Recent Articles
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Business Process Outsourcing Booms in HR Sector
Service providers targeting business process outsourcing can expect ample growth in the human resources sector. That’s the analysis of industry experts, who expect plenty of deals to surface in the coming months. A report released Monday by the Yankee Group predicted that the global HR BPO market will grow 27 percent this year to more…
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eCopy Recruits VARS for Document Imaging Technology
You have a document that you want to e-mail to a colleague in the branch office. The problem is you don’t have an electronic copy, so what do you do? Nashua, N.H.-based eCopy Inc. wants you to take that document and send it to your colleague right from the office printer. To enable you to…
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Computer Associates Stresses VAR Collaboration
In the next step toward creating a strategy that will increase sales while improving the bottom line for its channel partners, CA has developed a plan intended to drive more sales through the partner channel. In a letter that is expected be sent to Computer Associates International Inc. partners Tuesday, CA executives outline the program,…
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Channel’s Tough Quarter May Be Economic Warning
The only good thing publicly traded channel companies and technology vendors can say about the just-completed third quarter is that it is over. Making money was tough all over, of course, but particularly in the technology sector. The major U.S. equity indices were all down. The Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500 dipped…
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Red Hat Tops Its Records in Revenue, Sales
Red Hat on Thursday announced record revenue and profits for its fourth quarter and its 2005 fiscal year, which ended Feb. 28. The Raleigh, N.C., company’s total revenue for fiscal year 2005 jumped to $196.5 million, an increase of 58 percent from 2004. For the fourth quarter of 2005, the revenue was $57.5 million. This…
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Slowing PC Growth Could Push Distributors to Price War
Major IT distributors say they avoided a damaging price war earlier in the year, and would like to keep the peace. But declining demand and continuing low prices for PCs could make it difficult for them to keep that resolution. Market research firm IDC (International Data Corp.) has predicted softer PC growth in the U.S.…
