Dec 3, 2009
The article from BusinessWeek coincides with our textbook; India has been the primary destination for tech outsourcing with more than 90%. Reasons are many, for starters its low-cost. However, this article shows how IBM is changing destination by outsourcing at home. As strange as it sounds IBM is turning to Michigan and Iowa when it [...]
Nov 19, 2009
According to BusinessWeek, SAP’s first significant foray into software provided over the internet and its performance is likely to influence the future of the company’s cloud strategy. However, senior VP of Business ByDesign, Rainer Zinow, announced that the company won’t make it available to all customers until the company has enough “referencing accounts” which is [...]
Nov 13, 2009
I used this article because it follows what chapter 9 covers on CRM Systems. According to the article from IT.TMCNET.COM Jobscience, Inc a provider of automated workforce management launched an application tracking system for natively incorporating Google Apps and Salesforce CRM. The application integrates a Google Apps account with any edition of Salesforce CRM. Salesforce’s [...]
Oct 30, 2009
Chapter 7 introduces us to the concepts of network architecture and mobile technology and how these technologies can help employees better communicate within an organization and allow easier and faster responses to others outside the organization. Businesses must understand the new trends of technology to compete in today’s mobile world. Members in an organization must [...]
Oct 30, 2009
Chapter 6 introduces business students to different types of data storage systems. It distinguishes between transactional databases and information housed in enterprise wide data warehouse systems. Although, they share the same purpose to store large volumes of organized data; organizations use the stored data in different ways. For instance, organizations store their data in data [...]
Oct 30, 2009
As chapter 5 talks about enterprise architecture and security Google plans on offering cloud services such as Google Apps to federal agencies starting in 2010. Google has assured the cloud services to be entirely compliant with the requirements of the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA). According to Business Week, Google announced its plans at [...]
Oct 30, 2009
Chapter 4 is about Ethics in the workforce and Privacy policies. I found an article that talk about Ethics in the workplace from a different perspective. The article focuses on romances between co-workers, boss/employee and the awkward situation after it’s over. Most of us spent more hours at work with our co-workers than with any [...]
Oct 30, 2009
An article that I found very interesting was about a Canadian software company, Brightspark, who came up with the idea to help companies rent the extra space directly to other for short-term use. The idea evolved as Brightspark noticed that many tech companies had tons of extra space available. Randy Busch, vice president of marketing [...]
Oct 30, 2009
As I was browsing through the business magazine BusinessWeek it was exciting to find a very interesting article about a Web 2.0 Dashboard called StrategyEye Digital Media. Everyone is talking about StrategyEye, a London-based startup, because of its unique ability to mix Web search services with in-house analysis to offer organizations with business information related [...]
Oct 30, 2009
Chapter 3 main topic is about the importance of internet to the success of new entering businesses. Many ebusinesses have emerged since the internet became available to the public, including Netflix, eBay, Amazon, Paypal, youtube, and TiVo Inc. However, I will focus on TiVo, the Alviso (CA)-based company creator of the DV recorders. TiVo’s success [...]
Oct 23, 2009
BusinessWeek magazine published a very interesting article about the current U.S. economy and what companies are doing with the low demand for their products. With so many people unemployed and less disposable income people tend to save more and spend less money. However, with more companies producing less output the chances of isolated shortages early [...]
