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 [...]

The Salesforce.com story demonstrates that the cloud and SaaS solutions can add up to interesting business opportunities for traditional systems integrators. At the “Salesforce Customer Company Tour 2013 – London“ yesterday, 2 May 2013, the presence of a number of large SIs such as Accenture, Capgemini, CSC and Deloitte proved this. During the event I had the chance to quickly [...]

A few days ago, we had the pleasure to spend the morning with Gilles Grapinet and Charles Dehelly, Senior Executive Vice Presidents leading Atos alongside Thierry Breton.

Recently Tech Mahindra opened an office in Istanbul to cater not only to the rapidly growing ITES market in Turkey, but also in the neighbouring South Eastern Europe and Balkan nations. The company intends to use Turkey as its hub for the region, where it had bagged a contract to implement a billing solution for a large telecom operator. As [...]

Last week was my first trip of 2013 to review the Turkish IT market. During four days in Istanbul I had almost 15 meetings with suppliers of all sizes from Accenture, Atos and HP to local software and IT services firms like Set Yazilim and VBT. The overall feeling was definitely a positive one regarding the current situation and dynamics [...]

Business intelligence is going through a major transformation, and it’s all for the best… except maybe for CIOs who must rapidly adapt to new technologies and new user requirements, with stagnant or declining budgets. The Big Data buzzword has thrown into the light a number of crucial BI needs for today’s business, including: – Greater Volume, as data growth is [...]

Software AG announced yesterday it has acquired native PaaS vendor LongJump for an undisclosed sum. LongJump is one of the ‘oldest’ PaaS vendors, being on the market since 2003. The company has only 19 employees, yet it boasts a significant list of enterprise clients such as Cisco, AT&T, Nielsen, Deloitte or US Data Corp. LongJump’s cloud application development platform can [...]

The example of BearingPoint proves that business consulting and software solutions from one source are not necessarily a contradiction, but can very well be a complementary business with benefits for the provider as well as the customer. In April 2013, BearingPoint hosted its first Analyst Event since the BearingPoint EMEA practice became independent through an MBO in 2009. Following the [...]

This week’s announcement of a ‘global partnership’ between Fujitsu and UNIT4 is interesting news for both parties. The goal is to address the needs of large and medium companies seeking both hardware and software to support IT transformation initiatives, with Fujitsu and UNIT4 able to offer reduced costs to prospective clients through the partnership. For UNIT4, this sees yet another [...]