HP tailors datacentre tools for Oracle apps
News Both Matrix and UCS are designed to to reduce the overall cost of enterprise computing through increased automation. Automation is likely to become increasingly important as a way for enterprises to cut their computing costs, particularly since it...
[October 13, 2009, 16:39]
Guy Kewney's Weekend Diary
News As recently as 1992, Uniplex was a booming, bouncing company, definitely the market leader in office automation. If you want to know what a Network Computer is going to look like, go visit a Uniplex user; it's Unix based (all flavours) office...
[December 7, 1996, 7:00]
Software compliance & the marathon runner’s ‘wall’
Blog Plugging into all of the aforementioned SCCM vendor’s products and providing “automation and compliance support” for the application lifecycle, I thought I might be on the right track. But should the development team also be using BRM end-to-end...
[April 9, 2009, 9:27]
HP sets out next-generation data-centre agenda
News The company is also buying its way into the virtualisation- and automation-software businesses to compete with IBM's services and software business. Last month, HP announced it will acquire Neoware, a maker of thin-client and virtualisation...
[August 9, 2007, 8:44]
Amazon's virtual private cloud goes public
News Most other cloud-computing providers offered VPN connections before Amazon, but Amazon's offering is different because of the level of automation involved and the scale at which it is being rolled out, according to industry analysts Gartner.
[December 15, 2009, 13:18]
Cassatt aims to slash corporate hardware costs
News Of course, Cassatt is not the only company designing software to bring more automation into data centres in an effort to simplify administration. Large companies, including IBM, Sun and HP also have automation tools, which they market using...
[December 6, 2004, 8:30]
Check List Pro v5.0 + Free Desktop Client
Downloads Check List Pro enables you to.Import Contacts, Tasks and Notes from MS OutlookExport Tasks & Notes to MS OutlookExport Check Lists as MS Word DocumentCheck List Pro5.0 features MS Word Automation with which you can export a Check List as a MS Word...
[April 3, 2004, 8:00]
Application compatibility and open source rendering issues
Blog But there is an increasing amount of automation out there isn’t there? So, is “automation” always a good thing? But, in some senses, what they both appear to suffer from are compatibility issues arising from these significant upgrades.
[March 26, 2009, 7:00]
TimeTTracker MX2, Special Edition for QuickBooks Users Desktop/Mobile
Downloads Get filtering and automation according to QuickBooks accounting rules. Both sections are completely independent and include specialized context-sensitive interface, automation features and reporting capabilities.
[July 22, 2004, 8:00]
Business skills: The key to tech success in 2005
News Due to the increased use of automation in the network, network administration jobs are going to evolve in two ways. The shift to automation makes way for net admins who are just starting their careers.
[May 18, 2005, 13:10]
SAP's hosted conundrum
News The reality is that we have not met that many happy SAP (sales-force automation) or CRM users. SAP has itself fuelled speculation over its plans by demonstrating what it called a "slim" online sales-force automation application at a customer...
[July 5, 2005, 11:15]
Salesforce.com Spring '04 review
Reviews Integrated sales force automation This module includes lead management and helps define a sales process for your entire organisation to follow. Marketing automation This is a strong module that helps manage marketing campaigns and analyse success.
[May 21, 2004, 10:35]
CRM: The choice just got harder
News Vendor Whitepaper: Find the best CRM and Sales Force Automation vendors Let us help you find the best vendor to improve your bottom line through CRM or sales force automation With two extremely successful IPOs in the last six months from Salesforce...
[November 15, 2004, 14:20]
Siebel: CRM industry headed for further troubles
News In sales automation -- of the top five vendors, we have 80 percent share globally. We are the world's leading provider of marketing automation systems with 60 percent share. We have about 60 percent of the marketing automation marketing.
[April 11, 2002, 11:53]
Salesforce attacks SAP over delayed SaaS rollout
News We're not going to bring to market a very single application like salesforce automation. Therefore, some of the technologies that you need to deploy to do that are, by definition, different than what you will need to support only talent management...
[May 21, 2008, 9:46]
Finding the Parallels path
News We see the future as virtualisation and automation. Now automation is a very sensitive subject. It is that enhancing part that will lead to automation. But while Beloussov likes the Mac market, he has plans to expand into other areas.
[December 13, 2007, 14:11]
The Big Blue balancing act
News So there is more opportunity for automation, and the. Or instead of lowering the cost of the people, take the people out — use automation. Research is really good in helping actually with both of those but really good at helping with automation.
[March 6, 2006, 13:30]
Dell delving deeper into wireless territory
News At the same time, PC services are becoming an unspecialised, mass-market offering, often involving automation, which gives Dell an opportunity to undercut others with price. With new automation tools, large fleets of technicians will become a...
[May 1, 2003, 8:59]
Firms time their switch to XP
News Minnick, who has spent a great deal of time as a member of Microsoft's Joint Development Program for Windows XP, is committed to the new operating system, although Siemens Energy & Automation is staying on target to move its clients and servers to...
[May 25, 2001, 9:18]
Microsoft shifts security strategy
News We hear customers telling us there is a problem," he said, adding that several companies offer patch management automation as a solution. Those vulnerabilities are making selling patch management systems to large companies an easy prospect, said...
[October 2, 2003, 9:00]



