Software Strategies in a Flat World

David DeWalt is using the company EMC as example of how the software business is changing in response to challenges like global outsourcing, multi-tenancy, and service appliances. He shows how a hugely profitable company like EMC no longer does much R&D but now focuses on acquisition and development, absorbing approximately two companies every quarter. DeWalt [...]

 
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Trends im Softwareentwicklungsmarkt 2006

Die Newmedia-Branche wird am Standort Deutschland auch weiter eine Zukunft haben. Nach der aktuellen adesso-Umfrage “Trends im Softwareentwicklungsmarkt 2006” sehen die IT-Entscheider in deutschen Unternehmen erhebliche Schwächen bei der Offshore-Softwareentwicklung. Zwar werden den Anbietern aus Billiglohn-Ländern Kostenvorteile bescheinigt, doch dieser Preisvorteil wird durch den deutlichen Vorsprung deutscher Dienstleister bei Produktivität und Fach- bzw. Prozesswissen mehr [...]

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Future of the Enterprise Software Industry

A Booz Allen Hamilton whitepaper on:
Future of the Enterprise Software Industry (January 2006)
“No new concepts as significant as supply chain management (SCM) or customer relationship management (CRM) are on the near horizon just a constant pressure to make incremental improvements. Meanwhile, virtually every company that needed to add enterprise software to its application portfolio has [...]

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The Coming Software Shakeup

strategy + business on the future of enterprise software by Mitch Rosenbleeth, Corrie DeCamp, and Stephen Chen:
The Coming Software Shakeup
“Five years ago, 11 companies controlled 90 percent of the database market; now only six do. In business applications, the trend is even more pronounced: Seventy percent of the market is now controlled by just 35 [...]

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