suite in comment and analysis
Microsoft still a collaboration lightweight
Comment Microsoft's real-time tools have their origin in the workhorse Office suite as well, but its new Office System, launched by Bill Gates in New York last October, goes further by building in IM capabilities. [21 Jun 2004]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: The ASPs that won
Comment They offer a hosted business suite which includes customer relationship management (CRM), enterprise resource planning (ERP) and ecommerce capabilities. SAP has released mySAP All-in-One, a reworked version of its business suite for enterprises... [14 Apr 2004]
Analysis: Choosing enterprise portal technology
Comment Gartner Group labels them the application platform suite (APS) and the smart enterprise suite (SES) and companies can offer one or the other or a combination of the two. An enterprise portal (EP) can come from a wide variety of companies and cover... [24 Mar 2004]
The Bloor Perspective: Frog kissing, relationship banking and the decline of TVs and papers
Comment On top of that, the applications for general office use are Sun's StarOffice productivity suite, the open source Mozilla web browser, Ximian Evolution mail and calendar. After kissing a few frogs with some heavyweight laptops that didn't quite... [01 Feb 2004]
Where the growth of IM will take your business
Comment This product essentially integrates Microsoft’s desktop product suite with IM functionality. There's no doubting the use of IM is on the up but where do the experts see it heading? Anthony Plewes has been asking them. [23 Oct 2003]
Devil's Advocate: Sausage machine-software
Comment Is there a software suite to suit you? You'll have faced the package versus bespoke dilemma before, says Martin Brampton, but even with financial and HR becoming more important, there's still no general answer. [07 Oct 2003]
The Bloor Perspective: IBM and Microsoft must co-operate, offshoring and Openwave's open source gamble
Comment Vendors who will use this technology, especially the application suite vendors, and all enterprises must lobby Microsoft, IBM and the WS-CAF team to get their act together quickly to develop a single standard. [06 Oct 2003]
The Bloor Perspective: Linux in utility computing, Ellison the visionary and hotspot models
Comment Ellison is dedicated to the idea of an all-encompassing suite of applications, integrated into infrastructure technology. Companies offering best-of-breed solutions may have more of a fighting chance but Ellison points out that implementing best-of... [22 Jul 2003]
Tony Hallett’s After These Messages: Communications Cisco-style
Comment Come together’ - overlaying the Beatles song of the same name - didn’t just hit the convergence suite spot. It can’t always be easy being a top ranking exec at Cisco. Sure, you’re probably worth a mint by now but when your five-year-old asks you... [24 Jun 2003]
Cheaper Microsoft Office - inevitable?
Comment It's demonstrated [that] consumers can be interested in a full-bore Office suite if they have the option," DeGroot said. Recent gains by OpenOffice, the free open-source office suite hatched by Sun Microsystems, are more interesting, said... [30 May 2003]
Through the fog... Buying an application server
Comment Surprise, surprise the Oracle Ebusiness suite will only run with Oracle 9i/AS application server. App servers aren't always the easiest thing to explain to the rest of the board. They're also not always the easiest part of the IT jigsaw to get hold... [20 Mar 2003]
The Ovum View: Using Oracle to run your email
Comment That was the question Ovum asked when first briefed on Oracle's collaboration suite. That claim was reinforced with the release of Collaboration Suite in September 2002. Oracle only needs to get minimum traction with its Collaboration Suite to... [15 Jan 2003]
The Bloor Perspective: The net and bad news, top tier vendors turn the screw and that international ebiz report
Comment Point products are great but if you can have your preferred vendor deliver a suite of products, cheaper and faster, then they're going to win. Autumn brings bad news more frequently than winter: strikes, bad weather, traffic congestion and delays. [25 Nov 2002]
The Bloor Perspective: IM compatibility, mighty Borland and QXL's turnaround
Comment Its core product is the 'Together ControlCenter' which is probably best defined as a model-driven development suite as opposed to a model-driven application development environment (ADE). Instant messaging has long been a technology of promise. [11 Nov 2002]
The Bloor Perspective: Messaging without Exchange, Macs not cool shock and Cisco's quarter
Comment Both Oracle, with its Collaboration Suite offering, and Samsung, with its Contact tool, claim to be able to provide email server systems of very high reliability at a much lower cost point than Exchange. [12 Aug 2002]
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