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UK'should 'abandon' software market to China

News However, given their appetite for expansion into new markets, and the staggering rate of development both internally and externally seen to date, this may well change in the future. UK software sales are on course to lag almost $60bn behind China...

Tags: uk, saas, software

[14 May 2008]

Yankee Group: Software as a Service Dramatically Improves CRM Success

whitepaper This Yankee Group report uncovers the voice of enterprise users so that companies can buck the CRM failure rate with a clear understanding of how new on-demand services and technologies can overcome user reluctance and ensure sales success.

Tags: customer support services

[14 May 2008]

Automatically Generate Project Builds Using Ant: Creating, Exporting, Deploying, and Testing Your Builds

whitepaper For multi-release projects, it can be a challenge to provide new builds that keep up with the rate of additional features or defect reporting, while still maintaining an acceptable level of quality. Build automation solves part of this problem by...

Tags: application servers

[14 May 2008]

Mastering Storage Complexity

whitepaper Data center complexity in today's enterprise continues to grow at a dizzying rate. Data volumes are doubling every two years, while storage utilization rates hover at 33%. And data is needlessly duplicated - CMP Media Research estimates by as much...

Tags: data center

[14 May 2008]

Data De-Duplication: Windows Disk-Based Backup - That Won't Break the Bank

whitepaper The challenge that many Windows-based companies face today is the amount of data they need to backup and protect is growing exponentially, some at a rate of 40-50% per year. Backing up such critical applications as Exchange and SQL can generate...

Tags: back-up

[14 May 2008]

Stop Spam, Viruses and Spyware: Endpoint and Perimeter Malware Guide

whitepaper Today's cyber criminals are using highly evolved, blended malware to access corporate and customer data at an alarming rate. IT systems are under constant, increasingly sophisticated attack. Additional layers of protection at the perimeter are...

Tags: anti-virus

[14 May 2008]

Nortel Secure Network Access and Microsoft Network Access Protection Integration

whitepaper However, confusion around industry standards, the multitude of NAC vendors and the complexity of the solutions has led to a relatively slow industry-wide NAC adoption rate. With the ever-increasing need for enterprises to provide endpoint security...

Tags: security management

[14 May 2008]

University Optimizes Security for Campuswide Network, Increases IT Efficiency

whitepaper Compounding the problem was the University's high turnover rate. La Trobe University, a leading higher education institution in Australia, had to automate network access controls for all clients connecting to the campuswide network.

Tags: application servers

[14 May 2008]

I-Power and SAP Unite to Develop SAP NetWeaver Based Solutions

whitepaper I-Power Berhad wanted to provide enterprise business solutions to local and multinational companies operating in South-east Asia and maintain the momentum of this SME's exponential growth rate. Founded in 2002, I-Power Berhad has rapidly made a...

Tags: business intelligence - data warehousing

[14 May 2008]

Data Center Sustainability

whitepaper For a very long time, the only concern for these professionals was to process more data and to do it at a faster rate. The internet is everywhere. It's not only on the computers, but the mobile phones, televisions and portable music players.

Tags: data center

[14 May 2008]

Hotel Improves Guest Experience and Revenue Through Innovative Use of Technology

whitepaper The hotel has since improved its scores in customer satisfaction surveys, raised its average daily room rate and repeat customer business, and increased revenue. Located in downtown Philadelphia, Sheraton University City Hotel is in the midst of a...

Tags: thin clients

[14 May 2008]

Sales of Mac Office rocket, says Microsoft

News Microsoft's Mac unit is set to disclose that copies of the new Office for Mac 2008 are flying off the shelves at three times the rate of its predecessor. While Apple's market share gains are cause for consternation for many in Redmond, one unit is...

Tags: mac, apple, office, microsoft

[13 May 2008]

Will consumers always want free banking?

Comment They expect to make a profit on interest rate margins and cross-selling of other products such as loans and insurance. Banks are able to cover the costs of providing these services from three sources: income from interest rate margins, fees from...

Tags: oft, free banking

[12 May 2008]

Best Practice With Structured Requirements

whitepaper It sounds obvious, but the current rate of project failure demonstrates that this is plainly a difficult task. Analysts report that poor requirements management accounts for as much as 71 percent of software project failures.

Tags: data mining - analysis

[09 May 2008]

Hospital Transport Service Saves Money, Boosts Quality With Integrated-Data Solution

whitepaper To cope with a 25 percent growth rate between 2004 and 2006 and simultaneously meet the strategic and financial goals of its parent organization, MedStar Health, the transport company needed integration between its dispatch and communications...

Tags: knowledge and data management

[06 May 2008]

Skype trialled on Java mobiles

News The client relies on the ordinary cellular infrastructure for certain portions of the call, meaning users will always pay their usual local or national rate to make calls, according to Skype. Skype has released a test version of a client for Java...

Tags: java, mobile, skype

[30 Apr 2008]

Worldwide Server Power and Cooling Expense: 2006-2010 Forecast

whitepaper Working with customers and applying IDC data sets against industry standards of datacenter thermal metrics, it is apparent that the evolution of the datacenter has been outpaced by the rate of server technology advancement.

Tags: data center

[28 Apr 2008]

Kids flocking to Blyk to bag free calls and texts

News Blyk said the ad campaigns that fund the service have had an average response rate of 29 per cent - which it described as "industry leading". But many individual campaigns have had significantly higher response rates than that, according to Blyk...

Tags: mobile advertising, blyk, mvno

[25 Apr 2008]

UK online spend up 50 per cent this year

News I think this growth will continue, although perhaps not at the rate we have seen, as shoppers get more comfortable with buying a wide range of goods over the internet. UK consumers spent £13bn online in the first three months of this year, the...

Tags: consumer electronics, alcohol, online retail

[22 Apr 2008]

eBay hits back at boycotters

News An eBay statement said although the company doesn't want to be dismissive about the "small number of sellers who are unhappy at the rate of change taking place on the site" the changes are designed to make sellers more successful.

Tags: ebay, ban, users, feedback

[21 Apr 2008]

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