SAP has broken with its single-vendor tradition by announcing an extensive partner programme and expanding its integration of non-SAP products, even where an SAP alternative is available. The strategy is to have users implement the mySAP.com portal...
He added that while HP's main competitors were further advanced in the delivery of integrated solutions, HP would probably capture a market share through sales to existing OpenView customers. The new strategy, which HP executives are calling...
Now C&W has dipped into the war chest to the tune of £240m with the acquisition of Digital Island, the ISP and web services vendor serving Microsoft, E*Trade, Sony and Cisco among others. It was hardly surprising that Proxicom had become a...
Business software's Big 3, the Justice Department has argued, are the only significant competitors - meaning that Oracle's acquisition of PeopleSoft would leave insufficient competition. The rest of the time, Fidelity is competing against a...
Technology companies have attempted to capture the prize many times but thus far none have succeeded. The latest manifestation of this competition is described differently by each vendor. The race is one to link IT delivery with business demand...
I would argue that as important as the turnaround overseen by the now legendary Lou Gerstner has been the acquisition of PricewaterhouseCooper's (PwC's) IT consultancy arm, news of which broke in the summer of 2002.