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Outsourcing is a very diverse market, and there are many different outsourcing options and outsourcing service providers
to choose from. This part discusses recommendations for companies looking to outsource, and recommendations for outsourcing
providers. (...)
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Outsourcing 101 - A Primer Part Three: Approaches and Recommendations. ... When a company
contracts work from another company, it is typically called outsourcing. ...
Published:
2004-01-19
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Creating outsourcing centers is a viable option for companies under pressure to develop quality products with tight time
and budget restraints. Mid-market companies, however, often do not have this option, but can still benefit from partnering
with an outsourcing provider. (...)
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Creating outsourcing centers is a viable option for companies under pressure to develop quality products with tight time and
budget restraints. Mi...
Published:
2005-12-01
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The core concept behind the Vanguard solution is that business intelligence (BI) must be demand-driven, which means that
the business needs of the user dictate the technical solution, not the other way around. In other words, it should let the
business users drive the process, and remove the problems of (...)
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The core concept behind the Vanguard solution is that business intelligence (BI) must be demand-driven, which means that the
business needs of the...
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2005-07-20
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In addition to products' rationalization, the integration at sales and cultural levels will be challenging. In general, existing
customers of involved merging vendors should be alert, but they should still look at these events as positive. (...)
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In addition to products' rationalization, the integration at sales and cultural levels will be challenging. In general,
existing customers of invo...
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2003-08-18
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Although the recent spate of acquisitions in the business intelligence market, especially marked with Business Object’s acquisition
of Crystal, Hyperion’s acquisition of Brio, and Actuate’s acquisition of Nimble, may bear resemblance to the raging consolidation
in the ERP market, the underlying rea (...)
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Although the recent spate of acquisitions in the business intelligence market, especially marked with Business Object’s acquisition
of Crystal, Hy...
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2003-08-17
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The market for enterprise incentive management (EIM) products is in its early stages and is rapidly evolving. Callidus Software
is the EIM vendor of choice for some of the largest companies in the world. (...)
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The market for enterprise incentive management (EIM) products is in its early stages and is rapidly evolving. Callidus Software
is the EIM vendor ...
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2006-12-11
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An important emerging standard in the web arena, known as SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol), originally developed by Microsoft,
has achieved a new milestone. Since IBM joined in support for the SOAP standard with increased security, SOAP may replace
DCOM, and possibly even CORBA eventually. The W3C (...)
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An important emerging standard in the web arena, known as SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol), originally developed by Microsoft,
has achieved a ...
Published:
2001-08-20
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Enterprise Application Integration vendor Extricity announced a business-to-business alliance with Moai Technologies, Inc.,
to provide a full-range of automated e-commerce systems. Moai’s Dynamic Commerce Markup Language (DCML) is an XML-standard
compliant language for dynamic commerce markets, and co (...)
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Enterprise Application Integration vendor Extricity announced a business-to-business alliance with Moai Technologies, Inc.,
to provide a full-rang...
Published:
2000-05-11
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... Recently, I touched on the idea of building a vendor portfolio to help manage risks associated with software
outsourcing practices in the article Should North ...
Published:
2008-11-24
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Hummingbird Communications Ltd. (NASDAQ: "HUMC" and TSE: "HUM") has announced the immediate availability of Genio Suite 4.0.
This release states improvements to usability, performance and openness to better support organizations as they implement
large-scale enterprise data warehousing and e-commerce sol (...)
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Hummingbird Communications Ltd. (NASDAQ: "HUMC" and TSE: "HUM") has announced the immediate availability
of Genio Suite 4.0. This release states i...
Published:
2000-01-28
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Bus-Tech has announced the EnterpriseExpress Adapter for DB2 Access. The product is a PCI-compliant ESCON adapter using IBM's
Multipath Channel+ (MPC+) protocol to provide the highest possible throughput between Windows NT applications and DB2 Universal
Database for OS/390 using IBM's DB2 Connect. (...)
