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Link up all parts of your business
Comment Unfortunately these sorts of 'point solutions' create departmental silos making it very difficult to share information across the company. More recently vendors of software for smaller companies have... [14 Mar 2007]
Mobile workforces - how to keep them productive
Comment Patchy coverage, hardware or software that is prone to frequent failure, or solutions simply not specifically designed for mobile use will frustrate employees, sapping the efforts of even those who want... [19 Feb 2007]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: BI to go mainstream?
Comment Traditional BI solutions are often only used by a small proportion of users - the analysts and power users - and even then, the tools can be difficult to use. Only when BI solutions are broadly... [01 Dec 2006]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Itanium - what's in a name?
Comment Some believe any company that hitches its wagon to the Itanium star is doomed to failure, however the recently formed Itanium Solutions Alliance (comprising Bull, Fujitsu, Fujitsu-Siemens, Hitachi, HP, NEC, Silicon... [06 Nov 2006]
Beating fraud - can business intelligence help?
Comment According to Peter Dorrington, head of fraud solutions at business intelligence vendor SAS: "All big frauds involve an employee somewhere along the line. Many have turned to business intelligence... [17 Oct 2006]
Open source: The new front
Comment For a while now, the discussion about the introduction of open source solutions has surrounded fundamental questions of reliability, security and total cost of ownership (TCO). In looking to a future that argues for... [11 Oct 2006]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Budgets made simple
Comment The vendor's interpretation was that "while they are removing spreadsheets they are failing to re-engineer their budgeting processes to leverage the real power of sophisticated software solutions". As... [06 Oct 2006]
Motorola gets serious about the enterprise
Comment Now Motorola can be an enterprise solutions player. The acquisition also poses questions over how Motorola's software strategy will shape up. And it could prove difficult to integrate both the businesses... [21 Sep 2006]
The SME hype cycle
Comment With the potential opportunity to provide solutions for large numbers of users within corporate accounts, suppliers can afford to train up specialist teams then spend time in the sales cycle educating, evangelising and... [25 Jul 2006]
Brampton Factor: IT and the environment - friend or foe?
Comment In the world of IT, the temptation is to fall into the comfortable idea that working with computers is at worst pretty harmless and at best a fine way to search for solutions to critical problems. There is no sign that... [25 Jul 2006]
The Weekly Round-Up: 21.07.06
Round-Up Anyone who's ever had the responsibility for buying in software or hardware business solutions will surely have been exposed to the salesman who promises the panacea for all ills. Some sort of free... [21 Jul 2006]
SMEs and open source - a perfect marriage?
Comment Nik Ehmann, ISP team leader at Newtel Solutions, a Channel Islands telephone service provider with 35 employees, says: "The availability of programming languages such as Perl and PHP which are accompanied by vast... [11 Jul 2006]
IT suppliers: Size does (and doesn't) matter
Comment David Supple, head of IT and creative services at development consultants Ecotec, said: "Small works well when we are looking for quick agile solutions - our small suppliers can and will burn the midnight oil for us and... [06 Jul 2006]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: How Linux is hurting Microsoft
Comment In other areas it is a mixed bag, for example open source businesses applications such as SugarCRM have taken little market share from their commercial rivals as yet but an open source VoIP PBX solution, Asterisk, has just been endorsed... [12 May 2006]
CRM: Hosted vs packaged - which to choose?
Comment This is in contrast to hosted solutions where companies can be up and running immediately. The lower total cost of ownership (TCO) has been one of the key drivers for the growth of hosted solutions.... [02 May 2006]
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