Tag: consulting
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Business Intelligence Thwarted by Technology Silos, Execs Say
Categories: News and TrendsA new survey out by Deloitte Consulting found that about one third of technology executives and business decision-makers say their organizations don’t have business analytics capabilities at all or they don’t know whether their organizations utilize the capabilities they do have. Conducted among more than 1,900 tech executives during a recent webcast, the informal Deloitte… Read more
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SugarCRM Adds 50 Partners Through Open+ Partner Program
Open-source customer relationship management software developer SugarCRM touted the success of its Open+ partner program, noting the company added 50 partners from around the globe in the first half of 2010. In addition, the company noted channel partners continue to account for approximately 70 percent of new SugarCRM billings. Open+ program membership provides access to… Read more
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IBM Says No Competitive Threat from Dell, HP, Xerox Gobbling Up IT Services Firms
(Reuters) – IBM (NYSE:IBM) feels no threat from a series of acquisitions by competitors and has no plans for a major strategy change even as it spends more on mergers and acquisitions, a senior company executive said on Friday. Asked about acquisitions like Hewlett-Packard Co’s (NYSE:HPQ) $13.2 billion purchase of EDS, Adam Klaber, general manager… Read more
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Enterprise vs. SMB: Some Common Lessons
Categories: News and TrendsI had lunch today with an old friend from college, who works for a very large enterprise. I used to do consulting in that space and so it’s fun to compare notes and talk shop at a different level than the pure SMB level I deal with day-to-day. He wanted to pick my brain a… Read more
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HP Offers Small Data Center Consulting Through Channel
Looking to make inroads to the smaller end of the data center market, HP has brought its data center consulting services to its channel partners for sale to small and midsize data centers. The services comprise the following three offerings: a basic capacity survey, infrastructure condition capability and analysis, and energy condition capability and analysis.… Read more
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HP Takes Energy, Thermal Efficiency Audit to Channel
Two years after it bolstered its data center services offerings with the acquisition of data center consulting firm EYP, Hewlett-Packard has rolled out to its channel partners the energy efficiency analysis and thermal assessment service it gained from the deal. The move comes at just the right time, as customers are looking at energy and… Read more