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4 Old ERP Concepts Dressed Up for the New Year

December 28, 2014December 29, 2014 enews

To stay competitive, smaller vendors of enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions need to follow the development paths of their larger rivals, whether they like it or not. Here are some of the innovations that are being refurbished this year: Cloud ERP acceptance will continue to grow in all industries, including, finally, manufacturing, although it has a way to go before it reaches the level of on-premise deployment in terms of sale numbers. But the cloud deployment model implies slow profitability growth for vendors, significantly slower than for the traditional on-premise variant.…

2014 – Year of the Internet of Things (IoT)

December 28, 2014December 29, 2014 enews

The rise of the Internet of Things As billions of devices are getting connected to the internet and being managed remotely, there are a lot of use cases that are emerging to make our daily lives better. For example, now you can easily turn-off/on your porch/patio light from your smartphone automatically from your office when it is dark, or control the temperature of your home remotely through your ‘Phablet’. This simple phenomenon is part of something called “Internet of Things (IoT)’ and is one of the highest trending topics of…

79% Of People 18-44 Have Their Smartphones With Them 22 Hours A Day [STUDY]

December 26, 2014December 26, 2014 enews

Quick: what’s the first thing you do when you wake up? Yawn? Hit the snooze button? Go to the bathroom? Brush your teeth? If you’re like 80% of 18-44-year-olds, the answer is “check my smartphone.” KYE R. LEE / MCT FILE PHOTO A new IDC Research report, conducted online with data from 7,446 Android and iPhone users ages 18 to 44 during a week in March, reveals some eye-opening mobile social media intel.Facebook sponsored the report, so our sister site AllFacebook.com has the story from that angle, if you’re interested. But here’s the…

5 Tips For Government IT Modernization

December 26, 2014December 26, 2014 enews

Over the decades, agencies’ application environments have evolved into daunting sets of complex and often interrelated combinations of commercial-off-the-shelf software and homegrown applications, along with terabytes of data. While these complex, siloed environments may initially inspire a “rip-and-replace” mentality, below are five simple tips that can guide government IT leaders on a path to cost-efficient and incremental IT modernization wins. (Source: PublicDomainPictures/Pixabay) 1. Know what you have in place by establishing an IT and enterprise architecture (EA) governance model. Modernization considerations should begin with an understanding of what’s currently…

The year in tech: Net neutrality, IoT grows up, Uber turns heads

December 24, 2014December 25, 2014 enews

As 2014 draws to a close, the tech world seems a little weary. It was a draining year if you were plugged into social media, with conflicts at home and overseas juxtaposed against the soaring wealth of the San Francisco Bay Area, home to an industry that has become one of the dominant forces in the world. As we inch closer to what will likely be the top of the Third Tech Boom-Bust Cycle since the web changed the world, technology has never been more present in our day-to-day lives,…

Oracle’s at it again: Acquires data broker Datalogix

December 23, 2014December 23, 2014 enews

Oracle continues to build its cloud-and-data arsenal, announcing its intention to buy Datalogix, a data marketing specialist that gleans consumer sentiment data via pacts with Facebook and Twitter and other sources. Photo credit: de.wikipedia.org In a statement, Datalogix said it aggregates information based on over “$2 trillion in consumer spending from 1,500 data partners across 110 million households to provide purchase-based targeting and drive more sales.” It also claims that 82 of the top 100 advertisers in the U.S. including Ford Motor Co. and Kraft Foods. In fact the availability of all that data has provoked concern at the consumer watchdog…

Oracle Sales Cloud Marketplace: A New, Small App Store Is Growing

December 23, 2014December 23, 2014 enews

Oracle offers many different applications—not a surprise to anyone who has ever bought directly from Oracle. But many of the applications appear to compete with each other, despite Oracle’s marketing efforts to differentiate them. Through the years, many companies developed applications that worked with Oracle applications, and although Oracle has never worked against its development ecosystem, it doesn’t usually sell other companies’ products directly. There are notable exceptions, but they are typically apps directed at large companies that can net Oracle a lot of money with just a few sales.…

Vembu Offering Free Cloud-Based CRM

December 23, 2014December 23, 2014 enews

SMB software and cloud services provider Vembu Technologies has launched a free, unified CRM cloud platform. Vembu CRM includes SalesDesk, HelpDesk, SocialDesk which mainly targets B2B, H2H business model. “Targeting business clients and staying customer centric is no longer an ordeal for organizations with the use of Vembu CRM, which is essentially FREE,” said Larissa Simone, director of marketing at Vembu Technologies, in a statement. The platform enables lead generation and through an intuitive dashboard to give sales managers a better understanding of Vembu SalesDesk forecasts. Vembu also offers sales…

Cloud Enthusiasm Hits Near-Universal Levels

December 23, 2014December 23, 2014 enews

Momentum for cloud deployment is reaching full-throttle levels, according to a new survey report from Evolve IP. The accompanying report, titled “Cloud of Dreams: The Adoption of Cloud Services—2014,” reveals that an immense majority of tech employees and leaders feel the cloud represents the very future of IT. Most have already launched cloud services, and nearly as many intend to expand their use of cloud resources. Just as in the classic movie “Field of Dreams,” “organizations built their ballparks (clouds), found some initial players (adopters) and waited to see if…

Service Management in the Cloud – The $120bn Question

December 23, 2014December 23, 2014 enews

The Cloud. Can you really avoid it? The cloud market is expected to grow to $121 billion dollars in 2015, a 26% compound annual growth rate from 2010’s $37 billion. Such growth is set to continue, with research showing that 81% of organizations forecast a move to the cloud for 50% of their future transactions. So what are the drivers for the growth in the cloud market? With 60% of CIOs stating that their number one priority is cloud computing, a major driver has been the adoption of Software as…