With Office 11, Microsoft's new strategy is to focus more on features targeted at businesses, as the company tries to expand its reach into larger customer relationship management (CRM) and enterprise resource planning (ERP) applications.
At first glance, it looks like Platform - traditionally strong in target verticals in the commercial space - has shifted focus to research-oriented markets. Platform Computing, known for distributed resource management and grid computing software...
Rothenstein added that the findings of the Forrester study were "Forrester's take on things," and declined to comment further. The study is part of a bigger report the firm is publishing Wednesday that evaluates software companies that sell...
However, he likened the situation to that of enterprise resource planning (ERP) rollouts, based on software from vendors such as SAP. While cost-cutting isn't unimportant, research out today suggests longer-term benefits are to be had by user...
Before the explosion of ICT, I used all manner of techniques to minimise paper, cut back on duplication and improve my overall efficiency and effectiveness. What we need is a cognitive approach with search material retreated and presented in some...
On the software side investment is dominated by enterprise resource planning (ERP) and customer relationship management (CRM), with just over a third of CIOs spending on both those areas in 2008. The main prediction by CIOs for the most-hyped...