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What is the biggest challenge to your business?

News Speaking at the Citrix iForum in Edinburgh, Templeton said companies must be prepared to meet the challenges of consolidation, disruption, globalisation, regulation and the arrival in the workplace of the next generation of tech-savvy youngsters...

Tags: citrix

[05 Jun 2007]

Opinion: Global services' level playing-field

Comment The world became used to globalisation in manufacturing a long time ago. The global services landscape is maturing fast, as a new book by regular silicon.com contributors Mark Kobayashi-Hillary and Dr Richard Sykes makes clear.

Tags: infosys, tcs, wipro, india

[02 May 2007]

Microsoft adds brains to security drive

News It is part of the globalisation of our research and response effort. Microsoft announced this week that it is setting up security response and research operations in Ireland and Japan and launched a preview of a new online Malware Protection Center.

Tags: microsoft, malware, laboratory, research

[27 Apr 2007]

BT goes Latin with Comsat buy

News BT said it snapped up Comsat in order to expand its international presence and tap into the trend for globalisation. BT is reinforcing its global ambitions with the purchase of Latin American data communications specialist Comsat International.

Tags: latin america, comsat, bt

[20 Apr 2007]

Globalisation is a two-way street, says e-minister

News Globalisation is a two-way street, with Indian companies creating jobs in the UK as well as UK companies sending jobs overseas, according to e-government minister Pat McFadden. He said in a statement: "We have to get beyond the idea that...

Tags: india

[05 Apr 2007]

An Architecture for a QoS Driven Composition of Web Service Based Workflows

whitepaper In times of globalisation and internationalisation enterprises have to establish flexible business processes to react to dynamically changing markets and to satisfy sophisticated customers. IT architectures that support the integration of legacy...

Tags: quality of service, business processes, service oriented architecture, oriented

[20 Mar 2007]

An Architecture for a QoS Driven Composition of Web Service Based Workflows

whitepaper In times of globalisation and internationalisation enterprises have to establish flexible business processes to react to dynamically changing markets and to satisfy sophisticated customers. IT architectures that support the integration of legacy...

Tags: quality of service, oriented, business processes, service oriented architecture

[20 Mar 2007]

India diary, day 3: Inside the outsourcing campus

Comment But globalisation is an opportunity for developed countries just as much as developing countries, he added, especially if they see the chance to sell their goods and services around the world. Wednesday 7 February - Hyderabad

Tags: india

[06 Mar 2007]

India - the inside track on outsourcing

News But this march of globalisation isn't all in one direction. In the run up to the millennium companies were faced with fixing the date time-bomb they had unwittingly built into their computers years before.

Tags: india

[05 Mar 2007]

Editor's Blog: The meaning of innovation

Comment Aside from all the politics about offshoring or workers brought in on migrant visas, surely the real lesson is this: if you are going to go into tech or any other career made more competitive by globalisation, do so with your eyes open and with a...

Tags: innovation

[02 Mar 2007]

Q&A: Microsoft UK head of innovation Jim Lawn

Comment Lawn: If you look at computer science in university and tertiary education then the numbers are going down and that's one of the things we've linked with the story around globalisation and offshoring.

Tags: uk, uk government, cambridge, silicon valley

[01 Mar 2007]

Leader: Trust the private sector to train us?

Leader The news came on the eve of the company's Government Leaders Forum in Edinburgh, which included a parade of politicians speaking about how 'something must be done' to combat the digital divide, prepare for an ageing population and generally...

Tags: it skills gap, digital divide, e-skills

[01 Feb 2007]

Gates and Brown: Tech transforming education

News Microsoft chairman Bill Gates has laid out a vision for how technology is going to transform education, while Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown emphasised how IT can help the UK face the challenges of globalisation.

Tags: internet, education, broadband, government e-learning

[31 Jan 2007]

European boom for tech service firms

News In 2007, Chlons expects SOA to become increasingly important - along with increased globalisation, and how suppliers deal with this development. The European market for tech services is on the up with the top 11 suppliers expected to see their...

Tags: outsourcing, soa, europe

[09 Jan 2007]

IDC: 2007 a year of "hyperdisruption"

News Globalisation, or "the great disruptor" as IDC calls it, will have a major impact on these new business paradigms. 2007 will be a year of "hyperdisruption" for the IT industry as new business models and technologies are adopted and traditional...

Tags: globalisation, smb, 2007

[21 Dec 2006]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: My Christmas wish list

Comment On the other hand ICT is gradually spreading globalisation, and in turn is bringing peace and freedom to one nation after another. It may have been my proximity to Lapland and the trees and lights around Helsinki but it seems about the right time...

Tags: mobile phone, battery, battery life, energy crisis

[20 Dec 2006]

Re:Viewing 2006: The year in outsourcing

News The globalisation of IT services continued apace in 2006 as the boundaries between offshore and onshore became ever more blurred. The main forecast for 2007 is yet more globalisation of ever higher-value services.

Tags: outsourcing

[11 Dec 2006]

UK vs the developing world

Comment Practices such as global outsourcing - IT and business process delivery from global locations - have ensured that globalisation is burgeoning. And who knows - it could be that the economic possibilities that globalisation and outsourcing are...

Tags: offshoring

[29 Nov 2006]

Strategic Portfolio Planning and Management: Synchronising Real Estate and Facility Management Knowledge Bases With Manhattan Software Applications

whitepaper Real Estate; Facilities; Finance; Integration; Globalisation: all of these words are important in the understanding of MANHATTAN, the Strategic Portfolio Planning and Management software solution available to support global businesses and manage...

Tags: estate, workers, business processes, portfolio

[28 Nov 2006]

'Bring IT jobs back to Britain'

News He told silicon.com: "Globalisation will not ever stop, we need to realise this, work together and not close boundaries. Offshoring is seen as a mounting menace with nearly a third of the UK public believing companies should be forced to bring jobs...

Tags: offshoring outsourcing, india, china, offshore outsourcing

[27 Nov 2006]

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