Monika Khushf, an engineering director at Intuit, a California company that provides business software and services, discovered that Silicon Valley may very well be the valley of the boys.
There has been increasing buzz on the Street lately about the possibility that HP might spin off its PC business to focus on its enterprise software and services business, in the same way that IBM once sold off its own PC and notebooks units.
Among other things, the company has moved more aggressively into offering combinations of business software and technology services that help companies and governments solve knotty problems, such as catching welfare fraud.
Not surprisingly, he is a big believer in India's coming dominance of the software services business.
The company operates in five segments: Global Technology Services, Global Business Services, Software, Systems and Technology, and Global Financing.
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"It needs to get into Google's core business in a serious way so Google can't get into Microsoft's core business"--software services.
Starting Jan. 1 Nokia will reshuffle the entire company to create a new business group around Internet services and software, separate from the main phone business.
Today, any company thinking of producing a new kind of digital device must seriously consider the risk that such a product's functionality can be matched by smartphone-resident apps and a potential accessory (a lesson more recently learned by mobile e-mail appliance maker Peek, which has refocused its business on software and cloud services for other handsets).
Michael Dell, 47, is betting that his company will be able to evolve into a more diversified seller of technology services, business software and high-end computers without having to pander to the stock market's fixation on whether earnings are growing from one quarter to the next.
In 2003, Electronic Data Systems (EDS) acquired its software business and Storage Technology acquired its services business.
Half of the companies were business software, half the companies were consumer services.
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It is spending billions to build a network of data centres, a huge infrastructure to cope with the expected demand for all its software-plus-services business.
We had revised our earlier HP model based on its restructuring plans here and this valuation was contingent on the software, services and printer business performance.
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HP's business spans printing, personal computing, software, services and IT infrastructure.
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The text messaging data comes from Sybase 365, a California-based provider of mobile messaging and commerce services that was acquired by business software giant SAP last year.
For SAP Business By Design, the Software-as-a-Service offering, using cloud based services is natural, because Business By Design is delivered in the cloud.
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In the past three years Intuit has made a priority of replacing the no-growth packaged-software business with faster-growing online versions of its big hits and with subscription services such as online and mobile banking software.
Since then, other business-software makers have been rushing to offer similar services.
Analysts put the switch in the number two slot down to a decision IBM made in 2005 to sell off its PC business to Chinese manufacturer Lenovo to concentrate on software and services.
Kodak's Document Imaging business provides a comprehensive portfolio of scanners, capture software and services to enterprise customers.
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This becomes even more important as storage software and services are comparatively more valuable as a business than storage hardware as demonstrated in our EMC model above.
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She says that as a small business with only five employees, paying a monthly subscription for software services that are properly upgraded is much more cost-effective than paying for and maintaining a new system.
The Document Imaging business provides a leading and comprehensive portfolio of scanners, capture software and services to enterprise customers.
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Unlike the software business, India's other world-class industry, remote services do not employ only the highly educated.
The role it sees is being the critical hardware provider, adding value to what is likely to be a commodity business by getting into software that bridges the old and new worlds, and services around a few key industries, most likely healthcare and retail.
NetApp is involved in designing solutions for storing, managing and protecting business data through enterprise storage and data management software as well as hardware products and services.
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Note that our definition of the global tech market in this report includes business and government purchases of computer equipment, communications equipment, software, IT consulting services, and IT outsourcing and hardware maintenance services, but does not include purchases of telecommunications services.
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The company's operating margins have been increasing thanks to its widening proportion of software and services, he points out, along with a growing mainframe business and decreased spending on employee pensions.
Our technology industry component covers 11 six-digit NAICS sectors covering information industries such as software publishing, Internet publishing, data processing, and tech-related business services such as computer systems design, custom programming, engineering services, and research and development.
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Grady figured he would have a decent business if he could unify these services with some clever use of XML, the Internet software language that standardizes the exchange of information among different computer systems.
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