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There will always be market niches pure-play enterprise software vendors can fill as such industry players offer innovation to meet specific customer needs. Additionally, existing software vendors are unlikely to venture into hardware business as it is difficult to integrate both business segments, according to an industry analyst.

Matt Healey, program director for software and services at IDC Asia-Pacific, told ZDNet Asia in a phone interview that the overall software market was maturing and reaching a state of equilibrium in which new players were beginning to replace those that had been bought over by bigger IT vendors.

That said, the analyst stressed that there will always be pure-play software vendors in the market at any given time, as these companies represent innovation and help meet specific enterprise needs through their products and services.

Asked if there was a need for existing software vendors such as SAP or SAS to branch out into the hardware business, Healey said: There is no need right now. And this will remain the case for at least the next 5 to 10 years, he added.

He noted that the skillsets, approach and mindsets needed to run a hardware business is different from software.

Citing Oracle Systems as an example, he said the erstwhile software giant, which bought hardware vendor Sun Microsystems in 2009, is facing challenges in bringing its concept of hardware support and maintenance to its customer base. I think Oracle is finding it more challenging than expected, the IDC analyst said.

Healey added that success is defined by the companys revenue and profit. In Oracles case, the jury is still out on the companys decision to branch out into hardware as it is too soon to tell with the limited information available, he noted.

He did point out that software companies need to have tighter integration with their hardware and channel partners in order to stay competitive and build up their businesses.

Beau Skonieczny, research analyst of computing practice at Technology Business Research (TBR), highlighted the same point in an earlier ZDNet Asia report. He said owning the entire software, services and hardware stack is an important piece of the enterprise IT puzzle for vendors. Using Apple as an example, Skonieczny said its lead in the consumer space was supported by its closely-knit products, software and services, which each had clearly defined focus areas and the ability to execute well on that focus in a streamlined manner.

Business model still profitable

When contacted, software vendor SAP reiterated that there currently is no need to branch out into hardware.

Steve Watts, president of SAP Asia-Pacific and Japan, said in his e-mail that its business model hasnt changed one bit and it is still focusing on what it does best–driving organic growth through continued co-innovation with our partners and customers.

He recognized that there is continued consolidation across multiple industries but for SAP, its focus is on making sure companies have the means to integrate heterogeneous data into one operating environment while ensuring that all data will be available in a concise and timely manner to all users.

Watts said: We live in exciting times. While others are consolidating the past, SAP is accelerating innovation for the future to help our customers run better.

[To SAP], innovation is more than developing software; it is generating breakthrough technologies and best practices that shape emerging IT trends.

This business model has allowed the German vendor to reap success. In Asia-Pacific and Japan, for example, the company is growing very strongly in the areas of in-memory computing and its HANA appliance, as well as mobility and cloud computing, Watts said.

Most conclusively, were seeing rapidly expanding sales pipelines for our mobility and in-memory solutions, with almost 10 percent of our software revenue in the third-quarter of 2011 coming from our new innovations such as HANA, he stated.

is probably not what you think it is. And its not something within the control of developers (though IT managers sure as heck do).

In order to tantalize/frustrate you a little longer, lets first take detour along memory lane to 2003, and the Rise of the MachinesWeb 2.0.

As they became inundated with Web traffic, Web 2.0 startups looked for cheaper, less brute-force solutions than their dot-com predecessors would, such as buying Sun servers or renting T3 lines.

Enter load balancing, which describes the strategy of spreading out your Web or internal network traffic for better performance. This could be done in one of two ways: plopping in a switch-type product into your existing network, or re-architecting your network from several powerful central servers into a large, distributed server farm made up of hundreds or even thousands of PCs.

Load balancing is no longer a hot topic, as the solution has pretty much trickled down from the Web to mainstream enterprises.

But mobility re-creates the need for enterprises to re-balance their workloads.

Why? When PCs were the primary device and 3G still just a dream, real-time access to data was neither important nor expected. Reports were e-mailed to you at regularly scheduled intervals – nobody went into Crystal Reports and pulled data themselves. Any ad hoc reports would be sent as a request to your friendly business analyst, who would then come back with something for you after several days or a week.

Today, we have powerful smartphones and tablets, 3G and 4G networks and easy-to-use mobile apps that connect directly back to the server. Everything on the front-end is enabled for real-time.

How about the back end? Not so much. Delays still abound. Suddenly, your application and data layers look out of balance again. Theres your Achilles Heel.

Of course, switching server applications or middleware to decrease latency can frankly be expensive. But the ROI can be well worth it.

Ive often talked up the sheer scale of the mobile device deployments at my parent company, SAP: 11,000 iPads, 5,000 iPhones, experiments with the Samsung Galaxy Tab and Amazon Kindle Fire, etc.

Whats equally impressive, however, are what its done on the back-end.

