September 5, 2008 2:56 PM
Posted by: Heather Clancy
Authors,
Heather Clancy,
Information technology services,
IT buyer market researchThe most interesting result from the Society for Information Management (SIM) latest survey isn't so much the fact that IT professionals want technology infrastructure to align better with their business goals, it was the dramatic increase in importance that the...
August 18, 2008 7:06 PM
Posted by: Bcournoyer
IT buyer market research,
Microsoft,
Tech BlogsA recent study -- albeit a highly unscientific one -- has found that 35% of business users who bought PCs with Windows Vista licenses have downgraded to Windows XP.
The study comes from...
August 12, 2008 5:50 AM
Posted by: Heather Clancy
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Heather Clancy,
Information technology services,
IT buyer market research,
IT channel products and technologies,
Vendor partner business issuesI've spent most of my journalism career gawking over the new stuff, the products that could be best-described as NOT mainstream. Well, AMI Partners has just come out with some new research in conjunction with the
July 11, 2008 5:15 PM
Posted by: Heather Clancy
Authors,
Heather Clancy,
Information technology services,
IT buyer market researchHello kids, time for the latest round of spending data from national computer products reseller CDW! With the stock market bouncing all over the place, how comfortable REALLY are businesses about spending on information technology?
Certainly there is no cause for great celebration ... or depths of...
July 7, 2008 1:24 PM
Posted by: badarrow
Barbara Darrow,
Channel partner programs,
Direct reseller channel conflict,
Email -- Exchange, Outlook,
IT buyer market research,
IT channel products and technologies,
Managed services providers,
Microsoft,
News,
Software as a service (SaaS)The word wafting around the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference is that the company will at last outline partner rebate/commission structure for those partners bringing customers to Microsoft-hosted solutions including the Microsoft
June 26, 2008 10:46 AM
Posted by: badarrow
Barbara Darrow,
IBM,
IT buyer market research,
IT channel products and technologies,
Microsoft,
News,
OracleIt's that time of year for the database market share squabble. IDC has released its numbers--at least to the vendors--and two of the three big database players are claiming victory.
From the snippets the vendors themselves release, it's hard to draw conclusions. It's like the
May 20, 2008 8:19 PM
Posted by: Heather Clancy
Authors,
Channel partner programs,
IT buyer market research,
IT channel products and technologies,
Reseller channel business development,
SMBHas there ever been an economist willing to say we're in a recession while the recession is actually happening? My own personal barometer of the economy (my husband who is a contractor) continues to have a very bizarre spring. After months of denial and a sort of lag factor, it appears that IT...
May 9, 2008 10:40 AM
Posted by: Heather Clancy
Authors,
Heather Clancy,
Information technology services,
IT buyer market researchCDW recently released the results of what it's calling the 2008 CDW Small Business Driver's Seat Study, which taps more deeply into the motivations of technology buyers. The data is provides a...
March 9, 2008 5:06 AM
Posted by: Heather Clancy
Authors,
Heather Clancy,
Information technology services,
IT buyer market researchYes, here I am, with more depressing economic news for those of you out there in IT services land who count on small businesses as your bread-and-butter clients.
CDW's latest CDW IT Monitor shows that only 29 percent of small businesses expect their IT budgets to increase over the next six months....
