the world’s leading software companies‚ acquire PeopleSoft. There are several reasons that made Oracle to acquire PeopleSoft. First‚ Oracle wanted to acquire PeopleSoft so that they can become stronger in developing the products that the company had difficulties developing. It was already evident that PeopleSoft was already developing some products that had not match within the software market. For example‚ PeopleSoft had advanced customer relationship management (CRM) software that outshine that
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business situation. The authors would like to acknowledge the contribution of Carl Hedberg of Babson College who collected the interview and other data in 2006. In late February 2009‚ Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar‚ co-founders of Atlassian Software‚ a global technology company‚ were sipping beer on the deck of their office in downtown Sydney. Only days ago Mike was chosen by the World Economic Forum from a world-wide pool of 5‚000 candidates as one of the 230 Young Global Leaders for his professional
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Bachelor of Software Engineering Prospectus 2012/ 2013 Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering The Open University of Sri Lanka Important dates Closing date of applications: March 20‚ 2012 Selection Test: March 25‚ 2012 Registration for the Academic Year 2012/2013: May 20‚ 2012 Commencement of Academic Activities: May 26‚ 2012 Important information A list of qualifications presently recognised by the OUSL for granting exemptions is given in Appendix 1 of
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that only works in retailing. Even in the world of high technology and software development‚ there is a case to be made for being different. And few companies in this industry are as different as the one described in this chapter : SAS Institute that was ranked in 2010 the #1 Best Company to Work For in the USA 2 ‚ # 10 in India 3 and among the 25 Top Employers in China 4 . SAS Institute‚ the largest privately owned software company in the world‚ is an anachronism. "In an era of relentless pressure
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technology be only for the elite?" asked Rajendra Pawar in 1981. Since then one out of every three Indian software professionals has studied at NIIT. 100 words It’s been scathingly called the McDonald of education‚ and its output‚ cProgrammers. Its critics dismiss NIIT (National Institute of Information Technology) as a factory churning out low cost techies for call centers and software farms; but beneficiaries appreciate it for transforming them into entrepreneurs‚ teachers‚ engineers and professionals
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Success: A Result of Managing Organizational Behavior SAS Institute of Cary‚ North Carolina is an organization that fosters innovation‚ employee loyalty‚ and customer satisfaction. Over the past three decades‚ SAS Institute became the largest private software developer and enjoys a history of continued growth in every year of its existence. The success of SAS Institute is a result of its primary resource—its creative capital—which is entrenched in the company through its culture‚ Human Resource practices
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FROM: Corporate Office DATE: November 2‚ 2009 SUBJECT: Contract Creation and Management Simulation CC: Board of Directors Span Systems is a California based custom e-banking software developer that has entered into a $6million contracted with Citizen Schwartz (C-S) to develop banking software in one year. The companies are eight month into the contract and there has been poor performance‚ organizational changes‚ and project delays are the issues that can result a breach of contract
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Note: Give brief answers -- these problems are designed to be thought- provoking. As with HW 1‚ do not spend large amounts of time on HW 2. 1. Paul is a project manager for an effort that requires twelve months. During the 7th‚ 8th‚ and 9th months he needs two individuals with special qualifications. The functional manager has promised that these individuals will be available two months before they are needed. If Paul does not assign them to his project at that time‚ they will be assigned
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1 Prototyping This lecture will examine the role of prototyping in Systems Development. It will describe what prototyping is‚ why it is used and how it may be applied in Systems Development Projects. It will establish approaches to evaluating a Prototype and finally it will discuss criteria for successful use of prototyping in a Systems Development Project. 1.1 What is a Prototype – and why would we need one? Prototype can be described as: “A working model of (parts of) an information system
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John Sall‚ both professors at North Carolina State University‚ SAS Institute‚ Inc. provides business intelligence (BI) software and services at more than 40‚000 customer sites worldwide‚ including 90 percent of the Fortune 500 companies. SAS‚ which stands for “statistical analysis software‚” is headquartered in Cary‚ North Carolina. It is the world’s largest privately held software company‚ having over 100 offices worldwide with approximately 10‚000 employees. With an unbroken record of growth and
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