- Services & Solutions
- By Business Need
- Infrastructure Transformation Services
- Cloud Computing
- Business Process Management
- Business Technology
- Transforming the IT Function
- Cost Optimization
- Risk Management & Compliance
- Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability
- Merger & Acquisition
- Global Sourcing and Industrialization
- Finance Transformation
- Supply Chain Management
- Human Capital Management
- Customer Interaction
- By Industry
- Consulting Services
- Outsourcing Services
- Technology Services
- Local Professional Services
- Application Services
- BUSINESS PROCESS OUTSOURCING
- BUSINESS INFORMATION MANAGEMENT
- BUSINESS PROCESS MANAGEMENT
- MOBILE SOLUTIONS
- SMART ENERGY SERVICES
- TESTING SERVICES
- By Business Need
- Insights & Resources
- News & Events
- About Us
CTO Blog
Monthly Archives: October 2010
SAP Lifecycle: slicing for value
This is a metaphor. Imagine you wake up one morning and find an elephant in your backyard. It has settled itself comfortably in the garden shack and does not seem to be planning on moving anytime soon. It is easy to feel the potential and immense power this creature can bring. But you may quickly find yourself occupied by managing collateral damage and making sure the elephant doesn’t swallow your entire budget already for breakfast. …
An OS upgrade because you need a next generation browser
Sounds crazy doesn’t it? The current consensus on PC replacement is that the refresh cycle can be slowed right down on the basis that as more and more of the user activity moves towards the browser more powerful PCs and operating systems, OS, are simply not required. What ever Microsoft may think about it, enterprise PCs seem to be stubbornly stuck on XP, though recently there are signs that Windows 7 is moving in. Then …
Negotiating the budget? Would you like some help?
It’s rapidly approaching the time of the year when, for many CIOs and IT managers, the first round of the annual budgeting fight begins. There will be a strong focus on cost, as ever, with ‘doing more for less’ dominating the traditional discussion. However with business managers clearly wanting more, and indeed contracting externally for more, from technology could this be the time to try to open the debate about a real change? The question …
Social networks v collaboration tools
It seems that social networks, what they are, what they do, does an enterprise need one, etc are the topic of the moment when I am meeting people. Possibly this is because the cloud message has been heard enough times that it has reached a stage where a CIO has either grasped what it means to them in the next year, or given up! Relatively commonly, it’s because they have social networks springing up all …
Oracle Open World – Game Changing for the entire environment
I was expecting a lot from Oracle Open World, and so were some of the other people I spoke to about their reasons for attending. The feeling was that this is the start of a game changing moment in the industry, both in terms of the technology, and in terms of the competing players. Apparently we weren’t alone in thinking this as 40,000 people decided to come, and that’s a huge investment in time and …
