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Is in-memory computing worth it?

SAP is placing great emphasis on the issue of in-memory computing, a move that will allow its users to achieve faster computations. But the key question about data processing in main memory is whether the performance gain is economically justifiable. more

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Trends in IT sourcing: Cloud Computing

Cloud computing is not so much a trend as a phenomenon. For a long time now, the idea of purchasing IT services from an external data centre via the internet has been covered in the trade press – the leap to the general press was even made at the recent CeBIT trade... more

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IT services from the factory

The offer is a tempting one – buying IT services from a factory at lower cost with uniform quality and including higher security. However, the benefits will not arrive automatically just because industrial processes have replaced manual labour. Customer companies will... more

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Green procurement

Along with water, electricity has always been the best example of a classic commodity, an exchangeable product which is available every where with no massive quality differences. Electricity has always flowed out of a socket and therefore not worth discussion. This... more

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Trends in outsourcing: SaaS

SaaS was one of the trends of the software industry in 2007 – software being offered and charged as a service, hence the abbreviation: Software as a Service. This removes the need to buy the software and install it locally. Software houses have for some years been... more

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Trends in IT management: target costing

“Target costing” is a controlling tool that is often described as “results-oriented target cost management”. The principle of target costing was first applied in the Japanese car industry in the 1960s and 1970s and it is employed as a strategic decision-making tool in... more