By Phil Fersht on October 19, 2015
Anyone who knows me well has seen how hard we’ve been pressing the importance of security and trust in a global services delivery environment, since we founded HfS. In short, we’re moving into a world where reactive fixes to security breaches is a sure-fire recipe for disaster. Savvy enterprises simply have to deploy proactive, holistic […]
Posted in Business | Tagged Accenture, Analytics and Big Data, AT&T, Atos, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Cloud Computing, cognizant, Dell, digital, Digital Transformation, Engineering & Supply Chain Outsourcing, Enterprise Irregulars, Financial Services Sourcing Strategies, fred mcclimans, fujitsu, Global Business Services, hcl, HfS Blueprint, HfS Blueprint Results, HfSResearch.com Homepage, hp, hpe, IaaS and BPaaS, ibm, IT Outsourcing / IT Services, IT security, Knowledge Process Outsourcing & Analytics, leidos, mobility, PaaS, procurement, Robotic Process Automation, SaaS, security, Security and Risk, Sourcing Change Management, Tech Mahindra, The As-a-Service Economy, trust as-a-service, unisys, wipro
By Phil Fersht on August 6, 2015
The lifeblood of the IT outsourcing industry has always been application testing – it’s not sexy, but it’s a huge portion of ITO spending – and massively important to the revenues of the major ITOs. And while much of the traditional app testing market is commoditizing, with advances in remote management and automation, the proliferation […]
Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Accenture, Analytics and Big Data, application testing, Atos, Buyers' Sourcing Best Practices, Capgemini, cgi, Ciber, cognizant, csc, Dell, Enterprise Irregulars, hcl, HfS Blueprint Results, HfSResearch.com Homepage, hp, IaaS and BPaaS, igate, Infosys, IT Outsourcing / IT Services, mobility, NTT Data, PaaS, Robotic Process Automation, SaaS, Syntel, TCS, Tech Mahindra, The As-a-Service Economy, tom reuner, unisys, Virtusa, wipro
By Louis Columbus on July 15, 2013
Comparing the latest Price Waterhouse Coopers (PwC) List Of Top 100 Global Software Leaders published in May of this year with current Glassdoor ratings based on employee feedback provides valuable insights into the best software companies to work for in 2013. The Glassdoor ratings of the percentage of employees who would recommend their employer to […]
Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Aart J. de Geus, ACI Worldwide, Acision, adobe, ADP, Amdocs, Ansys, apple, Ariba (Acquired by SAP), Aspect Software, autodesk, Avaya, Bentley Systems, BMC Software, byline=Louis Columbus, CA Technologies, Cadence Design Systems, Cegedim, Cerner, Cisco, Citrix Systems, Cloud Computing, CommVault, Compuware, Concur Technologies, Dassault Systèmes, Data Driven, EMC (excluding Vmware), enterprise software, Epicor, Ericsson, ESRI, FICO (formerly Fair Isaac), Fidelity National Information Services, Fidessa, Fiserv, fujitsu, Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories, Glassdoor, google, Greg Bentley, GXS, Hitachi, Hitachi Data Systems, hp, ibm, Infor, Informatica, intel, Intergraph, InterSystems, Intuit, invensys, JDA Software Group, Jim Hagemann Snabe, Kaspersky Lab, Kronos Inc., Louis Columbus' blog, McKesson, MEDITECH, Mentor Graphics, Micro Focus, Micros Systems, microsoft, MIcroStrategy, Misys, mobile, NEC Corporation of America, NetApp, Neusoft, NICE Systems, Northgate Information Solutions, Nuance Communications, OpenText, oracle, Pitney Bowes Software, PTC, Quest Software (Dell), Red Hat, Sage North America, salesforce.com, sap, SAS, Siemens Enterprise Communications, Software AG, Sophos, Sungard, SWIFT, Symantec, Synopsis, Synopsys, Tech, Teradata, Tibco, Trend Micro, unisys, Unit4, Verint Systems, VMware, Wincor Nixdorf, Wolters Kluwer
By Merv Adrian on July 6, 2010
EMC’s acquisition of Greenplum, announced today as a cash transaction, reaffirms the obvious: the Big Data tsunami upends conventional wisdom. It has already reshaped the market, spawning the most ferment in the RDBMS (and non-R DBMS via the noSQL players) space in years. When I first posted on Greenplum over a year ago, I said […]
Posted in Business | Tagged ADBMS, AIX, Aster, blades, business intelligence, Cloud, core, CPU, data integration, data load, Data Warehousing, Database, database performance, DB2, DBMS, Documentum, EMC, ETL, Exadata, Exasol, Greenplum, Hardware platforms, hp, ibm, indexing, Industry Trends, Java, Kickfire, Linux, mdm, microsoft, MPP, multicore, Netezza, NoSQL, NUMA, Open source, oracle, PADB, ParAccel, Postgres, PostgreSQL, rack, RDBMS, sap, Solaris, Sun, Sybase, Teradata, TPC, TPC-H, unisys, Vendor image and communications, Virtual Machine, VM, VMware, vSphere, windows |
By Michael Coté on November 10, 2009
Firefox is 5, $3 IBM SaaS, the cloud took my job.
Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged apple, Firefox, iPhone, layoffs, lotus connections, microsoft, Numbers, Palm Pre, redmonk, unemployment, unisys
