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- Recession and the IT economy
- Trying to figure out where the IT economy is going? Your guess is as good as anyone's. The one trend emerging from a bevy of financial reports is that companies have no visibility into demand. Just how bad is it?
- Tags: Financial, Recession, Information Technology, Economy, Financial Accounting, Strategy, Finance, Management
- Articles 2008-11-12
- Holidays look more humbug than happy for electronics chains
- ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das talks to senior editor Sam Diaz about the effects of the economy on the tech sector as the holidays approach and how companies are coping. Diaz also shares the silver lining of the financial crisis for consumers.
- Tags: Holiday, Financial, Electronics, Financial Accounting, Finance, Personal Technology, economy, Circuit City, Dell, Sumi Das, Sam Diaz
- Videos 2008-11-10
- Tech's economy careens into the great unknown
- Trying to figure out where the information technology economy is going? Your guess is as good as mine. Or Steve Ballmer's. Or Steve Job's. Or Paul Otellini's. Or EMC's Joe Tucci's. Or Jeff Bezos'. The one trend that's emerging from a bevy of financial reports is that companies have no...
- Tags: Financial, Recession, Information Technology, Economy, Financial Accounting, Strategy, Finance, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-24
- Will the economic downturn have a negative effect on open source?
- OK, time for a question. Let's take it as given that the economy is choppy. Translating this to Main St, unemployment is at a 5 year high, prices are up and credit is harder to find. Will this have a negative effect on the "free" economy that many open source...
- Tags: Open Source, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Unemployment, Economy, Web 2.0, Internet
- Blog posts 2008-10-22
- Information technology prospects in a volatile economy
- SOA a 'game changer' in today's economy by Joe McKendrick
- Tags: Information Technology, Economy, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Games, Middleware, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Personal Technology, Joe McKendrick, Data Warehouse, SOA, Jim Kobielus, Databases, Data Management
- Blog posts 2008-10-22
- Can IT strengthen the economy?
- At the Garner IT Expo in Orlando, Fla., Cisco CEO John Chambers predicts that as the economy turns, many company heads will be looking for flexibility along with cost effectiveness--aspects that video conferencing and social networking provide. He forsees that, soon, IT and business strategy will be so intertwined we...
- Tags: Information Technology, Economy, Social Networking, Strategy, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Management, Cisco, collaboration, Gartner, CEO, cost effective, video conferencing, IT, business strategy, economy
- Videos 2008-10-15
- How is the credit crunch impacting your economy?
- The economy is mired in a slowdown, Wall Street allegedly needs a bailout and stocks are on a roller coaster that is mostly headed down. What's less clear is how all of this turmoil is impacting the tech industry and your personal economy. A simple question was...
- Tags: Wall Street, Economy, Consulting Client, Deals, Entrepreneurship, Corporate Governance, Outsourcing, Financial Services, Management, Business Operations, Corporate Law, It Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-01
- Silver lining 1: lousy economy would spur demand for IT architecture professionals
- Forrester's Marc Cecere has just published a report in which he observes that any downturn in the economy will increase "demand for tech professionals specializing in IT architecture as businesses consolidate their operations." As reported in Silicon.com, Cecere predicts that "as organizations look at reducing costs through...
- Tags: Information Technology, SOA, Economy, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Strategy, Software, Management, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-09-29
- The Economy: Where Are We & What's Next?
- The Associate Research Director of BusinessWeek Research Services will use his recent research data to clarify where people are with the economy and where they are likely to be in the months ahead. The presenter explores what the current economic conditions mean for the business and provides insights as to...
- Tags: SAS Institute, Economy
- Webcasts 2008-05-08
- 27% of Americans think the economy is good or excellent
- 27% of US consumers rate current economic conditions as good or excellent, a new low for annual Discover survey. At the same time, consumers rating the economy as poor rose to 36%, a new high. Singles and families with children showed more concern about the economy than those married and...
- Tags: Economic Condition, Economy, Financial Accounting, Finance, AM
- Blog posts 2008-01-13
- What would an economic downturn mean for SOA?
