One of more interesting outcomes of CGI’s acquisition of Logica has been its approach in the area of innovation. Logica long had a reputation as one of the most creative and technically innovative of the big SIs, but its track record on its exploitation was patchy and regionally fragmented. CGI is giving its new acquisition a mandate – and a [...]

L’université de Chicago vient de publier une étude sur le comportement des acheteurs menée par des psychologues. Celle-ci, également reprise par la Harvard Business Review (http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2012/10/the_presentation_mistake_you_d.html), montre qu’il existe un paradoxe du marketing lorsque l’on parle de perception de valeur, de packaging d’offres et de gestion de portefeuille. En effet, l’étude montre que pour un produit et un package donné [...]

En Avril de cette année, un groupe de recherche soutenu par la commission Européenne a lancé le projet « E-Highway 2050 ». Ce projet vise à concevoir un plan de développement et une méthodologie appropriée pour développer un réseau de distribution d’électricité modulable et pan-européen à l’horizon 2020-2050. Les parties prenantes sont autant les opérateurs de réseaux, des associations, des [...]

Très populaire en France et dans le monde, Trace One, l’éditeur de solutions collaboratives en ligne a su se créer une position de niche privilégiée grâce à des solutions permettant d’optimiser le travail entre les industriels et les distributeurs. Ces solutions facilitent le sourcing, les appels d’offres et le développement des produits (notamment pour les marques de distributeurs), tout en [...]

SAP HANA as a platform for the SAP Business Suite (‘Suite on HANA’) is a topic with very high relevance for both SAP users and SAP partners. In our new market insight “Evolution of ERP: SAP Business Suite powered by SAP HANA” we examine…

At the beginning of this week, I had a chance to visit the SAP Financial Services Summit in Den Haag that was dedicated to SAP’s partners in banking and insurance. I got a good insight into SAP’s recent accomplishments in the banking and insurance industry, which I’d like to share with you here. Recent achievements in FSI During 2012, SAP [...]

SAP HANA as a platform for the SAP Business Suite (‘Suite on HANA’) is a topic with very high relevance for both SAP users and SAP partners. In our new market insight “Evolution of ERP: SAP Business Suite powered by SAP HANA” we examine: The perception of SAP users and SAP partners considering “Suite on HANA” Opportunities and challenges for users [...]

Accenture has yesterday announced the acquisition of London-based digital marketing and customer experience consultancy Fjord. The acquisition comes roughly half a year after Accenture announced the purchase of digital marketing services provider avVenta Worldwide, indicating Accenture’s strategic push into the digital marketing services space. Fjord specializes in customer experience and user design providing customer engagement services across new digital consumption [...]

SAP has announced a new cloud environment for its in-memory computing platform, SAP HANA. “HANA Enterprise Cloud” is a managed service from SAP that offers customers an environment to operate SAP software. Basically, HANA Enterprise Cloud is a set of managed services provided through SAP’s data centers. The customer gets an environment to deploy SAP software on SAP HANA. According [...]

Even as some of the larger Indian ITES companies, notably Infosys and Wipro, have been passing through a very tough period, the performance of some of the Tier II companies has been surprisingly strong and their forecasts for the next year is even better. Companies like NIIT Technologies MindTree, KPIT Communis and Infotech have given upbeat forecasts for the next [...]