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

Nearly all major companies are operating outdated organizational concepts that support egos and greed but do not use people and technology to maximize investor value. A few companies are challenging these concepts, Google being one, but no company has made the transformation to a truly "intelligent...

1.  Microsoft is planning another operating system in a few years, so why upgrade. 2.  Microsoft seems to have lost the operating system was on mobile devices to Apple

Novell’s last quarterly results show an impressive turnaround in their business, but the bulk of their revenues are still from legacy products.  While SuSE is doing much better, largely due to the Microsoft deal, there’s still a long way to go for the new products to provide Novell’s overall g...

SaaS is stepping front and center in the software market. Subscription managment skills will become increasingly important. Managing customer relationships within software companies will replace license management as the preminent skill. Operational excellence for ISV's in the management of software...

The Economist recently described specific events that would lead one to believe that the U.S. Economy is already in the throws of a recession, yet the nay-sayers (including our illustrious President) state that there is still some signs of life negating this apparent event. I feel that like the 90's,...

Oracle would like to be a leader both in SaaS and premises software.  The latest release of Siebel CRM On Demand is their attempt to conquer both worlds and ensure their prized enterprise customers don’t defect to Salesforce.com.  This release will likely have limited impact on Salesforce.com...

Salesforce.com has built a great SaaS business but pressure will follow from major ISVs. SaaS is an announced strategy for several large software players.  Technology leadership for Salesforce.com will become increasingly difficult but when is the question.

1.  Faster bandwidth leads to more options for remote workers.  2. Support for remote workers give IT executives more flexibility.

VMWare has long dominated the virtualization market, but with Citrix’ purchase of XenSource it has the tools and the motivation to take a portion of that market.  VMWare has excellent products, but is vulnerable on pricing.  Citrix will be a strong competitor and will be putting pressure on...

HP’s good news story continues quarter after quarter.  2008 promises to be a year of increasing challenges to their good news, with Dell rebounding and the overall economic outlook gloomy.  Some day HP’s growth via market share gains and cost cutting will end.  Will that day be in 20...