Desire for Windows 8 tablet shrinking: Forrester
Interest in tablets with Microsoft's Windows 8 is plummeting, Forrester Research said in a study released on Tuesday.
View ArticleForrester: Enterprise social software to become a $6.4 billion market in 2016
Enterprise social collaboration software, which offer Facebook and Twitter-like capabilities adapted for workplaces, will grow strongly in the coming years, eclipsing demand for more traditional...
View ArticleForrester: As SaaS matures, buyers face new considerations
As SaaS (software as a service) gains in maturity and popularity, enterprise IT buyers will have to grapple with a new set of questions and considerations when purchasing it, according to a new...
View ArticleForrester predicts slower IT spending growth for Asia-Pacific
IT spending growth in the Asia-Pacific region is expected to slow as countries including China and India grapple with emerging economic issues as a result of the world economic crisis, according to...
View ArticleTech workers want Surface and iPhone, Forrester reports
Microsoft's Surface Windows 8 Pro tablet is at the top of the wish list for information workers, as is Apple's iPhone, according to a report on mobile trends released by Forrester Research last week.
View ArticleOracle faces 'dilemma' with its Fusion Applications
Oracle spent years developing its next-generation Fusion Applications and finally put them into general availability nearly a year-and-a-half ago, but some new evidence suggests that it's been less...
View ArticleOracle blasts Forrester report on Fusion Applications adoption
Oracle is firing back hard at a recently released Forrester Research report that suggested most customers aren't interested in moving up to the vendor's next-generation Fusion Applications, which were...
View Article89% of Chinese information workers use smartphones at work
Eighty-nine percent of Chinese information workers use smartphones at work, according to Forrester's second annual Forrsights Workforce Employee Survey.
View ArticleForrester: 70 per cent of private Clouds aren't really Clouds at all
If an enterprise datacentre has a highly virtualised environment, a Web portal for business users to request and access virtual machines and a method for tracking how many of those resources are being...
View ArticleWall Street Beat: Uncertainty dampens tech M&A, PwC says
Economic uncertainty tamped down the number and value of technology mergers and acquisitions in 2012 and this year may not look much different, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC).
View ArticleSharePoint 2013 challenges and questions for CIOs
SharePoint 2013 arrives with a new user interface and new collaboration, search, storage and task management features. But gaps remain in areas like social and mobile, and upgrading and governing...
View ArticleIDC says tech spending will grow by 6 per cent this year, the same rate as 2012
IDC is predicting a growth rate of 6 per cent in IT spending in the US this year, an amount that's virtually unchanged from last year.
View ArticleOffice for iPad in 2014? Big mistake
A purported Microsoft roadmap for future releases of its Office suite showed a fall 2014 launch date for Office on Apple's iOS and Google's Android mobile operating systems, according to an online report.
View Article5 reasons to build an enterprise mobile app store
IT departments can keep employees from using malware-infested mobile apps by creating an internal store of company-approved apps. The store can also collect feedback from users about their preferences.
View ArticleWindows 8 won't hit critical mass in enterprises, Forrester says
Windows 8, the most significant upgrade to Microsoft's operating system since Windows 95 and one of the most important products in the company's history, will not achieve enough adoption in enterprises...
View ArticleMicrosoft sticks it to the iPad with Windows-first Office strategy
Microsoft's surprise launch of Office Mobile for the iPhone shows that the software giant continues to favour Windows' future over Office's fortune, analysts said.
View ArticlePapers please! Microsoft creates second-class citizens with Office iPhone app
Microsoft erred when it decided that the new Office Mobile for iPhone would be available to Office 365 customers but not to those who purchased a traditional "perpetual" license to Office 2013, an...
View ArticleMicrosoft teases 'Office Lite' for Windows' touch UI
Microsoft today briefly previewed an Office application designed for the Windows "Modern," ne "Metro," user interface, and said it would launch the touch-enabled suite next year.
View ArticleForrester: Survey data dispels 'myths' about software industry trends in 2013
Enterprise resource planning (ERP) applications may run the core operations of companies around the world, but enterprises are placing a higher priority in 2013 on other types of software, in...
View ArticleVM-based storage platform scales out to multiple sites
Enterprises that want their storage organized around virtual machines will get more hardware options and greater scalability later this year from Tintri, a startup that specializes in VM-based storage.
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