At a recent conference in Paris, IBM France CEO, Alain Bénichou, shared his strategy with IT industry analysts based in France, PAC included. He made clear that the French market, as for the rest of Europe, is not where IBM seeks to achieve new growth. Unlike Brazil, Mexico, and Asia Pacific, the strategy for France will be to maintain and [...]

Two days ago, I blogged with the following title “Clouds Wars: Fujitsu strikes back“. Now, after IBM’s analyst Security conference, I’m obliged to reuse the theme for my title, just changing the war zone and the name of the Empire. But don’t think my imagination is too limited! It is just that this title is just such a perfect match. [...]

At the recently concluded World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting in Davos, Infosys co-chairman Kris Gopalakrishnan expressed optimism that 2013 is going to be a better year for Indian IT than 2012. Partly, this optimism is justified by the surprisingly strong and widespread results posted by the big five of Indian IT in the last quarter of 2012. Many expect the [...]

At its European Analyst event held in Madrid last week, IBM unveiled its latest developments around its Platform as a Service offering. IBM SmartCloud Application Services, as it is branded, marks a bit more than one year since its launch in a beta variant. IBM SmartCloud Application Services has two flavors for its PaaS offering: SmartCloud Enterprise, which addresses mostly [...]

Third quarter results from both EVRY and Tieto both point to the growing importance of consulting and systems integration (C&SI) to the Nordic region’s domestic IT services providers.

As we previewed in our blog post last week, SAP made a series of announcements this week in support of its stated goal to become a leading database provider by 2015. As expected, they centred on its internally developed HANA technology, and heavily leverage its Sybase acquisition, now folded into the mother ship. In the words of Steve Lucas, SAP [...]

Today, IBM announced the launch of a new family of so called Expert Integrated Systems named IBM PureSystems. These new pre-configured systems are IBM’s most important infrastructure-related announcement in 2012. Development took about four years and involved more than 5,000 people in IBM labs around the globe. According to IBM, the R&D effort is worth more than $2 billion. So [...]

« Social business » has been around for a while in IBM events and presentations. Big Blue has even nominated Sandy Carter, who previously led the marketing around SOA, as a “socbiz” evangelist. And if you follow her on Twitter, you can see how serious she is about being social! But when it comes to the products, social business did [...]

The Smart Computing initiative was launched more than a year ago, and then every thing was labelled « smart »: smart planet, smart analytics, smart transportation… But as I doubt that everything was not dumb before I was really wondering what there is behind…

In the past few years IBM has been making various acquisitions that have focused on risk and analytics in the enterprise. Now the solutions that came with the purchase of SPSS, Cognos, OpenPages and Clarity are being packaged and marketed by IBM to deliver what is being promised as a more comprehensive and unified analytics approach for the enterprise. As [...]