Thursday, February 15, 2007
Wednesday, February 14, 2007
Tuesday, February 13, 2007
Saturday, February 10, 2007
Thursday, February 08, 2007
Wednesday, February 07, 2007
Thursday, February 01, 2007
Tuesday, January 30, 2007
MarketScope for Records Management, 2007
MarketScope for Records Management, 2007
Enterprises must perform due diligence when selecting a records management vendor to address their compliance and regulatory needs as market consolidation has reduced the product choices and increased risk. Consider records management as an integral part of your content management infrastructure.
Enterprises must perform due diligence when selecting a records management vendor to address their compliance and regulatory needs as market consolidation has reduced the product choices and increased risk. Consider records management as an integral part of your content management infrastructure.
Monday, January 29, 2007
Sunday, January 28, 2007
Friday, January 26, 2007
Thursday, January 25, 2007
Wednesday, January 24, 2007
Monday, January 22, 2007
Sunday, January 21, 2007
FT.com / Companies / IT - IT deals surge to highest level in 6 years
FT.com / Companies / IT - IT deals surge to highest level in 6 years
IT deals surge to highest level in 6 years
By Maija Palmer in London
Published: January 21 2007 22:06 Last updated: January 21 2007 22:06
Global merger and acquisition levels in the technology sector broke through the €100bn barrier in 2006, for the first time since the height of the dotcom boom in 2000.
According to figures published on Monday by PriceWaterhouseCoopers, merger and acquisition values were boosted by 18 mega deals, transactions with a value of more than €1bn. The largest of these was the €11.1bn merger of France’s Alcatel with Lucent Technologies of the US.
IT deals surge to highest level in 6 years
By Maija Palmer in London
Published: January 21 2007 22:06 Last updated: January 21 2007 22:06
Global merger and acquisition levels in the technology sector broke through the €100bn barrier in 2006, for the first time since the height of the dotcom boom in 2000.
According to figures published on Monday by PriceWaterhouseCoopers, merger and acquisition values were boosted by 18 mega deals, transactions with a value of more than €1bn. The largest of these was the €11.1bn merger of France’s Alcatel with Lucent Technologies of the US.
Wednesday, January 17, 2007
Tuesday, January 16, 2007
Sunday, January 14, 2007
Saturday, January 13, 2007
Thursday, January 11, 2007
Wednesday, January 10, 2007
Tuesday, January 09, 2007
Saturday, January 06, 2007
Monday, January 01, 2007
Alfresco Newsletter
Alfresco Newsletter
Alfresco Community – Merry Christmas and a Prosperous New Year – A Year in Review
Welcome to the tenth Alfresco Community Newsletter.
People used to talk about working in “Internet Time”. Well it feels like we are now living in “Open Source Time”. The year has gone by at an incredible pace. From a company perspective we are now the clear leader in Open Source Enterprise Content Management with a 100% Open Source product. This has been recognized with awards from the World Economic Forum, The eContent 100 and the KMWorld Trend-Setting Product of the Year. We are now approaching 500,000 downloads and have over 100 partners. I would like to congratulate Rivet Logic and Aarden Ringcroft who have been named as US and European Alfresco partners of the year.
Alfresco Community – Merry Christmas and a Prosperous New Year – A Year in Review
Welcome to the tenth Alfresco Community Newsletter.
People used to talk about working in “Internet Time”. Well it feels like we are now living in “Open Source Time”. The year has gone by at an incredible pace. From a company perspective we are now the clear leader in Open Source Enterprise Content Management with a 100% Open Source product. This has been recognized with awards from the World Economic Forum, The eContent 100 and the KMWorld Trend-Setting Product of the Year. We are now approaching 500,000 downloads and have over 100 partners. I would like to congratulate Rivet Logic and Aarden Ringcroft who have been named as US and European Alfresco partners of the year.
Sunday, December 31, 2006
EContentMag.com: Content Technologies, Circa 2007
EContentMag.com: Content Technologies, Circa 2007
Large mergers this year at the top of the content technologies marketplace (IBM swallowing FileNet, Open Text buying Hummingbird, Autonomy taking Verity) have led some to opine that these markets are finally maturing. I'm not so sure.
Large mergers this year at the top of the content technologies marketplace (IBM swallowing FileNet, Open Text buying Hummingbird, Autonomy taking Verity) have led some to opine that these markets are finally maturing. I'm not so sure.
Saturday, December 30, 2006
Friday, December 29, 2006
Thursday, December 28, 2006
Monday, December 25, 2006
Friday, December 22, 2006
Wednesday, December 20, 2006
Friday, December 15, 2006
Thursday, December 14, 2006
Wednesday, December 13, 2006
Monday, December 11, 2006
Wednesday, December 06, 2006
Tuesday, December 05, 2006
// NUCLEUS RESEARCH //
// NUCLEUS RESEARCH //
Nucleus Research Predicts Top 10 IT Trends for 2007
Expect a greater focus on enabling end users, stronger threats to traditional IT vendors
Wellesley, Mass.,—December 5, 2006—Nucleus Research today announced its Top 10 IT Predictions for 2007. The annual report has accurately predicted major IT trends for enterprise end users and vendors for the past three years. Nucleus predictions are based on analysis of both vendors and thousands of corporate end-user case studies.
