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SaaS unsuitable as core platform for businesses

Despite the cost savings software-as-a-service (SaaS) promises to provide, some businesses believe the on-demand delivery model is not suitable as a platform for core enterprise-class applications. Read more »

Open source take-up booming in APAC

Open source accounts for between 25 and 70 percent of all software in Australian, Chinese, Indian and Korean companies, according to a recent IDC survey. Read more »

Duet makes music in ANZ

Two weeks before the official launch and customers in Australia and New Zealand have already signed up for Duet, Microsoft and SAP's jointly developed software which connects mySAP ERP and Microsoft Office products. Read more »

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SAP keeps door open to large enterprises

SAP's aggressive push into the SME space isn't on the back of its traditional market shrinking, according to SAP ANZ managing director Alan Hyde. Read more »

SAP and Microsoft tune up for Duet

SAP and Microsoft on Tuesday announced "Duet" as the name for a joint project to bring their respective flagship products closer. Read more »

SAP to release 'Mendocino' for testing

Next week customers can begin testing software that links Microsoft's e-mail and calendar programs with SAP's back-office business applications, the companies said. Read more »

Microsoft stakes application future on integration

As Microsoft prepares to launch highly-anticipated new versions of many of its applications, the company is banking on the pervasiveness of its software and its ability to integrate the products together. Read more »

EDS embraces newest Siebel applications

Siebel Systems will announce Monday that the first company to complete installation of its latest customer relationship management system is IT services giant Electronic Data Systems. Read more »

Open source firms 'to be consumed by wave of consolidation'

A wave of consolidation is sweeping the IT industry, and many open source business applications will be left behind when customers pare down their suppliers, an SAP executive predicted on Wednesday. Read more »

J D Edwards' Ian Hodge: Straight to the source

What sets J D Edwards apart from the likes of Siebel and PeopleSoft? We speak with Ian Hodge, managing director Australia/New Zealand, about the future of business software and services. Read more »

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Higher intelligence

Business Intelligence software gives managers the tools to draw from many data sources and take a snapshot view of their company's performance. Why are BI vendors defying the industry trend and continuing their stellar growth? Read more »

A SOA allows for better alignment

An SOA enables organisations to create a more meaningful relationship between services and business processes. Read more »

IT spending: Slow to recover or ready for revival?

Most IT analysts have been predicting gloom and doom for the IT industry for the last couple of years. One firm now sees a few rays of light. Read these contrasting views to help make up your own mind. Read more »

Top 14 development integration trends for 2004

Take a look at what META Group is saying on integration and development strategies research trends for 2003/2004. Read more »

The seven deadly sins of integration

Software that is open, approachable and agnostic enables customers to cut costs and increase revenue and business opportunity. Does "on demand" fit that bill or is it just the next fad? Read more »

Keeping apps to speed

Are you paying employees to sit around watching an hourglass? Losing customers because that order page on your Web site takes forever to generate and download? Then it's time to focus on application management. Read more »

ROI on IT projects: Project manager's friend or foe?

Whether you are engaging a client on a solution proposal or simply kicking off your project exploration phase, clients are today deeply interested in ROI. Here's how to make that pay off for project managers. Read more »

Web services: Messiah or mirage?

Software vendors keep telling us that Web services are the answer. But what is the question? ZDNet Australia explores the state of Web services today. Read more »

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Mono a Mano

David McAmis [blogs:theneteffect] -- While the world has been heralding the release of Visual Studio.NET 2005, another project on the back-burner has been bubbling along. Read more »

In a world of Goliaths, who's got a stone?

David McAmis [blogs:theneteffect] -- It seems like it is that time of year again... the days are getting longer, the weather is getting a bit warmer and the top-tier software vendors are on a buying spree. Will you get lost in the shuffle? Why not support your local software developer! Read more »

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    -- posted by Renai LeMay

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