GLG News by Product Lifecycle Management Software Experts

Simulations are a proven way of providing better training at lower costs.  Today’s simulations, to be effective, are prohibitively expensive for the average enterprise to adopt.  Microsoft’s ESP could potentially provide a platform for a wide array of simulation training at a price anyone...

Open source is great when it’s bringing in revenue.  It’s “socialism” or “cancer” when it’s taking revenue away.   Those software CEO’s who today are lauding open source as such as great advance will be singing a very different tune if/when their products start hurting!

- Though not perfect, a number of bandwidth and technology options are available to the businesses on access to the Internet, backed by end-to-end SLAs - Access network constraints will affect the consumer Internet market, but they wont necessarily affect On Demand software or Software-as-a-Service market ...

Microsoft has long been considered the most credible threat to VMWare’s continued reign in the virtualization space. Microsoft has been very late to this game and has a challenge of overcoming VMWare’s lead, while VMWare should rightly fear Microsoft’s size and power. With the beta release of their...

Video, in one form or another, seems to be the primary driver of the next wave of Internet growth. Facebook, MySpace and others are driving this in the consumer space, and high-quality video conferencing seems poised to do the same to the enterprise space.

Nokia’s move represents a paradigm shift in the mobile music market, and potentially in the overall market. This may represent the beginning of the end for pay services such as Apple’s iTunes, and could be an entirely new way of acquiring music. Good-bye, CDs?

Verizon’s move represents the first major chink in the stone wall of locked mobile phones in the US. It seems unlikely that Verizon is really going to be totally open in the near future, but just the announcement represents a major step in that direction. Other carriers will be forced to follow, and...

1) Forget India; Caribbean; Russia... Call Centers will Boom in small towns within the United States. 2) We are already seeing the peek of offshore out-sourcing. We have clients that have even capitalized and managed the offshore operation to make things more seamless. 3) Plenty of our clients have...

With the recent acquisitions, traditional BI seems to be moving to the big companies (IBM, Oracle, SAP). Smaller, pure-play BI vendors must innovate and find new market niches to survive. “Operational” BI and better usability could buy a few years of success for them.

1) Financial services offered by FISERV are now more robust and provide portfolio management services to the industry 2) Most financial services companies MUST rely on the expertise of solution providers - FISERV serves this market well with the new addition of CheckFree