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5 things to avoid in IT outsourcing sales

Tuesday, December 13th, 2011

IT-sales-mistakesEnd of the year is the time for planning and concluding outsourcing contracts.

For our customers and everyone involved in IT sales we have prepared these tips that might help find a relevant outsourcer or sell IT outsourcing services more effectively.

5 Things to avoid in IT outsorcing sales (more…)

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Ideas for your Legacy Software

Friday, November 18th, 2011

obsolete software problemModern business requirements change very quickly. After a few months (rarely years) even the best software product may be referred to ‘legacy software’. So what to do next?

The key point is that every company should plan the ways software application will be maintained and upgraded even before it is released. But what to do if for some reasons you have to deal with a legacy software product that no longer meets your requirements, but can not be immediately replaced? (more…)

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Posted in Application development, Cloud computing, Custom application development, Organization, Outsourcing, Process, Project management, SaaS, Software development, Software maintenance, Software outsourcing | No Comments »

Where is the Microsoft tablet?

Wednesday, March 9th, 2011

Steve BallmerLess than a year after deploying the original iPad tablet, Apple will make a second iteration available in stores at the end of this week: the sleeker, internally beefier iPad 2. Meanwhile, Google and its original equipment manufacturer partners will be flooding the tablet market this year with Honeycomb devices using the Android 3.0 operating system And Research In Motion will release the BlackBerry PlayBook in the next month or so and even Palm has been resurrected via Hewlett-Packard’s webOS TouchPad, coming this summer.

Who’s missing?

Most federal employees seem to be waiting for Microsoft to release a tablet to compete with Apple and Google. Feds trust Microsoft and they like the interoperability it can offer across the enterprise. In contrast, Apple is not focused on the business enterprise per se, and Android still represents the Wild West of mobile operating systems, a problem (for now) in risk-averse federal IT departments.

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Is SaaS Office Safe?

Wednesday, February 16th, 2011

Is software as a service (SaaS) office safe? We get this question a lot and the SaaS office most often asked about is Google Apps for Business and Microsoft Office 365. This security concern reflects in our research numbers: Fewer than 18% of organizations are planning to deploy SaaS office but nearly twice as many companies are evaluating.

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So, is SaaS office safe? There is no clear yes or no answer; the answer depends on relative risk versus in-house operations. Really, the right question to ask is, “Does SaaS office put me at greater risk and if so, can I justify this increased risk?”

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Tiny Cube-Shaped Mobile Mast ‘to Deliver Rural Broadband’

Tuesday, February 8th, 2011

An innovative new mobile network technology will banish ugly mobile masts and help deliver rural broadband, its makers claim.

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The system, dubbed “lightRadio”, shrinks and simplifies the electronics in mobile network base stations to slash costs and energy consumption by around half, said Alcatel-Lucent, the French networking giant.

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