Enterprise Applications

iGate Buys Patni in West Meets East Outsourcing Market Move

U.S.-based iGate is anteing up lots of dollars to buy India’s Patni in a deal valued at $1.22 billion.

What We Learned About Tablets at CES

Expect the iPad to dominate the high end, Android to capture volume and new competitors galore.

IT Outsourcing in 2011 – The Best of Predictions

Hear what outsourcing experts expect, such as an Indian/Western mega-merger, cloud pressure, Latin American spotlight.

Social Media Resistance: Sustain or Surrender in 2011?

Microsoft and Tablets: A Failure to Launch Could Hurt Core Business

If Microsoft is too slow developing Windows-based tablets, its bread-and-butter enterprise business could soon pay the price, according to industry analysts.

The Long and Windy Road to Oracle’s Fusion Applications

Oracle has laid out the Fusion Apps roadmap for its customers. But how each customer actually gets to the Fusion Apps destination is another question altogether.

Like It or Not, Here Comes the Facebook-ization of ERP

It may sound like vintage vendor hype, but there's business value in linking ERP apps and Enterprise 2.0 tools.

iPad in the Workplace: What Are the Hottest Apps?

Collaboration, training and mobile BI lead the pack of iPad apps enterprises are putting to work now.

An IT Industry Festivus Celebration: My Airing of Grievances

How tech vendors, CIOs, analysts and other assorted IT types have let me down during 2010.

Do You Need a Cloud CRM Platform, or Cloud CRM Product?

The best CRM applications are really toolkits in disguise. When do you need to be focusing on buying "just an app," and when do you need to focus on the toolkit and platform?