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, ...

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 ...

Not surprisingly, skeptics, led by big-name ISVs, have derided those claims. But many Net-native vendors are, in fact, growing their customer rosters and revenue. According to a recent survey by ...

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 ...

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 ...

Adobe's channel chief, in an interview with CRN, said the vendor's 20,000 partners worldwide would play "an absolutely critical role" in helping customers migrate to Creative Cloud. "Our channel ...

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 ...

Motherboard has an interesting look at the somewhat surprising survival of physical software in shrink-wrapped boxes, which continues to account for roughly a third of software sales. This is true ...

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 ...

While the PC hardware market continues to slump, software sales are headed for a mild upturn, market researcher IDC said Wednesday. Modest growth is expected next year in worldwide sales of packaged ...