The Rule of Thirds

EA tool vendors are increasing their capabilities to meet the requirements of organizations. This report provides information about how 17 vendors are meeting those capabilities.

via Gartner Assessment of Enterprise Architecture Tool Capabilities.

A recent Gartner survey tracks the costs of the major business intelligence platforms and the factors that contribute to these costs. BI leaders can use these insights to find the most cost-effective BI product to meet enterprise needs.

via BI Platforms User Survey, 2011: Customers Rate Their BI Platform Vendor Cost of Ownership.

his MarketScope analyzes and rates the state of sales force automation in the consumer goods industry, as well as for each of the 20 vendors serving the market that meet our criteria.

via MarketScope for Sales Force Automation in the Consumer Goods Industry.

Corporate performance management supports both cost optimization and growth initiatives. CPM is a suitable fit for nearly all organizations, and should be a priority initiative for CFOs to enable the finance function to deliver short- and long-term strategic benefits to the business.

via Magic Quadrant for Corporate Performance Management Suites.

Oracle today unveiled Oracle Retail Merchandising Analytics to offer retailers a new prebuilt business intelligence application that incorporates performance metrics across the entire enterprise and promotes a faster response to market opportunities.

via Oracle Introduces Oracle Retail Merchandising Analytics.

Turning Web 2.0 features into Enterprise 2.0 tools that enable social networking, tagging, and other collaborative actions from the consumer world have come with a lot of surprises. The Oracle Applications User Experience team has spent the last few years figuring out how to resolve those surprises for Oracle Fusion Applications, Oracle’s new, highly-integrated suite of applications for enterprise workers. The social and collaborative tools were developed after three years of studying trends in how people might use such features for at-home use, and how such tools could be refined to meet the needs of these same people when they’re at work.

via usableapps.oracle.com | Oracle Applications User Experience.

Oracle VM VirtualBox enables desktop or laptop computers to simultaneously run multiple operating systems, allowing users to get the most flexibility and utilization out of their PCs. Supporting an extensive range of host and guest operating systems, the popularity of Oracle VM VirtualBox is evidenced by its more than 26 million downloads.

via Oracle VM VirtualBox | VIrtualization | Oracle.

The decision by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to cancel a £300m desktop support deal with Fujitsu before it even began will lead many in the public sector to question some IT suppliers’ ability to deliver on their sales pitch.

via DWP cancelled £300m Fujitsu deal over transition deadline failures – 3/17/2011 – Computer Weekly.

Social media is driving product development at Deutsche Bank. The banking giant is using web 2.0 technologies to engage with 1,000 of its corporate customers, to find out how it can make corporate banking run more smoothly.

via Deutsche Bank uses social CRM to fine-tune corporate banking – 3/16/2011 – Computer Weekly.

The influence of proprietary software has been felt in no greater measure than in the UK public sector, where just 18 companies control 80 per cent of IT contracts. Government policy aims to break the IT oligopoly’s power by ending its proprietary software terms.

via Exclusive: Free software guru Richard Stallman on government IT and why he hates the cloud – 3/8/2011 – Computer Weekly.

Steria is positive about 2011, despite reporting an 11% drop in profits and a slight increase in revenues for 2010 compared to 2009.

via Steria revenue up slightly as investments hit profits – 3/1/2011 – Computer Weekly.

BIP gets its own Youtube channel