SAPs salespeople used to rely on Excel to track sales, one of many factors why we had to wait 2, 3, 4 months to understand what was selling, what was not selling, said Global Sales President, Rob Enslin in a recent video.

Now, his salespeople as well as SAP executives can get such information instantly on their iPads. This is enabled by the use of SAPs HANA in-memory data appliance in conjunction with SAP BusinessObjects. Together, they accelerate the processing of 3 TB of CRM data so that it can crunched and manipulated by end users.

SAP heads know what I mean by the acronym COPA. It stands for the Profitability Analysis module of its long-standing ERP software.

HANA is also being used to speed up COPA internally at SAP. During a Tweetchat last week, CIO Oliver Bussmann revealed that HANA sped up processing time so much that a key KPI fell from 28 hours to 4 hours – a seven-fold improvement.

As Bussmann tweeted during his chat: The combination of real-time data combined with the mobile access is the new killer app.

In other words: if you want to get the most out of your mobile devices and apps, then you need to bolster, if not overhaul, your back-end systems. By doing so, though, youll regain your prior balance, but at a higher plane.

Time for a quick commercial: Sybase, an SAP Company, has just released a new book, Mobility Manifesto: Transforming the Enterprise, for which I was the editor.

You can download it at www.MobilityManifesto.com. Expect a mix of snarky observations about the plight of mobility-starved workers, possibly like yourselves.

Mixed in also is helpful business strategy and actionable IT tactics. All with a minimum of shilling for Sybase and SAP products.

You could even send a copy of the book or e-book to your boss or CIO. It’s easier than Occupying his or her office, and may turn out to be just as effective.

By: Nicholas Kolakowski
2011-11-17

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Apples iPhone and Google Android top a recent survey of enterprise workers smartphones, outpacing RIMs BlackBerry and Windows Phone.

MIAMI, FL, Nov 17, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) –
CISCO COLLABORATION SUMMIT 2011 — Persistent Systems (bombay:PERSISTENT) (nse:PERSISTENT), the leader in outsourced software
product development services, today released its ‘Developing the
Enterprise Collaboration Strategy’ whitepaper at the Cisco
Collaboration Summit 2011, November 14-17, 2011. Persistent Systems
is a silver sponsor of the summit where it is showcasing its Cisco
Quad expertise.

At the Summit, Persistent Systems unveiled a roadmap for developing a
robust enterprise collaboration strategy in its first of a series of
three whitepapers on collaboration. The paper maintains that
collaboration is not only about communication but connecting the
resources to improve business across the enterprise. Currently,
social collaboration is not considered a business imperative, but the
social revolution is gaining pace. To get ahead of the curve,
organizations need to develop a business-driven enterprise
collaboration strategy and approach, which can then drive
collaboration architecture and technology choices.

The whitepaper explores the three main steps that are necessary to
develop a collaboration strategy: 1) defining where the organization
is today, 2) identifying and defining a collaboration approach and 3)
selecting the right technology to support the organization’s specific
collaboration needs.

“Today, collaboration is more than just a technology, it’s about
people and user adoption is the key to its success,” said Sanjeev
Sisodiya, VP – Enterprise Collaboration Practice, Persistent Systems.
“In our whitepaper, we offer enterprises a perspective on how to
maximize their chance for success by putting in the time and effort
to develop a collaboration strategy that ensures collaboration tools
are enablers of more efficient, more productive work, making the
lives of the organization’s employees, customers, and partners,
easier and better.”

The Cisco Collaboration Summit gives top solution providers from
around the world opportunities to differentiate their businesses and
give their customers a competitive advantage with Cisco Collaboration
solutions. Persistent is showcasing its Cisco Quad expertise at the
event. Persistent has invested in a Center of Excellence (CoE) which
is developing value-add professional services and software extensions
around the Cisco Quad platform. Cisco Quad is an enterprise
collaboration software platform that helps organizations deliver
social, mobile, and virtual workspace to their employees. Persistent
brings the strengths and capabilities of more than 600 people in its
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To download the ‘Developing the Enterprise Collaboration Strategy’
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development services. With 6,600 employees, innovative business
models, and reusable assets and frameworks, Persistent helps
customers increase revenues and margins, and enhance brand value.
Persistent Systems has delivered over 3,000 software product releases
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November 23, 2011 NASAs space shuttle Enterprise will land next summer on the flight deck of the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum in New York City. The World War II aircraft-carrier-turned-museum took over ownership of the prototype winged orbiter on Tuesday (Nov. 22) in preparation for Enterprises delivery in 2012.

NASAs Lynn Cline, the deputy associate administrator for human exploration and operations, turned over the title for Enterprise to Intrepid president Susan Marenoff-Zausner. The contract signing was publicly announced only after it was done, unlike the high-profile title-signing ceremony that was held last month to transfer shuttle Endeavour to the California Science Center in Los Angeles.

