All GLG News Analyses Filed Under: Software

I have been requested by several colleagues to write an article to analyze this very significant event in our industry. The article will articulate 4 reasons for the failure of the company. These will be excellent lessons learned for investment community, new ventures in this field and established companies...

The point about BI is to enable companies to extract "intelligence" from various available data pools and information sources. In order to achieve that, a BI application must be able to seamlessly tap into multiple (internal and external) data repositories and perform analysis independently...

Apple and Steve Jobs have always done things differently and succeeded. Bricking the iPhone does seem extreme but will not hurt Apple.

The Slippery Slope to Total Control Means Google Is NOT Your Friend, Folks, But Remember It's Only Paranoia If It's Not True!

Did Apple go too far by iBricking its phones and does the future look like?

New OS's are a plot by the software industry to cause big expensive upgrades down the entire food chain.

Most if not every PC user knows they need some form of malware protection and most if not all PCs ship with some form of malware protection. So our PCs are pretty safe these days. But most people who use MySpace have no idea that they need protection when on MySpace (or FaceBook or any other "social"...

1.  There are no compelling reasons to upgrade to Vista 2.  Security within email has improved causing less upgrade needs

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.

To operate in the knowledge economy, companies need to be able to sift through millions of documents and find what they are looking for.  Having the right search tools in place is crucial to a company's existence and survival.  But finding the right search platform is far from simple.