Business Applications Perspectives and Trends

9 February 2012

Perspectives & Trends in Business Applications

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Video analytics market to grow 21% this year

06 December 2011

The market for technolgy that allows video content to be analysed automatically will reach £230 million this year, according to analyst company AIB

Businesses use social media for marketing, not interaction

23 November 2011

Research from Ernst & Young and McKinsey finds that businesses are primarily using social media to improve marketing campaigns rather than interacting with customers

Waste not, want not

24 October 2011

LeanPath makes throwing food away more like a supermarket checkout, saving restaurants money

"IT will be free"

17 October 2011

Dr Kishore Swaminathan, Accenture’s global chief of research, believes that, in future, applications will be paid for by advertising to employees

Q&A – Thomson Reuters

10 October 2011

Jane Moran, CIO of the professional and business information provider, on standardising applications, building an internal software development function and improving IT delivery

Building societies to "invest heavily" in IT

03 October 2011

New report from the CBI and PricewaterhouseCoopers finds that building societies plan to invest in technology, but IT spending by banks "cannot last"

The shuttle: NASA's IT legacy

18 July 2011

US space agency NASA oversaw its last ever space shuttle launch in July 2011, 30 years after the first shuttle took flight.

Enterprise software market returned to growth in 2010

05 May 2011

Having contracted in 2009, the enterprise software market grew by 8.5% last year thanks to the economic recovery, Gartner finds

SAP users generally satisfied with application performance

20 April 2011

Most SAP users 'satisfied' or 'very satisfied' with ERP application performance, Pierre Audoin Consultants study finds

Apps flying off the shelves

28 February 2011

Mobile app downloads will more than double this year, Gartner predicts

Use Facebook as a shop front

22 February 2011

Sell your products where the people go

Form over function

26 January 2011

Software as a service continues to grow, but is application functionality keeping up with the times?

Open source take-up to soar, says study

13 August 2010

Businesses will ramp up their adoption of open source software this year, a new study reveals

Firms pushing applications to cloud, research claims

14 July 2010

More and more businesses are deploying their applications onto cloud-based platforms, a new survey shows

SaaS uptake poised to explode, says Gartner

17 May 2010

Lower cost of ownership and simpler integration driving SaaS deployments, according to IT market watcher Gartner

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