| NetSuite Honors Top Partners and Partners Providing Best Business ...
SAN MATEO, Calif., Oct. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- NetSuite Inc., a vendor of on-demand, integrated business management application suites that provide ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning), CRM (Customer Relationship Management) and Ecommerce functionality for small and medium-sized businesses and divisions of large companies, today announced top Solution Provider award winners and Best Business Solution award winners. The awards ceremony was held at the Regency Center, San Francisco, during its Revolution 2007 Partner Conference. Highlights of the awards included the Solution Provider of the Year award, which honored winner Skyytek, whose overall new business revenue contribution to NetSuite exceeded all its peers. For more information about the awards please go to www.netsuite.com/partnerawards Best Integrated Solution: Winner: POS for NetSuite by OnSite - for outstanding achievement in integrating an external application or functional extension to NetSuite via SuiteFlex.
Oracle-Siebel: Ellison's axe falls on 2,000 jobs
Oracle outlined its integration plans for Siebel Systems on Thursday, with 2,000 job cuts among the most notable tasks at hand. Oracle, which closed its $5.85bn merger with Siebel last week, plans to cut 2,000 jobs across the Siebel and Oracle work forces, Oracle chief financial officer Safra Catz said during a conference call with analysts. Catz said: "We will retain... Siebel's product development and product sales and marketing teams." The layoffs had been expected, with many observers thinking the cuts would hit Oracle's customer relationship management (CRM) employees the hardest. Oracle had previously said it would use Siebel technology as its core CRM product. Oracle CEO Larry Ellison said: "We will retain 90 per cent of Siebel's support, development engineers, sales and sales consultants.
Oracle snaps up Hyperion for $3.3bn
Oracle announced on Thursday that it has agreed to buy Hyperion Solutions for $3.3bn, in a move to expand in the area of performance management systems. The acquisition is yet another multibillion-dollar deal in recent years for Oracle, which has shown a hunger for expanding quickly via mergers. The software maker acquired customer relationship management software maker Siebel Systems for $5.85bn last year and archrival PeopleSoft for $10.3bn in 2005. While the PeopleSoft and Siebel acquisitions had product overlap to varying degrees with Oracle's existing business, the Hyperion deal is expected to have little redundancy, Oracle executives said in a conference call with analysts. Hyperion sells business intelligence tools and financial applications to corporations.
Oracle 'same old' strategy for post-Siebel CRM
Oracle has unveiled its strategy to deal with the integration of its Siebel business with the CRM operations of JD Edwards, Oracle and PeopleSoft. The key message is "no change". The company plans to continue with all its current lines of business for the foreseeable future, with the promise of full integration through its Fusion strategy at some point. At a conference on Tuesday for customers and press in London, Oracle offered few concrete details on future plans for the four existing customer relationship management businesses other than to insist they would continue as they are under the same financial models and the same software. But the company did say Oracle-Siebel CRM will form "the centrepiece of the next-generation Oracle Fusion CRM applications strategy".
Microsoft to go Live with on-demand CRM
Microsoft plans to launch a new hosted CRM service next year under its expanding Live brand. Microsoft Dynamics CRM Live, an on-demand alternative to its on-premise CRM software, is set to debut by mid-2007 as part of a revamped product code-named Titan. Steve Ballmer, Microsoft's chief executive, announced the offering in Boston on Tuesday at a conference of roughly 8,000 of Redmond's business partners. Ballmer made his pitch to the partners on why they should work with Microsoft. "When you leave you have to understand what the opportunity is for you, and do you want to invest with Microsoft," he said. The revamped customer relationship management hosting plan was widely expected. Ballmer called CRM Live "maybe the single most inevitable announcement in the history of Microsoft".
Glenn Greenwald
I kept looking at my BlackBerry e-mails all day long. I didn't hear the Democratic candidates talking much about that date. What does that tell you about the evolution of the politics of Iraq, if you will?
* KING: As you know, one of the issues you have had here in South Carolina in the past is either people don't understand your social conservative record or they're not willing to concede your social conservative record. There's a mailing that hit South Carolina homes yesterday. It's a picture of you and Cindy on the front. It says "Always pro-life, 24-year record." Why do you think you still, after all this time, have to convince these people, "I have been with you from the beginning"?
* KING: The flip side of that mailing shows Cindy holding Bridget ...
Shinhan Bank Selects Gifts Software's Anti-Money Laundering Solution
NEW YORK, Nov. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- GIFTS Software, a leading provider of anti-money laundering, funds transfer, and e-banking solutions, announced today that Shinhan Bank New York has selected the GIFTSWEB EDD Anti-Money Laundering solution. The implementation of the automated GIFTSWEB EDD product will assist the Bank in meeting BSA/AML compliance regulations as dictated by the USA Patriot Act. GIFTSWEB EDD is comprised of the five following modules, each of which can be implemented separately or as a total solution: Incorporated on September 1, 2001, Shinhan Financial Group Co. Ltd. is Korea's first financial holding company that delivers comprehensive financial solutions through a powerful One-Portal network. Shinhan Financial Group's subsidiaries offer quality financial products and services in commercial banking, credit card, private banking, asset management, investment banking, brokerage and insurance.
Beautiful Miss Idaho in LCHS Parade
Below, Family Phil's shot of historic downtown Wallace. BTW, Phil has a Little-Ears-Have-Big-Windows post here. *HBO's still trying to figure out what Stebbijo/Your Choice means by done-r here. *CDADave/Thin Air is trying out a new look as he prepares to return to the HBO blogosphere in a big way on Monday. He's asking folks what they think here. *Amy Crooks/That's Life. Life Goes On sounds as though she's been working hard for her money and not blogging too much here. *Marianne Love/Slight Detour has some fascinating historical info about Bonner County, including how Hoodoo Creek was formed and how Sagle got its name after losing out to Eagle in southern Idaho here. Also: Herb Huseland/Bay Views puts in his 2 cents about the inheritance tax here, Digital Fog has another fine parody here, ErinG/Idaho Native is getting nervous about the birth process here and Cis Gors/From A Simple Mind analyzes an online quiz she took here.
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