If Steve Ballmer hadn't decided to take his college buddy up on a job offer as Microsoft's bookkeeper, he figures he probably would have ended up selling car insurance.
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Multinational companies that want to expand CRM to their offices worldwide face daunting challenges. Experts advise focused efforts for big pay offs.
You may be spending generously to get closer to your customers, but can you guarantee their privacy? To a legal certainty? If these questions make you nervous, join the stampede: December 21, the date new national privacy laws kick into effect, is a whole lot closer than you think.
Henning Kagermann, chief of SAP, says new competition, fast-moving tech are driving the company to rethink how it builds its software and how to sell it.
We look at five organisations that took different approaches to satisfying a common business requirement: to improve the management of corporate information. We hear from Jetstar, Family Court, SHFA, Count Wealth and MBF.
The big, booming nation is much on the mind of Adobe's CEO. Then there are the little matters of Apple and Microsoft.
The company's managing director, Steve Vamos, speaks to ZDNet about its changing competitive landscape, security issues, and the best way to sell software in Australia.
In the flat enterprise software market, the message is clear: It's time to hunt or be hunted.
Visa CIO touts new transaction technologies
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Australian Govt funds IT start-ups
Google should come clean on datacentres
US shows what OPEL could have been
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