Outsourcing losing its lustre as projects come home
Very few organizations have realized the benefits of outsourcing with companies now returning projects back in-house, according to a new study by Deloitte Consulting.
Very few organizations have realized the benefits of outsourcing with companies now returning projects back in-house, according to a new study by Deloitte Consulting.
Organizations refusing to include open source in their IT portfolio need to rethink their strategy, according to Gartner research vice president Dion Wiggins.
From its early days as a player in large organizations, SAN has found new fans both in its appeal to smaller sized businesses and the use of iSCSI components. Siobhan McBride reports
Intense secrecy surrounds local RFID pilots and it's due to high failure rates, Gartner research vice president Kristian Steenstrup said last week.
Tech investment plans at Australia's largest organizations came under the microscope last week with the release of a survey on enterprise spending plans for the next 12 months.
While vendors claim users can score big gains from server consolidation, users say there is still a long way to go.
Canon is sending out written apologies to its customers over billing system glitches.
After a period of drastic consolidation following the collapse of the dotcom bubble, e-business marketplaces appear to have finally come of age and found economically sustainable footing.
Only six months after being paraded as a trophy win for PeopleSoft's integrated application suite, Cyberlynx, a procurement services provider, is worried about the impact of the Oracle merger and has decided it will shop with Cognos for analytics.
A devastating attack on the Internet or a power grid in the next decade is "most plausible", 1300 of the world's leading technology experts and scholars agree - but when it might happen is unclear.
Online consumer transaction service PayPal has launched a localised Australian Web site and service in a bid to bolster its fortunes in the Asia-Pacific region.
IT services outsourcer Getronics has taken a punt on the poker machine industry and won, walking away with a lucrative $73 million deal over six years to service and maintain a fleet of 30,000 poker machines for totalizer, gaming and wagering consortium UNiTab in Queensland.
PeopleSoft is the latest vendor to offer a managed service solution hot on the heels of SAP's hosted ERP offering announced earlier this month. However, amid all the fanfare of the announcement, PeopleSoft said the offering will not be made available to Australian customers.
In a move to promote better value for clients, embattled IT services juggernaut EDS has vowed to fight to the bitter end to retain market share and see off rivals IBM, CSC and Hewlett-Packard.
As part of its aggressive strategy to target the mid-market, SAP last week announced the introduction of a hosted ERP offering in the US with an eye to expanding the service to other parts of the world including Australia.