Posted on March 18th, 2009 by
ali.zaidi
It has been a dark couple of years for Microsoft in the desktop operating systems business. The uncontested leader in that market for close to two decades, the company sullied its reputationn with the delivery of Windows Vista, which proved a crashing disappointment from the moment it stumbled out of the starting blocks. Despite expensive [...]
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Filed under: Business Dynamics, Enterprise Software, Global Technology Market
Posted on January 26th, 2009 by
ali.zaidi
Obama seems to be the most tech-driven leader following John. F. Kennedy. Recently got his BlackBerry customized for security purposes and to eliminate concerns like e-mail could be hacked or GPS used to locate president, phone capable of encrypting voice conversations, handling classified documents. The most significant item provided by Obama is the Technology and [...]
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Filed under: Business Dynamics, Enterprise Agility, Enterprise Software, financial crisis, Global Technology Market
Posted on January 15th, 2009 by
ali.zaidi
Information technology is a driving fuel for any organization today. As important as sales, marketing, HR or any other supporting department for an organization to survive. In the current financial crisis where its difficult to come out of the debt, it has become almost inevitable for organizations to carry out their plans to be on [...]
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Filed under: Agile Applications, Business Dynamics, Enterprise Agility, Enterprise Software, financial crisis, Global Technology Market, Uncategorized
Posted on January 15th, 2009 by
M. Ali Nasim
Recession is the only real time where the organizations get enough time to re-think and make radical changes to their strategic assets. While in boom the best you can afford to do is continuous improvement; you normally can’t afford to experiment and re-engineer your core business processes (and IT assets supporting them) while you’re overwhelmed [...]
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Filed under: Business Dynamics, Enterprise Agility, Enterprise Software, financial crisis, Outsourcing & Agility, World Economics
Posted on January 5th, 2009 by
ali.zaidi
As we move to 2009, it’s important to put down the champagne glasses for a moment and consider all of the big technology stories that have come across over the past year. Next-generation applications have been simmering for years, but they’ve yet to reach widespread acceptance. Many believe that this year developers and architects will [...]
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Filed under: Agile Applications, Business Dynamics, Enterprise Agility, Enterprise Software, Global Technology Market, SOA & Agile Applications
Posted on December 1st, 2008 by
ali.zaidi
Service-oriented architecture represents an alternative to the slash-and-burn approach to system modernization. Transitioning to SOA takes a lot of planning, and it’s best to start small. Vendors are also lining up with products meant to ease implementation. SOA transition” is buzz term growing in popularity among IT managers, especially when they meet with corporate boardroom [...]
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Filed under: Agile Applications, Business Dynamics, Enterprise Agility, Enterprise Software, SOA & Agile Applications
Posted on December 1st, 2008 by
ali.zaidi
Oracle’s Beehive, its new collaboration suite, signals a shift in enterprise messaging. As functionality moves toward the back end, Microsoft Exchange becomes an increasing target of CIOs looking to cut costs. Economics and technology improvements, particularly around virtualization, are bringing more IT functionality generally back to the servers and off of the client PCs. As [...]
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Filed under: Business Dynamics, Enterprise Agility, Enterprise Software, SOA & Agile Applications
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