Information Age (London, UK) articles from December 2005

Information Age (London, UK) archives from December 2005

Happy Talk.
December 10, 2005... Call centres have changed the way people feel about companies. Increasingly the most common point of interaction between many businesses and their customers, call centres arguably exert a greater influence over the brand of an organisation than...

Going private.
December 10, 2005... What do the US technology companies Sungard, Serena, DoubleClick, Ingres, SSA and Geac have in common? The answer: All of them were floated on the US stockmarkets, but were bought and taken private by specialist private equity companies....

"Open document formats for Office will make it easier to manage data in the long term.".
December 10, 2005... If there is one certainty in business, it is that all companies will behave with calculated self-interest. No company ever deliberately makes a move that will harm its overall profitability. With this in mind, some observers have been more...

High definition vision.
December 10, 2005... Many CIOs will be familiar with the organisational status that is attached to having the biggest monitor in the office. The arrival of gleaming new 21-inch flat screen monitor on a desktop can result in desperate bunfights as employees try to...

Domain Complaints.
December 10, 2005... Another month, another set of headaches for executives at the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann). Having emerged from potentially damaging neg- otiatios at the UN World Summit for the Information Society with its...

Path of Eclipse.
December 10, 2005... It has commandeered more than half of its addressable market barely five years after its launch. It is one of the largest open source projects in existence, with the input of thousands of developers and a strategic supporters list that reads...

CEO of the desktop.
December 10, 2005... Ten years ago, the challenge to desktop applications was to bring information locked away in businesses' data stores to the workforce, Jeff Raikes, president of Microsoft's business division, told IT managers assembled at the software giant's...

OLAP of the gods.(oline aalytical pocessing )
December 10, 2005... Companies are slowly getting better at business intelligence (BI) concludes the fifth annual OLAP Survey, conducted by BI analyst Nigel Pendse. The report scrutinises every detail of projects involving online analytical processing tools, which...

Microsoft comes of age.
December 10, 2005... Microsoft has high hopes for the latest iteration of its database software SQL Server 2005. It finally believes it has the features that will allow it to tackle the dominant enterprise database vendors IBM and Oracle. Certainly Robin...

Local champion.(Company Profile)
December 10, 2005... Sage is the contrarian of business applications. While the rest of the software sector - Oracle, Microsoft, SAP, Lawson and others in enterprise resource planning (ERP) - strive to deliver global products that can be deployed in most major...

Lost in translation?
December 10, 2005... One of the early visions for the Internet was that it would connect organisations and people across the globe, irrespective of their location. But it did not take long for businesses to understand that globalisation meant more than just...

Infoconomy index shows bounce back.(Brief Article)
December 10, 2005... The stable growth during the last six months showed signs of an upturn in October 2005, as some of the industry leading vendors displayed a well-above average pace in their latest quarters. The Infoconomy Global Index, which charts the...