IT managers negotiating the price of virtualisation licences with software suppliers such as Microsoft, SAP and Oracle could get cheaper deals if they audit software use beforehand.
In the UK, every bank is in hot pursuit of the same holy grail: to liberate vast quantities of customer data from the information silos where they are held so that each arm of the business can access all a customer's dealings with the bank at the push of a button.
Serena Software is planning to launch three business software applications via the Software as a Service (SaaS) on demand channel, to take advantage of users' move to Web 2.0 technologies.
SAP and Intel are using this week's CeBIT to showcase pre-installed business software systems for midsize companies on optimised quad core Xeon-based servers.