FRANKFURT, July 21 (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 ...

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, ...

Everyone takes it for granted that the natural order of business is to sell software just as though it were a physical product, shipping it out as a manufactured item and charging a one-time perpetual ...

Historically, consumer packaged goods (CPG) were designed to be sold in a brick-and-mortar retail environment — in packaging flashy enough to catch a consumer’s eyes while presenting the right ...

Common knowledge and experience tell us that huge, open-ended enterprise software implementations are expensive and risky. For this reason, I have advocated packaged (also called productized) services ...

It happened with ERP in the 90’s. It happened with CRM in the 2000’s. It’s happening now with the digital experience software to serve up content and interactions on every screen along every step of a ...

(MoneyWatch) People in publishing, graphics, photography, and video have come to know Adobe (ADBE) well. The software company makes applications that have become standard in more than one industry.

A bag with SAP logo is pictured before the company's annual general meeting in Mannheim, Germany, May 20, 2015. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach By Harro Ten Wolde FRANKFURT (Reuters) - German business ...