Syan has taken the unusual step of submitting an offer to buy back Protocol's business assets from KPMG - a move that could save jobs but would leave the integrator's debts unpaid. The move leaves over 80 staff at the firm's Hampshire HQ facing a...
Software integrator JD Edwards has ditched its partnership with Siebel Systems on the grounds of incompatibility, accepting an offer from CRM software manufacturer YOUcentric instead. Salomon denied that the decision is based on technological...
As such, SAP already has 'centres of excellence' with Dell's main rivals, while a company such as Sun has similar arrangements in place for software from the likes of IBM, Oracle and Veritas. SAP doesn't break down its software by the hardware on...
And it has to build a reputation around that. The force for California that is going to drive some of the decision making down that path is probably the same decision that's driving some third world countries, which is money," he says.
ERP, or enterprise resource planning, can take care of everything in an organisation from payroll to HR to financials to manufacturing and more - only it's costly and has a reputation for not always being easy to implement.
Finally, we want to see excellence in IT, not just from the supplier community but from those at the top of user organisations, often CIOs. Massive projects such as NHS IT or implementing ID cards will not only affect nearly all of us as patients...