Oracle made an unexpected, creative and strategic move yesterday with its purchase of Acme Packet for $1.7bn. Acme Packet is a US-based “global provider of session border control technology:” It facilitates delivery of voice, data and unified communications services and applications over IP networks. Acme is used particularly by telcos but also by large enterprises and service providers such as [...]

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 [...]

Biswajit Banerjee’s main responsibilities include market analysis and strategic consulting for the software and IT services industry in APAC with main focus on India. As a senior analyst he is responsible for hardware maintenance, system infrastructure software and project services product segments. His main focus verticals in this region include Manufacturing, Transport, Telecom, Banking and Insurance industry.

Franck Niemann leads PAC’s Software Research Program for Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Previously, he was Managing Editor at IT magazine Computerwoche with a specialization in business applications.

Martin Barnreiter is program manager for PAC’s reports and consulting services on the German public sector. He also coordinates PAC’s relations to German ministries and states and is PAC’s contact for projects with public authorities. As a member of PAC’s Software Research Program he analyzes the market for application software, infrastructure software and tools in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

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Nicolas Beyer is a contributor to analyses and reports in Information Management such as the BI/Data Management Horizontal study. He specializes in the Banking and Insurance industries as well as in the Public Sector.

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With over 25 years of experience as an industry analyst, software developer and project manager, Philip has become one of the best-known and most respected analysts in the sector. His work has covered business applications, BI, document management and KM, and latterly Philip has focused on Cloud, Software as a Service and application services.