Saturday, February 28, 2009

Go For HP

If you have to close your eyes and decide for a brand for Desktop,Notebook,Laser printers,MFD or Enterprise Storage, close your eyes and go for HP. Why? Yes because HP is the leader in these categories according to Data Quest CSA 2008-09 survey.

The categories of Desktop and notepad has close competition for top slot. The Notebook category is close fight between Dell,HP-Compaq,Lenovo,Acer,Sony,Toshiba. So all in all the result of the survey indicates that the consumer has plenty of choice there to choose quality products from and that a number of vendors are competitive with regard to the Customer Satisfaction needs.

Networking products is lead by Cisco, Enterprise Applications by Oracle, Notebooks by Dell, IT Services by HCL Insys.

Software Adoption Life Cycle : Business Intelligence and Analytics

various offices use basic software's like Office Word, Spread Sheet, presentation and E-Mail solutions for communications.

many organization's may use proprietary software's because they are cheap and customized for use in organization. This may create a situation where org's may end up with multiple packages from different tech co's . This is all good while the whole thing is new.

With time challenges like scaling of technology and integration of data is arises. Also top management needs integrated trend reports which can not be easily compiled from these disparate silos.

Hence arises the need for ERP packages. These are costly but can handle large amount of data efficiently and reports can be easily generated. But some amount of BPR may be required for implementing these. Also cost of failure is high, hence lot of factors like Change management needs to be taken into account.

Next comes related technologies like SCM, CRM et al. These arte required to manage customers and suppliers respectively. Smooth oprational efficiencies and cost savings result, but then all these work as Silio's with the ERP system.

Thus the need for Business Intelligence and Analytics to pull information from all these sources and compile them in useful form for the management to draw insights.

Thursday, February 26, 2009

Smart Phone Market

While Dell is entering Motorola is leaving the Enterprise Smart Phone Market. Why so much interest in the smart phone market? The reason is simple, Smart Phone is up there in the Value Chain and represents high growth potential as more and more users are likely to switch to Smart Phones in a evolutionary manner.

So dell is to compete with well entrenched players like Palm,Apple, Nokia and HTC in the space. Motorola is going to concentrate on the Media market for now which was its original Forte. Dell is going to use Android OS in its planned high secret mission on developing a smart phone.

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