Tag: strategy

  • Microsoft’s Office 365 Experiences Outages: Reports

    Channel Insider Staff

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    Microsoft’s Office 365 seems to be experiencing some outages. "We apologize for the inconvenience that the Office 365 outage has caused today. We re sic are working on resolving the issue," read an Aug. 17 tweet posted at 3:30 EST on Microsoft’s cloud-services Twitter account.  Around 20 minutes later, Microsoft’s official Office 365 Twitter account… Read more

  • SAP’s Revenues Up as Company Fights Back Against Oracle

    Channel Insider Staff

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    SAP reported a rise in revenue for the most recent quarter, suggesting the company can hold its own in the face of fierce competition from Oracle, Microsoft and other tech giants. SAP’s software revenue rose 35 percent, and total revenue 27 percent, from the year-ago quarter. Operating profit declined 47 percent year-over-year, supposedly impacted by… Read more

  • Preventing IT security breaches:

    Preventing IT security breaches:

    Ericka Chickowski

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    Preventing IT security breaches: 41 percent of IT executives name it as a top concern Ensuring IT systems are used fully to maximize ROI of IT: 32 percent of IT executives name it as a top concern Understanding the full range of new technologies that are available and how to use them: 31 percent of… Read more

  • The Marketing Isn’t Effective

    The Marketing Isn’t Effective

    Don Reisinger

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    The Marketing Isn’t Effective So far, RIM’s marketing efforts related to the BlackBerry PlayBook have not been all that effective at outlining what its product is all about and which customers it’s designed for. That’s an issue. RIM needs to communicate to enterprise customers especially, why its product is better than the iPad 2 and… Read more

  • Applications Are Important

    Applications Are Important

    Don Reisinger

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    Applications Are Important Earlier this year, Apple CEO Steve Jobs revealed that there are now 65,000 iPad apps available to customers. That’s important. The more apps available to tablets, the more likely those devices are to succeed. If HP wants to see its TouchPad succeed, it will need to work with developers to bring as… Read more

  • Technology Services Group Acquires Concentrix

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    Technology Services Group has acquired IT software and services company Concentrix. The company called the acquisition a “key step” in the growth strategy of TSG that will provide “significant capability” in customer relationship management (CRM) software implementation, one of the company’s target growth areas. The acquisition is the 24th for TSG since its inception in… Read more