The consolidation is a logical one for IBM because the combination of collaborative applications and portals is potentially more appealing to customers than standalone collaborative software, said Stephen O'Grady, an analyst at RedMonk.
Users could save up to 25 per cent through server and storage consolidation strategies, but vendors are failing to meet their needs, according to a survey by analyst firm Butler Group. The report, 'Server and Storage Consolidation - optimising IT...
HP's acquisition of Talking Blocks signals the expected consolidation of the web services management space," said Jason Bloomberg, an analyst at research firm ZapThink. Hewlett-Packard on Wednesday accelerated its push into the market for web...
The founder of one of the UK's largest independent open source service companies claims consolidation is likely among European companies that provide services around open source products. Consolidation is already very active in both the software...
The continued consolidation in the security industry, spearheaded by the likes of Symantec, has seen two smaller names in the game become the latest to merge, with Secure Computing snapping up CipherTrust for $273m.
In short, there has been a lot of consolidation at the top of the ERP market. Some of the largest costs for user organisations are far-reaching applications that go by the catch-all term enterprise resource planning (ERP).