“We see an exciting new year ahead – especially for companies embracing new technologies – with two larger trends emerging from our top 10 predictions. First we see the empowerment of the enterprise end-user as on-demand offerings and SOA drives more functionality down to the end user. Second, we see a growing challenge to traditional IT vendors through new technologies and models, including data virtualization, the integration of data mining tools and the ongoing evolution of IP and wireless technologies,” said Rebecca Wettemann, Nucleus Research.
Nucleus predicts the following for 2007:
1. Adoption of on-demand solutions and expansion of existing on-demand solution environments will continue as IT increasingly embraces on-demand as a way to reduce ongoing management hassles and accelerate project delivery.
2. Broader adoption of service-oriented architectures (SOA) will drive greater ROI and change how IT infrastructure is evaluated.
3. Data visualization and analysis tools for business users will drive greater adoption and more rapid decision making, while challenging the traditional business intelligence approach.
4. Content management consolidation will drive down prices and make rapid deployment, usability, and ongoing TCO key decision factors for migration efforts.
5. More and more organizations will look to integrated data mining to achieve ROI by reducing marketing costs and better targeting customer interactions.
6. Agent, filtering, and collaboration technologies (Knowledge Management) will become more prevalent in CRM, ERP, and other applications – as will other features designed to make them more intuitive and easier to use.
7. To win, cement, and expand customer relationships, successful vendors will enhance their services offerings to provide blueprints, templates, and other prescriptive guidance – free of charge.
8. As technology options become more accessible and affordable for organizations we’ll see a rise in the adoption of low cost and quick returns solutions like predictive analytics and on-demand in the public and nonprofit sector – driving greater demands for accountability in government IT spending.
9. BPO 2.0 leverages on-demand technology and secure remote network access to employ a distributed labor force, enabling more flexible, higher quality, more agile, and more focused customer interaction on a global basis.
10. Continued adoption of IP telephony and free tools like Skype will challenge traditional carriers’ pricing models and drive public broadband efforts.”
Nucleus analysts are available to discuss any of the IT predictions listed above. The full report is available at www.NucleusResearch.com.
About Nucleus Research
Nucleus Research is a global provider of IT advisory and research services that provides CFOs, CIOs and their staffs with the real-world information they need to maximize the business returns from their technology investments. For more information, visit www.NucleusResearch.com.
Nucleus Research Predicts Top 10 IT Trends for 2007
Expect a greater focus on enabling end users, stronger threats to traditional IT vendors
Wellesley, Mass.,—December 5, 2006—Nucleus Research today announced its Top 10 IT Predictions for 2007. The annual report has accurately predicted major IT trends for enterprise end users and vendors for the past three years. Nucleus predictions are based on analysis of both vendors and thousands of corporate end-user case studies.
“We see an exciting new year ahead – especially for companies embracing new technologies – with two larger trends emerging from our top 10 predictions. First we see the empowerment of the enterprise end-user as on-demand offerings and SOA drives more functionality down to the end user. Second, we see a growing challenge to traditional IT vendors through new technologies and models, including data virtualization, the integration of data mining tools and the ongoing evolution of IP and wireless technologies,” said Rebecca Wettemann, Nucleus Research.
Nucleus predicts the following for 2007:
1. Adoption of on-demand solutions and expansion of existing on-demand solution environments will continue as IT increasingly embraces on-demand as a way to reduce ongoing management hassles and accelerate project delivery.
2. Broader adoption of service-oriented architectures (SOA) will drive greater ROI and change how IT infrastructure is evaluated.
3. Data visualization and analysis tools for business users will drive greater adoption and more rapid decision making, while challenging the traditional business intelligence approach.
4. Content management consolidation will drive down prices and make rapid deployment, usability, and ongoing TCO key decision factors for migration efforts.
5. More and more organizations will look to integrated data mining to achieve ROI by reducing marketing costs and better targeting customer interactions.
6. Agent, filtering, and collaboration technologies (Knowledge Management) will become more prevalent in CRM, ERP, and other applications – as will other features designed to make them more intuitive and easier to use.
7. To win, cement, and expand customer relationships, successful vendors will enhance their services offerings to provide blueprints, templates, and other prescriptive guidance – free of charge.
8. As technology options become more accessible and affordable for organizations we’ll see a rise in the adoption of low cost and quick returns solutions like predictive analytics and on-demand in the public and nonprofit sector – driving greater demands for accountability in government IT spending.
9. BPO 2.0 leverages on-demand technology and secure remote network access to employ a distributed labor force, enabling more flexible, higher quality, more agile, and more focused customer interaction on a global basis.
10. Continued adoption of IP telephony and free tools like Skype will challenge traditional carriers’ pricing models and drive public broadband efforts.”
Nucleus analysts are available to discuss any of the IT predictions listed above. The full report is available at www.NucleusResearch.com.
