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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]
Fewer white knights to tech's rescue in 2008
News During 2008, tech mergers and acquisitions fell 40 per cent across virtually every sector of the industry, with $290bn in deals getting done to date. Technology companies seeking a white-knight buyer had a long wait this... [19 Dec 2008]
Legacy IT holding back insurers
Comment In Europe, where mergers and acquisitions have been historically more prevalent than in the US, the diversity and age of the technology in use is even more acute. Legacy IT is holding back the European insurance agency. [16 Dec 2008]
Virgin debuts 50Mbps broadband
News Noting the fact that Virgin Media is essentially the end result of mergers between smaller cable companies that had differing qualities of infrastructure, Fogg said the "real question" is how quickly Virgin can roll out... [16 Dec 2008]
