Shakeout in the Tools Market
Published: 1st July 1999 | By: Dave Singleton
As has been obvious for some time now, many well-known tools vendors are not making any money in the UK. We measured demand for tools by looking at demand for skills in those tools. In all we sampled more than…
Sap own the UK ERP Market
Published: 1st July 1999 | By: Dave Singleton
It will come as no surprise that SAP are Number 1 in the UK ERP market, but the weakness of the other players is very marked.Using demand for skills in ERP Tools, we can measure what is actually going on…
Aventail
Published: 1st July 1999 | By: Martin Brampton
Aventail is expanding into Europe, whilst extending its product line to allow remote access to applications, through a firewall, without needing client software. Aventail have a good heritage in working with standards to provide remote access to applications. The company…
Landmark
Published: 1st July 1999 | By: Martin Brampton
Landmark is a performance management software vendor specialising in the monitoring and management of application, system and enterprise systems performance. The company emphasises the ability to measure end to end performance as a crucial factor in service management. Landmark is…
Cyberdesk
Published: 1st July 1999 | By: Martin Brampton
Cyberdesk has reinvented itself as the first UK company providing end-to-end eBusiness reengineering. It supports the claim through a joint venture with PSINet, the business oriented Internet Service Provider. Cyberdesk was formerly a consultancy-led services company.
enCommerce
Published: 1st July 1999 | By: Philip Howard
enCommerce is the supplier of getAccess, a single sign on application for Web portals. The company has had recent success with Egg and Nomura in the UK.
Nortel Networks: An Evolving eBusiness
Published: 1st July 1999 | By: Dale Vile
Nortel is aiming to distance itself from its competition through embracing eBusiness and by overhauling the management of its customer relationships. It is attempting to achieve a significant improvement in customer experiences, which it plans to do mainly through greater…
VERITAS
Published: 1st July 1999 | By: Robin Bloor
VERITAS has long been a leading light in the development of embedded file and volume management software, whilst OpenVision was a successful supplier of tools for enterprise systems management. The new company has pooled the skills of both organisations to…
Customer Relationship Management
Published: 1st June 1999 | By: Martin Brampton
Managing customer relationships is being made more difficult through the indirect nature of eBusiness contacts, but is becoming more critical as organisations supplying a commodity market need to differentiate themselves by providing superior service. CRM technology provides a supporting infrastructure…
SER
Published: 1st June 1999 | By: Robin Bloor
SER is a document management company. Since SER was floated on the German stock market in 1996, at 5DM per share, its share price has grown to 700DM. It now has ?64M turnover and SER’s strategy is to double this,…