Forrester’s Jeffrey Hammond recently posted interesting data on custom software spending based on a survey of 1,138 IT professionals in North America and Europe in Q4 2009. According to Forrester, ...

Podcast: Protecting your intellectual property: Everyday, it seems, there’s a new charge of one company stealing another’s intellectual property or violating a patent. Most recently, Microsoft charged ...

The packaged software industry includes companies that offer multiple software programs bundled together to make a complete set. Microsoft Office, for example, is a packaged software as it includes ...

Wall Street fears AI models will replace all packaged software. AI models' coding ability is still very mixed. Software executives are positioning their firms to be survivors. The modern software ...

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - German business software maker SAP posted quarterly profit at the low end of forecasts, hit by weak sales of its traditional packaged software and a rapid shift by customers to ...

Last week saw people react to Klarna’s decision to replace SaaS package software with AI-developed apps. Much of the analysis seems right, but Brian Sommer adds an additional perspective we might want ...

Retail-sector CIOs said last week that they still face challenges finding packaged software to meet their needs, particularly in the supply chain areas. Such difficulties plagued Kmart Corp., which ...

Spending on databases, accounting, networking, productivity and system software will account for more than 90 percent of the total software spending by SMBs this year. SMBs prefer to pay only for the ...