For CIOs, the answer is simple not easy, but simple: they need to begin rapidly withdrawing themselves and their business-technology teams from the integration business and begin devoting more and more of their time to growth-oriented and customer-centric innovation.
Strong ClearPath sales, continued growth in our non-U.S. Federal IT outsourcing business, and higher sales of industry solutions within our system integration business more than offset a decline in our U.S. Federal business where market conditions remain challenging.
At the same time, minimal overlap between their client portfolios and business lines ease integration risks.
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Besides providing the hardware, Cisco is also in the systems integration business and provides network support.
Improved business results through integration of risk and core insurance processes and the alignment of processes and systems.
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Christopher Baum is an information systems expert specializing in the optimization of business processes through the integration of automation.
Oracle has its Fusion strategy that places business process management and integration technology in the center of its collection of applications.
Riggs said it would benefit from tighter integration with business collaboration tasks, such as the ability for conference call participants to share their desktops and brainstorm ideas on a virtual whiteboard.
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Boeing, by contrast, has seized every opportunity for integration while focusing business units on precise markets.
With these new platforms, application integration with SAP Business Suite must change character.
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In my current responsibilities I am responsible in leading a team of 7000 consultants spanning across Management Consulting Services, Package applications consulting in sap, oracle, best of breed packages and Systems Integration to enable business transformation for clients in the Manufacturing Industry group.
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Another variation is when consulting, especially systems integration activities, require business alliances with firms.
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They are going through the global integration of their own business.
"Enterprise system integration is a complicated business dominated by massive software companies such as Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, and IBM, which in turn are supported by thousands of boutique consultancies, " said Craig Materick, chief software architect at ThinkFlood.
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Moreover, the 2010 study "Staying Connected on the Go: A Look at In-Vehicle Smartphone Integration Systems" conducted by the Consumer Electronics Association reports that 55 percent of smartphone owners prefer voice commands as their user interface for in-car smartphone integration, making the business case for SYNC and AppLink even more compelling.
The Bitcoin Foundation mission leads to the early specific goals of financially sponsoring the efforts of the core development team, funding core infrastructure such as a test network and a DNS seed node, publishing a set of best practices for bitcoin integration, coordinating responses to business and media inquiries, and organizing an annual bitcoin conference with the first one being held in Silicon Valley.
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In addition to the global economic downturn, the botched integration of IBM's PC business has been weighing on Lenovo's results.
It also said that it had seen "significant year-on-year improvements" in the UK and Continental Europe tour business mainly achieved through cost savings from the integration of MyTravel.
Successful marketers keep this in mind and maintain a broad perspective, one that emphasizes the integration of marketing and other essential business processes, rather than a single-minded reliance on any one factor .
But the fact is that the integration of social media activities with our business systems is inevitable.
Their job is to show that this interconnected collection of applications is going to become the center of integration, a collaborative dial tone for business applications.
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It also has an integration layer with IBM Cognos provided by IBM Business Partner Assimil8.
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Data integration accuracy and fidelity can galvanize a small business faster than any other single IT investment.
Some Apps look business-ready, but lack robust enterprise compatibility, or integration API on the back end.
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Even as the integration process is proceeding well, we expect temporary business impact from this large-scale merger but we are optimistic that the second half of 2013 will see more revenue growth momentum and cost synergies.
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This new feature allows designers to maintain precise control over their designs, provides more efficient support for publishing, and is the beginning of a longer-term effort to bring more extensive content management capabilities to Adobe Muse users through tighter integration with Adobe's hosting solution, Adobe Business Catalyst.
Pabrai knows the technology and IT business intimately, as he founded his own IT consulting and systems integration firm in 1991 (TransTech, Inc.).
This tectonic shift stems from fundamental changes in economics, talent, and integration of IT into mainstream life, and has significant implications for business managers and investors alike.
The company still has a huge opportunity here, but may have to wait for its business partners to build out the search features, advertising tools, and data integration tools employers and candidates need.
Money, even more than the scope for tighter integration, also explains why Oracle is unlikely to ditch Sun's hardware business soon, if at all.
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