March 3, 2009
SharePoint Solutions: Smart Investments in a Recession
Network World
Susan Hanley writes about some of the benefits of using Microsoft’s SharePoint solutions.
“Solutions that automate business processes, especially those processes that are designed to replace lost workers, can help organizations deliver value with fewer resources. If an organization already owns SharePoint (and we all know that many do), building an automation solution on the SharePoint platform may be easier to justify than an expensive investment in business process automation software.”
IDC chops 2009 IT spending forecasts (again)
Channel Register
Timothy Prickett Morgan provides some IDC forecasts about global IT spending for this year.
“ IDC’s Black Book report now says that global IT spending will only increase by 0.5 per cent, to $1.44 trillion. This echoes comments made earlier this week over at Gartner, which claims global IT spending will rise by the same 0.5 per cent in 2009, but to $2.68 trillion. Back in August, as the U.S. economy was still on the verge of collapse, IDC was projecting a 5.6 per cent increase in IT spending on a global basis, and in mid-November, it trimmed that back to 2.6 per cent growth across all geographies and product types.”
Sony reorganizes as president steps down
ZD Net
David Meyer writes that Ryoji Chubachi will be stepping down from his post as president of Sony to become vice-chairman beginning April 1. Along with this announcement, a new networked products and services group will also bundle Sony’s Vaio PC business with its entertainment, mobile products and media software and services businesses.
“Michael Philpott, a principal analyst at Ovum, told ZDNet UK on Friday that the reorganization was ‘a good move because hopefully it will start to unite some of (Sony’s) big divisions. Any integration within that company is a good move (because) hardly any of the devices that (Sony has), even if they’re supposed to work together, work together very well at all.’”