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Update: Oracle Trying to Spoil the Peoplesoft/JDE Deal
Just four days after PeopleSoft offered to buy J.D. Edwards, Oracle announces that it is offering to buy PeopleSoft for $5.1 billion. Although by every sign, the PeopleSoft/JDE deal is friendly - the two CEO's claim to have been talking about this for months - the Oracle bid for PeopleSoft is hostile. Furthermore, unlike PeopleSoft and JDE, whose products and markets can be viewed as complementary, Oracle and PeopleSoft are fierce competitors.
June, 2003
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Outsourcing Desktop Management Services Is a Popular Strategy
Outsourcing desktop management is now a multi-billion dollar global industry. There is a long and growing list of major vendors providing a variety of services in this area, as well as many smaller players that offer more specialized, targeted desktop services.
June, 2003
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Is Sarbanes-Oxley the New Y2K?
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act was passed by Congress in 2002 in response to a number of high profile financial scandals, such as those at Enron and WorldCom. Its goal is intended to make corporate accounting procedures more transparent to investors and regulators. Although the law includes a number of new mandates, there are two sections that have clear implications for corporate information systems.
May, 2003
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The Latest Word-on-the-Street Concerning MAPICS
Reliable sources indicate that there are some interesting developments concerning MAPICS, following its acquisition of competitor Frontstep last year.
May, 2003
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RIAA Crackdown on Piracy Continues
In March, Reuters reported that the RIAA, an industry association of the major record labels, has sent letters to 300 U.S. companies complaining about alleged acts of piracy and copyright infringement in their corporate computer networks and warning of possible fines.
May, 2003
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IT Facilities Management – Many Companies May Be Flirting with Disaster
IT facilities management is now a critical discipline in any organization that has a sizeable data center environment. This discipline includes the designing and building of a physical data center environment, as well as the ongoing security and maintenance required to ensure that the critical systems and applications housed in this environment are available on a 7 x 24 basis.
April, 2003
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VoIP – Coming to an Office Near You… Sometime
The technology to deliver cost-effective and practical VoIP (voice over IP) has now arrived. Today, VoIPâs quality of service rivals traditional telephony and attractive add-on features such as the ability to integrate voice, email, fax, and other messaging services into a corporate-wide unified messaging (UM) system can make this a sellable strategy. However, the cost/benefit advantage for most companies is not significant enough for them to rip out their existing investments in telephony â especially during this period of economic slowdown.
April, 2003
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IT Scorecard: Maintaining a Highly Tuned IT Environment
Maintaining and continually tuning system performance to deliver the highest throughput possible can be a difficult challenge for IT technicians. This is especially true in organizations that have a diverse set of hardware and software platforms connected by intricate and far-flung networks.
April, 2003
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PeopleSoft: The Best Kept Secret in Supply Chain Management
PeopleSoft is well-known as an ERP developer with strong roots in the HR function. But what is not well known is that when it comes to supply chain management (SCM) applications, PeopleSoft has more installs than Manugistics, a big name in SCM.
April, 2003
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SAN Technology Experiencing Significant Growth
Faced with data requirements that continually outpace the amount of direct-attached storage available, many IT managers are moving to storage area networks (SAN). Experiences of early adopters are showing excellent results. In a recent poll conducted by Computer Economics, almost every organization that has brought a SAN into its infrastructure has experienced a favorable return on their investment.
April, 2003
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Effectiveness of System Management and Monitoring Tools
Managing desktop, server, and mainframe system performance and availability are critical requirements for any IT organization. Many companies now demand extremely high availability from their hardware platforms â in many cases this can mean engineering complete fail-over capability into your environment.
April, 2003
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DRP Testing Is Not Adequate In Many Organizations
Disaster recovery planning (DRP) is one of the most critical responsibilities of IT management. In todayâs competitive business world, organizations have become almost totally dependent on an uninterrupted flow of information between the various applications and systems that manage and run day to day business activities. Developing an IT infrastructure that will guarantee a high level of service availability (even in an emergency) requires the development an effective DRP strategy as well.
March, 2003
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Spending on IT Security Services and Products Continues to Increase
A recent Computer Economicsâ survey of approximately 30 midsize to large organizations indicates that, in spite of tight budgets, IT security spending is rising at a brisk pace. Over one-fifth of the companies surveyed indicated that IT security spending (in terms of actual dollars) had increased over 50% since 9/11.
March, 2003
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Outsourcing of Network Management Receives Mixed Review
Network Management is one of the most critical functions performed by the IT organization. Because of the dependency organizations now have on their network infrastructures, providing a consistently high level of service in this area is an absolute must.
March, 2003
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Customers Show Varied Opinion on Software Vendor Customer Support
A recent study conducted by Computer Economics indicates that, while there are a few exceptions, most software vendors are receiving mediocre or negative customer support satisfaction ratings from their customers. The study, which concluded in 3Q02, involved over 30 organizations across a variety of industry sectors. The study did not pinpoint specific applications, instead it rated the overall customer support satisfaction that end users have with their major software vendors.
January, 2003
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