But according to Jaap Favier, a B2B expert at Forrester Research, the financial barriers should not mean companies shy away from B2B technologies. Integration technologies have the power to bring to life islands of data held in databases and ERP...
Equant has won a €39m global network outsourcing deal with hotel chain Le Méridien. An IP virtual private network (VPN) will connect 60 sites in more than 17 countries around the world and all the hotel's core business applications will be hosted...
Microsoft has laid out its plan for expanding its reach in the business applications market, with a software suite intended to help companies do everything from cut pay cheques to ringing up shopping at a checkout counter.
Make available sample code and a software development kit for integrating Office applications, such as Excel, into SAP's applications. The deal, which calls for better links between Microsoft's .Net development software and SAP's NetWeaver...
At the same time, many enterprise IT departments, familiar with Microsoft software such as desktop OSes and Exchange messaging servers, are increasingly happy integrating Pocket PC devices as part of official policies.
The survey also suggested companies are better at integrating IT into their business: 59 per cent of respondents said they were well-integrated, up 18 per cent on last year. Reflecting this expanding role, the average CIO salary has risen to £104...
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