IT suppliers

SAP upgrade: 6 factors to consider

Many Indian companies are likely to opt for SAP upgrade given the business benefits. These 6 factors will help CIOs to plan and execute their SAP upgrades effectively. Continue Reading

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• Satish Pendse

Juniper aims to wrap Cisco with QFabric datacentre management

Datacentre operators and cloud computing suppliers could slash their power and space requirements while running up to 10 times faster Continue Reading

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• Ian Grant

Sales management tool on public cloud at Kotak Mahindra Bank

Institutional Equities Unit of Kotak Mahindra Bank deploys Oracle CRM on Demand, a sales management tool on public cloud. Project yields benefits galore. Continue Reading

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• Nagesh M Joshi, Sr. Associate Editor

Hero Honda upgrades SAP R3 to ECC6

The SAP R3 to ECC6 upgrade came about because the auto company wanted to use SAP for IFRS implementation Continue Reading

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• Anuradha Ramamirtham, Principal Correspondent

VDI technology guide for managers

VDI technology is finding many takers in India. This manager’s guide to VDI technology helps time-constrained IT leaders get a quick peek under the hood. Continue Reading

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• SearchCIO.in Staff

Elder's edge: Sales force management on cloud platform

Elder Pharma gave up its manual processes for sales force management and went in for a public cloud platform. The results have been remarkable Continue Reading

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• Nagesh M Joshi, Sr. Associate Editor

Include penalty clauses for assured service level

Penalty clauses in a service contract not only act as deterrents but also help in ensuring vendor accountability. These clauses help in pulling up the vendors in case of service failures through a scheme of penalties. Continue Reading

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• Dhiren Savla

Collaboration in the Cloud: everything to everyone, or too good to be true?

IT decision-makers are already looking to the cloud to support new IT delivery models - such as software-as-a-service (SaaS), platform-as-a-service (PaaS) and infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS). Continue Reading

A CIOs guide to Microsoft negotiations

Survivors -- and some winners -- of Microsoft software license negotiations share their cautionary tales. Continue Reading

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• Jim Rendon, TechTarget

The cloud computing revolution

Hewlett-Packard has become the latest supplier of many to sound the death knell on the IT department. Continue Reading

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• Cath Jennings

Open communications vs. closed communications

Open communications are key to making the inevitable multimodal, multi-supplier communication environment work, so why aren't more suppliers providing open-source systems? Continue Reading

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• Paul Holliday, global market analyst, Siemens Enterprise Communications

IT greats: Top 10 greatest IT people

For every world-famous name with a world famous fortune – think Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Michael Dell – there are hundreds of other individuals who have moved the IT industry and its technology inexorably forward Continue Reading

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• Computer Weekly Staff