GLG News by Management Consultants (Germany)

Oracle's purchase of Bharosa is a key step to improve the capability of its multilayered enterprize software suite to effectively support today's global supply chain and business processes. It provides the possibility for controlled and seamless internal and external user authentication...

The acquisition's primary intent is to bolster Dell's IT total life cycle managed service offering for corporate customers by including software asset management capabilities into the portfolio. However Dell's approach to this topic remains largely a piecemeal; other major providers are...

Open source has established itself today as a platform of choice in the enterprize software market, its share is likely to continue to grow for the foreseeable future.  However although the amount and quality of professional support available nowadays for open...

1. SEO almost always leads to better (ie more precise and targeted)  results for the user searching than clicking on paid ads  - except maybe for the most common items (but then for those there is ebay...) 2. It is an illusion than paid ads are a cheap shortcut to achieve similar...

Only a small fraction of companies have achieved today a level of integration between their front-end and back-end activities which would benefit from a highly integrated software stack from vendors such as SAP, Oracle or Microsoft.  Because of the normative pressure introduced by the...

- The current focus on leading-edge storage media, sophisticated search engines and data warehousing/analysis systems falls short of being able to tackle the real challenges posed by the explosion of electronically stored data.- Structured information retention and management policies...

The speed of communications is steadily increasing, however, the content management is getting poorer. Anyone looking for closing his knowledge gap can not easily find out the reliable source. You need a certain guidance in order to get the knowledge you need instantly. Although internet and Googling...

1. Although European carriers and providers have been faster as their US counterparts in offering advanced content services for mobile phones  (including mobile TV), the adoption rates for these services by European mobile phone customers are still VERY low.2. The business model for mobile...

Dell has been focusing nearly all its efforts and key resources over the last 5 years in Europe on winning large deals in the corporate market. As a result:1. Most of Dell's key management staff in place today in Europe has little or no experience in dealing with the consumer market.2. Customer...