mergers
RSS mergersTransforming the Business of Human Resources
White Paper After a number of acquisitions and mergers spanning only a few short years, operating Verizon's human resources department and managing employees successfully in an ever changing environment became increasingly complex. [30 May 2009]
Effective Practices for Data Management in the Oil and Gas Industry
White Paper Trends that complicate information and data management in this industry include joint ventures, mergers, and acquisitions; the emergence of Windows-based data storage; and evolving legal and regulatory compliance... [29 May 2009]
Ensuring Service Availability
White Paper The telecommunications industry continues to experience tremendous growth in the face of many challenges - mega-mergers, increased competition, an unstable economy, and the Internet. Consumers and businesses continue to... [01 May 2009]
SOA Plug-and-Play Services
White Paper With shifting economic conditions and rapidly evolving IT strategies along with mergers and acquisitions, few banks have had the appetite to untangle the morass of legacy systems running their businesses. [01 May 2009]
Strategic Agility Planning for Banks
White Paper Another agility driver is a need to harness new opportunities such as Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A), and new product segments. Today, the banking industry needs greater agility to address challenges such as... [01 May 2009]
Naked CIO: Oracle and Sun - good luck
Comment Inspired by Oracle's recent bid to purchase Sun and mumblings about the difficulty to integrate their product sets, I recalled the challenges IT had in several companies I worked for when trying to integrate systems as a result of... [27 Apr 2009]
M&A's the Right Way
White Paper According to a McKinsey study, the combined value of mergers and acquisitions agreed in the first seven months of 2007 exceeded the previous year's record total - US$4 trillion. Despite all this investment,... [22 Apr 2009]
Enterprise Portal Rationalization: Using a Service-Oriented Architecture to Stop Web Asset Sprawl
White Paper Disparate ebusiness initiatives, mergers and acquisitions, and a rapidly consolidating software industry have combined to create complex and heterogeneous Web environments that are enormously costly to manage. [07 Apr 2009]
Application Retirement: Road Map for Legacy Applications
White Paper Every organization needs to be actively looking at their IT portfolios for applications, systems, and platforms that cost them more to maintain than the value they are delivering.technologies like the advent of the internet are game... [01 Apr 2009]
Keeping Pace with Enterprise Portal Trends: TechRepublic Real World Guide
White Paper The enterprise portal software market has shifted dramatically in the last five years—largely through mergers and acquisitions, but through a variety of other influences, as well. Download this TechRepublic Real World... [18 Mar 2009]
IBM Maximo IT asset management solutions in the financial services industry
White Paper Financial services companies face an array of demanding and ongoing challenges, including global competition, mergers, acquisitions, converging service offerings, and an imperative to build and maintain customer loyalty. [18 Mar 2009]
Google CEO: 'We're not immune to economic gloom'
News Schmidt also said that Google "was pretty inactive right now" on the mergers and acquisitions front, blaming unfavourable prices. Google CEO Eric Schmidt expects 2009 to be a "tough, tough" year and he warned the search... [04 Mar 2009]
Straight Talking - My ERP Supplier Has Been Acquired - Now What?
White Paper Given the recent abundance of mergers and acquisitions amongst the mid-market ERP vendors, IT directors managing an ERP system may feel uncertain about the future of their incumbent system. Yet it is critical to be able... [21 Feb 2009]
Beyond Consolidation: Virtualization Helps Speed Change and Manage Risk
White Paper Because of National Foods' long history and a number of mergers and acquisitions, the company's IT infrastructure could best have been described as an "Amalgamation" prior to its implementation of a virtualization... [31 Jan 2009]
Helping Customers Achieve Business Agility and Flexibility in the Areas of Production to Business Integration With Progress
White Paper Because of disparate, inflexible and expensive IT infrastructure, the company could not support business process outsourcing trends, keep up with changing market demands, support evolving customer requirements, or support rapid business... [23 Dec 2008]
