Net platform, which is its strategy for delivering software as services available over the Internet from any computing device.
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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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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Most services firms now see the value of Software-Based Services as a means to improve margins and deliver more real benefit to their customers.
Software companies such as AutoGrid are selling their software and services in ways that minimize the need for a utility to buy and install new equipment and hire more workers.
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Years ago, IBM de-emphasized hardware and reinvented itself as a software services purveyor.
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For example, Ohio, Texas, New York South Carolina and Washington tax computing services directly, while Utah and the City of Chicago tax the cloud only when deals involve the transfer of control or possession of software as well as computing services, according to national tax-services company WTAS. At least two states, Vermont and Idaho, have recently passed rules to explicitly exempt cloud-based services from state sales tax.
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Viewpoint Media Player is an advertising media player that is often bundled with downloads of popular software such as messaging or other services.
Doan's third inspiration, jotted down by his yellowing hand on yellow pads in 1998, was that small businesses would one day surpass large businesses as consumers of software and services.
By 2017, 45% of mobile cloud services will be software as a service (SaaS)-based solutions.
Network outages in early October that will likely put pressure on services and software margins as both carrier and enterprise customers receive concessions and demand discounts.
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While GE is known for its jet engines and other industrial machines, different technologies such as Internet services and software are an increasingly important sector for the company.
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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.
With stakes in hardware, software and services, IBM will act as an all-purpose barometer for the turbulent tech sector.
There do, however, appear to be a few genuine believers such as Wipro, an Indian software and services giant which is run by two chief executives, Girish Paranjpe and Suresh Vaswani.
In his view, what gadget buyers increasingly care about is not so much the gadgets themselves - it is taken for granted that rival brands are all pretty good - as the quality of the software and services they deliver.
The company is based in Silicon Valley and Shanghai, and its clients include worldwide leaders in game software, hardware, and services, as well as hedge funds, media companies, trade associations, and management consulting firms, all of whom have a vested interest in a thorough understanding of the games industry in Southeast Asian and China.
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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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James, 48, has broad knowledge of the computing industry, spanning hardware, security, software and services, which she developed through leadership positions at Intel and as chairman of Intel's software subsidiaries -- Havok, McAfee and Wind River.
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As Apple becomes more of a software and services company, the investment community will need to alter the way it values Apple shares.
Software and services company Compuware, for instance, offers a package that includes software products as well as programming professionals to diagnose, test and solve problem applications.
One company would sell the Windows operating system, another would sell software applications such as the Office software suite, and the third would sell internet-related software and services.
In the wake of these mistakes - which led to multi-million dollar fines - the company appointed Ms Whitten to help ensure its software engineers took account of privacy as they developed new services and updated older ones.
The hope for Indian services is that, as in the software industry, customers who came for the price will stay for the quality.
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Further more, we will stop providing any future software updates and as of September 2012 we will cease all services in this segment.
IBM, as a global participant, with operating software and consulting services, and is able to, in our judgment, show improving operating margins, a rise in cash flow, and on a total return basis we think it can sustain a very healthy growth rate for the investor.
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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But important drivers of services, such as new installations of enterprise resource planning software, are slowing down sharply.
But important drivers of services, such as new installations of enterprise resource planning software from SAP and others, are slowing down sharply.
As for services, a new generation of easy-connection software like Sun Microsystems Jini might wipe out low- end systems integrators in a blink.
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