NASA is proud to transfer the title of space shuttle Enterprise to the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum in New York City, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said in a written statement released by the museum. The USS Intrepid had a rich history with NASAs mission, and Enterprise the pathfinder for the space shuttle program belongs in this historic setting.

Enterprise, along with the rest of our shuttle fleet, is a national treasure, Bolden said, and it will help inspire the next generation of explorers as we begin our next chapter of space exploration.

Enterprise, which didnt fly in space but instead performed atmospheric approach and landing tests in the late 1970s, is one of four retired shuttle orbiters NASA is providing to museums for public display. In addition to Endeavour, the space agency gave Atlantis to the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida and donated Discovery to the Smithsonian Institution.

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Nearly 80 per cent of people in Cannock are putting their health at risk by not relaxing enough according to new research.

According to an online survey, local residents believe relaxation is very or extremely important to them, although a whopping 80 per cent admitted they don’t get enough of it.

Sue Tupling, yoga teacher and psychotherapist (in training) who conducted the survey, said: “The 140 people surveyed are personally interested in techniques such as yoga, yet even this group felt they don’t get enough relaxation. The interesting thing is nearly 40% of them admitted they get much too little of it!”

Sue went on to say that the ability to relax is important to release mental, emotional and physical tension.

All tension starts with emotional tension but if people learn how to relax properly they can actually alter their genetic activity in ways that can significantly improve their health or heal a number of medical conditions.

Sue continued: “Studies have shown that 95 per cent of people suffering from health problems including, anxiety, arthritis, back pain, heart disease, high blood pressure, insomnia and pre-menstrual syndrome have reported a significant improvement in their condition by practicing yoga.

In response to the survey findings, Sue is starting a new class, Yoga for Health, to help people in Cannock relax and improve their health.

Starting on January 9, 2012, the drop-in yoga class is inspired by Satyananda yoga, a whole mind-body system combining deep mindfulness practices with meditation and psycho-education.

“By learning simple and effective techniques from my class, people will learn relaxation skills they can use for the rest of their lives; it’s the best health insurance you could ever take out,” Sue concluded.

The classes are being run in Cannock at Hayes Green Community Centre and will run on Mondays from 8:15pm to 9:15pm. The cost is £4 per drop in session or £36 for the 10 week course paid in advance. Concession discounts are also available.

To find out more about ‘Yoga for Health’ call Sue Tupling on 07411 178380 or 01785 227183. Alternatively, you can visit http://www.myyoga.org.uk/yogaforhealth.html

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A request for a temporary restraining order that could halt development of the The Shoppes at Eagles Landing is going nowhere fast.
On Tuesday, the judge assigned to hear the case filed by Relaxation, Inc., against RIS, Inc., over a driveway easement took the issue under advisement. A decision will be issued in 30 days if the two sides do not come to an agreement.
Relaxation, Inc. is owned by Mike and Linda Craig of Osage Beach. RIS, Inc., is owned by Gary Prewitt, the developer of Eagles Landing in Lake Ozark. The development is the soon-to-be home of CVS Pharmacy, Menards and Kohls.
The judges decision gives at least a short-term reprieve for Prewitt.
Judge Don Barnes issued the decision after discussions with attorneys representing both sides. The 30-day reprieve will allow the parties to attempt to resolve the dispute without an order from the court.
Barnes, from the 18th Circuit Court, was appointed to hear the case after Prewitts attorney filed a request with the court for a new judge.
Last month, Judge Stan Moore ordered Prewitt to move a driveway within the next 10 days or he could find himself up against a temporary restraining order.
Prewitt alleged a TRO had the potential to bring the multi-million development to a halt.
Moores order was issued in response to the lawsuit filed by the over an adjoining adjoining parcel of land that they have shared use with Prewitt.
The dispute stems from realignment of an entrance on a small portion of a parking-lot easement.
Prewitt said the road in question was built on land he owns but the Craigs have a shared easement. The property adjoins a flea market owned by the Craigs. When Prewitt bought property that extends to the edge of the flea market building, he was unaware of the easement issue.
The access road is linked to agreements with Eagles Landing retailers. The road cuts off a small corner of the easement property and does not interfere with the large parking lot adjacent to the Craigs building. The road was placed in accordance with current Missouri Department of Transportation safety regulations and design requirements. An entryway included in the easement did not conform with current MoDOT requirements, according to Prewitt.
In the meantime, the stalemate between the Prewitt and the Craigs could end up in court on a separate but related issue regarding the easement if the parties fail to reach a negotiated agreement. If an agreement cant be reached, the property will be subject to condemnation action by the city of Lake Ozark.
The Lake Ozark Board of Aldermen approved an ordinance authorizing an acquisition agreement with Prewitt. That agreement would allow for the use of eminent domain to resolve the easement dispute between the two parties.
The board is encouraging a negotiated settlement between the property owners to avoid a court fight.
Prewitt has already completed the work on the entrance that triggered the lawsuit and threat of condemnation.