Maybe this is why Intuit, and other on-premise financial management software vendors appear in no rush to go to the cloud.

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My company sells customer relationship management, accounting, and other business software.

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Putting the bulk of computing and storage in the data center has other perks for IT management: It creates a centralized location for software upgrades across an entire organization and puts a layer of network security between users and sensitive data--a lost thin client laptop, for instance, doesn't contain private information, and so doesn't pose a threat of causing a data breach.

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Alas, the competition can work this magic, too, and can, moreover, sell the portal-management software in a huge package that includes lots of other applications (for managing customers, employees, inventory and so on).

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And other software vendors created applications for accounting, order entry, inventory management, communications and customer relationship management.

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Other promising areas, he said, include wireless and corporate mobility, systems management software, and more managed services.

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Bhatia says that TigerText is a targeted solution that can accommodate the devices that doctors and other workers want to use, and is also far less expensive than large-scale Hospital Information Management System software or integrated tablet-software solutions from vendors like Cisco or Alcatel.

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The suit claims Ellison and other executives made false statements about the company's financial condition as well as its Oracle 11i suite of business management software.

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