Recent Articles
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Wall Street in a Selling Mood
A terrible week for channel stocks and broader market indexes ended with a muted rally as value investors swooped in for bargains. The Spain terror attacks, coupled with a weaker-than-expected consumer confidence report from the University of Michigan, undermined Wall Street and cut our Ziff Davis Channel Zone Stock Index by 2.97 percent for the…
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Comply—Or Else!
For the past few years, the big buzz in application and system design has been to “support business processes.” Unfortunately, many organizations have a blind spot in a critical area of business processes: compliance. The focus in new application development has often been on workflow, information flow and user interaction. Not enough attention is being…
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IBM Announces ISV Allies
IBM is slated to announce new developers and customers for its ISV Advantage for Industries and SMB programs. At the PartnerWorld conference in Las Vegas earlier this month, IBM announced that it will invest $1 billion this year in ISV programs, as well as its new ISV Advantage for Industries program. This week the Armonk,…
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Report: Number of Security Flaws Stabilizes, but Ease of Exploit Worsens
While the number of vulnerabilities found in software essentially has stabilized, the flaws are increasingly easy to exploit—and more often than not, quite severe—according to a new report released on Monday. Furthermore, as bad as the vulnerability problem is, the virus plague currently tormenting Internet users may well be worse. In the second half of…
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Dell: Business as Usual with Rollins at Reins
As an employee at Dell Inc., Joyce Becknell saw firsthand the business savvy and attention to detail that Kevin Rollins brought to the computer maker, first as a partner with consulting company Bain & Co. Inc. and later as an executive at Dell. Now, as an analyst with The Sageza Group Inc., of Milan, Italy,…
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Sharing Gains, Risks: A New Type of Outsourcing
With a focus on business transformation outsourcing, Accenture is pioneering a type of outsourcing deal in which it will share gains from customers’ business advantage, along with risks. Martin Cole, whose office is in Hartford, Conn., is managing partner for outsourcing at Accenture, with executive offices in Dallas, which last year had $11.8 billion in…
