International Business Machines Corp (IBM)

International Business Machines Corp (IBM) - Between the Lines

IBM launches Power7 systems; Wages YouTube, Facebook war on Oracle's Sun IBM on Monday rolled out its latest Power7 systems, which are designed to power everything from smart grids to analytics, but the real story may be Big Blue's attempt to punch Oracle and its Sun Microsystems powered hardware systems in the mouth via Facebook and YouTube Simply put, here's a tale of two messages The first message— delivered in IBM's official statement —goes like this ( Techmeme ): 

International Business Machines Corp (IBM) - Bradley Day at Forrester Research

But as Oracle ( ORCL , news , people ) completes its integration of Sun Microsystems ( JAVA , news , people ) and aims Sun's high end servers at IBM customers, Forrester Research analyst Brad Day says a more important factor may be Power7's ability to compete with a wide range of other servers, both low end x86 machines and high end Unix hardware 

International Business Machines Corp (IBM) - Ray Wang at Altimeter Group

IBM has ulterior motives with Initiate: Informatica By:   On: 04  For: ComputerWorld Canada   Data integration vendor Informatica, which recently bought master data management Siperian, takes shots at IBM's plans to buy Initiate Systems, warning customers IBM is not committed to MDM. Altimeter analyst Ray Wang said IBM's approach to MDM is not as fragmented as it used to be Data integration vendor Informatica Corp shot verbal arrows at IBM Corp saying its acquisition of master data management (MDM) vendor  Initiate Systems Inc will only leave customers out alone in the cold. IBM owes it to its customers to explain if, when and how it plans to rationalize and integrate the overlapping MDM and data quality technology, said Ivan Chong, executive vice president of the Redwood City, Calif based company's data quality product division 

International Business Machines Corp (IBM) - Between the Lines

IBM launches Lotus Symphony 3 beta; Office alternatives pile up IBM on Thursday rolled out the beta of Lotus Symphony 30, its free office productivity suite built on the OpenOfficeorg code base The company launched Lotus Symphony as a free alternative in 2007 From that beta, IBM took Symphony to a general release in 2008 

International Business Machines Corp (IBM) - Rob Karel at Forrester Research

As I mentioned in my blog post last week when discussing Informatica's acquisition of Siperian, there was a rumor that IBM was on the verge of acquiring Initiate Systems. Well today, , 2010, that rumor became reality when IBM announced their intent to acquire Initiate Financial details were not disclosed, but estimates value the deal anywhere between $300 $450 million 

International Business Machines Corp (IBM) - Ray Wang at Altimeter Group

Altimeter Group analyst Ray Wang recently predicted Big Blue would buy Initiate as a response One MDM competitor responded quickly to IBM's announcement Wednesday 

International Business Machines Corp (IBM) - TechCrunch

IBM has acquired Chicago based software firm Initiate Systems. Initiate helps healthcare providers and other government organizations manage and organize data across various sources Terms of the deal were not disclosed 

International Business Machines Corp (IBM) - Phil Hassey at Springboard Research

According to Springboard's Vendor Maturity Curve, both IBM and HP Enterprise Services are clearly the key leaders in the region Based on analysis of key parameters including market performance (market share, revenue growth) and growth potential (ability to deliver locally, client base, employee base, offshoring ability and capacity for solution and delivery innovation), IBM scored 77 and HP scored 75 on a scale of 10 Springboard notes that HP marginally lags behind its global services competitors in application services and in the scale and maturity of its offshoring ability, with the results reflecting this "More than ever before, we see the next 12 24 months as a particularly pivotal point of transition for the competitive makeup of the IT industry in Asia/Pacific Current market valuations and company challenges present ripe conditions for strategic acquisitions for astute IT providers," said Phil Hassey, Vice President, IT Services, at Springboard Research 

International Business Machines Corp (IBM) - Rob Karel at Forrester Research

Look out IBM, Oracle and SAP — you're about to lose a bit of your dominance in the master data management (MDM) market to Informatica. On , 2010, Informatica announced that it acquired Siperian for $130 million (representing the largest acquisition Informatica has made to date) Siperian is a multi domain operational MDM vendor that Forrester named as a leader in our last Forrester Wave for Customer Hubs in Q3 of 2008 (see graphic)