It didn't make a lot of sense for us to be doing Lotus Notes implementations.
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HP takes a federated approach with most of the emphasis on the reconciliation engine. Federation allows customers to leverage their existing product implementations and helps IT organizations build towards a complete picture in a stepwise manner, which is a good thing since no right-thinking CIO will launch a multi-year, mega-integration project where benefits are only derived at the end.
These problems were identified back in the 1980s and 1990s, when customer information files (CIF) and ERP were being put into place, but they didn't solve the problem they were implemented to solve. At the high end of the spectrum, with SAP and similar solutions, a company like Unilever or Phillips might have dozens of separate SAP implementations within its organizational structure.
Our customer-centric approach does not stop with our development process. To call yourself a partner and not just a vendor, you need more than just great products. Our commitment to a high-touch, client-service model is truly unique. We do not simply install software and hand off a business card with a 1-800 support number. Instead, we focus on providing our clients with highly trained teams of frontline consultants backed up by a host of experts in everything from electronic trading to data transfer services. It is our unique installation, service, and support model that helped us to successfully complete over 70 product implementations in 2005.
The hosted model has reinvigorated a market that has failed to grow over the past several years, ... The hosted category has changed the whole perception of customer management with faster implementations, quicker time to value and easy customization.
Some customers have the expectation that you flip a switch and you're done. But there are setup costs and training costs and ramp-up costs. There's getting the system customized to match the business context and then getting people to use the system. CRM implementations are still complex, even if they're delivered in an on-demand fashion.
The vendors are selling fewer full suite deals, multimillion dollar soup-to-nuts implementations, and we see that reflected in how they are trying to build services-oriented architectures, so they can deploy modules rather than big-bang implementations, ... This allows customers to piece together the business functions they need -- even modules from different vendors -- to meet the specific demands of automatic processing rather than having to buy an entire suite at the outset.
There are a lot of different implementations out there at the moment. A common extension for XML will benefit enterprises because they'll be able to count on this API to be stable and secure, and they needn't be concerned about incompatibilities with each vendor using a proprietary parser.
The choice occurs at the applications that you use-- it's really critical. You don't really want lots of standards underneath. The goal is to have one really good one and then we want a choice of different implementations that...work on different platforms.
These devices are quite costly, and they are complex, so they tend to be prone to failure. So far, nobody has figured how to make them at a low enough cost so that the average person can afford one. They are showing up in mil-spec implementations and particularly in larger types of uses. It's in the small-system area that they seem to be having the most problems.
Oracle applications are ideally suited for rapid implementations because our e-business suite is complete and integrated -- no application customizations are required,
In China, we stress a portfolio focused on domestic stocks and certain market leading consumer stocks in industries where there has been consolidation. Banks are also interesting, with good credit growth, the probability for increased fee income and implementations of cost cutting measures. Valuations may not be cheap but still appear attractive.
While Microsoft has gobbled up tons of market share in the volume-server market over the past few years, it has been dogged by the widely held notion that Windows can't support very large, enterprise-level implementations. The oldest issue we've dealt with is scalability, ... Today we should be able to completely convince you that there is no job that is too big to run completely on the Microsoft platform.
We looked at using existing messages because that would be a cheaper solution and easier to implement. But because we were looking to define this common standard not just for current weapons capabilities, but also for projected weapon capabilities and for future sensors, that drove us to new message implementations.