Cutting Applications Costs? Focus on the Right Tactics

Posted on January 30, 2012 by Info-Tech

Cost control is a hot topic. Info-Tech data from Q3 of 2011 indicates that over 40% of senior executives have made cost-management a strategic priority due to concerns about the economic environment. One of the key targets of their scrutiny … Continue reading →

Posted in Applications, What's New in Research | Tagged Agile, Applications, applications manager, cloud, economy, outsourcing, saas, standardization, zero-based budget | Leave a comment

 

 

Roambi partners with SAS for Mobile BI

Posted on March 10, 2011 by Darin Stahl

On March 8, SAS Institute Inc. (SAS) announced an alliance with MeLLmo, Inc. that will drive mobile BI for the enterprise via Roambi’s iPhone/iPad solution.  The April release integrates Roambi ES3 with SAS Enterprise BI Server.     For SAS, this move … Continue reading →

Posted in Analyst's Angle, News & Analysis | Tagged analytics, apple, Applications, bi, business-intelligence, hp, ibm, MeLLmo, microsoft, mobile-bi, Oracle, Roambi, saas, salesforce.com, sap, Sybase, vertica | Comments Off

 

 

Microsoft Shakes Up the Knowledge Worker Software Market with Office 365

Posted on October 20, 2010 by Tim Hickernell

Microsoft has announced a major rebranding of its cloud computing services bundle targeted at knowledge workers. Based on the former Business Online Productivity Suite (“BPOS”) and a handful of other online initiatives, the new Microsoft Office 365 combines existing Exchange … Continue reading →

Posted in News & Analysis | Tagged Applications, cloud, cloud-computing, collaboration, content-management, email, microsoft, microsoft-office-2010, microsoft-sharepoint, ms-office, saas, sharepoint, unified-communications | Comments Off

 

 

Develop a Position on Cloud Platform as a Service

Posted on September 2, 2010 by Info-Tech

The Situation. “The Cloud” has become a major hype area as cost conscious enterprises explore the potential of renting IT services (infrastructure, applications, development platforms) to save costs over internal provisioning (i.e. buying and maintaining infrastructure). The Opportunity. Where Infrastructure … Continue reading →

Posted in Infrastructure, What's New in Research | Tagged app-dev, app-dev-services, application-development, cloud, cloud-compuing, external-cloud, PaaS, platform-as-a-service, saas, saas-applications, the-cloud, web-development | Comments Off

 

 

Exchange Deployment TCOs Revisited

Posted on July 19, 2010 by Tim Hickernell

A client recently called Info-Tech’s Advisory Service to discuss their calculations comparing total cost of ownership (TCO) for Exchange 2010 on-demand versus on-premise installation for a five year period. The client’s calculations yielded results that had the on-demand TCO remaining … Continue reading →

Posted in Applications, What's New in Research | Tagged email, microsoft, microsoft-exchange, saas, tco | Comments Off

 

 

 

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