There have been a number of reports recently about the death of the desktop PC, which sits in a fixed office and is deserted every day by the average user at around 5:30pm. ...
18/01/2009 | The benefits of remote IT management.pdf | VIEW
The world seems to get smaller every day, closing in on the concept of the "global village" put forward by Wyndham Lewis in 1948. Already, over 1 billion people are effectively connected via devices attached to mainly open networks enabling them to exchange information in ways that would have been unthinkable 30 years ago. ...
05/11/2008 | Obstacles to Cloud Computing.pdf | VIEW
Sales managers need to segment target markets in order to marshal their staff and minimise conflict in the field. One obvious way to do this is by business size; the way vendors of any product or service sell to and manage small business customers is often very different to the way they deal with large enterprises. ...
28/10/2008 | We are all IT users now - end point management.pdf | VIEW
Sunday 7 September 2008, will mark the 10th anniversary of the incorporation of Google Inc (not to be confused with the registration of the www.google.com domain 11 years ago in September 1997). In those 10 years Google has created one of the world’s most valuable brand names, become a verb and proved, during a period when many other online ventures failed, that a highly-profitable business can be created on the internet or as it is often termed, in the cloud. ...
03/09/2008 | Happy 10th Birthday Google, but have you done anything for businesses.pdf | VIEW
Salesforce.com is set to become a $1bn applications company, with latest quarterly revenues of just under $248m. For Mark Benioff and his team to have done this in just nine years is impressive. ...
06/08/2008 | The Rise and Rise of Infor.pdf | VIEW
Businesses across Europe are becoming increasingly reliant on web-enabled applications that are accessed over the public internet. One of the key drivers for this is to open up communications with external organisations that are fundamental to core business processes. Doing this provides a competitive advantage but as more and more businesses web-enable their key business applications to achieve the same goals, ever better performance and availability across the internet needs to be achieved by the early movers to maintain their lead while satisfying the growing expectations of business users. ...
31/10/2007 | Quocirca_Oct_2007_-_Web_enabled_apps_and_the_internet.pdf | VIEW
Predictions of the death of software are over-stated and the reality is that all businesses are becoming ever more reliant on it. What is changing are the number of options available for how the software applications that businesses rely on are managed, delivered and paid for. Many independent software vendors (ISVs) are recognising the benefits of offering software as a service (SaaS) as an alternative for their customers and once the teething problems have been overcome there are a number of long term benefits for both parties ...
11/04/2007 | Quocirca_-_On-premise_to_On-demand_-_a_guide_-_April_2007.pdf | VIEW
If a supplier is lagging behind competitors in a particular area, one way for it to regain lost ground is to redefine that area to suit its strengths, give it a new name and then claim a lead. If it works, competitors will be chasers again - at least for a while. To achieve this the conniving supplier needs to have either such a great idea that it is a genuine breakthrough, or enough marketing muscle to ensure people hear about it and make yesterday's news sound like tomorrow's dream. ...
30/01/2008 | The truth about software as a service.pdf | VIEW
Recent research from analyst firm Quocirca has shown that about 42 per cent of European businesses now rely on web-enabled applications and these are often being accessed over the internet. ...
09/12/2007 | Don't get stuck in the networking jam.pdf | VIEW
Getting better performance from the internet is one of the biggest challenges facing the IT industry and will remain a key issue over the next few years. ...
05/11/2007 | Getting more out of the net.pdf | VIEW
