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	<title>Thoughts from the trench - by Prakash Muralidharan</title>
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	<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 22:05:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Infosys Q2 2010 Earnings call highlights.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 15:21:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Prakash Muralidharan</dc:creator>
		
	<dc:subject>Software Services</dc:subject>
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		<description><![CDATA[Added 35 new clients, the top 10 clients grew 5.9%. Revenue increase sequentially, volumes increased sequentially, pricing stable, utilization improved. Net increase in employees this quarter.Expect the budgets to be flat next yearBetter traction in BFSI, retail, and energy and utilities. Better traction in business process management, infrastructure management and in system integration. Consulting and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ominous?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 04:51:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Prakash Muralidharan</dc:creator>
		
	<dc:subject>Life</dc:subject><dc:subject>Life</dc:subject>
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		<description><![CDATA[Source: Bespoke Investment GroupLifeLife]]></description>
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		<title>The intelligence community and Enterprise 2.0</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 02:23:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Prakash Muralidharan</dc:creator>
		
	<dc:subject>Web2.0</dc:subject>
	<dc:subject>Consumer Internet</dc:subject>
	<dc:subject>Enterprise 2.0</dc:subject><dc:subject>Consumer Internet</dc:subject><dc:subject>Enterprise 2.0</dc:subject><dc:subject>Web2.0</dc:subject>
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		<description><![CDATA[Andrew McAfee, the Harvard professor who coined the term &#34;Enterprise 2.0&#34; writes about the positive impact of social media technologies on the Intelligence community. Andrew makes a case that while massive computing power continues to be important, rich social connections between people in the intelligence community would enable better leverage of human pattern recognition.I feel [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cloud computing - Market taxonomy.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 00:29:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Prakash Muralidharan</dc:creator>
		
	<dc:subject>Cloud computing</dc:subject><dc:subject>Cloud computing</dc:subject>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Cloud computing market place is getting Cloudier by the day. Everyone uses the word &#34;Cloud&#34; and in many different ways. I was looking for a neat taxonomy of everything that&#39;s out there and stumbled on Danny Goodall&#39;s excellent presentation. If you need a view from 30000 ft look no further.A Market Landscape/Taxonomy/Segmentation Model for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Five links for Friday</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ThoughtsFromTheTrenches/~3/RHjY2Ts6etM/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 01:11:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Prakash Muralidharan</dc:creator>
		
	<dc:subject>Software Services</dc:subject>
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		<description><![CDATA[IBM downgraded on limited revenue growth potential. Elephant has stopped dancing ?Another $100M for twitter. Anaytics dashboard? Hmm.US tech industry lost 115K jobs in H1. Did someone say recovery?Facebook and the enterprise. Great post by JP.Sadagopan on the changing face of enterprise software. No Tags]]></description>
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		<title>Of missed meetings and unified communications.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 02:46:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Prakash Muralidharan</dc:creator>
		
	<dc:subject>Life</dc:subject>
	<dc:subject>Technology</dc:subject><dc:subject>Life</dc:subject><dc:subject>Technology</dc:subject>
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		<description><![CDATA[I missed a breakfast meeting today. The first time that has happened. Breakfasts usually start at 8 am and this one got pushed by one half hour. I timed it the usual way but hit the 8 am rush which I usually avoid. Realizing that I will be late, I called and left a voice [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SaaS for ITSM.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 22:27:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Prakash Muralidharan</dc:creator>
		
	<dc:subject>SaaS</dc:subject>
	<dc:subject>Service Management</dc:subject><dc:subject>SaaS</dc:subject><dc:subject>Service Management</dc:subject>
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		<description><![CDATA[Service Now.com has a neat SaaS model for IT service management.&#160;According to the website they provide the following applications&#160;in a subscription model:&#160;&#8226;&#160; Incident Management&#160;&#8226;&#160; Problem Management&#160;&#8226;&#160; Change Management&#160;&#8226;&#160; Release Management&#160;&#8226;&#160; Configuration Management (CMDB)&#160;&#8226;&#160; Request Management&#160;&#8226;&#160; Service Catalog&#160;&#8226;&#160; Knowledge Management&#160;&#8226;&#160; Service Level Management&#160;&#8226;&#160; Asset Portfolio and Contract Management&#160;&#8226;&#160; Project Management&#160;&#8226;&#160; Discovery (optional, additional charge)&#160;They have a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vendor consolidation.</title>
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		<comments>http://www.prakashonsoftware.org/blog/index.php/2009/09/19/vendor-consolidation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2009 23:48:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Prakash Muralidharan</dc:creator>
		
	<dc:subject>Software Services</dc:subject>
	<dc:subject>Outsourcing</dc:subject>
	<dc:subject>Technology</dc:subject>
	<dc:subject>IT strategy</dc:subject><dc:subject>IT strategy</dc:subject><dc:subject>Outsourcing</dc:subject><dc:subject>Technology</dc:subject>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160;Frank Scavo has a nice post on the downsides of vendor consolidation in the enterprise software space. His arguments are centered around vendor lock in and he writes:&#34;Consolidate to a single vendor for worldwide financials, but standardize operational systems on another vendor&#39;s platform. Always leave the option open to replace one with the other. Consolidate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is cloud computing really a threat to Indian IT ?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2009 00:26:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Prakash Muralidharan</dc:creator>
		
	<dc:subject>Software Services</dc:subject>
	<dc:subject>Outsourcing</dc:subject>
	<dc:subject>IT strategy</dc:subject>
	<dc:subject>SaaS</dc:subject><dc:subject>IT strategy</dc:subject><dc:subject>Outsourcing</dc:subject><dc:subject>SaaS</dc:subject>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160;Financial times : &#34; Cloud computing is threatening the business model of the Indian IT outsourcing &#8230;.&#34;. As if we needed one more negative story with all the bad news about the economy. There are two sides to this cloud thing. Let&#39;s&#160;do a reality check.- Hit on the package implementation business : SAP goes the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quality acronyms versus outcomes</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2009 13:20:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Prakash Muralidharan</dc:creator>
		
	<dc:subject>Software Services</dc:subject>
	<dc:subject>Outsourcing</dc:subject><dc:subject>Outsourcing</dc:subject>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vinnie&#39;s &#34;Outsourcing Alphabet Soup&#34; took me back to the nineties. People would refuse to talk unless you were CMM certified. We have come a long way from there. These acronyms still prop up in proposals but have got relegated to the &#34;Appendix&#34; section. Vendors know it is not a differentiator anymore. Clients are more outcome [...]]]></description>
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