- There's been a hysteria of doom and gloom lately over the state of the economy. While I believe the economy is very resilient and has weathered storms worse than the current situation, it's only natural that we see upturns and downturns in the business cycle. The 2008...
- Tags: SOA, Economy, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-01-07
- Comcast's stumble: More competition than economy?
- Comcast has cut it outlook for 2007 citing "an increasingly challenging economic and competitive environment." And just to hammer the point home, Michael Angelakis, co-chief financial officer, said Thursday at a UBS investment conference in New York that "this is not a robust economy." The reasons for...
- Tags: Comcast Corp., Economy, Cable, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Networking, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-12-05
- SOA, seen through the lens of the economy
- I just finished my keynote speech to this week's SOA Congress being held in Mainz, Germany, in which I which covered the top 11 trends that will shape SOA during 2008. Bad economy -- SOA saves. Good economy -- SOA adds revenues One trend...
- Tags: SOA, Economy, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2007-11-14
- Speed It Up - Active Warehousing With SAS Data Integration: From Batch to Real-Time
- The global economy has fueled a need to "Speed it up" to fulfill the demand for current, reliable data for decision support. The SAS Data Integration Server, with its active warehousing capabilities, can help to meet this need. This paper presents methods and best practices for using real-time techniques that...
- Tags: Warehousing, SAS Institute, Data Integration, Economy
- White papers 2007-05-14
- UK Services Innovation Network
- Service economies have developed rapidly to the point at which they dominate many economies. A group of three companies, British Telecom, Hewlett Packard and IBM have been working together to understand how existing service models might develop and in particular, using the UK economy, the role that government support for...
- Tags: Innovation, Hewlett-Packard Co., Network, Economy, Government, Leadership, Vertical Industries, Networking, Strategy, Management, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2007-03-26
- The Business Value of Upgrading to Oracle E-Business Suite Financials Release 12
- Globalization is an inescapable force in doing business, whether it's about pursuing new markets and customers or responding to a new set of global competitors. The global economy offers a tremendous opportunity for growth, but at the same time presents management with some tough challenges. Finance is no exception, as...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Oracle E-Business Suite, Economy, Taxes, Globalization, Operational Accounting, Free Trade, Enterprise Software, Financial Planning, Finance, Strategy, Management, Software
- White papers 2007-02-01
- Transforming the World's Emerging Markets
- Globalization will be increasingly important in determining the rate of economic growth, with emerging markets accounting for a larger piece of the world economy by 2020. The shift of labor-intensive production processes from regions like Western Europe to lower-cost economies will continue. Companies will use networking technologies to tap into...
- Tags: Emerging Market, Economy, Globalization, Financial Services, Marketing Research, Strategy, Management, Marketing
- White papers 2006-11-01
- AutoKeeper (exe)
- AutoKeeper helps vehicle owner track vehicle related expenses such as fuel purchased, repair and maintenance expenses and monitor fuel cost and vehicle condition through fuel economy. It records expenses by trips, calculates fuel economy and has various bar and pie charts to help monitor and analyze vehicles performance and efficiency....
- Tags: Economy, Monitors & Displays, Microsoft Excel, Hardware, Components, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software
- Software downloads 2006-10-02
- Project Management as a Knowledge Management Primer: The Learning Infrastructure in Knowledge-Intensive Organizations: Projects as Knowledge Transformations and Beyond
- The digital economy is based on knowledge and the ultimate objective is the reinforcement of performance. The business strategy has been shifted from the management of tangible assets to intangible resources and the traditional competitive position of business units is based on their capacity for effective action. The main conclusion...
- Tags: Project Management, Knowledge, Conclusion, Knowledge Management, Economy, Business Strategy, Strategy, Management
- White papers 2004-04-20
- Perspectives on Grid: Grid Computing - Next-Generation Distributed Computing
- Two major needs have dramatically increased the value of the concept of grid computing in the last few years. A lean economy has forced those with a limited IT budget to more fully utilize their existing computing assets and to become more flexible to respond to rapidly evolving markets by...
- Tags: Grid Computing, Distributed Computing, Economy, Network Technology, Utility Computing, It Management, Corba, Networking, It service Management, Software Development, Software/Web Development
- White papers 2004-01-27
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