q1 2008, a fall of three percent. While operating income was only down eight percent, software revenues were off 33%, falling from €622million in Q1 2008 to €422 million. Support revenue climbed...
- Blog posts 2009-04-28
- VMware wants to be your network operating system of choice
- Whenever a company changes the name of their major product you often have to wonder what level of change they are trying to signal. In the case of VMware which changed ESX to vSphere yesterday, the signal is one of intent. They could have called it vWorldDomination but that might...
- Blog posts 2009-04-22
- Salesforce's unspoken build and buy strategy
- At this week's Cloudforce I was keen to understand what is happening on the Force.com platform. Narinder Singh, Appirio's marketing strategist came on stage to talk about how they used the Force.com platform to set up MyStarbucksidea.com. This is an example of a situational application, built and designed for a...
- Blog posts 2009-04-07
- NVIDIA introduces new workstation graphics lineup, virtualization
- NVIDIA introduced its new high-powered workstation graphics chips today, along with new SLI virtualization support, in what it calls "the most powerful and advanced top-to-bottom line of Quadro professional GPU solutions in the company's history" and intended to "set the stage for the next ten years of innovation." ...
- Blog posts 2009-03-30
- EMEA Printer, Copier and MFP Unit Shipments, 2008
- Vendor 2008 Shipments 2008 Market Share (%) 2007 Shipments 2007 Market Share (%) 2008 - 2007 Growth (%) Hewlett-Packard 20,737 43.0 23,221 44.1 -10.7 Canon 8,212 17.0 8,337 15.8 -1.5 Epson 6,576 13.6 6,651 12.6 -1.1 Brother 3,306 6.9...
- Blog posts 2009-03-19
- EMEA PC Shipments for Q4 2008
- Company 4Q08 Shipments 4Q08 Market Share (%) 4Q07 Shipments 4Q07 Market Share (%) 4Q08-4Q07 Growth (%) Hewlett-Packard 6,459 21.2 5,742 19.8 12.5 Acer 4,998 16.4 4,682 16.1 6.8 Dell Inc. 2,762 9.1 2,748 9.5 0.5 ASUS 1,937 6.4 1,154...
- Blog posts 2009-03-15
- SAP cans SAPPHIRE Europe
- Reports coming out of Europe confirm that SAP has canceled its showcase SAPPHIRE event, scheduled for May. According to: NetShelter, SAP is canceling SAPPHIRE in favor of a series of smaller events - World 1,000 Tour. I asked James Governor of Redmonk for his...
- Blog posts 2009-01-22
- TechNet Webcast: Successfully Monitor UNIX and Linux Alongside Your Windows Infrastructure With Operations Manager 2007 R2 (Level 300)
- Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 is an end-to-end service-management product that is a great choice for Windows because it works seamlessly with Microsoft software and applications, helping organizations increase efficiency while enabling greater control of the data center and IT environments. At Tech-Ed EMEA 2008, Microsoft announced an exciting...
- Webcasts 2009-01-22
- 3Com Global Services Delivers Turnkey Network Solution to Grow Award-Winning Scottish Law Firm, EMEA
- With two offices in Glasgow, Scotland, and one in Manchester, England, Golds Solicitors Golds is a highly successful UK law firm. Golds sought a converged network solution to deliver maximum performance at minimum cost of ownership. Golds also required the new network to be simple to manage and fully scalable...
- Case studies 2009-01-01
- Jaspersoft V3.5 EMEA Webinar
- The attendee of this webcast will learn all the key changes and new features of Jaspersoft Business Intelligence 3.5. Jaspersoft v3.5 delivers integrated analysis capabilities that provide simple, powerful BI for even casual users as well as the industry's first software-as-a-service-enabling BI platform. The attendee of this webcast will learn...
- Webcasts 2009-01-01
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