GLG News by IT Services and Business Process Outsourcing Experts (North America)

Microsoft may never be able to catch up with VMWare’s lead in technology, but if they can produce the “Office” of virtualization they may not have to win the technology war to win the business war.  Providing an all-encompassing suite of virtualization tools at low prices will make a compelling...

Requiring existing customers to completely re-write all existing Oracle applications customizations is a massive barrier to adoption. “Exponential” database growth and reduced performance will be just the icing on the cake, not to mention the inevitable bugs in a totally new software release. ...

Banks and payment processors need to develop expertise to identify and support virtual world transactions. Banks need to manage virtual risk because it involved real growth and real losses.

The “success” of Vista seems largely tied to the fact it is the default OS on new PCs, particularly for consumers.  Enterprise users have not generally adopted Vista and at this point one must question whether Vista will ever be adopted by enterprises.  Unless Microsoft provides an enterprise-friendly...

New gadgets provide an opportunity for CIOs to show leadership, or not.  While executive toys may seem a trivial distraction to CIOs focused on enterprise-altering projects, they can be critical to the perception of IT within the executive ranks.  Working together with an executive to test...

1.  Hiring top talent and giving them flexibility to create is Key 2.  What are your competitive strengths as an IT organization?

1.  Cool technology now often arrives at corporations from outside of IT 2.  This creates an opportunity for IT professionals to bond with senior management.

1. IT professionals will be measured on business value 2. Tangibile and visible results will matter

NetSuite is in a market where gaining and keeping customers is expensive, and likely to become more so as the competition intensifies.  While NetSuite has shown good growth, and the market is big enough them to grow further, profitable growth will be a considerable challenge.

The subject article provides some interesting insights into the upward reversal in the number of securities class-action lawsuits filed during 2007.  Given such, I thought it might be fitting to offer my personal insights into what I continue to believe is the most common, yet rarely noticed, accounting...