In a statement issued late last night, the Lisbon-based provider of call centre software said: "Altitude Software has decided to postpone its IPO due to increasingly adverse market conditions and will re-evaluate the Offering when conditions improve.
Of the first, Ellison points to some of the companies that have sprung up in recent years offering solutions for procurement and sourcing - or, in Ellison terms, 'one-feature' companies. It is only when applications are tightly integrated and...
The government has cited "significantly changed market conditions" as the main reason behind its decision to abandon its £15m broadband aggregation scheme.silicon.com revealed earlier this week that the Department of Trade and Industry is to close...
Business will need to replace or retrain the executives responsible for managing outsourcing, or risk giving vendors the upper hand according to a Gartner sourcing expert. Sourcing managers have focused at way too low a level on how the vendor [is...
Naturally there are pockets of inadequacy and excellence. When asked 'how well does IT help your business achieve strategic and operational goals? Previous research has shown strong correlation between isolated IT projects (shops operating without...
This strategy of shifting over to permanent headcount may have other benefits to IT departments as Chris Clements, IS director at education software supplier RM, points out: "Whilst growing your IT excellence is a time-consuming activity, in the...