About Nucleus Research
Nucleus Research is a global provider of IT advisory and research services that provides CFOs, CIOs and their staffs with the real-world information they need to maximize the business returns from their technology investments. For more information, visit www.NucleusResearch.com.
Monday, December 04, 2006
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Wednesday, November 29, 2006
Thursday, November 23, 2006
Who wants an easy life anyway? - CRN
Who wants an easy life anyway? - CRN
Despite the hard work and stress, all of those who make this year’s A-List wouldn’t want to work anywhere else. Simon Meredith looks at what motivates some of the industry’s leading figures
Despite the hard work and stress, all of those who make this year’s A-List wouldn’t want to work anywhere else. Simon Meredith looks at what motivates some of the industry’s leading figures
Wednesday, November 22, 2006
Thursday, November 16, 2006
Wednesday, November 15, 2006
Tuesday, November 14, 2006
Monday, November 13, 2006
Sunday, November 12, 2006
Thursday, November 09, 2006
Nvidia Strengthens Mobile Focus With Deal to Buy PortalPlayer
This strategic agreement focuses on growth opportunities beyond the PC. PortalPlayer's proficiency in audio combined with Nvidia's mobile video expertise will position Nvidia for video-focused, portable multimedia devices.
Nvidia Strengthens Mobile Focus With Deal to Buy PortalPlayer
Nvidia Strengthens Mobile Focus With Deal to Buy PortalPlayer
Tuesday, November 07, 2006
Microsoft may launch Office tools online (FT)
Bill Gates hinted that Microsoft would launch simple online versions of some of its Office desktop software tools as he hit back at suggestions that new internet services from Google and others might start to eat into one of his company’s core businesses.
His comments followed a rash of new services from Google and other internet companies to handle things such as word processing, spreadsheets and online calendars.
Google also changed course last month by starting to combine some of these its applications into an integrated package, echoing the “suite” approach that helped to turn Microsoft’s Office into the dominant desktop software application.
Mr Gates told the Financial Times that Microsoft would itself match services such as those offered by Google. He argued strongly, though, that this would only ever represent a small part of the market.
Asked whether Microsoft planned to launch online “productivity” tools like those in Office, he said: “We’re going to cover 100 per cent of the productivity needs – our track record is to keep innovating.”
Mr Gates said the present generation of e-tools were still at a very basic level and broadly comparable to Works, a collection of simple applications that Microsoft sells for PC users, and so did not threaten the core Office business.
“The web-based things aren’t an advance over what Works has been for a long, long time,” he said. “We don’t think the market will shift to a Works-like level.” Works is only estimated to account for a small percentage of Microsoft’s “information worker” business, which produced overall sales of $12.4bn last year.
Until now, Microsoft has steered clear of launching web-based productivity applications in direct competition with Google.
Its “Office Live” service, which is due to come out of its test phase later this month, is a collection of tools for small companies to create and run their own websites, rather than being related to the desktop software suite whose name it bears. While maintaining that most office workers would continue to use full versions of the Office desktop software, Mr Gates suggested that they would in future find it easier to access their work from any machine – one of the advantages of the online services.
“There’s a difference between actually running an application on a server versus letting a document be found on a server,” he said. “We’re going to make a push to let you keep documents on a server.”
Since most office workers use full-functioning PCs, it made sense to take advantage of that local computing power with applications such as those in Office, even if their documents are held centrally, he added.
His comments followed a rash of new services from Google and other internet companies to handle things such as word processing, spreadsheets and online calendars.
Google also changed course last month by starting to combine some of these its applications into an integrated package, echoing the “suite” approach that helped to turn Microsoft’s Office into the dominant desktop software application.
Mr Gates told the Financial Times that Microsoft would itself match services such as those offered by Google. He argued strongly, though, that this would only ever represent a small part of the market.
Asked whether Microsoft planned to launch online “productivity” tools like those in Office, he said: “We’re going to cover 100 per cent of the productivity needs – our track record is to keep innovating.”
Mr Gates said the present generation of e-tools were still at a very basic level and broadly comparable to Works, a collection of simple applications that Microsoft sells for PC users, and so did not threaten the core Office business.
“The web-based things aren’t an advance over what Works has been for a long, long time,” he said. “We don’t think the market will shift to a Works-like level.” Works is only estimated to account for a small percentage of Microsoft’s “information worker” business, which produced overall sales of $12.4bn last year.
Until now, Microsoft has steered clear of launching web-based productivity applications in direct competition with Google.
Its “Office Live” service, which is due to come out of its test phase later this month, is a collection of tools for small companies to create and run their own websites, rather than being related to the desktop software suite whose name it bears. While maintaining that most office workers would continue to use full versions of the Office desktop software, Mr Gates suggested that they would in future find it easier to access their work from any machine – one of the advantages of the online services.
“There’s a difference between actually running an application on a server versus letting a document be found on a server,” he said. “We’re going to make a push to let you keep documents on a server.”
Since most office workers use full-functioning PCs, it made sense to take advantage of that local computing power with applications such as those in Office, even if their documents are held centrally, he added.
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