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... This provides an ideal environment for applications such as ERP (PeopleSoft), BI (Business
Objects, Brio or Cognos), CRM (Siebel), and Web servers (IBM's ...
Published:
2000-01-23
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Informatica Corp. (Nasdaq: INFA) today announced the acquisition of Influence Software, a leading provider of analytic applications
for the e-business value chain. Informatica is acquiring Influence Software for roughly $80 million in a stock transaction
that will be treated as a pooling of interests. Th (...)
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Informatica Heads for E-Business. M. Reed - January 5, 2000. Comments: 0. Read Comments Event Summary. "PALO ALTO, Calif.,
Dec. 15 /PRNewswire ...
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2000-01-05
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M2 Presswire - October 22, 1999 - Brio Technology, Inc., (NASDAQ: BRYO) today reported revenues of $30.7 million for its
second fiscal 2000 quarter ending September 30, 1999. This represents a 53% increase from $20.1 million in the comparable
fiscal quarter of 1999. (...)
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Brio Technology Reports Record Second-QuarterEarnings. M. Reed - October 27, 1999. Comments: 0. Read Comments Event Summary.
M2 Presswire ...
Published:
1999-10-27
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What’s new at EAI vendor Mercator Software? TEC updates a report from August 2000. Mercator Software has found themselves
on a long and rocky road, where the bumps have included loss or reassignment of most of their executive management team, a
precipitous drop in market capitalization, and an uncert (...)
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Mercator Continues to Suffer Turmoil - Can They Stay on the Map? M. Reed - January 9, 2001. Comments: 0. Read Comments M.
Reed - January 9, 2001. Event Summary. ...
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2001-01-09
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Computer Associates announced at their CAWorld conference that e-business is the place to be, and they are re-orienting their
company to facilitate it. CA has previously failed to make inroads in the consulting arena, and they feel e-business is the
way to fix the problem. (...)
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Computer Associates Goes E-Business in a Big Way. M. Reed - April 27, 2000. Comments: 0. Read Comments M. Reed - April 27th,
2000 Event Summary. ...
Published:
2000-04-27
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"Agility", "real time enterprise", "zero latency" ... these are among the several buzzwords doing the rounds these days.
Some would characterize these present times as belonging to the "Real Time Decade." Are these words just hype or do they proffer
a vision of reality for the near future? This article a (...)
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... BI Does Not Provide the Whole Answer. Business information (BI ...
more flexible approach. Importantly, BI is one-way flow of information. ...
Published:
2004-04-07
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... Outsourcing’s in the news these days, what with the US presidential election and all,
but it’s usually covered from an “is it good for us” angle ...
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2008-06-25
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Siebel Systems is incorporating Informatica’s data integration platform into Siebel eBusiness Analytics 2000.3. The vendors
hope to use the integrated product to consolidate data into a 'comprehensive e-business data warehouse'. Have the vendors
found the e-business holy grail? (...)
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Informatica Powers Siebel’s New eBusiness Analytics. M. Reed - December 19, 2000. Comments: 0. Read Comments M. Reed - December
19, 2000. Event Summary. ...
Published:
2000-12-19
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CrossWorlds Software, an enterprise application integration vendor, is making it easier for customers to acquire components
and utilities with specific functionality. The vendor will create a CrossWorlds Exchange site on a subscription basis, for
$50,000 per year with additional fees for some components (...)
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EAI Vendor CrossWorlds Eases Middleware Customization. M. Reed - April 19, 2000. Comments: 0. Read Comments < Event Summary.
CrossWorlds ...
Published:
2000-04-19
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Sun and Microsoft have announced a settlement in Sun’s lawsuit regarding Microsoft’s use of Java technology. Microsoft was
given the choice of conforming to the Java standard or opting out and they chose to opt out. Under terms of the agreement
Microsoft cannot use Java in their forthcoming .NET in (...)
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... A large number of vendors are moving in this direction (go to the TEC EAI and Data Warehousing Research
for many previous TEC articles on this subject). ...
Published:
2001-02-19